Darryl P. Leong, Koon Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, Patricio López‐Jaramillo et al.
BACKGROUND Reduced muscular strength, as measured by grip strength, has been associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Grip strength is appealing as a simple, quick, and inexpensive means of stratifying an individual's risk of cardiovascular death. However, the pro...
Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Xiaohe Zhang, Sumathi Swaminathan et al.
Background The relationship between macronutrients and cardiovascular disease and mortality is controversial. Most available data are from European and North American populations where nutrition excess is more likely, so their applicability to other populations is unclear. Methods The Prospective Ur...
Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou, Mariachiara Di Cesare et al.
Abstract Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2...
Victoria Miller, Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan et al.
BACKGROUND The association between intake of fruits, vegetables, and legumes with cardiovascular disease and deaths has been investigated extensively in Europe, the USA, Japan, and China, but little or no data are available from the Middle East, South America, Africa, or south Asia. METHODS We did a...
Victoria Miller, Salim Yusuf, Clara K Chow, Mahshid Dehghan et al.
BACKGROUND: Several international guidelines recommend the consumption of two servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables per day, but their intake is thought to be low worldwide. We aimed to determine the extent to which such low intake is related to availability and affordability. METHODS:...
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...
Neeraj Narula, Emily C L Wong, Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relation between intake of ultra-processed food and risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: 21 low, middle, and high income countries across seven geographical regions (Europe and North America, South America, Africa, Middle Eas...
Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan, Matthew McQueen et al.
Background The relation between dietary nutrients and cardiovascular disease risk markers in many regions worldwide is unknown. In this study, we investigated the effect of dietary nutrients on blood lipids and blood pressure, two of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular disease, in low...
Gerd Holmboe‐Ottesen, Margareta Wandel
BACKGROUND: Immigrants from low-income countries comprise an increasing proportion of the population in Europe. Higher prevalence of obesity and nutrition related diseases, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is found in some immigrant groups, especially in South Asians. 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...
Joanne E Arsenault, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, M Munirul Islam, M. Belal Hossain et al.
Documentation of micronutrient intake inadequacies among developing country populations is important for planning interventions to control micronutrient deficiencies. The objective of this study was to quantify micronutrient intakes by young children and their primary female caregivers in rural Bang...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Rasmi Avula, Marie T. Ruel, Kuntal Kumar Saha et al.
Dietary diversity (DD) reflects micronutrient adequacy of the diet and is associated with better child growth. Emerging evidence suggests that maternal and child DD are associated. This could have measurement and programmatic implications. Data on mother-child (6-24 mo) dyads in Bangladesh, Vietnam,...
Vanessa Ha, John L. Sievenpiper, Russell J. de Souza, Viranda H. Jayalath et al.
BACKGROUND: Evidence from controlled trials encourages the intake of dietary pulses (beans, chickpeas, lentils and peas) as a method of improving dyslipidemia, but heart health guidelines have stopped short of ascribing specific benefits to this type of intervention or have graded the beneficial evi...
Iftekhar Quasem, Shiney C. Alex, Anjan Kumar Nag, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan et al.
Objective To evaluate the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among elderly individuals in Bangladesh and India. Method A community-based sample of 1203 elderly individuals (670 women; mean age, 70 years) was selected using a multistage cluster sampling technique from two si...
Janaki Parajuli, Farzana Saleh, Narbada Thapa, Liaquat Ali
BACKGROUND: Nonadherence to diet and physical activity is a major problem in the management of diabetes mellitus and its complications. This study was undertaken to measure the factors associated with nonadherence to diet and physical activity advice among Nepalese type 2 diabetic patients. METHODS:...