Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Sandra Thompson, Mohammed Ali, Nurul Alam et al.
The study assessed the timing and causes of neonatal deaths in a rural area of Bangladesh. A population-based demographic surveillance system, run by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, recorded livebirths and neonatal deaths during 2003-2004 among a population of 2...
Ai Milojevic, Ben Armstrong, Masahiro Hashizume, Katherine McAllister et al.
BACKGROUND: There is little information available on nontraumatic health risks as the result of floods, and on the factors that determine vulnerability to them (especially in low-income settings). We estimated the pattern of mortality, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infection following the 2004 flo...
Mahin Al Nahian, Ali Ahmed, Attila N. Lázár, Craig W. Hutton et al.
Salinity intrusion in coastal Bangladesh has serious population health implications, which are yet to be clearly understood. The study was undertaken through the ‘Assessing Health, Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Populous Deltas’ project in coastal Bangladesh. Drinking wat...
Michael Emch, Caryl Feldacker, Mohammad Yunus, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
Environmental factors have been shown to be related to cholera and thus might prove useful for prediction. In Bangladesh and Vietnam, temporal cholera distributions are related to satellite-derived and in-situ environmental time series data in order to examine the relationships between cholera and t...
Mohammed Mofizur Rahman, Sate Ahmad, Ayesha S. Mahmud, Md Hassanuzzaman et al.
Abstract Climate change affects almost all aspects of human life, including health. This is particularly true in densely populated and low lying deltas such as Bangladesh. However, the climate‐health nexus is a relatively poorly explored domain of research, which is a cause for concern given the cou...
Nurul Alam, Taslim Ali, Abdur Razzaque, Mahfuzur Rahman et al.
Bangladesh, (icddr,b, former Pakistan SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory) set up a field diarrhoea hospital in Matlab in December 1963 for evaluating acceptability, safety and efficacy of cholera vaccines, including oral rehydration therapy, and studying the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of ...
Allan H. Smith, Mohammad Yunus, Md Alfazal Khan, Ayşe Ercümen et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic exposure via drinking water increases the risk of chronic respiratory disease in adults. However, information on pulmonary health effects in children after early life exposure is limited. METHODS: This population-based cohort study set in rural Matlab, Bangladesh, assessed lung f...
Dewan S Alam, Prabhat Jha, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
OBJECTIVE: To directly estimate how much smoking contributes to cause-specific mortality in Bangladesh. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted with surveillance data from Matlab, a rural subdistrict. Cases (n = 2213) and controls (n = 261) were men aged 25 to 69 years who had died between 2003 ...
Nuzhat Choudhury, Allisyn C. Moran, Ashraful Alam, Karar Zunaid Ahsan et al.
BACKGROUND: Worldwide urbanization has become a crucial issue in recent years. Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely-populated countries in the world, has been facing rapid urbanization. In urban areas, maternal indicators are generally worse in the slums than in the urban non-slum areas. ...
Mahfuzar Rahman, Nazmul Sohel, Mohammad Yunus, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic in drinking water was associated with increased risk of all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular death in adults. However, the extent to which exposure is related to all-cause and deaths from cancer and cardiovascular condition in young age is unknown. Therefore, we prospectively as...
Nawi Ng, Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nirmala Naidoo et al.
BACKGROUND: Declining rates of fertility and mortality are driving demographic transition in all regions of the world, leading to global population ageing and consequently changing patterns of global morbidity and mortality. Understanding sex-related health differences, recognising groups at risk of...
Emily S. Gurley, Amal Halder, Peter Kim Streatfield, Hossain M. S. Sazzad et al.
OBJECTIVES: We estimated the population-based incidence of maternal and neonatal mortality associated with hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Bangladesh. METHODS: We analyzed verbal autopsy data from 4 population-based studies in Bangladesh to calculate the maternal and neonatal mortality ratios associated ...
Masuma Akter Khanam, Chengxuan Qiu, Wietze Lindeboom, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) among older persons in rural Bangladesh, to investigate whether the prevalence varies by age, sex, literacy, marital status, nutritional status and socio-economic status, and to assess the impact of MetS on survival. METHODS: Th...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be...
Khalequ Zaman, Susanne Dudman, Kathrine Stene‐Johansen, Firdausi Qadri et al.
INTRODUCTION: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis in the developing world and is a public health problem, in particular among pregnant women, where it may lead to severe or fatal complications. A recombinant HEV vaccine, 239 (Hecolin; Xiamen Innovax Biotech, Xiamen, C...