Bösch Simone, Westerman Lucinda, Renshaw Nina, Pravst Igor
SICABO Consulting, London, United Kingdom.
NCD Alliance, Geneva, Switzerland.
Front Nutr. 2021 Mar 24;8:645750. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.645750. eCollection 2021.
COVID-19 has brought to center stage the most important health issue of our era, largely ignored by policymakers and the public to date: non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the cause of 71% of deaths per year worldwide. People living with NCDs, and particularly those living with cardiovascular disease (CVD), are at higher risk of severe symptoms and death from COVID-19. As a result, the urgent need for policy measures to protect cardiovascular health is more apparent than ever. One example of "low-hanging fruit" in the prevention of CVD is the elimination of industrially-produced trans fatty acids (iTFA). Their removal from the global food supply could prevent up to 17 million deaths by 2040 and would be the first time an NCD risk factor has been eliminated.
新冠疫情将我们这个时代最重要的健康问题推到了聚光灯下，而这一问题在很大程度上至今都被政策制定者和公众所忽视：非传染性疾病（NCDs），它是全球每年71%死亡病例的病因。患有非传染性疾病的人，尤其是患有心血管疾病（CVD）的人，感染新冠病毒后出现严重症状和死亡的风险更高。因此，采取政策措施保护心血管健康的迫切需求比以往任何时候都更加明显。在预防心血管疾病方面，一个“轻而易举能实现的成果”的例子是消除工业生产的反式脂肪酸（iTFA）。到2040年，从全球食品供应中去除反式脂肪酸可预防多达1700万例死亡，这将是首次消除一种非传染性疾病风险因素。
