ArticleAnnals of medicine2021
Syndemics at play: chronic kidney disease, diabetes and COVID-19 in Pakistan.
Article in Annals of medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Dengue and diabetes comorbidities: an emerging syndemic public health threat.International health · 2025Article
- Using a Syndemics Perspective to (Re)Conceptualize Vulnerability during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Comparing dual oral agents plus insulin vs. Triple oral agents in uncontrolled type II diabetes: A pilot study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitude and perceptions of pharmacists regarding renal dose adjustment among chronic kidney disease patients in Pakistan.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2023Article
- The Association Between Hypertriglyceridemic-Waist Phenotype and Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional METAL Study.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2022Article
- Aging and diabetes drive the COVID-19 forwards; unveiling nature and existing therapies for the treatment.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2021Review
- Doctors Dealing With COVID-19 in Pakistan: Experiences, Perceptions, Fear, and Responsibility.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic, it has several specificities influencing its outcomes due to the entwinement of several factors, which anthropologists have called "syndemics". Drawing upon Singer and Clair's syndemics model, I focus on synergistic interaction among chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes, and COVID-19 in Pakistan. I argue that over 36 million people in Pakistan are standing at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, developing severe complications, and losing their lives. These two diseases, but several other socio-cultural, economic, and political factors contributing to structured vulnerabilities, would function as confounders. To deal with the critical effects of these syndemics the government needs appropriate policies and their implementation during the pandemic and post-pandemic. To eliminate or at least minimize various vulnerabilities, Pakistan needs drastic changes, especially to overcome (formal) illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, gender difference, and rural and urban difference.
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