Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusufis an Indian-born Canadian physician, the Marion W. Burke Chair in Cardiovascular Disease at McMaster University Medical School and currently the President of the World Heart Federation, a world-renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist. In 2001, he published a landmark study that proved the benefits of clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome without ST elevation...
expert patients preferred prone reasonable therapy
(Angioplasty) is at least a reasonable alternative to (drug) therapy in high-risk patients, and in expert hands, may be preferred in patients prone to stroke, such as the elderly,
burden global obesity previous reliance
The global burden of obesity has been substantially underestimated by the reliance of BMI in previous studies.
method obesity obsolete replaced standard
The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio,
effective events means preventing safer term therapy
This means a short-term therapy that is just as effective at preventing events but is much safer translates in the long term to an important difference,
balance except large magic muscle waist window
I don't think there is anything magic about this ratio, except that it's a window to the balance between muscle and fat. Around the waist there is no large muscle.
disease importance needed obesity regions
Substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world,