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Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants.
BACKGROUND: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult …
NCD-RisC
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Predicting the burden of acute myocardial infarction in a country with limited resources: combining data from routine sources.
BACKGROUND: Prior to implementation of a national surveillance system for cardiovascular disease in Barbados, a small island state with …
Angela M. C. Rose, Nico R. S. Belgrave, Lauren Maul, Anselm J. M. Hennis, Rudy Delice, Ian R. Hambleton
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Systemic lupus erythematosus in an African Caribbean population: incidence, clinical manifestations, and survival in the Barbados National Lupus Registry.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the epidemiology, clinical features, and outcomes of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the predominantly …
Cindy Flower, Anselm J. M. Hennis, Ian R. Hambleton, George D. Nicholson, Matthew H. Liang
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Are women who work in bars, guesthouses and similar facilities a suitable study population for vaginal microbicide trials in Africa?
BACKGROUND: A feasibility study was conducted to investigate whether an occupational at-risk cohort of women in Mwanza, Tanzania are a …
Andrew Vallely, Ian R. Hambleton, Stella Kasindi, Louise Knight, Suzanna C. Francis, Tobias Chirwa, Dean Everett, Charles Shagi, Claire Cook, Celia Barberousse, Deborah Watson-Jones, John Changalucha, David Ross, Richard J. Hayes
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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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Breast cancer incidence and mortality in a Caribbean population: comparisons with African-Americans.
We describe breast cancer incidence and mortality in the predominantly African-origin population of Barbados, which shares an ancestral …
Anselm J. Hennis, Ian R. Hambleton, Suh-Yuh Wu, Maria Cristina Leske, Barbara Nemesure
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Risk factors for breast cancer in a black population--the Barbados National Cancer Study.
The Barbados National Cancer Study (BNCS) is a nationwide case-control study investigating environmental and genetic factors for breast …
Barbara Nemesure, Suh-Yuh Wu, Ian R. Hambleton, M. Cristina Leske, Anselm J. Hennis
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Inflammatory bowel disease: incidence, prevalence, and disease characteristics in Barbados, West Indies.
BACKGROUND: The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may be lower among people of African descent than Caucasians. However, …
C. N. Edwards, S. G. Griffith, A. J. Hennis, I. R. Hambleton
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Effect of herpes simplex suppression on incidence of HIV among women in Tanzania.
BACKGROUND: Infection with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is associated with an increased risk of acquiring infection with the …
Deborah Watson-Jones, Helen A. Weiss, Mary Rusizoka, John Changalucha, Kathy Baisley, Kokugonza Mugeye, Clare Tanton, David Ross, Dean Everett, Tim Clayton, Rebecca Balira, Louise Knight, Ian Hambleton, Jerome Le Goff, Laurent Belec, Richard Hayes
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Ethnic differences in arterial responses and inflammatory markers in Afro-Caribbean and Caucasian subjects.
OBJECTIVE: Small vessel disease is more common in Afro-Caribbeans than Caucasians. We investigated underlying differences in metabolic, …
Lalit Kalra, Curtis Rambaran, Philip Chowienczyk, David Goss, Ian Hambleton, James Ritter, Ajay Shah, Rainford Wilks, Terrence Forrester
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