risk factors

Impact of common cardio-metabolic risk factors on fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease in Latin America and the Caribbean: an individual-level pooled analysis of 31 cohort studies.
BACKGROUND: Estimates of the burden of cardio-metabolic risk factors in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) rely on relative risks …
CC-LAC
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NCD-RisC
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.
NCD-RisC
The Cohorts Consortium of Latin America and the Caribbean
CC-LAC
The Cohorts Consortium of Latin America and the Caribbean
Health of the Nation
The Barbados National Risk Factor Survey (HotN)
Health of the Nation
The US-Caribbean Health Disparities Research Collaboration
Secondary analyses of regional health inequalities using publically available data
The US-Caribbean Health Disparities Research Collaboration
Cohort development for assessing health disparities
Extending a Jamaican cohort to facilitate research addressing health disparities among African descent populations.
Cohort development for assessing health disparities
Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys.
BACKGROUND: Describing the prevalence and trends of cardiometabolic risk factors that are associated with non-communicable diseases …
CC-LAC
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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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An updated systematic review and meta-analysis on the social determinants of diabetes and related risk factors in the Caribbean.
OBJECTIVES: To conduct an analysis of the most recent data on diabetes and its risk factors by gender and other social determinants of …
Leonor Guariguata, Catherine Brown, Natasha Sobers, Ian Hambleton, T. Alafia Samuels, Nigel Unwin
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Social determinants of depression and suicidal behaviour in the Caribbean: a systematic review.
BACKGROUND: Depressive disorder is the largest contributor to years lived with disability in the Caribbean, adding 948 per 100,000 in …
Catherine R. Brown, Ian R. Hambleton, Natasha Sobers-Grannum, Shawn M. Hercules, Nigel Unwin, E. Nigel Harris, Rainford Wilks, Marlene MacLeish, Louis Sullivan, Madhuvanti M. Murphy
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