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Chronic disease epidemiology

Section edited by Jianguang Ji.

This section aims to publish studies on the epidemiology of chronic diseases and the use of public health interventions for their control.

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  1. The rates of non-communicable diseases (NCD’s) appear to be increasing in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected people as compared to non-HIV infected people and this will have major implications for cli...

    Authors: Rudy Londile Mathebula, Eric Maimela and Nthembelihle Samuel Ntuli

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:247

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  2. Osteoarthritis (OA) holds significance as a highly prevalent disorder in elderly populations. Various studies have been conducted on the association between alcohol consumption and OA, but the results have oft...

    Authors: Ah. Hyun Kang, Me-riong Kim, Joon-Shik Shin, Jinho Lee, Yoon Jae Lee, Yeoncheol Park, Dongwoo Nam, Eun-Jung Kim and In-Hyuk Ha

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:227

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  3. Evidence suggests that body composition has impact on arterial stiffness. However, evidence in Chinese are limited, and results remain controversial. The aim of our study is to investigate whether skeletal mus...

    Authors: Mingzhe Yang, Xuguang Zhang, Zhenkai Ding, Feijie Wang, Yufang Wang, Changya Jiao and Jie-Hua Chen

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:226

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  4. In order to close existing information gaps on diabetes-related health perceptions, diabetes knowledge, and information-seeking behaviors among adults in Germany, a representative population-based survey targe...

    Authors: Lena M. Stühmann, Rebecca Paprott, Christin Heidemann, Thomas Ziese, Sylvia Hansen, Daniela Zahn, Christa Scheidt-Nave and Paul Gellert

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:192

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  5. While smoking elevates the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) among atrial fibrillation (AF) patients, whether smoking cessation after AF diagnosis actually leads to reduced CVD risk is unclear. We aimed to...

    Authors: Seulggie Choi, Jooyoung Chang, Kyuwoong Kim, Sung Min Kim, Hye-Yeon Koo, Mi Hee Cho, In Young Cho, Hyejin Lee, Joung Sik Son, Sang Min Park and Kiheon Lee

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:168

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  6. Over the past few decades, the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) has risen rapidly in Iran and other low and middle-income countries. We investigated the prevalence of DM, pre-diabetes, undiagnosed and unco...

    Authors: Masoud Mirzaei, Masoud Rahmaninan, Mohsen Mirzaei, Azadeh Nadjarzadeh and Abbas Ali Dehghani tafti

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:166

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  7. Mortality rates due to coronary heart disease (CHD) have decreased in most countries, but increased in low and middle-income countries. Few studies have analyzed the trends of coronary heart disease mortality ...

    Authors: C. Arroyo-Quiroz, T. Barrientos-Gutierrez, M. O’Flaherty, M. Guzman-Castillo, L. Palacio-Mejia, E. Osorio-Saldarriaga and A. Y. Rodriguez-Rodriguez

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:162

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  8. Metabolic syndrome (MS) has abruptly increased in China in the past two decades, gradually representing an important public health threat over the years. Here, we firstly reported the prevalence and associated...

    Authors: Li Ting Wu, Yun Feng Shen, Lei Hu, Mei Ying Zhang and Xiao Yang Lai

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:133

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  9. The aim of the study was to assess trends in mortality and the number of lost years of life due to breast cancer in the female population in the years 2000–2016, with consideration given to differences regardi...

    Authors: Monika Burzyńska, Irena Maniecka-Bryła and Małgorzata Pikala

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:120

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  10. To analyze the trend of lower extremity major amputations (MA) among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the Regions of Spain from year 2001 until 2015.

    Authors: María del Cristo Rodríguez Pérez, Chiara Chines, Arturo J. Pedrero García, Djeniffer Sousa, Francisco J. Cuevas Fernández, Itahisa Marcelino-Rodríguez, Santiago Domínguez Coello and Antonio Cabrera de León

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:54

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  11. Perceived neighborhood characteristics, including satisfaction with one’s neighborhood as a place to live, are associated with lower obesity rates and more favorable cardiovascular risk factor profiles. Yet, f...

    Authors: Tiffany L. Gary-Webb, Natalie Suder Egnot, Alvin Nugroho, Tamara Dubowitz and Wendy M. Troxel

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:52

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  12. Diabetes and its complications including foot ulcer constitute a global public health challenge attributing to a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Foot ulcer is one of the long-term complication of...

