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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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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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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Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development. [PDF]
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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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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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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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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Affluence, Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases in India [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Recent high rates of economic growth in India have been accompanied by major dietary transitions. Using a nationwide household survey, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper estimates the impact of such transitions on the incidence of non communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer in India.
Gaiha, Raghav +2 more
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Incidence rate of infective endocarditis by socioeconomic position: a Danish nationwide cohort study (2000–2022)Research in context [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. EuropeSummary: Background: People with lower socioeconomic positions have a higher risk of cardiac and infectious diseases than those with higher socioeconomic positions.
Søren K. Martiny +5 more
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Socioeconomic disparities in long-term mortality after infective endocarditis in Denmark: a nationwide cohort studyResearch in context [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. EuropeSummary: Background: Socioeconomic position (SEP) influences several determinants of infective endocarditis (IE) progression. Whether IE mortality differs by SEP remains unclear. We examined 5-year mortality after IE by individual-level SEP.
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