Facilitators and barriers to successful recruitment into a large comparative effectiveness trial: a qualitative study

Published: Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
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Authors: Stephanie Behringer-Massera 1 , Terysia Browne 2 , Geny George 3 , Sally Duran 3 , Andrea Cherrington 4 , M Diane McKee 2 5 , GRADE Research Group
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Recruitment of participants into research studies, especially individuals from minority groups, is challenging; lack of diversity may lead to biased findings.

Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Published: Nature
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities1,2. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity3-6

Prevalence of diabetes in three regions of Venezuela. The VEMSOLS study results

Published: Primary Care Diabetes
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 , Jeffrey I Mechanick 2 , Imperia Brajkovich 3 , Eunice Ugel 4 , Alejandro Risques 5 , Hermes Florez 6 , Juan Pablo González-Rivas 7
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The prevalence of diabetes in multiple regions of Venezuela is unknown. To determine the prevalence of diabetes in five populations from three regions of Venezuela.

APPLICATION OF THE AACE/ACE ADVANCED FRAMEWORK FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF OBESITY AND CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE STAGING IN A GENERAL POPULATION FROM 3 REGIONS OF VENEZUELA: THE VEMSOLS STUDY RESULTS

Published: Endocrine Practice
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P González-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Imperia Brajkovich, Alejandro Risquez, W Timothy Garvey, Jeffrey I Mechanick
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To determine the prevalence of obesity according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists/American College of Endocrinology (AACE/ACE) framework based on a complications-centric model with further application of the Cardiometabolic Disease Staging (CMDS) system in a Venezuelan population.

Relationship between the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC), vitamin D levels, and insulin resistance in obese subjects

Published: Primary Care Diabetes
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Authors: Marcos M Lima-Martínez 1 , Carlos Arrau 2 , Saimar Jerez 2 , Mariela Paoli 3 , Juan P González-Rivas 4 , Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 5 , Gianluca Iacobellis 6
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LINK TO RESEARCH https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27914905/ ABSTRACT Aim: To assess the relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] blood concentrations in subjects with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) risk according to the...

Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

Published: The Lancet
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher.

Factors Affecting Hemoglobin A1C in the Diagnosis of Diabetes and Prediabetes in Youth

Published: Journal of Pediatric Nursing
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Authors: Jennifer McGuire Hitt 1 , Pedro Velasquez-Mieyer 2 , Claudia Neira 2 , Patricia Cowan 3
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We sought to examine the correlation between variables and A1C levels to determine if prediction modeling could be used in the screening and diagnosis of diabetes and prediabetes in youth. We also sought to test relationships between A1C levels to insulin sensitivity indices and β-cell function indices. Design and methods: We performed a retrospective review of 904 medical records from youth deemed at-risk for the disease.