Cardiometabolic risk factors in Venezuela. The EVESCAM study: a national cross-sectional survey in adults

Published: Primary Care Diabetes
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P González-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, Eric Dávila, Ramez Constantino, Alberto García, Jeffrey I Mechanick, María Inés Marulanda
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No previous study in Venezuela and few in the Region of the Americas have reported national cardiometabolic health data. Objectives: To determine the prevalence and distribution of cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRF) in adults of Venezuela.

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.

The shift of obesity burden by socioeconomic status between 1998 and 2017 in Latin America and the Caribbean: a cross-sectional series study

Published: The Lancet Global Health
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Authors: Safia S Jiwani 1 , Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco 2 , Akram Hernández-Vásquez 3 , Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez 4 , Ana Basto-Abreu 4 , Laura Gutierrez 5 , Vilma Irazola 5 , Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 6 , Bruno P Nunes 7 , Diana C Parra 8 , J Jaime Miranda 9
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Background: The burden of obesity differs by socioeconomic status. We aimed to characterize the prevalence of obesity among adult men and women in Latin America and the Caribbean by socioeconomic measures and the shifting obesity burden over time.

Rationale and Design for a GRADE Substudy of Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Published: Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics
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Authors: Mary E Larkin 1 , David M Nathan 1 , Ionut Bebu 2 , Heidi Krause-Steinrauf 2 , William H Herman 3 , John M Higgins 4 5 , Margaret Tiktin 6 , Robert M Cohen 7 , Claire Lund 2 , Richard M Bergenstal 8 , Mary L Johnson 8 , Valerie Arends 9 , GRADE Research Group
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The Glycemia Reduction Approaches in Diabetes: A Comparative Effectiveness (GRADE) study has enrolled a racially and ethnically diverse population with type 2 diabetes, performed extensive phenotyping, and randomly assigned the participants to one of four second-line diabetes medications.

Baseline Characteristics of Randomized Participants in the Glycemia Reduction Approaches in Diabetes: A Comparative Effectiveness Study (GRADE)

Published: Diabetes Care
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Authors: Deborah J Wexler 1 , Heidi Krause-Steinrauf 2 , Jill P Crandall 3 , Hermes J Florez 4 , Sophia H Hox 5 , Alexander Kuhn 6 , Ajay Sood 7 , Chantal Underkofler 8 , Vanita R Aroda 6 , GRADE Research Group
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GRADE (Glycemia Reduction Approaches in Diabetes: A Comparative Effectiveness Study) is a 36-center unmasked, parallel treatment group, randomized controlled trial evaluating four diabetes medications added to metformin in people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).

Facilitators and barriers to successful recruitment into a large comparative effectiveness trial: a qualitative study

Published: Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
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Authors: Stephanie Behringer-Massera 1 , Terysia Browne 2 , Geny George 3 , Sally Duran 3 , Andrea Cherrington 4 , M Diane McKee 2 5 , GRADE Research Group
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Recruitment of participants into research studies, especially individuals from minority groups, is challenging; lack of diversity may lead to biased findings.

Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

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

Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants

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).