    Authors: Tadesse Tolossa, Belayneh Mengist, Diriba Mulisa, Getahun Fetensa, Ebisa Turi and Amanuel Abajobir

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:41

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  15. Substantial number of women who deliver at home (WDH) are not captured in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services. This delays HIV infection detection that negatively impacts endeavours to ...

    Authors: Juma Adinan, Bridgit Adamou, Caroline Amour, Aisa Shayo, Paulo Lino Kidayi and Levina Msuya

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1758

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  16. Measurement of breast cancer burden and identification of its influencing factors help in the development of public health policy and strategy against the disease. This study aimed to examine the variability o...

    Authors: Tengku Muhammad Hanis, Najib Majdi Yaacob, Suhaily Mohd Hairon, Sarimah Abdullah, Noorfariza Nordin, Noor Hashimah Abdullah and Mohd Faiz Md Ariffin

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1754

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  17. National smoking cessation strategies in Nigeria are hindered by lack of up-to-date epidemiologic data. We aimed to estimate prevalence of tobacco smoking in Nigeria to guide relevant interventions.

    Authors: Davies Adeloye, Asa Auta, Ademola Fawibe, Muktar Gadanya, Nnenna Ezeigwe, Rex G. Mpazanje, Mary T. Dewan, Chiamaka Omoyele, Wondimagegnehu Alemu, Michael O. Harhay and Isaac F. Adewole

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1719

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  18. Control of blood pressure among hypertensives is a major challenge around the world. Interventions for improving hypertension control in India are very limited. This paper describes the protocol for a cluster ...

    Authors: G. K. Mini, P. S. Sarma and K. R. Thankappan

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1718

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  19. Diet-related cardiovascular diseases have produced a large health burden in China. Coal miners are a high-risk population for cardiovascular disease, but there is little evidence concerning associations betwee...

    Authors: Qian Sun, Jin-Sha Ma, Hui Wang, Shu-Hong Xu, Jun-Kang Zhao, Qian Gao, Jian-Jun Huang and Tong Wang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1704

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  20. First-degree relatives of patients with diabetes (FDR) tend to have impaired insulin activity, which lead to the alternation of circulating cytokine levels. Liver is a main target tissue of insulin action; the...

    Authors: Yiting Xu, Yun Shen, Xiaojing Ma, Chengchen Gu, Yufei Wang and Yuqian Bao

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1628

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  21. Recommendations on preventive lipid screening among children and adolescents remain controversial. The aim of the study was to assess age and puberty-related changes in serum lipids, including total cholestero...

    Authors: Anja Schienkiewitz, Julia Truthmann, Andrea Ernert, Susanna Wiegand, Karl Otfried Schwab and Christa Scheidt-Nave

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1627

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  22. The co-occurrence of two or more chronic medical conditions in an individual is defined as multimorbidity. Lifestyle factors, including poor dietary patterns, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and excessive al...

    Authors: Mythily Subramaniam, Yunjue Zhang, Jue Hua Lau, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Edimansyah Abdin, Siow Ann Chong and Eng Sing Lee

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1612

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  23. Higher dietary acid load (DAL) was considered to be associated with an elevated risk of hypertension, while related data from mainland China remains scarce and incomplete. We aim to evaluate the association be...

    Authors: Shao-wei Chen, Gui-yuan Ji, Qi Jiang, Ping Wang, Rui Huang, Wen-jun Ma, Zi-hui Chen and Jie-wen Peng

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1599

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  24. The co-occurrence of breast cancer (BC) and thyroid cancer (TC) has been mentioned for several years, researchers observed an increased risk of BC patients to develop TC, but few researches concern about the f...

    Authors: Shuting Li, Jiao Yang, Yanwei Shen, Xiaoai Zhao, Lingxiao Zhang, Biyuan Wang, Pan Li, Yunmei Wang, Min Yi and Jin Yang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1592

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  25. Combined with the increasing life expectancy, chronic medical conditions have gradually become the dominant cause of death and disability, and multimorbidity became an increasingly serious public health challe...

