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Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose ...
Zhou, Bin; Sheffer, Kate E.; Bennett, James E.; Gregg, Edward W.; Danaei, Goodarz; Singleton, Rosie K.; Shaw, Jonathan E.; Mishra, AnuFasting plasma glucose (FPG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) are both used to diagnose diabetes, but these measurements can identify different people as having diabetes. We used data from 117 population-based studies and quantified, in different world regions, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes, and whether those who were previously undiagnosed and detected as having diabetes in survey screening, had elevated FPG,...
Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: A...
Miranda, J. Jaime; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; Ferreccio, Catterina; Hambleton, Ian R.; Lotufo, Paulo A.; Nieto-Martinez, Ramfis; Zhou, BinMade 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...
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...
Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a...
Jaime Miranda, J.; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; Ferreccio, Catterina; Hambleton, Ian R.; Lotufo, Paulo A.; Nieto-Martinez, Ramfis; Zhou, BinMade 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...
Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide tre...
Zhou, Bin; Bentham, James; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Bixby, Honor; Danaei, Goodarz; Hajifathalian, Kaveh; Taddei, Cristina; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T22:38:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-06-01; Wellcome Trust; Background: Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) and changes in its high-blood-pressure tail (representing successfu...
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479...
Zhou, Bin; Bentham, James; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Bixby, Honor; Danaei, Goodarz; Cowan, Melanie J; Paciorek, Christopher J; Singh, GitanjaliBackground Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. Methods For this analysis, we poo...