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Andrea Gazzinelli

Researcher at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Publications -  114
Citations -  4243

Andrea Gazzinelli is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Schistosomiasis. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 109 publications receiving 2872 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrea Gazzinelli include National Institute of Standards and Technology & Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.

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Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Bin Zhou, +1144 more
- 11 Sep 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a Bayesian hierarchical model was used to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control).
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A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: the problem of helminthiases.

Sara Lustigman, +7 more
- 24 Apr 2012 - 
TL;DR: The forces driving the persistence of helminthiases as a public health problem despite the many control initiatives that have been put in place are provided; the main obstacles that impede progress are identified; and recent advances, opportunities, and challenges for the understanding of the biology, epidemiology, and control of these infections are discussed.
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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, +1361 more
- 07 Nov 2020 - 
TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.
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Educação em saúde: conhecimentos, representações sociais e experiências da doença

Maria Flávia Gazzinelli, +3 more
- 01 Jan 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the theory and practice of health and education, beginning with the notion of the hegemony (in health education practice) of strategies linked to the notion that to grasp established knowledge always leads to the acquisition of new behaviors and practices.
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A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: social ecology, environmental determinants, and health systems.

Andrea Gazzinelli, +4 more
- 24 Apr 2012 - 
TL;DR: The role of various social and environmental determinants in the perpetuation of helminthic diseases as well as their impact as contextual factors on health promotion interventions through both the regular and community-based health systems are described.