"Cross-Sectional Studies"

Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography.
Travel has individual, societal and planetary health implications. We explored socioeconomic and gendered differences in travel …
Foley, Louise, Brugulat-Panés, Anna, Woodcock, James, Govia, Ishtar, Hambleton, Ian, Turner-Moss, Eleanor, Mogo, Ebele R I, Awinja, Alice Charity, Dambisya, Philip M, Matina, Sostina Spiwe, Micklesfield, Lisa, Abdool Karim, Safura, Ware, Lisa Jayne, Tulloch-Reid, Marshall, Assah, Felix, Pley, Caitlin, Bennett, Nadia, Pujol-Busquets, Georgina, Okop, Kufre, Anand, Tanmay, Kwan, Haowen, Mukoma, Gudani, Anil, Megha, Tatah, Lambed, Randall, Lee
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Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography.
Sodium and potassium excretion in an adult Caribbean population of African descent with a high burden of cardiovascular disease.
BACKGROUND: High sodium diets with inadequate potassium and high sodium-to-potassium ratios are a known determinant of hypertension and …
Rachel M. Harris, Angela M. C. Rose, Ian R. Hambleton, Christina Howitt, Nita G. Forouhi, Anselm J. M. Hennis, T. Alafia Samuels, Nigel Unwin
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Social determinants of prostate cancer in the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among Caribbean men. However, little data exists on the …
Catherine R. Brown, Ian Hambleton, Shawn M. Hercules, Nigel Unwin, Madhuvanti M. Murphy, E. Nigel Harris, Rainford Wilks, Marlene MacLeish, Louis Sullivan, Natasha Sobers-Grannum
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A cross-sectional study of physical activity and sedentary behaviours in a Caribbean population: combining objective and questionnaire data to guide future interventions.
BACKGROUND: Current understanding of population physical activity (PA) levels and sedentary behaviour in developing countries is …
Christina Howitt, Soren Brage, Ian R. Hambleton, Kate Westgate, T. Alafia Samuels, Angela Mc Rose, Nigel Unwin
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Social distribution of diabetes, hypertension and related risk factors in Barbados: a cross-sectional study.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the distribution of diabetes, hypertension and related behavioural and biological risk factors in adults in …
Christina Howitt, Ian R. Hambleton, Angela M. C. Rose, Anselm Hennis, T. Alafia Samuels, Kenneth S. George, Nigel Unwin
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Prevalence and risk factors for inter-generational sex: a cross-sectional cluster survey of Barbadian females aged 15-19.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence and risk factors for intergenerational (IG)-sex in females aged 15-19 …
Nicole Drakes, Clarissa Perks, Alok Kumar, Kim Quimby, Colin Clarke, Rajul Patel, Ian R. Hambleton, R. Clive Landis
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Homozygous sickle cell disease in Uganda and Jamaica a comparison of Bantu and Benin haplotypes.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the haematological and clinical features of homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease in Bantu and Benin haplotypes in …
C. Ndugwa, D. Higgs, C. Fisher, I. Hambleton, K. Mason, B. E. Serjeant, G. R. Serjeant
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Anaesthetic morbidity at the University Hospital of the West Indies.
OBJECTIVE: There is little information on adverse anaesthetic outcomes from the Caribbean. The aim of this study was to investigate the …
I. A. Tennant, R. Augier, A. Crawford-Sykes, I. R. Hambleton, M. Tha, H. Harding
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Growth curves for normal Jamaican neonates.
The aim of this study was to provide standards for the assessment of birthweight, head circumference and crown-heel length for normal, …
M. Samms-Vaughan, M. Thame, C. Osmond, I. R. Hambleton, A. McCaw-Binns, D. E. Ashley, G. R. Serjeant
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Skin test reactivity to aeroallergens in Jamaicans: relationship to asthma.
BACKGROUND: Asthma causes significant morbidity and mortality in the developing world. It is thus important to identify modifiable risk …
J. Knight-Madden, T. E. Forrester, I. R. Hambleton, N. Lewis, A. Greenough
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