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Association of Household Wealth Index, Educational Status, and Social Capital with Hypertension Awareness, Treatment, and Control in South Asia.

Rajeev Gupta, +17 more
- 01 Apr 2017 - 
- Vol. 30, Iss: 4, pp 373-381
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This study shows lower wealth and educational status are important in low hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in South Asia.
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This article is published in American Journal of Hypertension.The article was published on 2017-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 60 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social status & Socioeconomic status.

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Emerging trends in hypertension epidemiology in India.

Rajeev Gupta, +3 more
- 01 Aug 2019 - 
TL;DR: There is poor association of hypertension prevalence with healthcare availability although there is positive association with healthcare access and quality and the health system in India should focus on better hypertension screening and control to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
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Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease in South Asia: current status and future directions

Anoop Misra, +9 more
- 11 Apr 2017 - 
TL;DR: South Asians are more susceptible to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and have worse outcomes than other ethnicities, say Anoop Misra, Tazeen Jafar, and colleagues.
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Health effects of household solid fuel use: Findings from 11 countries within the prospective urban and rural epidemiology study

Perry Hystad, +33 more
- 08 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: Use of solid fuels for cooking is a risk factor for mortality and cardiorespiratory disease and Continued efforts to replace solid fuels with cleaner alternatives are needed to reduce premature mortality and morbidity in developing countries.
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Associations of outdoor fine particulate air pollution and cardiovascular disease in 157 436 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study

Perry Hystad, +32 more
- 01 Jun 2020 - 
TL;DR: Long-term outdoor PM2·5 concentrations were associated with increased risks of cardiovascular disease in adults aged 35-70 years, and a need exists to reduce air pollution concentrations, especially in LMICs, where air pollution levels are highest.
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Hypertension: The most important non communicable disease risk factor in India.

Rajeev Gupta, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: It is estimated that better hypertension control can prevent 400–500,000 premature deaths in India and the importance of high rates of hypertension control for achieving target of 1/3 reduction in non-communicable disease mortality by 2030 is highlighted.
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The Global Burden of Disease Study

Christopher J L Murray, +1 more
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health

Michael Marmot, +4 more
- 08 Nov 2008 - 
TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohsen Naghavi, +731 more
- 10 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors, the authors used the GBD 2010 methods with some refinements to improve accuracy applied to an updated database of vital registration, survey, and census data.
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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, +736 more
- 05 Dec 2015 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors 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.

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Mohammad H Forouzanfar, +653 more
TL;DR: The comparative risk assessment framework developed for previous iterations of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 was used to estimate attributable deaths, disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and trends in exposure by age group, sex, year, and geography for 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational risks or clusters of risks from 1990 to 2015.
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