AFRO-NETS> WHO Publishes Results of Global Collaboration on Heart Disease

[Claudio Schuftan <aviva@netnam.vn>]

WHO Publishes Results of Global Collaboration on Heart Disease
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This Year's World Heart Day highlights risk for women, more than 
8 million of whom die annually from cardiovascular disease
 
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched the 
result of the largest-ever worldwide collaboration to study heart 
disease, the MONICA Monograph and Multimedia Sourcebook. The 
launch has been timed to coincide with World Heart Day, on 28 
September, whose theme "Women, heart disease and stroke" aims to 
draw urgent attention to the fact that cardiovascular disease 
(CVD) is not just a men's health problem. Out of the total 16.5 
million CVD deaths annually, 8.6 million are of women, while 
heart attacks and strokes are responsible for twice as many 
deaths in women as all cancers combined.
 
"Although most women fear cancer, particularly breast cancer, 
they do not make the same efforts to safeguard themselves from 
heart disease, which is eminently preventable," "We must strive 
to make women aware that to keep their hearts healthy, they need 
to eat smart, kick smoking and move for health."
 
MONICA was important in measuring levels and trends over time in 
these diseases and their risk factors in different populations, 
in precipitating and monitoring prevention policies in different 
countries, and in demonstrating the importance of the new acute 
and long-term treatments that were increasingly introduced.
 
All information gathered under the MONICA project has now been 
brought together in one full colour publication, designed to ap-
peal to both professional and lay audiences. It also includes all 
the MONICA documents, methods and results in two CD-ROMs. Pub-
lished by WHO, the monograph has been supported by the European 
Commission, by medical charities, and by industry.
 
For more information contact:
 
Mr David Porter 
Tel.: +41-22-791-3774 
Mobile phone: +41-79-477-1740 
mailto:porterd@who.int

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