Christine Marie George, Vanessa Burrowes, Jamie Perin, Lauren Oldja et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between faecal contamination in child play spaces, enteric infections, environmental enteropathy (EE) and impaired growth among young children. METHODS: A prospective cohort study was conducted of 203 children 6-30 months of age in rural Bangladesh. Stool s...
Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Krystal Swasey, Allysha Choudhury, Vanessa Burrowes et al.
We analyzed the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011 data to examine absolute differences in hypertension prevalence according to the hypertension definition of the “2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (2017 ACC/AHA) Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evalua...
Rajat Das Gupta, Krystal Swasey, Vanessa Burrowes, Mohammad Rashidul Hashan et al.
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with low birth weight (LBW) in Afghanistan. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: This study used data collected from the Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey 2015. PARTICIPANTS: Facility-based data from 2773 weighted live-bor...
Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Krystal Swasey, Rajat Das Gupta, Allysha Choudhury et al.
This cross-sectional study analysed Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011 data with the aim of investigating the prevalence of, and risk factors for, hypertension in individuals aged over 35 by rural-urban place of residence. After estimation of the stratified prevalence of hypertension by b...
Vanessa Burrowes, Jamie Perin, Shirajum Monira, David A. Sack et al.
Household contacts of cholera patients are at a 100 times higher risk of a Vibrio cholerae infection than the general population. To examine risk factors for V. cholerae infections and investigate intervention strategies among this population, we followed household contacts of cholera patients for t...
Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Vanessa Burrowes, Allysha Choudhury, Atia Sharmeen et al.
BACKGROUND: Delivery by skilled birth attendants (SBAs) is strongly recommended to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. The percentage of births attended by SBAs is low in Bangladesh (42% in 2014), though this rate varies widely by divisions, with the highest 58% in Khulna and only 27% in Sylhet....
Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Krystal Swasey, Md Zabir Hasan, Allysha Choudhury et al.
We investigated determinants of hypertension in Bangladesh using both Joint National Committee 7 (JNC7) and 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Hypertension Association (2017 ACC/AHA) guidelines. After reporting background characteristics, odds ratios (ORs) were obtained by multilevel logis...
Jamie Perin, Vanessa Burrowes, Mathieu Almeida, Shahnawaz Ahmed et al.
The microbial communities residing in the child gut are thought to play an important role in child growth, although the relationship is not well understood. We examined a cohort of young children from Mirzapur, Bangladesh, prospectively over 18 months. Four fecal markers of environmental enteropathy...
Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Vanessa Burrowes, Allysha Choudhury, Atia Sharmeen et al.
Globally, complications of raised blood pressure are fundamental public health issues. There has been limited research if prevalence and risk factors vary by sex in many countries, including Bangladesh. We stratified the prevalence and associated factors of prehypertension and hypertension according...
Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Vanessa Burrowes, Sharmin Majumder, Atia Sharmeen et al.
BACKGROUND: Total fertility rate (TFR) is high and at a static level for the last two decades in Bangladesh. Reduction of fertility by increasing contraceptives use could reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. To achieve the targeted contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) of Family Planning 2020 (FP20...
Mahamud‐ur Rashid, Zillur Rahman, Vanessa Burrowes, Jamie Perin et al.
Abstract Objective In urban Dhaka, Bangladesh, 30% of source water samples collected from the households of patients with cholera had detectable Vibrio cholera e. These findings indicate an urgent need for a public health intervention for this population. The Crystal VC ® dipstick test is a rapid me...