Russell J. de Souza, Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala et al.
BACKGROUND The association of nuts with cardiovascular disease and deaths has been investigated mostly in Europe, the USA, and East Asia, with few data available from other regions of the world or from low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVE To assess the association of nuts with mortality and c...
MyLinh Duong, Sumathy Rangarajan, Xiaohe Zhang, Kieran J. Killian et al.
BACKGROUND: Bidis are minimally regulated, inexpensive, hand-rolled tobacco products smoked in south Asia. We examined the effects of bidi smoking on baseline respiratory impairment, and prospectively collected data for all-cause mortality and cardiorespiratory events in men from this region. METHOD...
Benjamin Palafox, Yevgeniy Goryakin, David Stückler, Marc Suhrcke et al.
INTRODUCTION: Social capital, characterised by trust, reciprocity and cooperation, is positively associated with a number of health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that among hypertensive individuals, those with greater social capital are more likely to have their hypertension detected, treated and...