Associations between education and ideal cardiovascular health metrics across 36 low- and middle-income countries
In LMICs, the association between education and ideal CVHS, along with several CVH metrics, exhibited un inverted U-shape, which may be closely related to the different stages of epidemiologic transition.
Authors
- Rockli Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9864-3957)
- Ning Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4909-7048)
- Lhuri Dwianti Rahmartani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9968-5318)
- Guangyu Tong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7697-5029)
- Chunling Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4780-9451)
- Pascal Geldsetzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8878-5505)
- Andrew Marvin Kanyike (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8138-9083)
- Abdallah Mkopi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0583-2482)
- John Lapah Niyi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5899-0350)
- Melkamu Aderajew Zemene (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1150-6333)
- Justice Moses K. Aheto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1384-2461)
- Yuhao Kong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2329-7025)
- Yue Qiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6254-3922)
- Peter Karoli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8171-7094)
- Lin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4394-2685)
- Zhihui Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-932X)
- Feng Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3196-434X)
- Shaoru Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-2488)
- Pengyang Fan
- S. V. Subramanian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8336-0274)
- Md. Ashfikur Rahman
- Yi Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6223-4724)
Institutions
- Ifakara Health Institute (TZ)
- Khulna University (BD)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Ghana (GH)
- Korea University (KR)
- Mengo Hospital (UG)
- Busitema University (UG)
- University of Indonesia (ID)
- Yale University (US)
- Debre Tabor University (ET)
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States) (US)
- Vanke (China) (CN)
- Harvard Global Health Institute (US)
- Ghana Health Service (GH)
- National Institute for Medical Research (TZ)
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Monash University (AU)
- Stanford University (US)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medicine
- Published
- 2025-04-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04032-y
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.39
Funders
- Tsinghua University