Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei, Leanne M Riley et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHOD...
Salim Yusuf, Shofiqul Islam, Clara K Chow, Sumathy Rangarajan et al.
Background Although most cardiovascular disease occurs in low-income and middle-income countries, little is known about the use of effective secondary prevention medications in these communities. We aimed to assess use of proven effective secondary preventive drugs (antiplatelet drugs, β blockers, a...
Bogdan Ene‐Iordache, Norberto Perico, Boris Bikbov, Sergio Carminati et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease is an important cause of global mortality and morbidity. Data for epidemiological features of chronic kidney disease and its risk factors are limited for low-income and middle-income countries. The International Society of Nephrology's Kidney Disease Data Center (I...
Andrew Mente, Martin O’Donnell, Sumathy Rangarajan, Gilles R. Dagenais et al.
BACKGROUND Several studies reported a U-shaped association between urinary sodium excretion and cardiovascular disease events and mortality. Whether these associations vary between those individuals with and without hypertension is uncertain. We aimed to explore whether the association between sodiu...
Mohammed Saad, Stephen Lillioja, B. L. Grégoire Nyomba, Charles Castillo et al.
BACKGROUND: Insulin resistance and the concomitant compensatory hyperinsulinemia have been implicated in the pathogenesis of hypertension. However, reports on the relation between insulin and blood pressure are inconsistent. This study was designed to investigate the possibility of racial difference...
Andrew Mente, Martin O’Donnell, Sumathy Rangarajan, Matthew McQueen et al.
BACKGROUND WHO recommends that populations consume less than 2 g/day sodium as a preventive measure against cardiovascular disease, but this target has not been achieved in any country. This recommendation is primarily based on individual-level data from short-term trials of blood pressure (BP) with...
Tazeen H. Jafar, Mihir Gandhi, H. Asita de Silva, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
BACKGROUND: The burden of hypertension is escalating, and control rates are poor in low- and middle-income countries. Cardiovascular mortality is high in rural areas. METHODS: We conducted a cluster-randomized, controlled trial in rural districts in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. A total of 30...
Yu Chen, W. K. Copeland, Rajesh Vedanthan, Eric J. Grant et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between body mass index and mortality from overall cardiovascular disease and specific subtypes of cardiovascular disease in east and south Asians. DESIGN: Pooled analyses of 20 prospective cohorts in Asia, including data from 835,082 east Asians and 289,815 so...
Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Rakesh K. Srivastava
Chronic diseases have become a major cause of global morbidity and mortality even in developing countries. The burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in India cannot be assessed accurately. The approximate prevalence of CKD is 800 per million population (pmp), and the incidence of end-stage renal di...
Marjan Walli-Attaei, Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, Scott A. Lear et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is considered the most important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, but its control is poor worldwide. We aimed to assess the availability and affordability of blood pressure-lowering medicines, and the association with use of these medicines and blood pressure control...
Nazmus Saquib, Juliann Saquib, Tahmeed Ahmed, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
BACKGROUND: Belief is that chronic disease prevalence is rising in Bangladesh since death from them has increased. We reviewed published cardiovascular (CVD) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) studies between 1995 and 2010 and conducted a meta-analysis of disease prevalence. METHODS: A systematic s...
Dinesh Neupane, Craig S. McLachlan, Rajan Sharma, Bishal Gyawali et al.
Hypertension is a leading attributable risk factor for mortality in South Asia. However, a systematic review on prevalence and risk factors for hypertension in the region of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has not carried out before.The study was conducted according to t...
Iftekhar Quasem, Shiney C. Alex, Anjan Kumar Nag, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan et al.
Objective To evaluate the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among elderly individuals in Bangladesh and India. Method A community-based sample of 1203 elderly individuals (670 women; mean age, 70 years) was selected using a multistage cluster sampling technique from two si...
Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, Md. Jamal Uddin, Md Rabiul Haque, Boubakari Ibrahimou
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is an increasing problem in Southeast Asia, particularly in Bangladesh. Although some epidemiological studies on hypertension have been conducted in Bangladesh, the factors associated with hypertension in this nation remain unclear. We aimed to determine the factors associat...
Nayu Ikeda, David Sapienza, Ramiro Guerrero, Wichai Aekplakorn et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine hypertension management across countries and over time using consistent and comparable methods. METHODS: A systematic search identified nationally representative health examination surveys from 20 countries containing data from 1980 to 2011 on blood pressure measurements, the d...