"Insights from the PURE study on nutrition and health"
Abstract
The PURE (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology) study is a long term cohort study being conducted in 29 high, middle and low income countries and involving 200,000 individuals enrolled from the general population from over 1000 urban and rural communities that was initiated in 2002. It examines the influences of factors at a national, community, household and individual level on health behaviors (tobacco use, diet, physical activity, and alcohol consumption) on risk factors, and disease incidence and mortality. Additional data on the environment (air quality, economic, social and built) and health systems have also been recorded to evaluate how societal factors affect health. Participants are followed every 3 years for clinical events which are classified and adjudicated using standardized definitions.
This presentation will summarize key findings on the associations between intakes of sodium and potassium, fruits and vegetables, macronutrients and dairy on risk factors, CVD and mortality.
Speaker Bio
Salim Yusuf, D.Phil, FRCPC is a Distinguished University Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, Director of the Population Health Research Institute, and is Chief Scientist at Hamilton Health Sciences. He holds a Heart and Stroke Foundation Research Chair, was a Senior Scientist of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (1999-2004), and has received (among others) the Lifetime Research Achievement award of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, the Paul Wood Silver Medal of the British Cardiac Society, the European Society of Cardiology gold medal, the American Heart Association Clinical Research Award, and over 35 other international and national awards for research, induction into the Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, and appointment as an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has led over 50 major international studies in over 100 countries and several of these have changed medical practice. He has published over 1000 articles in refereed journals, was the second most cited researcher in the world for 2011 and has the 17th highest H factor in history. He is the immediate Past President ofthe World Heart Federation, where he has been initiating an Emerging Leaders program in 100 countries with the aim of halving the CVD burden globally within a generation.