The timeline for heart disease is sped up in people of South Asian ethnicity, and part of the answer for why may lie with faulty repairs to blood vessel damage, a new Canadian study suggests.
Cardiovascular disease affects the heart and blood vessels and can lead to the need for bypass surgery and other treatments.
Researchers previously estimated that people from the Indian subcontinent — including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and more than 50 other South Asian origins, representing a quarter of the world’s population — get cardiovascular disease about five to 10 years sooner than white European patients and that their death rates are higher after
