Burden of disease and risk factors for death among children treated for tuberculosis in Malawi. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2016;20(8):1046-54. doi:10.5588/ijtld.15.0928....
Similar to CHC, Africa had the largest burden of CHB, for which the top countries included Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Somalia, Malawi, and Niger (Figure 1B). The Polaris Observatory Hepatitis B Collaborators also have produced a modeling ...
In this Review, we provide a contemporary picture of the epidemiology of CVD in Africa, highlight key regional discrepancies among populations, and emphasize what is currently known and, more importantly, what is still unknown about the CVD burden among the >1 billion people living on the ...
Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: What do Shifts in Global Poverty and Disease Burden Mean for Donor Agencies? In 1990, 93 per cent of the world?s poor people lived in poor countries?that is, low-income countries (LICs). For 2007?2008, our estimates suggest three th... A Sum...
(GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in 2021, the proportion of the type 2 diabetes burden attributable to selected risk factors, and projections of ...
Thus, population growth needs to be controlled in the region in order to reduce the risks of disease burdens. Third, covid-19 pandemic has placed an extra burden on health-care systems; leading to higher levels of public debt and constraining the government's ability to spend on citizen's ...
Objective: to assess the quality of life and burden of caregivers to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients on Long-Term Oxygen Therapy and to investigate the factors influencing this burden. Method: this is an analytical, cross-sectional study of 80 persons with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary...
Since EBV is ubiquitous, with the vast majority of the world's population having met and seroconverted to the virus, the diversity of tumours with which it has now been associated represents a substantial health burden. In a recent IARC monograph, EBV was classified as a group 1 carcinogen....
Despite the decrease in the disease burden from 1990 to 2016, epilepsy is still an important cause of disability and mortality. Standardised collection of data on epilepsy in population representative surveys will strengthen the estimates, particularly in countries for which we currently have no or sp...
The effect of long-term aggressive lipid lowering on ischemic and atherosclerotic burden in patients with chronic kidney disease. Am. J. Kidney Dis. 43, 45–52 (2004). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Kang, H. M. et al. Defective fatty acid oxidation in renal tubular epithelial cells ...