About 156,000 people between the ages of 35 and 70 without a history of CVD were assessed for metabolic, behavioural and psychosocial risk factors as part of the global study.
Roughly one billion people around the world are iodine deficient and it is the leading preventable cause of irreversible cognitive impairment in children.
Researchers of McMaster University’s Population Health Research Institute will play a foundational role in a new, coast-to-coast patient-driven network tackling the challenge of heart failure, a common condition that is often fatal and on the rise in Canada.