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...
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...
Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, J. Jaime Miranda, Xian Li, Chendi Cui et al.
BACKGROUND: Currently available tools for assessing high cardiovascular risk (HCR) often require measurements not available in resource-limited settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). There is a need to assess HCR using a pragmatic evidence-based approach. OBJECTIVES: This study sought ...
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.\n\nMet...