“…CHD is the leading single cause of mortality in Europe, responsible for 862,000 deaths a year (Wilkins et al, 2017). However, the disease burden shows no egalitarian pattern and standardised comparisons amongst different ethnicities show that South Asian people have a disproportionately higher CVD prevalence (Scarborough et al, 2010), higher risk of atherosclerotic events (Anand et al, 2000;Gupta & Brister, 2006;Gupta et al, 2002;Joshi et al, 2007;Yusuf et al, 2004;Zahid, Meyer, Kumar, Claussen, & Hussain, 2011), higher rates of hospital admissions (Ahmed & El-Menyar, 2015) and earlier disease onset (Volgman et al, 2018). Such disparity is not limited to British South Asians but is also evident in worldwide migrant South Asians (Fischbacher et al, 2007).…”