Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease in South Asia: current status and future directions

A Misra, N Tandon, S Ebrahim, N Sattar, D Alam… - bmj, 2017 - bmj.com
South Asians are more susceptible to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and have
worse outcomes than other ethnicities, say Anoop Misra, Tazeen Jafar, and colleagues …

Trends in the Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension in Nepal between 2000 and 2025: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

RR Dhungana, AR Pandey… - International journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Understanding the burden and trend of hypertension and the associated care
cascade can provide direction to the development of interventions preventing and …

Barriers and facilitators for treatment and control of high blood pressure among hypertensive patients in Kathmandu, Nepal: a qualitative study informed by COM-B …

B Bhandari, P Narasimhan, A Vaidya, M Subedi… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Nepal has a high prevalence of hypertension which is a major risk factor for
cardiovascular diseases globally. It is inadequately controlled even after its diagnosis …

Prevalence, associated factors, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension: Findings from a cross sectional study conducted as a part of a community based …

MK Khanal, RR Dhungana, P Bhandari, Y Gurung… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Hypertension is one of the leading public health problems globally. About half
of the deaths from cardiovascular diseases were attributed to hypertension in 2008 …

Factores de riesgo asociados al desarrollo de hipertensión arterial en Chile

F Petermann, E Durán, AM Labraña… - Revista médica de …, 2017 - SciELO Chile
Background: High blood pressure is one of the major risk factors for the development of
cardiovascular disease, affecting 27% of the Chilean population in 2010. Aim: To determine …

Prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension in Nepal: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Huang, P Guo, BM Karmacharya… - Global health research …, 2019 - Springer
Background Studies regarding blood pressure of Nepal have demonstrated a contrasting
prevalence. We aimed at providing a generalized estimate of the prevalence of hypertension …

Examining the prevalence, correlates and inequalities of undiagnosed hypertension in Nepal: a population-based cross-sectional study

MM Hasan, F Tasnim, M Tariqujjaman, S Ahmed… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To examine the prevalence, correlates and sociodemographic inequalities of
undiagnosed hypertension in Nepal. Design This study used cross-sectional 2016 Nepal …

Estimated change in prevalence of hypertension in Nepal following application of the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline

GM Al Kibria, K Swasey, KC Angela… - JAMA network …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association
(ACC/AHA) Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High …

[HTML][HTML] Double burden of underweight and overweight among women in South and Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

T Biswas, RJS Magalhaes, N Townsend, SK Das… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) is characterized by the coexistence of underweight
and overweight individuals in a population. The objective of this study was to assess the …

[HTML][HTML] Care cascades for hypertension in low-income settings: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

D Lamloum, F Fassio, B Osetinsky… - International journal of …, 2023 - ssph-journal.org
Objective: High blood pressure is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The
hypertension care cascade (HCC) is increasingly being used to evaluate the effectiveness of …