Affiliations 

  • 1 Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. rajah@um.edu.my
BMC Public Health, 2013;13:886.
PMID: 24066906 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-886

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) related deaths is not only the prime cause of mortality in the world, it has also continued to increase in the low and middle income countries. Hence, this study examines the relationship between CVD risk factors and socioeconomic variables in Malaysia, which is a rapidly growing middle income nation undergoing epidemiologic transition.

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