Cardiovascular diseases in India: current epidemiology and future directions

D Prabhakaran, P Jeemon, A Roy - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have now become the leading cause of mortality in India. A
quarter of all mortality is attributable to CVD. Ischemic heart disease and stroke are the …

Epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia in China, 1990–2010: a systematic review and analysis

KY Chan, W Wang, JJ Wu, L Liu, E Theodoratou, J Car… - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background China is increasingly facing the challenge of control of the growing burden of
non-communicable diseases. We assessed the epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and …

Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study

L Dandona, R Dandona, GA Kumar, DK Shukla… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background 18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have
populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population …

[BOOK][B] Cost-effectiveness in health and medicine

PJ Neumann, GD Sanders, LB Russell, JE Siegel… - 2016 - books.google.com
A COMPLETE UPDATE AND REVISION OF THE CLASSIC TEXT" At last, a manual of
operations for comparing the cost-effectiveness of a preventive service with a treatment …

Suicide mortality in India: a nationally representative survey

V Patel, C Ramasundarahettige, L Vijayakumar… - The lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background WHO estimates that about 170 000 deaths by suicide occur in India every year,
but few epidemiological studies of suicide have been done in the country. We aimed to …

Changing demography and the challenge of dementia in India

V Ravindranath, JS Sundarakumar - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
In India, increasing lifespan and decreasing fertility rates have resulted in a growing number
of older persons. By 2050, people over 60 years of age are predicted to constitute 19.1% of …

Challenges to effective cancer control in China, India, and Russia

PE Goss, K Strasser-Weippl, BL Lee-Bychkovsky… - The lancet …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Cancer is one of the major non-communicable diseases posing a threat to world health.
Unfortunately, improvements in socioeconomic conditions are usually associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Diabetes mellitus and its complications in India

R Unnikrishnan, RM Anjana, V Mohan - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2016 - nature.com
India is one of the epicentres of the global diabetes mellitus pandemic. Rapid
socioeconomic development and demographic changes, along with increased susceptibility …

Toward the cure of all children with cancer through collaborative efforts: pediatric oncology as a global challenge

C Rodriguez-Galindo, P Friedrich… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Advances in the treatment of childhood cancers have resulted in part from the development
of national and international collaborative initiatives that have defined biologic determinants …

The growing burden of cancer in India: epidemiology and social context

MK Mallath, DG Taylor, RA Badwe, GK Rath… - The Lancet …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Cancer can have profound social and economic consequences for people in India, often
leading to family impoverishment and societal inequity. Reported age-adjusted incidence …