    Authors: Hantong Zhao, Changcong Wang, Yingan Pan, Yinpei Guo, Nan Yao, Han Wang, Lina Jin and Bo Li

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1589

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  26. Evidence on cognitive function in older South Africans is limited, with few population-based studies. We aimed to estimate baseline associations between cognitive function and cardiometabolic disease risk fact...

    Authors: Brian Houle, Thomas Gaziano, Meagan Farrell, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Nigel J. Crowther, Alisha N. Wade, Livia Montana, Ryan G. Wagner, Lisa Berkman and Stephen M. Tollman

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1579

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  27. A healthy lifestyle has been shown to reduce the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). The extent to which lifestyle influences the risk of CAD for people with pre-existing non-modifiable risk factors is less...

    Authors: Kristian Dimovski, Marju Orho-Melander and Isabel Drake

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1575

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  28. Digital rectal examination (DRE) is one of the most common strategies for prostate cancer early detection. However, the use for screening purposes has a controversial benefit and potential harms can occur due ...

    Authors: Samara Carollyne Mafra Soares, Marianna de Camargo Cancela, Arn Migowski and Dyego Leandro Bezerra de Souza

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1573

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  29. Childhood obesity is a growing public health concern in many low-income urban settings; but its determinants are not clear. The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of childhood obesity and associ...

    Authors: John Kuumuori Ganle, Priscilla Pokuaa Boakye and Leonard Baatiema

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1561

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  30. Few large cohort studies have examined the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HTN), coronary artery disease (CAD), obesity, and smoking among middle-aged and older adults in the major Asian-Am...

    Authors: Nancy P. Gordon, Teresa Y. Lin, Jyoti Rau and Joan C. Lo

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1551

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  31. There is high prevalence of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Saudi Arabia that is still increasing. Early diagnosis of prediabetes, and immediate, effective intervention is yet unestablished....

    Authors: Rasmieh Alzeidan, Zeinab Shata, Marwah Mazen Hassounah, Leena Rashad Baghdadi, Ahmad Hersi, Amel Fayed, Tarek Kashour and Hala Elmorshedy

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1550

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  32. WHO addresses the infectious disease like Tuberculosis, and non- communicable disease like Diabetes among the top 10 causes of death worldwide, which collectively leads to increasing mortality and premature de...

    Authors: Babita Sharma, Vijay Kumar Khanal, Nilambar Jha, Prajjwal Pyakurel and Gyanu Nepal Gurung

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1545

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  33. The prevalence of abdominal obesity is increasing worldwide. Adults with abdominal obesity have been reported to have increased risk of cardiometabolic disorders.

    Authors: Anita Lukács, Edina Horváth, Zsuzsanna Máté, Andrea Szabó, Katalin Virág, Magor Papp, János Sándor, Róza Ádány and Edit Paulik

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1533

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  34. Dyslipidemia is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). We investigated the prevalence and associated risk factors of dyslipidemia- raised total cholesterol (TC), raised triglycerides (TG), ...

    Authors: Sampson Opoku, Yong Gan, Wenning Fu, Dajie Chen, Emmanuel Addo-Yobo, Diana Trofimovitch, Wei Yue, Feng Yan, Zhihong Wang and Zuxun Lu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1500

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  35. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has grown significantly in China. However, little is known about the survival outcome of people with type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease (DKD). The purpose of this stu...

    Authors: Zihou Zhao, Lili Huo, Lianying Wang, Lijuan Wang, Zuodi Fu, Yufeng Li and Xiaohong Wu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1498

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  36. The prevalence of overweight and obesity (OW/OB) has increased rapidly in Vietnam. This study aimed to elucidate the factors influencing OW/OB among secondary schoolchildren.

    Authors: Thuy Thi Phuong Pham, Yumi Matsushita, Lien Thi Kim Dinh, Thanh Van Do, Thanh Thi The Nguyen, Anh Tuan Bui, Anh Quoc Nguyen and Hiroshi Kajio

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1478

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  37. Chronic heart failure patients typically suffer from tremendous strain and are managed mainly in primary care. New care concepts adapted to the severity of heart failure are a challenge and need to consider he...

