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...
Darryl P. Leong, Koon Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, Patricio López‐Jaramillo et al.
BACKGROUND Reduced muscular strength, as measured by grip strength, has been associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Grip strength is appealing as a simple, quick, and inexpensive means of stratifying an individual's risk of cardiovascular death. However, the pro...
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...
Philip Joseph, V. Raman Kutty, Viswanathan Mohan, Rajesh Kumar et al.
AIM: To examine the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), of death, and the comparative effects of 12 common modifiable risk factors for both outcomes in South Asia. METHODS AND RESULTS: Prospective study of 33 583 individuals 35-70 years of age from India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan. Mean follow-...
Kwadwo Boakye, Marit L. Bovbjerg, John M. Schuna, Adam J. Branscum et al.
Urbanization may influence physical activity (PA) levels, although little evidence is available for low- and middle- income countries where urbanization is occurring fastest. We evaluated associations between urbanization and total PA, as well as work-, leisure-, home-, and transport-specific PA, fo...
Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Viswanathan Mohan, Sumathy Rangarajan, Hertzel C. Gerstein et al.
OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare cardiovascular (CV) events, all-cause mortality, and CV mortality rates among adults with and without diabetes in countries with differing levels of income. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study enrolled 143,567 adults aged 35...
Kelli L. Cain, Jo Salmon, Terry L. Conway, Ester Cerin et al.
INTRODUCTION: Only international studies can provide the full variability of built environments and accurately estimate effect sizes of relations between contrasting environments and health-related outcomes. The aims of the International Physical Activity and Environment Study of Adolescents (IPEN A...
Dian Kusuma, Rajendra Pradeepa, Khadija Irfan Khawaja, Mehedi Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: South Asia has become a major epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding South Asians' awareness, attitudes and experiences of early measures for the prevention of COVID-19 is key to improving the effectiveness and mitigating the social and economic impacts of pandemic responses a...
Ester Cerin, Terry L. Conway, Anthony Barnett, Melody Smith et al.
BACKGROUND: The IPEN International Physical Activity and Environment Network Adolescent project was conducted using common study protocols to document the strength, shape, and generalizability of associations of perceived neighborhood environment attributes with adolescents' physical activity and ov...
Peige Song, Ananya Gupta, Ian Y. Goon, Mehedi Hasan et al.
Peige Song , Ananya Gupta, Ian Y Goon, Mehedi Hasan, Sara Mahmood, Rajendra Pradeepa, Samreen Siddiqui, Gary S Frost , Dian Kusuma , Marisa Miraldo, Franco Sassi, Nick J Wareham, Sajjad Ahmed, Ranjit M. Anjana, Soren Brage , Nita G Forouhi, Sujeet Jha, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Prasad Katulanda, Khad...
Dian Kusuma, Petya Atanasova, Elisa Pineda, Ranjit Mohan Anjana et al.
BACKGROUND: The global epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) renders its prevention a major public health priority. A key risk factor of diabetes is obesity and poor diets. Food environments have been found to influence people's diets and obesity, positing they may play a role in the prevalenc...
Petya Atanasova, Dian Kusuma, Elisa Pineda, Ranjit Mohan Anjana et al.
INTRODUCTION: In low-middle income countries (LMICs) the role of food environments on obesity has been understudied. We address this gap by 1) examining the effect of food environments on adults' body size (BMI, waist circumference) and obesity; 2) measuring the heterogeneity of such effects by inco...
Raed A. Joundi, Bo Hu, Sumathy Rangarajan, Darryl P. Leong et al.
BACKGROUND The focus of most epidemiological studies has been mortality or clinical events, with less information on activity limitations related to basic daily functions and their consequences. Standardised data from multiple countries at different economic levels in different regions of the world ...
Elisa Pineda, Petya Atanasova, Nalinda Tharanga Wellappuli, Dian Kusuma et al.
Background: The increasing prevalence of diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South Asia is concerning, with type 2 diabetes projected to rise to 68%, compared to the global increase of 44%. Encouraging healthy diets requires stronger policies for healthier food environments. Methods: Th...
Arlene Quiambao, Mohammad‐Reza Malekpour, Ali Golestani, Mahsa Heidari‐Foroozan et al.
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for over 60% of annual global deaths, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries. This trend undermines progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4, which seeks to reduce premature mortality from NCDs by one-third by ...