Darryl P. Leong, Koon Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, V. Raman Kutty et al.
Abstract Background The measurement of handgrip strength (HGS) has prognostic value with respect to all‐cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular disease, and is an important part of the evaluation of frailty. Published reference ranges for HGS are mostly derived from Caucasian po...
Stephanie R Psaki, Jessica C. Seidman, Mark Miller, Michael Gottlieb et al.
BACKGROUND: There is no standardized approach to comparing socioeconomic status (SES) across multiple sites in epidemiological studies. This is particularly problematic when cross-country comparisons are of interest. We sought to develop a simple measure of SES that would perform well across diverse...
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...
Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, A Hilaly, Syed Nazmul Huda et al.
Poor stimulation in the home is one of the main factors affecting the development of children living in poverty. The family care indicators (FCIs) were developed to measure home stimulation in large populations and were derived from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME). Th...
Thomas A. Pearson, Latha Palaniappan, Nancy T. Artinian, Mercedes R. Carnethon et al.
Sarah J. Wallace, Linda Worrall, Tanya Rose, Guylaine Le Dorze et al.
PURPOSE: To identify important treatment outcomes from the perspective of people with aphasia and their families using the ICF as a frame of reference. METHODS: The nominal group technique was used with people with aphasia and their family members in seven countries to identify and rank important tr...
Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed, Satyajit Kundu, Enryka Christopher et al.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has imposed threats on both physical and mental health since its outbreak. This study aimed to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among a representative sample of home-quarantined Bangladeshi adults. A cross-sectional design was used with an onl...
Mengyun Zheng, Hui Jin, Naiyang Shi, Chunxiao Duan et al.
BACKGROUND: Low health literacy often has an association with poor health outcomes such as low levels of self-efficacy, increased mortality, poor health status and reduced quality of life (QOL). The aim of the study was to quantitatively evaluate the relationship between health literacy (HL) and QOL...
Robert E. Black, Kenneth H. Brown, Stan Becker, Mohammad Yunus
Longitudinal studies were done in two villages in rural Bangladesh to learn more about the interactions between infectious diseases and the nutritional status of children. An intensive system of surveillance was used to determine the occurrence and frequency of infectious diseases in a cohort of 197...
Ashraful Kabir, Md. Shahgahan Miah, Asraful Islam
BACKGROUND: Over the past decades, Bangladesh has made substantial progress in improving higher education, and in part, this was achieved by promoting residence based higher education in public universities. University residency is considered a crucial period for students to develop healthy eating h...
Andrew D. Jones, Scott Ickes, Laura E. Smith, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya et al.
As the World Health Organization (WHO) infant and young child feeding (IYCF) indicators are increasingly adopted, a comparison of country-specific analyses of the indicators' associations with child growth is needed to examine the consistency of these relationships across contexts and to assess the ...
Scott Weich, James Nazroo, Kerry Sproston, Sally McManus et al.
BACKGROUND: There is little population-based evidence on ethnic variation in the most common mental disorders (CMD), anxiety and depression. We compared the prevalence of CMD among representative samples of White, Irish, Black Caribbean, Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani individuals living in Englan...
M. Anwar Hossain, Iqbal Kabir Jahid, K M Amran Hossain, Lori Maria Walton et al.
The study aims to determine the level of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) related to COVID-19 preventive health habits and perception of fear towards COVID-19 in subjects living in Bangladesh. DESIGN: Prospective, cross-sectional survey of (n = 2157) male and female subjects, 13-88 years of a...
David J.A. Jenkins, Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala et al.
BACKGROUND: Most data regarding the association between the glycemic index and cardiovascular disease come from high-income Western populations, with little information from non-Western countries with low or middle incomes. To fill this gap, data are needed from a large, geographically diverse popul...
Lawrence D. Hayes, Martha White, Nigel Unwin, R. Bhopal et al.
BACKGROUND: Differences in level of physical activity between European, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi populations living in the UK might contribute to differences in the prevalence of diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk markers that exist in these populations. METHODS: Type and level of phy...