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Noncommunicable Diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium introduces readers to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – what they are, their burden, their determinants and how they can be prevented and controlled. Focusing on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease and their five shared main risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol ...
Nick Banatvala, Pascal Bovet
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Noncommunicable diseases and noncommunicable eye diseases: What is the way forward?

open access: yesKerala Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020
As humans conquered indectious communicable diseases, nutritional deficiency as well as conditions responsible for maternal and perinatal mortality and lifespan increased, new problems such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular, respiratory, and ...
Meena Chakrabarti
doaj   +2 more sources

LongITools: Dynamic longitudinal exposome trajectories in cardiovascular and metabolic noncommunicable diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The current epidemics of cardiovascular and metabolic noncommunicable diseases have emerged alongside dramatic modifications in lifestyle and living environments.
Belotti, Federico   +51 more
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Epigenetics and Noncommunicable Diseases [PDF]

open access: yesEpigenomics, 2017
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), primarily cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, kill more than 38 million people each year, making them by far the leading cause of death in the world [1]. They develop due to an interplay of genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors, but many NCDs are considered preventable ...
Sharp, Gemma C, Relton, Caroline L
openaire   +4 more sources

Design for Health : The Relationship Between Design and Noncommunicable Diseases

open access: yes, 2011
The authors explore the relationship between design and noncommunicable diseases, first by highlighting how design knowledge and practice can have a direct and indirect effect on these diseases.
Cooper, Cary   +2 more
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Burden of noncommunicable diseases in Pakistan

open access: yesEastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2022
Background: Cases of noncommunicable (NCD) diseases are increasing in Pakistan. They are responsible for 58% of all deaths and information on the risk factors is lacking. Aims: To determine the prevalence of diabetes, hypertension and abnormal heart rate and their risk factors in a multiethnic, low-income area of Lahore.
Tahseen, Kazmi   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Health transition in Africa: practical policy proposals for primary care. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing health transition as increased globalization and accompanying urbanization are causing a double burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
L Smeeth   +5 more
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Correlation of resting heart rate with anthropometric factors and serum biomarkers in a population-based study: Fasa PERSIAN cohort study

open access: yesBMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2020
Background There is a positive association between raised resting heart rate (RHR), and all causes of mortality and shorter life expectancy. Several serum biomarkers and some anthropometric factors can affect the resting heart rate.
Yashar Goorakani   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pragmatic Trials for Noncommunicable Diseases: Relieving Constraints. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this month's editorial, PLOS Medicine Editorial Board member Anushka Patel and Ruth Webster discuss how applying rules for drug efficacy trials can impede pragmatic trials of interventions for noncommunicable ...
Patel A   +7 more
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