Sarah Finer, Hilary C. Martin, Ahsan Khan, Karen A. Hunt et al.
Cohort profile in a nutshell: - East London Genes & Health (ELGH) is a large scale, community genomics and health study (to date >30,000 volunteers; target 100,000 volunteers). - ELGH was set up in 2015 to gain deeper understanding of health and disease, and underlying genetic influences, in people ...
Tuhin Biswas, Md. Saimul Islam, Natalie M. Linton, Lal Rawal
INTRODUCTION: Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a major public health challenge, and undermine social and economic development in much of the developing world, including Bangladesh. Epidemiologic evidence on the socioeconomic status (SES)-related pattern of NCDs remains limited in Banglad...
William Checkley, Hassen Ghannem, Vilma Irazola, Sylvester Kimaiyo et al.
Noncommunicable disease (NCD), comprising cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are increasing in incidence rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Some patients have access to the same treatments available in high-income countries, but mos...
Mainul Haque, Tariqul Islam, Nor Azlina A. Rahman, Judy McKimm et al.
The prevalence of long-term (chronic) non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing globally due to an ageing global population, urbanization, changes in lifestyles, and inequitable access to healthcare. Although previously more common in high- and upper-middle-income countries, lower-middle-income...
Sabina Faiz Rashid
The health and rights of populations living in informal or slum settlements are key development issues of the twenty-first century. As of 2007, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. More than one billion of these people, or one in three city-dwellers, live in inadequate housin...
Helen Elsey, Irène Akua Agyepong, Rumana Huque, Zahidul Quayyem et al.
The world is now predominantly urban; rapid and uncontrolled urbanisation continues across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Health systems are struggling to respond to the challenges that urbanisation brings. While better-off urbanites can reap the benefits from the 'urban advantage',...
Masayuki Teramoto, Marissa B Reitsma, Yohannes Abate, Abdallah H A Abd Al Magied et al.
BACKGROUND: Smoking is the leading behavioural risk factor for mortality globally, accounting for more than 175 million deaths and nearly 4·30 billion years of life lost (YLLs) from 1990 to 2021. The pace of decline in smoking prevalence has slowed in recent years for many countries, and although st...
Dipannita Adhikary, Shanto Barman, Redoy Ranjan, Hana Stone
Cardiovascular disease has become a growing global and public health concern among non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The purpose of the study was to focus on the increasing prevalence of the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), irrespective of age and gender, and its effect on public healt...
Tuhin Biswas, Sonia Pervin, Md. Imtiaz Tanim, Louis Niessen et al.
BACKGROUND: This paper is aimed at critically assessing the extent to which Non-Communicable Disease NCD-related policies introduced in Bangladesh align with the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2013-2020 Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of NCDs. METHODS: The autho...
Marge Koblinsky, Iqbal Anwar, Malay Kanti Mridha, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury et al.
Bangladesh is on its way to achieving the MDG 5 target of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015, but the annual rate of decline needs to triple. Although the use of skilled birth attendants has improved over the past 15 years, it remains less than 20% as of 20...
Adrianna Murphy, Benjamin Palafox, Owen O’Donnell, David Stückler et al.
BACKGROUND: There is little evidence on the use of secondary prevention medicines for cardiovascular disease by socioeconomic groups in countries at different levels of economic development. METHODS: We assessed use of antiplatelet, cholesterol, and blood-pressure-lowering drugs in 8492 individuals ...
Md. Shafiur Rahman, Shamima Akter, Sarah Krull Abe, Md. Rafiqul Islam et al.
OBJECTIVES: To examine awareness, treatment, and control of diabetes mellitus among the adult population in Bangladesh. METHODS: The study used data from the 2011 nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS). The BDHS sample is comprised of 7,786 adults aged 35 years or ...
A.K.M. Monwarul Islam, Abdullah Al Shafi Majumder
Hypertension (HTN) is an increasingly important medical and public health problem. In Bangladesh, approximately 20% of adult and 40-65% of elderly people suffer from HTN. High incidence of metabolic syndrome, and lifestyle-related factors like obesity, high salt intake, and less physical activity ma...
Trudy Harpham
The 'healthy city' concept has only recently been adopted in developing countries. From 1995 to 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, supported healthy city projects (HCPs) in Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Fayoum (Egypt), Managua (Nicaragua) and Quetta (Pakistan). ...
Ghose Bishwajit
OVERVIEW: South Asian countries have experienced a remarkable economic growth during last two decades along with subsequent transformation in social, economic and food systems. Rising disposable income levels continue to drive the nutrition transition characterized by a shift from a traditional high...