Developing Country
Global STEMI treatment initiative yields care delivery benefits in low-resource countries
WASHINGTON — New, 2-year data from a global registry enrolling patients with STEMI in low- and middle-income countries showed continued improvement in trends for key clinical and system parameters, including mortality, researchers reported.
‘Urgent need’ to increase statin use in low- and middle-income countries
Statins remain widely underused across most low- and middle-income countries, with about one in 10 eligible people using statins for primary prevention and about one in five eligible people using them for secondary prevention.
Scarcity of lupus assays in developing countries limit utility of international criteria, trials
ATLANTA — Limited access to supportive laboratory assays in developing countries significantly reduces the diagnostic utility of the ACR/EULAR criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus, which relies on an antinuclear antibody titer of 1:80 for its entry criterion, noted a presenter at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting.
First-ever APAO Young Ophthalmologists Travel Grants
To celebrate the diamond jubilee 60th anniversary of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology and to support young ophthalmologists attending the 35th APAO Congress, for the first time in history, the APAO is launching its Young Ophthalmologists Travel Grants to up to five residents in training or fellows in the Asia-Pacific region. Each successful applicant will receive US$1,000 if they live outside the host country of the 35th APAO Congress, which is China, whereas those who live in the host country will receive US$300.
9th Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week
This year, the APAO Public Education Standing Committee partnered with the Central Secretariat to suggest two themes for the event: meibomian gland dysfunction and age-related macular degeneration. Two of APAO’s Subspecialty Member Societies, the Asia Cornea Society and Asia-Pacific Vitreo-retina Society, will co-organize the 2019 Eye Care Week and help to produce a comprehensive set of educational materials and a media kit, available on the APAO website. Member societies are invited to use the reference materials for public educational purposes during the 9th Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week. For ideas on educational or service activities that can be held during Eye Care Week, take a look at reports from previous events.
PURE: CVD accounts for more than 40% of deaths in low-, middle-income countries
PARIS — CVD was the leading cause of death in low-income countries, while cancer deaths were the top cause of death in some high-income and upper-middle-income countries, according to results from the PURE study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.