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Lifestyle Medicine, 2021 Background Doctors, despite being the public health leaders, are predisposed to the early development of chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This study was done to determine the prevalence of risk factors of NCDs among doctors.
Tonima Sultana +5 more
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Healthy lifestyles and noncommunicable diseases: Nutrition, the life‐course, and health promotion
Lifestyle Medicine, 2021 Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases, targeted by Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, afflict millions of people and account for the highest global morbidity and mortality.
Marlon E. Cerf
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PLoS ONE, 2023 IntroductionKnowing the risk factors like smoking status, overweight/obesity, and hypertension among women of reproductive age could allow the development of an effective strategy for reducing the burden of non-noncommunicable diseases.
Saifur Rahman Chowdhury +4 more
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Ten years of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: progress in the Americas
Salud Pública de México, 2017 The objective of this article is to analyze the progress made in the Americas in the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) after its tenth anniversary of entry into force.
Adriana Blanco +3 more
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Nutrition, Microbiota and Noncommunicable Diseases [PDF]
Nutrients, 2020 The advent of new sequencing technologies has inspired the foundation of novel research to ascertain the connections between the microbial communities that reside in our gut and some physiological and pathological conditions [...]
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 This article describes progress in tackling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Americas since the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) started its NCD program 25 years ago. Changes in the epidemiology of NCDs, NCD policies, health service capacity,
Silvana Luciani +14 more
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Tuberculosis Comorbidity with Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases [PDF]
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2015 The 18th WHO Global Tuberculosis Annual Report indicates that there were an estimated 8.6 million incident cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2012, which included 2.9 million women and 530,000 children. TB caused 1.3 million deaths including 320,000 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected people; three-quarters of deaths occurred in Africa and Southeast
Matthew Bates +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become the main causes of morbidity and mortality even in rural areas of many developing countries, including Iran.
Mojtaba Farjam +8 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022 Objective. To describe the relation between corruption indicators and statistics on noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors by continent. Methods.
Felipe Botero-Rodríguez +2 more
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International Journal of Endocrinology, 2022 Background. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women to investigate the relationship between vitamin D level and thyroid function. Methods. In this cross-sectional descriptive study, a total number of
Salma Ahi +3 more
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