Although diabetes is now a global epidemic, China has the highest number of affected people, presenting profound public health and socioeconomic challenges. In China, rapid ecological and lifestyle shifts have dramatically altered diabetes epidemiology and risk factors. In this Review, we summarize the...
Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids Study of 1950s sugar rationing in the United Kingdom also suggests risk to babies whose mums ate a high-sugar diet during pregnancy. Heidi Ledford News|08 October 2024 Lethal Marburg virus is on the rise in Rwanda: why scientist...
It increases the likelihood of various diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, osteoarthritis, and depression. Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessive food intake, lack of physical activity, ...
Hypertension and chronic glomerulonephritis have been the leading causes of CKD in Nigeria. However, diabetic nephropathy has recently gained more significance as a cause of CKD in developing countries.Aim and methodsThis study aimed to describe the current trend in the burden...
Heart failure (HF) and type 2 diabetes are two highly intertwined diseases that exist in a vicious circle; people with type 2 diabetes are approximately two times more likely to develop HF than those without [1,2,3,4]. Furthermore, 30–40% of people with HF suffer from type 2 diabetes...
Alcohol protective in global populations, harmful in South Asians.Apo: apolipoprotein; NHDL: non-high-density lipoprotein. A comparative chart shows that cardiometabolic factors such as abnormal lipids (NHDL cholesterol), hypertension and diabetes and a few lifestyle factors (smoking, pollution and lo...
BMC Microbiology 2011, 11:92 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/11/92 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Antibiotic resistance and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in Nigeria Adebayo O Shittu1,5*, Kenneth Okon2, Solayide Adesida3, Omotayo Oyedara1,4, Wolfgang Witte5, Birgit Strom...
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The Global Epidemiology of Diabetes and Kidney Disease 2018, Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease Show abstract Chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular risk in six regions of the world (ISN-KDDC): A cross-sectional study 2016, The Lancet Global Health Show abstract Global, regional, and national ...
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