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Cardiovascular risk and events in 17 low-, middle-, and high-income countries [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: More than 80% of deaths from cardiovascular disease are estimated to occur in low-income and middle-income countries, but the reasons are unknown. METHODS: We enrolled 156,424 persons from 628 urban and rural communities in 17 countries
Anand, Sonia, Avezum, Alvaro, Bo, Jian, Chifamba, Jephat, Dagenais, Gilles, Diaz, Rafael, Gupta, Rajeev, Iqbal, Romaina, Islam, Shofiqul, Ismail, Noorhassim, Kelishadi, Roya, Kruger, Annamarie, Kumar, Rajesh, Lanas, Fernando, Lear, Scott, Li, Wei, Liu, Lisheng, Liu, Tianlu, Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio, Lou, Qinglin, Lu, Fanghong, McKee, Martin, McQueen, Matthew, Mohan, Viswanathan, Mony, Prem, Oguz, Aytekin, Puoane, Thandi, PURE Investigators, Rahman, Omar, Rangarajan, Sumathy, Rosengren, Annika, Swaminathan, Sumathi, Szuba, Andrzej, Teo, Koon, Vijayakumar, Krishnapillai, Wielgosz, Andreas, Yu, Liu, Yusoff, Khalid, Yusuf, Salim, Yusufali, Afzalhussein, Zhang, Shiying   +40 more
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Extramarital fertility in low- and middle-income countries

Demographic Research, 2022
Background: In most societies, childbearing is largely confined to women in formal marital unions, but in a subset of contemporary low-fertility Western societies, extramarital fertility has become common. However, extramarital fertility is often ignored
John Bongaarts, John Casterline
doaj   +1 more source

Neurodevelopmental disorders in low‐ and middle‐income countries [PDF]

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2012
This commentary is on the review by Scherzer et al. on pages 1079–1084 of this issue.
openaire   +3 more sources

Infective Endocarditis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [PDF]

Cardiology Clinics, 2017
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare, life-threatening disease with a mortality rate of 25% and significant debilitating morbidities. Although much has been reported on contemporary IE in high-income countries, conclusions on the state of IE in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are based on studies conducted before the year 2000.
Njuguna, Benson, Gardner, Adrian, Karwa, Rakhi, Delahaye, Francois   +3 more
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Trauma Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The Surgery Journal, 2021
Background Trauma-related injury causes higher mortality than a combination of prevalent infectious diseases. Mortality secondary to trauma is higher in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) than high-income countries.
Dhurka Shanthakumar, Anna Payne, Trish Leitch, Maryam Alfa-Wali   +3 more
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Energy security as a crucial component of health infrastructure: global evidence and actions

The Lancet Planetary Health
Summary: Energy security, defined as the availability of reliable, clean, and sustainable energy necessary to ensure the continuous operation of health-care facilities, is essential for delivering safe and effective health care.
Sivesh Kamarajah, Adesoji Ademuyiwa, Adewale Adisa, Michael Bahrami-Hessari, Richard Crawford, Dhruva Ghosh, Fareeda Galley, Abdul Ghaffar, James Glasbey, Parvez Haque, JC Allen Ingabire, Lawani Ismail, Telesphore Kabera, Theophilus Anyomih, Virginia Ledda, Rob Lillywhite, Janet Martin, John Meara, Antonio Ramos de la Medina, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Faustin Ntirenganya, Maria Picciochi, Pritpal Singh, Stephen Tabiri, Omolara Williams, Aneel Bhangu   +25 more
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Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Pediatrics, 2021
BACKGROUND The United Nations (UN) created the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) to monitor progress toward achieving goals of the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection, and Development of Children and its plan of action. The MICS is nationally representative and internationally comparable.
Bornstein, Marc H., Rothenberg, Andrew W., Lansford, Jennifer E., Bradley, Robert H., Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Bizzego, Andrea, Esposito, Gianluca   +6 more
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Health-related quality of life is low in secondary school children in Fiji [PDF]

, 2012
The health and wellbeing of children in lower-income countries is the focus of much international effort, yet there has been very little direct measurement of this. Objective.
Goundar, Ramneek, Mavoa, Helen, Moodie, Marjory, Petersen, Solveig, Swinburn, Boyd, Waqa, Gade   +5 more
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Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Mary Fewtrell, Julie Lanigan, Breeana Gardiner, Graeme O'Connor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating sociodemographic and psychiatric contributors to suicide in Sri Lanka: An ecological survey

International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases, 2018
Background: Suicide is a major public health concern worldwide. Sri Lanka has the fourth highest suicide rate in the world, with trends suggesting that underlying factors related to suicide risk remain poorly understood, and may differ from those ...
Jonathan Whittall, Alison Sumner, Arun V Ravindran, Asiri Rodrigo, Zoe J Walker   +4 more
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