Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:28:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; National Cancer Institute; National Institute of Mental Health; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Fogarty International Center; Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research; Medical Research Council; Background Describing the prevalence and trends of cardiometabolic risk factors that are ass...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:30:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-03-01; From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T17:23:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-09-11; WHO; Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics - Community Jameel, at Imperial College London, London, UK; British Heart Foundation (Centre of Research Excellence); Background Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively con...
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association among hypertension, tinnitus, and sensorineural hearing loss and evaluate the influence of other covariates on this association. METHODS: Baseline data (2008–2010) from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) were analyzed. Altogether, 900 participants were evaluated. The baseline assessment consisted of a 7-hour examination to obtain clinical an...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T15:08:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-03-09; Wellcome Trust; From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in th...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T20:13:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; Wellcome Trust; Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research; Bernard Lown Scholars in Cardiovascular Health Program at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health; Bloomberg Philanthropies; FONDECYT via CIENCIACTIVA/CONCYTEC; British Council; British Embassy; Newton-Paulet Fund; DFID/MRC/Wellcome Globa...
Ministry of Health; Fundamento: A prevalência de hipercolesterolemia no Brasil não é conhecida para todo o país, havendo somente inquéritos em algumas cidades. Objetivo: Avaliar a prevalência de diagnóstico médico de colesterol alto autorreferido na população adulta brasileira, utilizando-se dos dados da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde (PNS) de 2013. Métodos: Estudo descritivo que avaliou os dados da PNS de 2013, um...
Background Suboptimal diet is an important preventable risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs); however, its impact on the burden of NCDs has not been systematically evaluated. This study aimed to evaluate the consumption of major foods and nutrients across 195 countries and to quantify the impact of their suboptimal intake on NCD mortality and morbidity. Methods By use of a comparative risk assessment...