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Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and contr...
Zhou, Bin; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; Danaei, Goodarz; Riley, Leanne M.; Paciorek, Christopher J.; Stevens, Gretchen A.; Gregg, Edward W.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...
Influenza surveillance in Europe: establishing epidemic thresholds by the Movin...
Vega, Tomás; Lozano, Jose Eugenio; Meerhoff, Tamara; Snacken, René; Mott, Joshua; Ortiz de Lejarazu, Raul; Nunes, BaltazarBackground Timely influenza surveillance is important to monitor influenza epidemics. Objectives (i) To calculate the epidemic threshold for influenza-like illness (ILI) and acute respiratory infections (ARI) in 19 countries, as well as the thresholds for different levels of intensity. (ii) To evaluate the performance of these thresholds. Methods The moving epidemic method (MEM) has been developed to determi...