    Authors: Sigrid Boczor, Anne Daubmann, Marion Eisele, Eva Blozik and Martin Scherer

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1464

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  38. Studies have demonstrated that high or low haemoglobin increases the risk of stroke. Previous studies, however, performed only a limited number of haemoglobin measurements, while there are dynamic haemoglobin ...

    Authors: Alimu Dayimu, Wendi Qian, Bingbing Fan, Chunxia Wang, Jiangbing Li, Shukang Wang, Xiaokang Ji, Guangshuai Zhou, Tao Zhang and Fuzhong Xue

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1395

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  39. Around 6% of total deaths are related to alcohol consumption worldwide. Mathematical models are important tools to estimate disease burden and to assess the cost-effectiveness of interventions to address this ...

    Authors: Ariel Esteban Bardach, Andrea Olga Alcaraz, Agustín Ciapponi, Osvaldo Ulises Garay, Andrés Pichón Riviere, Alfredo Palacios, Mariana Cremonte and Federico Augustovski

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1378

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  40. An increasing amount of evidence supports an association between sedentary behaviors and chronic knee pain. However, the association between the total daily duration of sedentary behavior and chronic knee pain...

    Authors: Sook-Hyun Lee, Chihyoung Son, Sujung Yeo and In-Hyuk Ha

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1375

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  41. Cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CM) is defined as having a diagnosis of at least two of stroke, heart disease, or diabetes, and is an emerging health concern, but the prevalence of CM at a population level in ...

    Authors: Brodie M. Sakakibara, Adebimpe O. Obembe and Janice J. Eng

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1361

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  42. Lifestyle factors were associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) occurrence. We explored the associations between lifestyle factors and CVD risk factors, and assessed the interactive ef...

    Authors: Miriam Adoyo Muga, Patrick Opiyo Owili, Chien-Yeh Hsu and Jane C.-J. Chao

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1346

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  43. Parkinson’s disease (PD) and drug-induced parkinsonism (DIP) are the major diseases of parkinsonism. To better understand parkinsonism, we aimed to assess the prevalence and incidence of PD and DIP in Korea fr...

    Authors: Sola Han, Siin Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Hae-Won Shin, Kyoung-Sae Na and Hae Sun Suh

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1328

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  45. Due to the high prevalence of diabetes risk factors in rural areas, it is important to identify whether differences in diabetes screening rates between rural and urban areas exist. Thus, the purpose of this st...

    Authors: Phoebe Tran, Lam Tran and Liem Tran

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1190

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  46. Nonspecific Low Back Pain (NLBP) is a common disease with a low cure rate and significant impact on the population. This study aimed to develop and validate a pre-scoring system for identifying the risk of suf...

    Authors: Kai Wang, Jing-wen Zhang, Shao-xiong Min, Xin-yi Xu and Sheng-li An

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1262

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  47. We evaluated the prevalence and the factors associated with repeated high systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) at 6- and 11-year follow-ups of children from the Pelotas (Brazil) 2004 Birth Cohort.

    Authors: Marília Cruz Guttier, Raquel Siqueira Barcelos, Rodrigo Wiltgen Ferreira, Caroline Cardozo Bortolotto, William Jones Dartora, Maria Inês Schmidt, Alicia Matijasevich, Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues and Iná S. Santos

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1260

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  48. Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), however, the studies on lifestyle and genetic risks in Chinese pilgrims to Hajj was limited. The aim of this study is to examine the pr...

    Authors: Yinxia Zhang, Fangfang Shi, Zhanbiao Yu, Aimin Yang, Maolan Zeng, Jiaoyue Wang, Haiping Yin, Benzhong Zhang and Xiao Ma

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1223

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  49. The distribution of goiter among children and its risk factors are not well investigated in Ethiopia. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis was designed to determine the pooled prevalence of goit...

    Authors: Getenet Dessie, Desalegne Amare, Amare Belachew Dagnew, Henok Mulugeta, Dessalegn Haile Kassa, Ayenew Negesse, Getachew Mullu Kassa, Fasil Wagnew, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam and Sahai Burrowes

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1191

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  50. Diabetes as being a chronic disease with a number of complications deteriorates the quality of life among the people with type 2 diabetes. Health related quality of life is widely used as an important health o...

    Authors: Sailendra Thapa, Prajjwal Pyakurel, Dharani Dhar Baral and Nilambar Jha

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1171

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