Marie Ng, Tom Fleming, Margaret S. Robinson, Blake Thomson et al.
Background In 2010, overweight and obesity were estimated to cause 3.4 million deaths, 3.9% of years of life lost, and 3.8% of DALYs globally. The rise in obesity has led to widespread calls for regular monitoring of changes in overweight and obesity prevalence in all populations. Comparative, up-to...
Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei, Leanne M Riley et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHOD...
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...
Nayu Ikeda, David Sapienza, Ramiro Guerrero, Wichai Aekplakorn et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine hypertension management across countries and over time using consistent and comparable methods. METHODS: A systematic search identified nationally representative health examination surveys from 20 countries containing data from 1980 to 2011 on blood pressure measurements, the d...
Md. Ismail Tareque, Nayu Ikeda, Atsushi Koshio, Toshihiko Hasegawa
BACKGROUND: Anchoring vignettes are brief texts describing a hypothetical character who illustrates a certain fixed level of a trait under evaluation. This research uses vignettes to elucidate factors associated with sleep disorders in adult Japanese before and after adjustment for reporting heterog...
Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei, Leanne M Riley et al.
Background: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories.\n\nMet...
Md. Ismail Tareque, Nayu Ikeda, Atsushi Koshio, Toshihiko Hasegawa
We examined the factors associated with the evaluation of health description vignettes and how Japanese people make decisions related to the eight health dimensions (mobility, emotions, pain, relationship with others, sleep and energy, vision, recognition/remembering abilities, and self-care). We in...
Md. Ismail Tareque, Nayu Ikeda, Atsushi Koshio, Toshihiko Hasegawa
Md. Ismail Tareque, Nayu Ikeda, Atsushi Koshio, Toshihiko Hasegawa