Salim Yusuf, Philip Joseph, Sumathy Rangarajan, Shofiqul Islam et al.
Background: Global estimates of the impact of common modifiable risk factors on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality are largely based on data from separate studies, using different methodologies. The Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study overcomes these limitations by using simila...
Annika Rosengren, Andrew Smyth, Sumathy Rangarajan, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige et al.
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic status is associated with differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease incidence and outcomes, including mortality. However, it is unclear whether the associations between cardiovascular disease and common measures of socioeconomic status-wealth and education-diff...
Annabelle Santos Volgman, Latha S. Palaniappan, Neelum T. Aggarwal, Milan Gupta et al.
South Asians (from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) make up one quarter of the world's population and are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States. Although native South Asians share genetic and cultural risk factors with South Asians abro...
Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Sumathy Rangarajan, Patrick Sheridan et al.
BACKGROUND Dietary guidelines recommend minimising consumption of whole-fat dairy products, as they are a source of saturated fats and presumed to adversely affect blood lipids and increase cardiovascular disease and mortality. Evidence for this contention is sparse and few data for the effects of d...
Gregory A. Roth, Catherine O. Johnson, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Foad Abd-Allah et al.
Importance: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, but regional variation within the United States is large. Comparable and consistent state-level measures of total CVD burden and risk factors have not been produced previously. Objective: To quantify and des...
Isfafuzzaman Tasin, Tansin Ullah Nabil, Sanjida Islam, Riasat Khan
Globally, diabetes affects 537 million people, making it the deadliest and the most common non-communicable disease. Many factors can cause a person to get affected by diabetes, like excessive body weight, abnormal cholesterol level, family history, physical inactivity, bad food habit etc. Increased...
Abhinav Goyal, Salim Yusuf
Ischaemic heart disease and stroke are among the most common causes of death and disability in the world. The Indian subcontinent (including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal) has among the highest rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) globally. Previous reports have highlighted the ...
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...
Uday Narayan Yadav, Binod Rayamajhee, Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Shradha S. Parsekar et al.
The global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly affected the lives of people living with non-communicable diseases (PLWNCDs). The health of PLWNCDs worsens when synergistic epidemics or "syndemics" occur due to the interaction between socioecological and biological factors, resulting ...
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...
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...
Sumathi Swaminathan, Mahshid Dehghan, John Michael Raj, Tinku Thomas et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between intakes of refined grains, whole grains, and white rice with cardiovascular disease, total mortality, blood lipids, and blood pressure in the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: PURE study in...
Sohail Akhtar, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Aqsa Sarwar, Nida Nasr et al.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis in order to summarise the prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes and their associated risk factors in Bangladesh. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis. PARTICIPANTS: General population of Bangladesh. DAT...