Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in South Asians in the United States: epidemiology, risk factors, and treatments: a scientific statement from the American Heart …

AS Volgman, LS Palaniappan, NT Aggarwal, M Gupta… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
South Asians (from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri
Lanka) make up one quarter of the world's population and are one of the fastest-growing …

Socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease: an update

C de Mestral, S Stringhini - Current cardiology reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The aim of this paper is to summarize the recent and relevant
evidence linking socioeconomic status (SES) to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity fact sheet in Korea, 2019: prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity from 2009 to 2018 and social factors

GE Nam, YH Kim, K Han, JH Jung… - Journal of Obesity & …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The prevalence of obesity has rapidly increased in countries across the world in
recent decades. The 2019 Obesity Fact Sheet released by the Korean Society for the Study …

Exposure to particulate matter is associated with elevated blood pressure and incident hypertension in urban India

D Prabhakaran, S Mandal, B Krishna, M Magsumbol… - …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Ambient air pollution, specifically particulate matter of diameter< 2.5 μm, is reportedly
associated with cardiovascular disease risk. However, evidence linking particulate matter of …

Cardiovascular diseases in India compared with the United States

D Prabhakaran, K Singh, GA Roth, A Banerjee… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
This review describes trends in the burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and risk
factors in India compared with the United States; provides potential explanations for these …

Changes in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control rates over 20 years in National Capital Region of India: results from a repeat cross-sectional …

A Roy, PA Praveen, R Amarchand, L Ramakrishnan… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background and objectives Despite being one of the leading risk factors of cardiovascular
mortality, there are limited data on changes in hypertension burden and management from …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and incidence of hypertension: results from a representative cohort of over 16,000 adults in three cities of South Asia

D Prabhakaran, P Jeemon, S Ghosh, R Shivashankar… - Indian heart …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Despite high projected burden, hypertension incidence data are lacking in
South Asian population. We measured hypertension prevalence and incidence in the Center …

Prevalence and predictors of obesity and overweight among adults visiting primary care settings in the southwestern region, Saudi Arabia

AM Al-Qahtani - BioMed Research International, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction. Obesity is becoming the most common health problem of the 21st century, as it
will contribute significantly to the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease in developing …

[HTML][HTML] Park availability and major depression in individuals with chronic conditions: Is there an association in urban India?

D Mukherjee, S Safraj, M Tayyab, R Shivashankar… - Health & place, 2017 - Elsevier
Green space exposure has been positively correlated with better mental-health indicators in
several high income countries, but has not been examined in low-and middle-income …

Cohort profile: the center for cArdiometabolic risk reduction in South Asia (CARRS)

D Kondal, SA Patel, MK Ali, D Mohan… - International journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2022, e358–e371 https://doi. org/10.1093/ije/dyac014
Advance Access Publication Date: 9 February 2022 Cohort Profile a probability sample of n …