Heart Disease Used to be an Ailment of the Rich. But It’s Now Striking the World’s Poor.
16 Oct, 2018 | 23:40h | UTCHeart disease used to be an ailment of the rich. But it’s now striking the world’s poor. – VOX (free)
“In 2016, an estimated 1 million people died of HIV/AIDS, 445,000 people died of malaria, and 1.7 million died of tuberculosis. Nearly 18 million died of heart disease. And more than three-quarters of those deaths occurred in the developing world.”