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:...
Clara K Chow, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Weihong Hu, Khalid F. AlHabib et al.
BACKGROUND Data are scarce on the availability and affordability of essential medicines for diabetes. Our aim was to examine the availability and affordability of metformin, sulfonylureas, and insulin across multiple regions of the world and explore the effect of these on medicine use. METHODS In th...
Rockli Kim, Iván Mejía‐Guevara, Daniel J. Corsi, Víctor M. Aguayo et al.
Optimal growth and development in early childhood is determined by a complex interplay of child, maternal, household, environmental, and socioeconomic factors that influence nutritional intake, but interventions to reduce child undernutrition sometimes target specific risk factors in isolation. In t...
Daniel J. Corsi, S. V. Subramanian, Clara K Chow, Martin McKee et al.
BACKGROUND The PURE study was established to investigate associations between social, behavioural, genetic, and environmental factors and cardiovascular diseases in 17 countries. In this analysis we compare the age, sex, urban/rural, mortality, and educational profiles of the PURE participants to na...
Benjamin Palafox, Martin McKee, Dina Balabanova, Khalid F. AlHabib et al.
BACKGROUND: Effective policies to control hypertension require an understanding of its distribution in the population and the barriers people face along the pathway from detection through to treatment and control. One key factor is household wealth, which may enable or limit a household's ability to...
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 ...
Clara K Chow, Daniel J. Corsi, Anna Gilmore, Annamarie Kruger et al.
OBJECTIVES: This study examines in a cross-sectional study 'the tobacco control environment' including tobacco policy implementation and its association with quit ratio. SETTING: 545 communities from 17 high-income, upper-middle, low-middle and low-income countries (HIC, UMIC, LMIC, LIC) involved in...
Daniel J. Corsi, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, S. V. Subramanian
In Bangladesh, the prevalence of overweight among adults is increasing while underweight continues to be common. However, little is known about the pattern of underweight and overweight within Bangladesh and at the neighborhood level. The objective of this study was to assess the socioeconomic and g...
Fahad Razak, Daniel J. Corsi, Arthur S. Slutsky, Anura V. Kurpad et al.
IMPORTANCE: Body mass index (BMI) lower than 16 is the most severe category of adult undernutrition and is associated with substantial morbidity, increased mortality, and poor maternal-fetal outcomes such as low-birth-weight newborns. Little is known about the prevalence and distribution of BMI lowe...
Daniel J. Corsi, Clara K Chow, Scott A. Lear, Omar Rahman et al.
OBJECTIVE: The goal of the present study was to examine the influence of community environment on the nutritional status (weight-for-age and height-for-age) of children (aged 0-59 months) in Bangladesh. In addition, we tested the association between specific characteristics of community environments...
Matthew S. Savoca, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Andrés H. Arias, Laura Baes et al.
Monitoring the movement of plastic into marine food webs is central to understanding and mitigating the plastic pollution crisis.
Yanfang Guo, Rong Luo, Daniel J. Corsi, Ruth Rennicks White et al.
We used a prospective cohort of pregnant women at 12 to 20 weeks gestation between 2002 and 2008 in Ottawa and Kingston to evaluate the impact of early pregnancy folic acid supplementation on the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus. Among 7552 eligible women, 84 (1.11%) were diagnosed of gestation...
Yogen Singh, Manuel Sánchez Luna, Belinda Chan, Almudena Alonso-Ojembarrena et al.
PURPOSE To provide an expert consensus framework for standardizing lung ultrasound training for neonatologists. METHODS We selected an international panel of 15 neonatologists expert in lung ultrasound, based on clinical and research expertise criteria. Ten questions were proposed by the chairs to t...
Arabinda Ghosh, Daniel J. Corsi, S. V. Subramanian
Background: Bangladesh and the Indian State of West Bengal form a homogenous geographic and cultural region with distinct administrative and governance structures. Although social and economic indicators are generally better in West Bengal compared to Bangladesh, this article is the first to provide...