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Secular Trends in Dementia and Cognitive Impairment of U.S. Rural and Urban Older Adults by Weden, Margaret M., Shih, Regina A., Kabeto, Mohammed U., Langa, Kenneth M.

“…This is a nationally representative study of rural−urban disparities in the prevalence of probable dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND)…”
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Developing a smoke free homes initiative in Kerala, India by Nichter, Mimi, Padmajam, Sreedevi, Nichter, Mark, Sairu, P., Aswathy, S., Mini, G.K., Bindu, V.C., Pradeepkumar, A.S., Thankappan, K.R.

“…Background Results of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in Kerala, India found that 42 % of adults were exposed to second hand smoke (SHS) inside the home…”
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Ten-year change in blood pressure levels and prevalence of hypertension in urban and rural Cameroon by Fezeu, L, Kengne, A P, Balkau, B, Awah, P K, Mbanya, J C

“…BackgroundHypertension is becoming increasingly important in sub-Saharan Africa. However, evidences in support of this trend with time are still not available…”
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Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 2050 by Holden, Brien A, Fricke, Timothy R, Wilson, David A, Jong, Monica, Naidoo, Kovin S, Sankaridurg, Padmaja, Wong, Tien Y, Naduvilath, Thomas J, Resnikoff, Serge

“…Myopia is a common cause of vision loss, with uncorrected myopia the leading cause of distance vision impairment globally. Individual studies show variations…”
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Cancer statistics in China, 2015 by Chen, Wanqing, Zheng, Rongshou, Baade, Peter D., Zhang, Siwei, Zeng, Hongmei, Bray, Freddie, Jemal, Ahmedin, Yu, Xue Qin, He, Jie

“…With increasing incidence and mortality, cancer is the leading cause of death in China and is a major public health problem. Because of China's massive…”
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Potential Lost Productivity Resulting from the Global Burden of Myopia: Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Modeling by Naidoo, Kovin S, Fricke, Timothy R, Frick, Kevin D, Jong, Monica, Naduvilath, Thomas J, Resnikoff, Serge, Sankaridurg, Padmaja

“…We estimated the potential global economic productivity loss resulting from vision impairment (VI) and blindness as a result of uncorrected myopia and myopic…”
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Food Store Types, Availability, and Cost of Foods in a Rural Environment by Liese, Angela D., Weis, Kristina E., Pluto, Delores, Smith, Emily, Lawson, Andrew

“…To characterize the built nutritional environment in terms of types and number of food stores, availability, and cost of selected food items in a rural area. A…”
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Body-mass index and obesity in urban and rural China: findings from consecutive nationally representative surveys during 2004–18 by Wang, Limin, Zhou, Bin, Zhao, Zhenping, Yang, Ling, Zhang, Mei, Jiang, Yong, Li, Yichong, Zhou, Maigeng, Wang, Linhong, Huang, Zhengjing, Zhang, Xiao, Zhao, Liyun, Yu, Dongmei, Li, Chun, Ezzati, Majid, Chen, Zhengming, Wu, Jing, Ding, Gangqiang, Li, Xinhua

“…In China, mean body-mass index (BMI) and obesity in adults have increased steadily since the early 1980s. However, to our knowledge, there has been no reliable…”
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The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move by Abubakar, Ibrahim, Aldridge, Robert W, Devakumar, Delan, Orcutt, Miriam, Burns, Rachel, Barreto, Mauricio L, Dhavan, Poonam, Fouad, Fouad M, Groce, Nora, Guo, Yan, Hargreaves, Sally, Knipper, Michael, Miranda, J Jaime, Madise, Nyovani, Kumar, Bernadette, Mosca, Davide, McGovern, Terry, Rubenstein, Leonard, Sammonds, Peter, Sawyer, Susan M, Sheikh, Kabir, Tollman, Stephen, Spiegel, Paul, Zimmerman, Cathy, Abubakar, Ibrahim, Aldridge, Robert W, Devakumar, Delan, Orcutt, Miriam, Burns, Rachel, Barreto, Mauricio L, Dhavan, Poonam, Fouad, Fouad M, Groce, Nora, Guo, Yan, Hargreaves, Sally, Knipper, Michael, Miranda, Jaime, Madise, Nyovani, Kumar, Bernadette, Mosca, Davide, McGovern, Terry, Rubenstein, Leonard, Sammonds, Peter, Sawyer, Susan M, Sheikh, Kabir, Tollman, Stephen, Spiegel, Paul, Zimmerman, Cathy, Abbas, Mustafa, Acer, Eleanor, Ahmad, Ayesha, Abimbola, Seye, Blanchet, Karl, Bocquier, Philippe, Samuels, Fiona, Byrne, Olga, Haerizadeh, Sonia, Issa, Rita, Collinson, Mark, Ginsburg, Carren, Kelman, Ilan, McAlpine, Alys, Pocock, Nicola, Olshansky, Barbara, Ramos, Dandara, White, Michael, Zhou, Suzanne

