Nazmus Saquib, Juliann Saquib, Tahmeed Ahmed, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
BACKGROUND: Belief is that chronic disease prevalence is rising in Bangladesh since death from them has increased. We reviewed published cardiovascular (CVD) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) studies between 1995 and 2010 and conducted a meta-analysis of disease prevalence. METHODS: A systematic s...
Masuma Akter Khanam, Peter Kim Streatfield, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Chengxuan Qiu et al.
Data on multimorbidity among the elderly people in Bangladesh are lacking. This paper reports the prevalence and distribution patterns of multimorbidity among the elderly people in rural Bangladesh. This cross-sectional study was conducted among persons aged ≥60 years in Matlab, Bangladesh. Informat...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
Abstract Objective In stating the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations aims to halve malnutrition around the world by 2015. Nutritional status of the elderly population in low-income countries is seldom focused upon. The present study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of malnutrition among...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
ObjectiveIn stating the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations aims to halve malnutrition around the world by 2015. Nutritional status of the elderly population in low-income countries is seldom focused upon. The present study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of malnutrition among an elderl...
Masuma Akter Khanam, Wietze Lindeboom, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, Dewan S Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Poor adherence has been identified as the main cause of failure to control hypertension. Poor adherence to antihypertensive treatment is a significant cardiovascular risk factor, which often remains unrecognized. There are no previous studies that examined adherence with antihypertensive...
Masuma Akter Khanam, Wietze Lindeboom, Abdur Razzaque, Louis Niessen et al.
BACKGROUND: The people of low and middle income countries bear about 80% of the global burden of diseases that are attributable to high blood pressure. Hypertensive people contribute half of this burden; the rest is among the people with lesser degrees of high blood pressure. Prehypertension elevate...
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...
Shuchi Anand, Masuma Akter Khanam, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus Saquib et al.
BACKGROUND: The burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) will rise in parallel with the growing prevalence of type two diabetes mellitus in South Asia but is understudied. Using a cross-sectional survey of adults living in a middle-income neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we tested the hypothesis tha...
Abdur Razzaque, Lutfun Nahar, Masuma Akter Khanam, Peter Kim Streatfield
BACKGROUND: Mortality has been declining in Bangladesh since the mid- twentieth century, while fertility has been declining since the late 1970s, and the country is now passing through the third stage of demographic transition. This type of demographic transition has produced a huge youthful populat...
Nazmus Saquib, Masuma Akter Khanam, Juliann Saquib, Shuchi Anand et al.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of type-2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome are increasing in the developing world; we assessed their prevalence among the urban middle class in Bangladesh. METHODS: In this cross-sectional survey (n = 402), we randomly selected consenting adults (≥ 30 years) from a middle-i...
Shafika Abrahams‐Gessel, Catalina A. Denman, Carlos Mendoza Montano, Thomas A. Gaziano et al.
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise in low- and middle-income countries and is proving difficult to combat due to the emphasis on improving outcomes in maternal and child health and infectious diseases against a backdrop of severe human resource and infrastructure constraints. Ef...
Sabrina Rasheed, Shamshad Jahan, Tamanna Sharmin, Shahidul Hoque et al.
BACKGROUND: Evidence from numerous studies suggests that salt intake is an important determinant of elevated blood pressure. Robust data about salt consumption among adults in Bangladesh is sparse. However, much evidence suggests saline intrusion due to sea level rise as a result of climate change e...
Naomi Levitt, Thandi Puoane, Catalina A. Denman, Shafika Abrahams‐Gessel et al.
BACKGROUND: We have found that community health workers (CHWs) with appropriate training are able to accurately identify people at high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in the community who would benefit from the introduction of preventative management, in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Mexico, and South A...
Shafika Abrahams‐Gessel, Catalina A. Denman, Carlos Mendoza Montano, Thomas A. Gaziano et al.
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHW) can screen for cardiovascular disease risk as well as health professionals using a noninvasive screening tool. However, this demonstrated success does not guarantee effective scaling of the intervention to a population level. OBJECTIVES: This study sought t...
John Parr, Wietze Lindeboom, Masuma Akter Khanam, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh suffers from a lack of healthcare providers. The growing chronic disease epidemic's demand for healthcare resources will further strain Bangladesh's limited healthcare workforce. Little is known about how Bangladeshis with chronic disease seek care. This study describes chroni...