Marjan Walli-Attaei, Philip Joseph, Annika Rosengren, Clara K Chow et al.
BACKGROUND Some studies, mainly from high-income countries (HICs), report that women receive less care (investigations and treatments) for cardiovascular disease than do men and might have a higher risk of death. However, very few studies systematically report risk factors, use of primary or seconda...
River Chun‐Wai Wong, Chun Shing Kwok, Aditya Narain, Martha Gulati et al.
BACKGROUND: The influence of marital status on the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and prognosis after CVD is inconclusive. We systematically reviewed the literature to determine how marital status influences CVD and prognosis after CVD. METHODS: A search of MEDLINE and Embase in January 2...
Selina Rajan, Martin McKee, Sumathy Rangarajan, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala et al.
Importance: Depression is associated with incidence of and premature death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer in high-income countries, but it is not known whether this is true in low- and middle-income countries and in urban areas, where most people with depression now live. Objective: To...
Thomas A. Pearson, Latha Palaniappan, Nancy T. Artinian, Mercedes R. Carnethon et al.
Alka M. Kanaya, Namratha R. Kandula, David M. Herrington, Matthew J. Budoff et al.
BACKGROUND: South Asians (individuals from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) have high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) that cannot be explained by traditional risk factors. There are few prospective cohort studies investigating antecedents of CVD in South Asians. OBJECTIVES: T...
Margaret May, Peter McCarron, Stephen Stansfeld, Yoav Ben‐Shlomo et al.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Psychological distress is common after stroke, but little is known about its etiologic importance, although the general public often ascribes stroke to the experience of stress. Therefore, we examined whether psychological distress leads to an increased risk of ischemic strok...
Md. Saiful Islam, Rejina Akter, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, Mark D. Griffiths
Abstract University students, especially those in their first year, not only face challenges related to their personal life but also to their academic performance. Such unfavorable conditions predispose them to psychological illnesses such as depression and anxiety. The present study surveyed first-...
Marjan Walli-Attaei, Annika Rosengren, Sumathy Rangarajan, Yolandi Breet et al.
BACKGROUND There is a paucity of data on the prevalence of risk factors and their associations with incident cardiovascular disease in women compared with men, especially from low-income and middle-income countries. METHODS In the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study, we enrolled par...
Paul Wilkinson, Jeremy Sayer, Koorithottumkal Laji, Chris Grundy et al.
Abstract Objective : To compare mortality in south Asian (Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi) and white patients in the six months after hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction. Design : Observational study. Setting : District general hospital in east London. Patients : 149 south Asian an...
Ailiana Santosa, Annika Rosengren, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Sumathy Rangarajan et al.
Importance: Stress may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Most studies on stress and CVD have been conducted in high-income Western countries, but whether stress is associated with CVD in other settings has been less well studied. Objective: To investigate the association of a compos...
S. Asghar, Akhtar Hussain, S Ali, A. K. Azad Khan et al.
AIMS: To determine the extent of depressive symptoms in a rural community of Bangladesh and its association with newly recognized diabetes. METHODS: Depressive symptoms were assessed in 184 newly diagnosed diabetic subjects and 768 randomly selected individuals without diabetes. The Montogomery and ...
Sidong Li, Scott A. Lear, Sumathy Rangarajan, Bo Hu et al.
Importance: High amounts of sitting time are associated with increased risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality in high-income countries, but it is unknown whether risks also increase in low- and middle-income countries. Objective: To investigate the association of sitting time with morta...
Ryo Naito, Darryl P. Leong, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Martin McKee et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between social isolation and mortality and incident diseases in middle-aged adults in urban and rural communities from high-income, middle-income and low-income countries. DESIGN: Population-based prospective observational study. SETTING: Urban and rural communi...
Emily D. Williams, Emmanouil Stamatakis, Tarani Chandola, Mark Hamer
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of physical inactivity to the excess mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) observed in the UK South Asian population. DESIGN: An observational longitudinal study with follow-up mortality data from NHS registries. SETTING: Dat...
Jamal Uddin, Ann‐Dorthe Zwisler, Christian Lewinter, Mohammad Moniruzzaman et al.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the patient, intervention and trial-level factors that may predict exercise capacity following exercise-based rehabilitation in patients with coronary heart disease and heart failure. DESIGN: Meta-analysis and meta-regr...