SINGAPORE: The number of people with cardiovascular disease surged by 148 per cent in South-East Asia over the past three decades, with the condition becoming the region’s leading cause of mortality and morbidity, according to new research.
A total 37 million people in the region suffered from cardiovascular disease in 2021 and 1.7 million died from it. The findings by researchers at Seattle-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the National University of Singapore are based on analysis of health data between 1990 and 2021 from ten South-East Asian countries that make up the Asean bloc.
