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Lekhraj Rampal
Other affiliations: University of Kuala Lumpur, New York Academy of Medicine
Bio: Lekhraj Rampal is an academic researcher from Universiti Putra Malaysia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cross-sectional study. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 108 publications receiving 6395 citations. Previous affiliations of Lekhraj Rampal include University of Kuala Lumpur & New York Academy of Medicine.
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Leandra Abarca-Gómez1, Ziad Abdeen2, Zargar Abdul Hamid2, Niveen M E Abu-Rmeileh +1021 more•Institutions (7)
TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
4,317 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of "no abstracts" and "no-no-expansions" in the context of artificial intelligence.
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1,471 citations
Bin Zhou1, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco1, Goodarz Danaei2, Leanne M. Riley2 +1141 more•Institutions (5)
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).
918 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data for exposure to risk factors by country, age group, and sex from pooled analyses of population-based health surveys and obtained relative risks for the eff ects of risk factors on cause-specifi c mortality from meta-analyses of large prospective studies.
550 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used tools similar to the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) to screen for psychological stress and depression, respectively.
Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of psychological stress among medical students and to identify its symptoms and association with depression. A cross-sectional study design was used. Three-hundred and ninety-six medical students at a university in Malaysia were included in the study. Tools similar to the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were used to screen for psychological stress and depression, respectively. 41.9% of the medical students were found to have psychological stress, which was significantly associated with depression (chi2=4.636, df=1, p<0.05). Psychological stress is common among medical students and is associated with depression.
269 citations
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TL;DR: Diabetes prevalence, deaths attributable to diabetes, and health expenditure due to diabetes continue to rise across the globe with important social, financial and health system implications.
5,474 citations
TL;DR: The new estimates of diabetes in adults confirm the large burden of diabetes, especially in developing countries, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
3,952 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends in diabetes prevalence, defined as fasting plasma glucose of 7.0 mmol/L or higher, or history of diagnosis with diabetes, or use of insulin or oral hypoglycaemic drugs in 200 countries and territories in 21 regions, by sex and from 1980 to 2014.
2,782 citations
TL;DR: Why COVID-19 is an analogue to the ongoing climate crisis, and why there is a need to question the volume growth tourism model advocated by UNWTO, ICAO, CLIA, WTTC and other tourism organizations are discussed.
Abstract: The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are the main strategy to contain ...
2,508 citations
TL;DR: If current trends continue, the 2025 global physical activity target (a 10% relative reduction in insufficient physical activity) will not be met and policies to increase population levels of physical activity need to be prioritised and scaled up urgently.
2,358 citations