Published: Nature
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities1,2. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity3-6
Published: International Journal of Epidemiology
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) and changes in its high-blood-pressure tail (representing successful clinical interventions to control blood pressure in the hypertensive population).
Published: Primary Care Diabetes
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Authors: Marcos M Lima-Martínez 1 , Carlos Arrau 2 , Saimar Jerez 2 , Mariela Paoli 3 , Juan P González-Rivas 4 , Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 5 , Gianluca Iacobellis 6
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LINK TO RESEARCH https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27914905/ ABSTRACT Aim: To assess the relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] blood concentrations in subjects with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) risk according to the...
Published: The Lancet
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher.