Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? Current evidence and future implications

T Ugai, N Sasamoto, HY Lee, M Ando… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past several decades, the incidence of early-onset cancers, often defined as
cancers diagnosed in adults< 50 years of age, in the breast, colorectum, endometrium …

Global epidemiology, health burden and effective interventions for elevated blood pressure and hypertension

B Zhou, P Perel, GA Mensah, M Ezzati - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
High blood pressure is one of the most important risk factors for ischaemic heart disease,
stroke, other cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease and dementia. Mean blood …

Global epidemiology of hip fractures: secular trends in incidence rate, post‐fracture treatment, and all‐cause mortality

CW Sing, TC Lin, S Bartholomew, JS Bell… - Journal of Bone and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this international study, we examined the incidence of hip fractures, postfracture treatment,
and all‐cause mortality following hip fractures, based on demographics, geography, and …

The double burden of malnutrition: aetiological pathways and consequences for health

JC Wells, AL Sawaya, R Wibaek, M Mwangome… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Malnutrition has historically been researched and addressed within two distinct silos,
focusing either on undernutrition, food insecurity, and micronutrient deficiencies, or on …

[HTML][HTML] Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative …

B Zhou, RM Carrillo-Larco, G Danaei, LM Riley… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost
treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of …

Performance evaluation of the uEXPLORER total-body PET/CT scanner based on NEMA NU 2-2018 with additional tests to characterize PET scanners with a long …

BA Spencer, E Berg, JP Schmall… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
The world's first total-body PET scanner with an axial field of view (AFOV) of 194 cm is now
in clinical and research use at our institution. The uEXPLORER PET/CT system is the first …

[HTML][HTML] Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the
proportion of the population who live in cities,. This has led to a widely reported view that …

Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 …

A Rodriguez-Martinez, B Zhou, MK Sophiea… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and
adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean …

[HTML][HTML] Nutritional and environmental losses embedded in global food waste

C Chen, A Chaudhary, A Mathys - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2020 - Elsevier
Reducing food waste can contribute positively towards multiple sustainable development
goals (SDGs) but the differences in the food waste across countries in terms of embedded …

Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19· 1 million participants

B Zhou, J Bentham, M Di Cesare, H Bixby, G Danaei… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases
and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean …