PLoS Medicine, 2005 BackgroundCardiovascular diseases and their nutritional risk factors--including overweight and obesity, elevated blood pressure, and cholesterol--are among the leading causes of global mortality and morbidity, and have been predicted to rise with ...
Majid Ezzati +7 more
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Why we need to rethink the diseases of affluence. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2005 Novotny discusses the implications of a new study in PLoS Medicine examining the relationship between national income and risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Thomas E Novotny
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Agrarian diet and diseases of affluence – Do evolutionary novel dietary lectins cause leptin resistance? [PDF]
BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2005 Background The global pattern of varying prevalence of diseases of affluence, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, suggests that some environmental factor specific to agrarian societies could initiate these diseases.
Jönsson Tommy +5 more
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Emergence of Diseases of Affluence in Oman : Where do they Feature in the Health Research Agenda? [PDF]
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2006 THE HEALTH STATUS AND LIVING conditions in emerging economies, sometimes called developing countries, have changed considerably because of the rapid growth of the biomedical healthcare infrastructure and acculturation and globalization. Despite this, the
Samir Al-Adawi
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Spatial Approach to Diseases of Affluence Epidemiology and Regional Economic Development [PDF]
Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2016 Diseases of affluence (of the 21st c.) by definition should have higher prevalence and/or mortality rates in richer and more developed countries than in poorer, underdeveloped states (where diseases of poverty are more common).
Olejnik Alicja, Żółtaszek Agata
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Economic Development and the Spread of Diseases of Affluence in EU Regions [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2017 Diseases of affluence (diseases of the twenty‑first century, Western diseases) by definition should have higher prevalence and/or mortality rates in richer and more developed countries than in poorer, underdeveloped states.
Agata Żółtaszek, Alicja Olejnik
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PLoS ONE, 2023 The wealth-health relationship is not unambiguous and constant. Greater wealth affects individual and population health in opposite ways. Increased risk factors especially raise the probability of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) impacting a population ...
Alicja Olejnik, Agata Żółtaszek
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Physical activity and lifestyle of older adults in the context of diseases of affluence
Фізичне виховання, спорт і культура здоров’я у сучасному суспільстві, 2019 Introduction. In this study, we focused on physical activity of older adults and their lifestyle in the context of diseases of affluence. We monitored the most common physical activity performed by older adults, weekly frequency of the chosen physical ...
Alena Buková +3 more
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Metabolic Syndrome: A Multifaceted Disease of Affluence
Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2012 Metabolic syndrome developed in consequence of an evolutionary inadequacy: the human body was unprepared for a dietary excess of nutrients, especially lipids (largely in detriment of carbohydrate).
Alemany
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Association of Clinical Severity With Family Affluence–Based Socioeconomic Status Among Hospitalized Pediatric Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Patients in Henan, China: A Single Hospital-Based Case Series Study [PDF]
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background The association between the clinical severity of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) inpatients and socioeconomic status (SES) is important for quantifying SES inequality in HFMD disease burden and informing decision-makers regarding medical ...
Kai Wang +13 more
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