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ArticleJournal of epidemiology and global health2022

The Global Epidemiological Transition in Cardiovascular Diseases: Unrecognised Impact of Endemic Infections on Peripheral Artery Disease.

Paul A Agius, Julia C Cutts, Peige Song, Igor Rudan, Diana Rudan, Victor Aboyans, Mary M McDermott, Michael H Criqui, F Gerald R Fowkes, Freya J I Fowkes

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Article in Journal of epidemiology and global health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

Paul A AgiusBurnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Julia C CuttsBurnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Peige SongCentre for Global Health, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Igor RudanCentre for Global Health, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Diana RudanDepartment of Cardiology, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
Victor AboyansDepartment of Cardiology, Dupuytren University Hospital, and U1094 Inserm & IRD, Limoges, France.
Mary M McDermottDepartment of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Michael H CriquiDepartment of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
F Gerald R FowkesCentre for Global Health, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Freya J I FowkesBurnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Freya.fowkes@burnet.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0001-5832-9464
Burnet Institute · AUInserm · FRNorthwestern University · USUniversity Hospital Dubrava · HRUniversity of California San Diego · USUniversity of Edinburgh · GBZhejiang University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An epidemiological transition in the prevalence of peripheral artery disease (PAD) is taking place especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where an ageing population and adoption of western lifestyles are associated with an increase in PAD. We discuss the limited evidence which suggests that infection, potentially mediated by inflammation, may be a risk factor for PAD, and show by means of an ecological analysis that country-level prevalence of the major endemic infections of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria are associated with the prevalence of PAD. While further research is required, we propose that scientists and health authorities pay more attention to the interplay between communicable and non-communicable diseases, and we suggest that limiting the occurrence of endemic infections might have some effect on slowing the epidemiological transition in PAD.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesNoncommunicable DiseasesPeripheral Arterial DiseaseHumansPrevalenceRisk FactorsEpidemiologyHIVMalariaPeripheral arterial diseaseTuberculosis

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PMID35841531
PMCPMC9287714
OpenAlexW4285588143

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