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Noncommunicable disease risk factors among the trainee doctors of a tertiary level diabetes hospital in Bangladesh

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, Mithila Faruque, Palash Chandra Banik, Sharmin Sultana, Feroz Amin, Mohammad Mostafa Zaman   +5 more
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The impact of seven major noncommunicable diseases on direct medical costs, absenteeism, and presenteeism in Gulf Cooperation Council countries

Journal of Medical Economics, 2021
Aims To estimate the current burden of seven major noncommunicable diseases on direct medical costs, absenteeism, and presenteeism in the six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab ...
E. Finkelstein, J. Malkin, D. Baid, A. Alqunaibet, K. Mahdi, M. Al-Thani, Buthaina Abdulla Bin Belaila, Ebrahim Al Nawakhtha, S. Alqahtani, S. El-Saharty, C. Herbst   +10 more
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Systemic Inflammation and COVID-19 Mortality in Patients with Major Noncommunicable Diseases: Chronic Coronary Syndromes, Diabetes and Obesity

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021
COVID-19 is currently considered an inflammatory disease affecting the entire organism. In severe forms, an augmented inflammatory response leads to the fulminant “cytokine storm”, which may result in severe multisystemic end-organ damage. Apart from the
Andreea-Luciana Buicu, S. Cernea, I. Benedek, Corneliu Florin Buicu, T. Benedek   +4 more
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Noncommunicable diseases and noncommunicable eye diseases: What is the way forward?

Kerala 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
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Noncommunicable diseases in the Americas: a review of the Pan American Health Organization’s 25-year program of work

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, Leendert Nederveen, Ramon Martinez, Roberta Caixeta, Carolina Chavez, Rosa C. Sandoval, Luciana Severini, Diana Cerón, Adriana B. Gomes, Sehr Malik, Fabio Gomez, Pedro Ordunez, Mauricio Maza, Maristela Monteiro, Anselm Hennis   +14 more
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Moving towards a population health approach to the primary prevention of common mental disorders [PDF]

, 2012
There is a need for the development of effective universal preventive approaches to the common mental disorders, depression and anxiety, at a population level.
A Bradford Hill, A Mykletun, A Mykletun, A Mykletun, A Nanri, A Nanri, A Sanchez-Villegas, A Sanchez-Villegas, Arnstein Mykletun, BN Renn, C Liu, E Lopez-Garcia, E Waters, F Jacka, Felice N Jacka, FN Jacka, FN Jacka, FN Jacka, FN Jacka, FN Jacka, G Kohlboeck, G Stathopoulous, GB Crawford, H Okubo, HC Schulberg, HE Duivis, I Imayama, JA Pasco, JA Pasco, JA Pasco, JK Soczynska, K Murakami, KM Appleton, KR Merikangas, L Chatzi, M Lucas, M Maes, MA Beydoun, MF Kuczmarski, Michael Berk, MJ Taylor, N Breslau, P Cuijpers, P Cuijpers, P Jha, PY Collins, RT Mikolajczyk, S Moylan, S Sharma, SB Harvey, SL Gortmaker, SL Pagoto, T Vos, TN Akbaraly, TT Weng, WH Oddy, World Health Organization (WHO), Y Aihara, Y Milaneschi   +58 more
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Prevalence and determinants of non-communicable diseases risk factors among reproductive-aged women: Findings from a nationwide survey in Bangladesh.

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, Md Nazrul Islam, Tasbeen Akhtar Sheekha, Shirmin Bintay Kader, Ahmed Hossain   +4 more
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Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in Malawi-implications for managing other chronic diseases in resource-limited countries. [PDF]

, 2009
The national scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi is based on the public health approach, with principles and practices borrowed from the successful DOTS (directly observed treatment, short course) tuberculosis control framework.
Andreas Jahn, Anthony D Harries, Erik J Schouten, Jahn, Janssens, Kelita Kamoto, Mamo, Ooms, Rony Zachariah, Tollman   +9 more
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Diagnostics and monitoring tools for noncommunicable diseases: a missing component in the global response

Globalization and Health, 2021
A key component of any health system is the capacity to accurately diagnose individuals. One of the six building blocks of a health system as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) includes diagnostic tools.
A. Bernabé-Ortiz, J. Zafra-Tanaka, Miguel G Moscoso-Porras, R. Sampath, Beatrice Vetter, J. Miranda, D. Beran   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Role of Caspase-1 in the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory-Associated Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases

Journal of Inflammation Research, 2020
Caspase-1 is the first and extensively studied inflammatory caspase that is activated through inflammasome assembly. Inflammasome is a cytosolic formation of multiprotein complex that aimed to start inflammatory response against infections or cellular ...
M. Molla, Yonas Akalu, Z. Geto, Baye Dagnew, B. Ayelign, Tewodros Shibabaw   +5 more
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