“…With one billion people on the move or having moved in 2018, migration is a global reality, which has also become a political lightning rod. Although estimates…”
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Diabetes and Hypertension in India: A Nationally Representative Study of 1.3 Million Adults by Geldsetzer, Pascal, Manne-Goehler, Jennifer, Theilmann, Michaela, Davies, Justine I, Awasthi, Ashish, Vollmer, Sebastian, Jaacks, Lindsay M, Bärnighausen, Till, Atun, Rifat

“…Understanding how diabetes and hypertension prevalence varies within a country as large as India is essential for targeting of prevention, screening, and…”
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Prevalence and risk factors of pterygium: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Rezvan, Farhad, Khabazkhoob, Mehdi, Hooshmand, Elham, Yekta, Abbasali, Saatchi, Mohammad, Hashemi, Hassan

“…The present study was conducted to determine the global prevalence and risk factors for pterygium. Three thousand two hundred fifty-five articles were…”
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Exploring the rising incidence of neuroendocrine tumors: A population‐based analysis of epidemiology, metastatic presentation, and outcomes by Hallet, Julie, Law, Calvin How Lim, Cukier, Moises, Saskin, Refik, Liu, Ning, Singh, Simron

“…BACKGROUND An increased incidence of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) has been reported worldwide, but the reasons underlying this rise have not been identified…”
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Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population by Manoli, Gabriele, Fatichi, Simone, Schläpfer, Markus, Yu, Kailiang, Crowther, Thomas W., Meili, Naika, Burlando, Paolo, Katul, Gabriel G., Bou-Zeid, Elie

“…Urban heat islands (UHIs) exacerbate the risk of heat-related mortality associated with global climate change. The intensity of UHIs varies with population…”
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Ageing threatens sustainability of smallholder farming in China by Ren, Chenchen, Zhou, Xinyue, Wang, Chen, Guo, Yaolin, Diao, Yu, Shen, Sisi, Reis, Stefan, Li, Wanyue, Xu, Jianming, Gu, Baojing

“…Rapid demographic ageing substantially affects socioeconomic development 1 – 4 and presents considerable challenges for food security and agricultural…”
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Association Between Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Rural and Urban Areas of China by Bragg, Fiona, Holmes, Michael V, Iona, Andri, Guo, Yu, Du, Huaidong, Chen, Yiping, Bian, Zheng, Yang, Ling, Herrington, William, Bennett, Derrick, Turnbull, Iain, Liu, Yongmei, Feng, Shixian, Chen, Junshi, Clarke, Robert, Collins, Rory, Peto, Richard, Li, Liming, Chen, Zhengming

“…In China, diabetes prevalence has increased substantially in recent decades, but there are no reliable estimates of the excess mortality currently associated…”
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Disparities in Access to Oral Health Care by Northridge, Mary E, Kumar, Anjali, Kaur, Raghbir

“…In the United States, people are more likely to have poor oral health if they are low-income, uninsured, and/or members of racial/ethnic minority, immigrant,…”
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Cohort Profile: The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) by Wong, Rebeca, Michaels-Obregon, Alejandra, Palloni, Alberto

“…The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) was designed to prospectively evaluate the impact of disease on the health, function and mortality of adults over the…”
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial by Luby, Stephen P, Rahman, Mahbubur, Arnold, Benjamin F, Unicomb, Leanne, Ashraf, Sania, Winch, Peter J, Stewart, Christine P, Begum, Farzana, Hussain, Faruqe, Benjamin-Chung, Jade, Leontsini, Elli, Naser, Abu M, Parvez, Sarker M, Hubbard, Alan E, Lin, Audrie, Nizame, Fosiul A, Jannat, Kaniz, Ercumen, Ayse, Ram, Pavani K, Das, Kishor K, Abedin, Jaynal, Clasen, Thomas F, Dewey, Kathryn G, Fernald, Lia C, Null, Clair, Ahmed, Tahmeed, Colford, John M

“…Diarrhoea and growth faltering in early childhood are associated with subsequent adverse outcomes. We aimed to assess whether water quality, sanitation, and…”
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How many premature deaths from pesticide suicide have occurred since the agricultural Green Revolution? by Karunarathne, Ayanthi, Gunnell, David, Konradsen, Flemming, Eddleston, Michael

“…Introduction: The agricultural Green Revolution in the 1950s and 60s is thought to have averted many deaths from famine. However, it also introduced highly…”
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial by Null, Clair, Stewart, Christine P, Pickering, Amy J, Dentz, Holly N, Arnold, Benjamin F, Arnold, Charles D, Benjamin-Chung, Jade, Clasen, Thomas, Dewey, Kathryn G, Fernald, Lia C H, Hubbard, Alan E, Kariger, Patricia, Lin, Audrie, Luby, Stephen P, Mertens, Andrew, Njenga, Sammy M, Nyambane, Geoffrey, Ram, Pavani K, Colford, John M

“…Poor nutrition and exposure to faecal contamination are associated with diarrhoea and growth faltering, both of which have long-term consequences for child…”
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