Abstract
In Bangladesh, approximately one in twenty eligible individuals uses statins for primary prevention of CVD, and one in five individuals for secondary prevention. Appropriate population health interventions are needed to scale up statin use to mitigate the burden of CVD.
Keywords Medicine · Statin · Guideline · Poisson regression · Primary prevention · Physical therapy · Disease · Internal medicine · Population · Environmental health
Cite this paper
Shehab Uddin Al Abid, Md Mostafa Monower, Ahmad Khairul Abrar, Jannat A Riva, Mahfuzur Rahman Bhuiyan, Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun, & Sohel Reza Choudhury. (2025). Burden and Predictors of Statin Use for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Bangladesh: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey. Global Heart, 20(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1412
Authors and affiliations
Shehab Uddin Al Abid
National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0003-0656-0271Md Mostafa Monower
National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0002-1531-5633Ahmad Khairul Abrar
National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0002-7122-4576Jannat A Riva
Ad-din Women's Medical College Hospital, Outer Circular Rd, Dhaka 1217, Bangladesh
National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0001-6962-7264Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun
National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0002-3377-1122National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0002-7498-4634