The global cardiovascular-liver-metabolic syndemic: epidemiology, trends and challenges - PubMed
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- Cardiovascular-liver-metabolic (CLM) diseases are interconnected epidemics, forming a syndemic with shared mechanisms.
- The review aims to create a unified framework using epidemiological data to illustrate disease burden, trends, and future projections.
- A proposed micro-meso-macro framework integrates strategies for risk prediction, community health promotion, and addressing health inequities.
- Micro-level strategies focus on precision prevention and disentangling competing risks within CLM diseases.
- Meso-level strategies emphasize ensuring access to healthy foods, environments, and metabolic interventions in communities.
- Macro-level interventions aim to eliminate inequities in social and commercial determinants of health across systems.
- Multisystem interventions are needed to address trajectories of CLM disease epidemics simultaneously.