Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys

Published: The Lancet Global Health
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)—Americas Working Group
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Describing the prevalence and trends of cardiometabolic risk factors that are associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is crucial for monitoring progress, planning prevention, and providing evidence to support policy efforts. We aimed to analyze the transition in body-mass index (BMI), obesity, blood pressure, raised blood pressure, and diabetes in the Americas, between 1980 and 2014.

External validation of the Finnish diabetes risk score in Venezuela using a national sample: The EVESCAM

Published: Primary Care Diabetes
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 , Juan P González-Rivas 2 , Eunice Ugel 3 , Maria Ines Marulanda 4 , Maritza Durán 5 , Jeffrey I Mechanick 6 , Pablo Aschner 7
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To evaluate the performance of the Latin American Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (LA-FINDRISC) compared with the original O-FINDRISC in general population. To establish the best cut-off to detect unknown type 2 diabetes (uT2D) and prediabetes.

Prevalence of diabetes in three regions of Venezuela. The VEMSOLS study results

Published: Primary Care Diabetes
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 , Jeffrey I Mechanick 2 , Imperia Brajkovich 3 , Eunice Ugel 4 , Alejandro Risques 5 , Hermes Florez 6 , Juan Pablo González-Rivas 7
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The prevalence of diabetes in multiple regions of Venezuela is unknown. To determine the prevalence of diabetes in five populations from three regions of Venezuela.

Identification and management of prediabetes: results of the Latin America Strategic Prediabetes Meeting

Published: Pan American Journal of Public Health
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Authors: Patricio López-Jaramillo 1 , Ramfis E Nieto-Martínez 2 , Gestne Aure-Fariñez 3 , Carlos O Mendivil 4 , Rodolfo A Lahsen 5 , Ruy L Silva-Filho 6 , Luiz A Andreotti 7 , Mónica E Manrique 8 , Miguel A Pasquel-Andrade 9 , Ignacio Rangel 10 , Maricela Vidrio 11 , Rutila Castañeda 12 , Manuela Restrepo 13 , Miguel E Pinto 14
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To understand the status of prediabetes diagnosis and treatment in Latin America and to evaluate the use of metformin for diabetes prevention in this context.

Are Eating Disorders Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Published: Current Diabetes Reports
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 2 3 , Juan P González-Rivas 4 , José R Medina-Inojosa 5 , Hermes Florez 6 7
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Eating disorders (ED) affect energy intake modifying body fat depots. Prior evidence suggests that binge eating disorder (BED) and bulimia nervosa (BN) could increase the risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D), while anorexia nervosa (AN) could reduce it.

Transculturalizing Diabetes Prevention in Latin America

Published: Annals of Global Health
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 , Juan P González-Rivas 2 , Pablo Aschner 3 , Noël C Barengo 4 , Jeffrey I Mechanick 5
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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) imposes a heavy burden in developing countries, requiring effective primary prevention policies. Randomized clinical trials have identified successful strategies in T2D prevention. However, translating these results to real-life scenarios and adapting to ethnocultural differences is a major challenge.

A century of trends in adult human height

Published: Elife
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5-22.7) and 16.5 cm (13.3-19.7) taller, respectively. In contrast, there was little change in adult height in some sub-Saharan African countries and in South Asia over the century of analysis. The tallest people over these 100 years are men born in the Netherlands in the last quarter of 20th century, whose average heights surpassed 182.5 cm, and the shortest were women born in Guatemala in 1896 (140.3 cm; 135.8-144.8). The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.