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He is a researcher whose areas of expertise include epidemiology of hypertension, epidemiology of diabetes, evaluation of effectiveness of interventions for the prevention, management and control of high burden diseases, especially non-communicable diseases, and capacity building through tertiary training. [5]
Task force 1: Mapping the arterial hypertension prevalence on the continent and make predictions for near future. Task force 2: Mapping the prevalence of arterial hypertension risk factors and related CV risk factors II-a Traditionally risk factors : which covers the risk factors like the sedentary lifestyle, [3] smoking, and stress.
Hypertension is common in high, medium, and low-income countries. [13] [2] It is more common in people of low socioeconomic status. [158] Hypertension is around twice as common in diabetics. [159] In 2019, rates of diagnosed hypertension were highest in Africa (30% for both sexes), and lowest in the Americas (18% for both sexes). [10]
"The burden of mental disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2013" 2013: January 2017: PLOS ONE "Global burden of hypertension and systolic blood pressure of at least 110 to 115 mmHg, 1990–2015" 2015: January 2017: JAMA "The Global Burden of Disease study and the preventable burden of NCD" None (cites both 2010 and 2013 ...
Mbanya focused on epidemiology of non-communicable diseases which includes diabetes and its complications, ethno-pharmacology, molecular biology of diabetes, hypertension, thyroid diseases and their implications on the health care systems of developing countries.
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for one quarter of the global disease burden, but only 14% of the global health workforce. [1] Ogedegbe has led National Institutes of Health-funded initiatives to eliminate cardiovascular disease in sub-Saharan Africa. [10]
Changes in the eye can help predict other health concerns in the body, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. A new study has identified a set of 29 vascular health indicators on the retina ...
Schutte worked at the North-West University in South Africa from 2001 to 2019. When Schutte took on her former role where she was the South African Research Chair in the Early Detection and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Africa, her primary focus point for her research was to detect early markers for the detection and prevention of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in the ...