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It argues that CVD control can benefit from the strategic convergence of simplified treatment protocols, integrated service delivery, community and political engagement, and robust accountability frameworks. With deliberate investment and adaptation, and accompanied by recent technical innovations, CVD programmes are well-poised for transformative progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of reducing premature non-communicable disease mortality by one-third by 2030.</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology","year":2025,"id":616964,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1590836,"name":"Shurendar Selva Kumar","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":364535,"name":"Tazeen H. 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