Initiatives in low income countries could inspire health care strategies that could be useful in Canada. Despite increased risks, high income countries have the lowest proportional death rate due to heart disease, likely because of their health care systems. In a study spanning 17 countries, a group of international researchers, including SFU’s own professor of health sciences, Scott Lear, compiled the medical information of over 100,000 participants over an average period of 4.1 years.