Interpretation of Neighborhoods and Cardiovaseular Health: a Seienifie Statement from the American HeartAssocialion

Neighborhoods and Cardiovascular Health was drafted by a writing group of experts in cardiology, epidemiology, and preventive medicine and has been published in December 2023 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, the official journal of the American Heart Association (AHA). The American Heart Association provides a roadmap on how to use current knowledge about neighborhoods influence on cardiovascular disease to develop and implement effective interventions to improve cardiovascular health at the population, health system, neighborhoods, and individual levels. Reducing the inequity burden of cardiovascular disease among deprived populations by influencing and improving the neighborhoods environment where possible. Our country is also faced with the problem of imbalance of neighborhoods infrastructure between urban and rural areas as well as between urban and rural areas. The interpretation of this scientific statement may provide new perspectives and ideas for the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases in China at the community level, which will help to improve the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases and the cardiovascular health of the public.