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Goodarz Danaei

Researcher at Harvard University

Publications -  192
Citations -  67656

Goodarz Danaei is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Risk factor. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 173 publications receiving 55837 citations. Previous affiliations of Goodarz Danaei include Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation & Imperial College London.

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Electronic medical records can be used to emulate target trials of sustained treatment strategies.

Goodarz Danaei, +4 more
- 01 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: It is explained how to estimate the observational analogs of intention-to-treat and per-protocol effects, using hazard ratios and survival curves, and two methods for adherence adjustment via inverse-probability weighting are described.

Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19.1 million participants

Bin Zhou, +751 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1975 to 2015 in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of people with, raised blood pressure.
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Three Public Health Interventions Could Save 94 Million Lives in 25 Years

Vasilis Kontis, +5 more
- 27 Aug 2019 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a few well-documented interventions have the potential to prevent cardiovascular diseases, which are responsible for 38 million deaths annually, from non-communicable diseases, mostly cardiovascular diseases.

Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) Members are listed at the end of the paper

Bin Zhou, +844 more
TL;DR: Change in mean blood pressure is the main driver of the worldwide change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure, but change inThe high-blood-pressure tail of the distribution has also contributed to the change in prevalence, especially in older age groups.
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Association between intimate partner violence and poor child growth: results from 42 demographic and health surveys

Jeanne Chai, +7 more
- 01 May 2016 - 
TL;DR: Intimate partner violence against women remains common in low- and middle-income countries and is highly detrimental to women and to the growth of the affected women’s children, so policy and programme efforts are needed to reduce the prevalence and impact of such violence.