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Bruce Neal

Researcher at The George Institute for Global Health

Publications -  620
Citations -  109123

Bruce Neal is an academic researcher from The George Institute for Global Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Blood pressure. The author has an hindex of 108, co-authored 561 publications receiving 87213 citations. Previous affiliations of Bruce Neal include National Institutes of Health & University of the Western Cape.

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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, +720 more
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) as mentioned in this paper provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new data for exposure, relative risks, and evidence on the appropriate counterfactual risk distribution.

A proposed approach to monitor private-sector policies and practices related to food environments, obesity and non-communicable disease prevention

Gary Sacks, +23 more
TL;DR: There is potential for this approach to enable national and international benchmarking of private‐sector policies and practices, and to inform efforts to hold the private sector to account for their role in obesity and NCD prevention.
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A salt-reduction smartphone app supports lower-salt food purchases for people with cardiovascular disease: Findings from the SaltSwitch randomised controlled trial.

Helen Eyles, +6 more
- 20 Jun 2017 - 
TL;DR: The SaltSwitch smartphone app is effective in supporting people with cardiovascular disease to make lower salt food purchases and a larger trial with longer follow-up is warranted to determine the effects on blood pressure.
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Circulating bone morphogenetic protein-7 and transforming growth factor-β1 are better predictors of renal end points in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Muh Geot Wong, +14 more
- 01 Feb 2013 - 
TL;DR: The results suggest these novel kidney markers are better predictors of renal progression than the conventional predictors in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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Uptake of Australia’s Health Star Rating System

Alexandra Jones, +2 more
- 30 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: To ensure the consistent and widespread uptake required for consumers to make informed food purchases, HSR should be made mandatory at the conclusion of the five-year review of the system.