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Sumathy Rangarajan
Researcher at Population Health Research Institute
Publications - 177
Citations - 23995
Sumathy Rangarajan is an academic researcher from Population Health Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 136 publications receiving 17729 citations. Previous affiliations of Sumathy Rangarajan include Hamilton Health Sciences & McMaster University.
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Pp.29.11: educational level influence in the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in colombia
P. Jaramillo,P.A. Lopez,D. Arbelaez,L. Alvarado,Dora I. Molina,Gregorio Sánchez,Edgar Arcos,Claudia Narvaez,Henry García,Maritza Pérez,W. Cañon,Carlos Cure,Aristides Sotomayor,Alvaro Rico,T. David,Sumathy Rangarajan,Salim Yusuf +16 more
TL;DR: Hypertension is highly prevalent in Colombia and the low level of awareness, treatment and control is related with low educational level and rural communities, suggests the need to develop region-specific strategies to achieve the desired improvements in detection and control.
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Developing indicators of age-friendly neighbourhood environments for urban and rural communities across 20 low-, middle-, and high-income countries
Emily J. Rugel,Clara K Chow,Daniel J. Corsi,Perry Hystad,Sumathy Rangarajan,Salim Yusuf,Scott A. Lear +6 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors used data from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study's environmental assessment tools, which integrated systematic social observation and ecometrics to reliably capture community-level environmental features associated with cardiovascular-disease risk factors.
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Social isolation as a risk factor for all-cause mortality: Systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
Ryo Naito,Martin McKee,Darryl P. Leong,Shrikant I. Bangdiwala,Sumathy Rangarajan,Shofiqul Islam,Salim Yusuf +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the association between social isolation and all-cause mortality and investigated whether it differs in various subgroups or populations in various electronic databases, including MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO.
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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus type-2 and their association with intake of dairy and legume in Andean communities of Ecuador.
Manuel E. Baldeón,Camilo Felix,Marco Fornasini,Federico Zertuche,Carolina Largo,Maria Jose Paucar,Liz Ponce,Sumathy Rangarajan,Salim Yusuf,Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the prevalence (baseline data) of MetS and Type 2 diabetes in the Ecuadorian cohort of the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study and their potential association with the consumption of protein rich foods, including beef, white meat, dairy and legumes.
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Neighborhood Greenspace and Socioeconomic Risk are Associated with Diabetes Risk at the Sub-neighborhood Scale: Results from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study
Blake Byron Walker,Sebastian T. Brinkmann,Tim Große,Dominik Kremer,Nadine Schuurman,Perry Hystad,Sumathy Rangarajan,K. Teo,Salim Yusuf,Scott A. Lear +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a combined socioeconomic/greenspace index of individual-level diabetes risk at the sub-neighborhood scale, without the need for clinical measurements, is presented.