Tuhin Biswas, Sarah P. Garnett, Sonia Pervin, Lal Rawal
BACKGROUND: Over the two last decades Bangladesh, a low-income country, has experienced a rapid demographic and epidemiological transition. The population has increased substantially with rapid urbanization and changing pattern of disease, which at least in part, can be explained by nutritional chan...
Tuhin Biswas, Sonia Pervin, Md. Imtiaz Tanim, Louis Niessen et al.
BACKGROUND: This paper is aimed at critically assessing the extent to which Non-Communicable Disease NCD-related policies introduced in Bangladesh align with the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2013-2020 Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of NCDs. METHODS: The autho...
Tuhin Biswas, Md. Jasim Uddin, Abdullah Al Mamun, Sonia Pervin et al.
BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity are a particular concern for women of reproductive age. They not only increase the risk of chronic diseases but they are also associated with adverse perinatal, neonatal, infant and child outcomes. The objective of this study was to examine the trend of overweight ...
Sarah Finer, Mohd S. Iqbal, Robert Lowe, B Ogunkolade et al.
OBJECTIVES: Famine exposure in utero can 'programme' an individual towards type 2 diabetes and obesity in later life. We sought to identify, (1) whether Bangladeshis exposed to famine during developmental life are programmed towards diabetes and obesity, (2) whether this programming was specific to ...
Tuhin Biswas, Nick Townsend, M. Mamun Huda, Joemer C Maravilla et al.
Background: Modifiable non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors are becoming increasingly common among adolescents, with clustering of these risk factors in individuals of particular concern. The aim of this study was to assess global status of clustering of common modifiable NCD risk factors amo...
Tuhin Biswas, Anwar Islam, M. Sirajul Islam, Sonia Pervin et al.
Objectives The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among children (0-12 years) and adolescents (13-19 years) has emerged as a major public health threat in Bangladesh. Unfortunately, there is a serious paucity of credible data on these issues that can be used for policy and programmatic ...
Md Mehedi Hasan, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães, Sarah P. Garnett, Yaqoot Fatima et al.
Objective: To examine trends in, and projections of, the prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries at national and subpopulation levels. Methods: We used nationally representative data from repeated cross-sectional Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) on ...
Dewan S Alam, Shamim Hayder Talukder, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury, Ali Tanweer Siddiquee et al.
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are an increasing pandemic globally and often remain undiagnosed long after onset in low-income settings. The objective of this study is to assess the determinants and prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes among adults in Bangladesh. METHODS...
Dewan S Alam, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury, Ali Tanweer Siddiquee, Shyfuddin Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Indoor air pollution (IAP) due to solid fuel use is a major risk factor of respiratory and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Rural Matlab in Bangladesh has been partly supplied with natural gas since the early 1990s, which offered a natural experiment to investigate the long-term i...
Eric Finkelstein, Anirudh Krishnan, Aliya Naheed, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
BACKGROUND: COBRA-BPS (Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation-Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), a multi-component hypertension management programme that is led by community health workers, has been shown to be efficacious at reducing systolic blood pressure in rural communities in Bangladesh...
Md. Mehedi Hasan, Ricardo J Soares Magalhaes, Saifuddin Ahmed, Sonia Pervin et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine geographical variations, trends and projections in the prevalence of childhood anemia at national and subpopulation levels. DESIGN: Repeated cross-sectional Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted during 2000-2018. SETTING: Fifty-three low- and middle-income countries (LM...
Sonia Pervin, Pauline Emmett, Nick Townsend, Tuhin Biswas et al.
There is a strong societal belief that parents are role models for their child's dietary behaviours in early life that may persist throughout the life course. Evidence has shown inconclusive dietary resemblance in parent-child (PC) pairs. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to examine die...
Tuhin Biswas, Peter Azzopardi, Syeda Novera Anwar, Tim David de Vries et al.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to assess the current status of non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors amongst adolescents in Bangladesh. We also critically reviewed the existing policy responses to NCD risk among adolescents in Bangladesh. METHODS: This study used a mixed method approach....
Shyfuddin Ahmed, Sonia Pervin, Tuhin Biswas, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury et al.
OBJECTIVES: This study was performed to identify the distribution of undiagnosed isolated hypertension subtypes and their correlates amongst adults aged 35 years and older in Bangladesh using data from the Bangladesh Demography and Health Survey 2011. METHODS: Out of a total of 17,964 selected house...
Md. Abu Sayed Jewel, Sarder M. W. Ali, Md. Ayenuddin Haque, Md. Giush Uddin Ahmed et al.
Sustainable integrated farming involving the combination of rice-fish-vegetables requires advanced technology to be adopted in crop production in arid zones characterized by red or yellow soil. In the present study, we used suitable and varying stocking densities of Silver barb (Barbonemus gonionotu...