Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study: A National Legacy

The year 2018 marks 20 years since the landmark Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS) was designed in a west-Asian developing country, the Islamic republic of Iran. With rapid economic and demographical transition in Iran in the last decades of the twentieth century (1), a dramatic risk in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), cardiovascular disease in particular, as the major cause of morbidity and mortality has occurred (2). In 1996, the National Network for Prevention and Management of Diabetes was designed and implemented as the first Iranian national project for prevention and control of NCDs (3).