International trends in traditional diabetes complications (cardiovascular, renal, peripheral
vascular, ophthalmic, hepatic or neurological diseases) and mortality rates are poorly …

Background Peripheral artery disease is a major cardiovascular disease that affected 202
million people worldwide in 2010. In the past decade, new epidemiological data on …

Background and purpose: Prediction of stroke impact provides essential information for
healthcare planning and priority setting. We aim to estimate 30-year projections of stroke …

Background Neurological disorders account for a large and increasing health burden
worldwide, as shown in the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) Study 2016. Unpacking how …

Background Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost
treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of …

Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National
Institutes of Health and other government agencies, brings together in a single document the …

Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the
proportion of the population who live in cities,. This has led to a widely reported view that …

Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and
adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean …

Background To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income
and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and …

Current global health policy goals include a 25% reduction in premature mortality from
noncommunicable diseases by 2025. In this 2-part review, we provide an overview of the …