The cardiovascular diseases situation in the Seychelles

The Seychelles cardiovascular diseases survey in 1989 was initially designed as a collaborative project of the Ministry of Health of the Seychelles and the department of cooperation of the Jura Canton (Switzerland) in order to investigate the prevalence and distribution of cardiovascular diseases risk; namely hypertension according to the WHO criteria; cigarette-smoking; obesity; secondary life style and dysplidemias; in the population of the Seychelles