Santosh K. Chaturvedi, Shayanth Manche Gowda, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Fahad D. Alosaimi et al.
BACKGROUND: Anxiety disorder, one of the highly disabling, prevalent and common mental disorders, is known to be more prevalent in persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) than the general population, and the comorbid presence of anxiety disorders is known to have an impact on the diabetes outco...
Ghose Bishwajit, D P O'Leary, Sharmistha Ghosh, Sanni Yaya et al.
BACKGROUND: With the increase in the understanding of the influence of various lifestyle factors such as sedentary behaviour and level of physical activity (PA) on physical and mental health, there has been a growing research interest on how physical inactivity correlates with depressive outcomes ac...
Sahadat Hossain, Afifa Anjum, M. Tasdik Hasan, Md. Elias Uddin et al.
BACKGROUND Self-perception of physical health conditions is associated with depression and anxiety. Although some recent studies revealed a high prevalence of depression and anxiety among Bangladeshi university students, no study has yet investigated the link between self-perception of physical heal...
Mohammad Shibli Sadiq, Nahid Mahjabin Morshed, Wasima Rahman, Nafia Farzana Chowdhury et al.
Objective: Medical training has been reported as being stressful, and postgraduate medical training environment has always been regarded as highly stressful, which may lead to different psychiatric disorders. In this study, it was aimed to determine the extent of depression, anxiety, and stress amon...
Anowara Rayhan Arusha, Raaj Kishore Biswas
Highlights • Factors of examination pressure of Bangladeshi tertiary level students are hardly researched.• Stress, anxiety and depression was evaluated using DASS-21 for 210 youths aged between 17–25 years.• The significant contributors are living with family, family time, sleeping pattern and diet...
Oriana Ciani, Massimo Piepoli, Neil A. Smart, Jamal Uddin et al.
This study sought to validate exercise capacity (EC) as a surrogate for mortality, hospitalization, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). EC is often used as a primary outcome in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) trials of heart failure (HF) via direct cardiorespiratory assessment of ...
BT Baune, Yousef Aljeesh
BACKGROUND: The study was performed to investigate the association of psychological stress and quality of life (QOL) among patients with the cardiovascular disease (CVD) of hypertension plus stroke or hypertension only. METHODS: The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was applied to 112 hypertensive patients ...
Eleonora Uphoff, Louise Newbould, Ian Walker, Nabila Ashraf et al.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of mental and physical comorbidities is unknown in South Asia, as estimates of mental ill health in patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have predominantly come from studies based in the United States, Europe and Australasia. This systematic review and meta-analy...
Taslima Mamataz, Jamal Uddin, Sayed Ibn Alam, Rod S Taylor et al.
To assess the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), given previous reviews have included scant trials from these settings and the great need there. Six electronic databases (PubMed, Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, and APA PsycINFO) were ...
Douglas R. Paul, John L Hoyt, Azmy R. Boutros
Circulatory and respiratory effects of change of posture from sitting to supine were studied in 11 obese patients scheduled for gastric bypass operations. Patients were studied on the morning of operation before any medication was given. Average weight was 138.8 kg, 108.6 per cent above ideal weight...
Amirul Islam
BACKGROUND: Psychological distress including depression and anxiety are among the most serious causes of morbidity and mortality in Bangladesh. There has been no study in the rural area to report the prevalence of and risk factors for psychological distress. The aim of this study was to estimate the...
Colin R Simpson, Philip C Hannaford, David Williams
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether sex, age, and deprivation inequalities existed in the prescription of secondary preventive treatment for coronary heart disease (CHD) in Scottish general practice and whether these differences altered over time. DESIGN: 6 year cross sectional study based on general...
Elisabeth Mahase
Cancer is now responsible for twice as many deaths as cardiovascular disease (CVD) in high income countries, according to two new papers published in the Lancet . The studies said that while CVD remains the leading cause of mortality among middle aged adults globally, accounting for 40% of all deat...
Md. Sazedur Rahman, Md. Ashfikur Rahman, Mohammad Ali, Md. Saidur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms are common among older people which are associated with disability, morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the associated risk factors for depressive symptoms among older people in Bangladesh. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted amon...
Bishwajit Bhowmik, Sanjida Binte Munir, Israt Ara Hossain, Tasnima Siddiquee et al.
BACKGROUND: To determine the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and impaired glucose regulation (impaired fasting glucose [IFG] and impaired glucose tolerance [IGT]) in an urbanizing rural population of Bangladesh and associated cardiometabolic risk indicators and depression. METHODS: A total of 2...