Twenty-seven-year time trends in dementia incidence in Europe and the United States: The Alzheimer Cohorts Consortium

FJ Wolters, LB Chibnik, R Waziry, R Anderson, C Berr… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To determine changes in the incidence of dementia between 1988 and 2015.
Methods This analysis was performed in aggregated data from individuals> 65 years of age …

[HTML][HTML] World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

S Kaptoge, L Pennells, D De Bacquer… - The Lancet global …, 2019 - thelancet.com
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 …

European Society of Cardiology: cardiovascular disease statistics 2017

A Timmis, N Townsend, C Gale, R Grobbee… - European heart …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Aims The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Atlas has been compiled by the
European Heart Agency to document cardiovascular disease (CVD) statistics of the 56 ESC …

Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group

H Mostafavi, A Harpak, I Agarwal, D Conley… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Fields as diverse as human genetics and sociology are increasingly using polygenic scores
based on genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for phenotypic prediction. However …

Reducing the global burden of cardiovascular disease, part 1: the epidemiology and risk factors

P Joseph, D Leong, M McKee, SS Anand… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Global atlas of cardiovascular disease

H Thomas, J Diamond, A Vieco, S Chaudhuri… - Glob …, 2018 - globalheartjournal.com
The Global Heart/World Heart Federation 1990-2010 Global Atlas of Cardiovascular
Disease (CVD) charted the transition from a global burden of disease dominated by …

[HTML][HTML] Future life expectancy in 35 industrialised countries: projections with a Bayesian model ensemble

V Kontis, JE Bennett, CD Mathers, G Li, K Foreman… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Projections of future mortality and life expectancy are needed to plan for health
and social services and pensions. Our aim was to forecast national age-specific mortality …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiovascular diseases in sub-Saharan Africa compared to high-income countries: an epidemiological perspective

MF Yuyun, K Sliwa, AP Kengne, AO Mocumbi… - Global …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the second common cause of death in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA) accounting for about 35% of all deaths, after a composite of …

Disease modelling in human organoids

MA Lancaster, M Huch - Disease models & mechanisms, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The past decade has seen an explosion in the field of in vitro disease modelling, in
particular the development of organoids. These self-organizing tissues derived from stem …

The possible role of vitamin D in suppressing cytokine storm and associated mortality in COVID-19 patients

A Daneshkhah, V Agrawal, A Eshein, H Subramanian… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Objectives To investigate the possible role of Vitamin D (Vit D) deficiency via unregulated
inflammation in COVID-19 complications and associated mortality. Design The time …