Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of
biomedical fields, such as therapeutic medicine delivery, disease detection and diagnosis …

Methods: All population-based, cross-sectional studies and cohort studies from India which
reported the stroke incidence rate or cumulative stroke incidence and/or the prevalence of …

Diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease have been listed as risk factors for
severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) since the first report of the disease in January …

Importance In the United States, national associations of individual dietary factors with
specific cardiometabolic diseases are not well established. Objective To estimate …

The American Thoracic Society has previously published statements on what constitutes an
adverse effect on health of air pollution in 1985 and 2000. We set out to update and broaden …

Summary Background The Millennium Declaration in 2000 brought special global attention
to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria through the formulation of Millennium Development Goal …

Importance Understanding the major health problems in the United States and how they are
changing over time is critical for informing national health policy. Objectives To measure the …

Objectives To estimate the global burden of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as part of the Global
Burden of Disease 2010 study of 291 conditions and how the burden of RA compares with …

Background Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), fruit juice, and milk are components of
diet of major public health interest. To-date, assessment of their global distributions and …

Background The global burden of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) is set to rise as a consequence
of improved survival in high-prevalence low-and middle-income countries and population …