Currently, South Asia accounts for a quarter of the world population, yet it already claims≈
60% of the global burden of heart disease. Besides the epidemics of type 2 diabetes mellitus …

South Asians are more susceptible to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and have
worse outcomes than other ethnicities, say Anoop Misra, Tazeen Jafar, and colleagues …

Progress toward the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals requires
improved information on mortality and causes of death. However, causes of many of the fifty …

Objective To examine the impact of a 50% increase in market prices of cigarettes on health,
poverty, and financial protection. Design Compartmental model study. Setting 13 middle …

Objective To systematically review the price elasticity of demand of non-cigarette tobacco
products. Data sources Medline, Embase, EconLit and the Web of Science without language …

Objectives Early initiation of tobacco use can lead to lifelong addiction and increases
tobacco-attributable morbidity and mortality. This study assesses trends in tobacco use …

Introduction The burden of disease attributable to tobacco use in Latin America is very high.
Our objective was to evaluate the 10-year potential impact of current legislation related to …

India plays a key role in addressing multilateral issues like climate change, terrorism, piracy,
humanitarian crises, and nuclear disarmament. Scholarly work mapping India's multilateral …

Background The number of people with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease is
growing rapidly worldwide. Along with the global trend, it is expected that the prevalence of …

Background. Canadian South Asian women have high rates of cardiovascular disease and
low rates of physical activity. The primary objective of this study was to assess feasibility …