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

New England Journal of Medicine, 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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Evaluating the Role of Governance in Boosting Human Capital to Shrink Income Inequality in Developing Countries

JDE (Journal of Developing Economies), 2022
Most of the developing countries in the world are facing a well-known challenging factor-like income inequality that affects the issue of balanced growth and welfare.
Tanbir Hossain
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Implementing antimicrobial stewardship to reduce surgical site infections: Experience and challenges from two tertiary-care hospitals in Mumbai, India

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2020
Objectives: Surgical site infections (SSIs) contribute significantly to post-surgical morbidity globally. Antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) are essential to reduce SSI rates and to curb antimicrobial resistance, especially in low-and-middle ...
Bhakti Sarang, Anurag Tiwary, Anita Gadgil, Nobhojit Roy   +3 more
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Hypertension in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Circulation Research, 2021
In recent decades low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been witnessing a significant shift toward raised blood pressure; yet in LMICs, only 1 in 3 are aware of their hypertension status, and ≈8% have their blood pressure controlled. This rising burden widens the inequality gap, contributes to massive economic hardships of patients and carers ...
Aletta E. Schutte, Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy, Sailesh Mohan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran   +3 more
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Measuring human capital in middle income countries

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022
This paper develops an indicator that measures the level of human capital to address the specific education and health challenges faced by middle income countries. We apply this indicator to countries in Europe and Central Asia, where productive employment requires skills that are more prevalent among higher education graduates, and where good health ...
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Iván Torre
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Foreign capital in a growth model [PDF]

, 2007
Within an endogenous growth framework, this paper empirically investigates the impact of financial capital on economic growth for a panel of 60 developing countries, through the channel of domestic capital formation. By estimating the model for different
Addison, Arellano, Arestis, Bacha, Balasubramanyam, Barro, Bleaney, Blomstrom, Boone, Borensztein, Bosworth, Burnside, Butkiewicz, Choe, Collier, Collier, Crouch, Dalgaard, Davidson, De Mello, Devarajan, Dicks-Mireaux, Dollar, Durham, Easterly, Easterly, Easterly, Evrensel, Fosu, Ghatak, Ghatak, Granville, Hansen, Im, Jones, Lensink, Levin, Levine, Li, Lucas, Mallick, Mallick, Morrissey, Otto, Paul, Rebelo, Romer, Sen, Setterfield, Solow, Taylor, White, Wooldridge   +52 more
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A Systematic Review of the Factors Associated with Cervical Cancer Screening Uptake among Women in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Jurnal Ners, 2020
Introduction: This review aims to explore the factors influencing cervical screening uptake among women in low and middle-income countries. Methods: The studies were systematically identified by searching electronic databases with the keywords “cervical ...
Elok Faradisa, Husna Ardiana, Diah Priyantini, Anis Fauziah, Inta Susanti   +4 more
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Risk‐Attributable Burden of Ischemic Heart Disease in 137 Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries From 2000 to 2019

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background Ischemic heart disease (IHD) imposes the greatest disease burden globally, especially in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). We aim to examine the population‐attributable fraction and risk‐attributable death and disability‐adjusted life ...
Chenran Wang, Yanghua Sun, Di Jiang, Chunping Wang, Shiwei Liu   +4 more
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Craniopharyngioma: A lower-middle-income-country epidemiology

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2022
Objective: To quantify the frequency of craniopharyngiomas presenting to tertiary care neurosurgical centres, the demographics and mortality rate, and commonly presenting to neurosurgical practice. Methods: Our study was a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of patients admitted at 32 neurosurgical centres between January 1, 2019, and December 31 ...
Muhammad Khalid, Mashal Murad Shah, Mohammad Hamza Bajwa, Farhan A. Mirza, Altaf Ali Laghari, Muhammad Faraz Raghib, Saad Bin Anis, Naveed Zaman Akhunzada, Sameen Siddiqi, Syed Ather Enam   +9 more
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Surgical site infection after gastrointestinal surgery in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries : a prospective, international, multicentre cohort study [PDF]

, 2018
Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common infections associated with health care, but its importance as a global health priority is not fully understood.
HASH(0x559ad8704578), Lilford, Richard
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