19 to be independent predictors for incident CVD. In response to the recent rise of CVDs in developing countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified very cost-effective interventions that are applicable even in low-resource settings for prevention and control of CVDs.
Although the WHO predicts a rapid increase of CVDs in SSA by 2030, researchers perceive that CVDs are not a priority public health problem in the region.
21 This perception is undermining the existing burden of the problem in this continent. Despite CVDs continuing to devastate human survival through the premature deaths of its workforce in developing countries, the few studies in Ethiopia have been limited to cross-sectional studies, which alone are insufficient to assess the risk of incident cardiovascular events. Therefore, we determined the incidence and predictors of cardiovascular disease among diabetic patients, from 2012 to 2020.