Magasin 1986-2006

Epidemiological transition in rural Bangladesh, 1986–2006

BACKGROUND For understanding epidemiological transition, Health and Demographic Surveillance System plays an important role in developing and resource-constraint setup where accurate information on vital events (e.g. births, deaths) and cause of death is not available. METHODS This study aimed to assess existing level and trend of causes of 18,917 deaths in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh,...

Dengue viruses in Brazil, 1986-2006.

A total of 4,243,049 dengue cases have been reported in Brazil between 1981 and 2006, including 5,817 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS) and a total of 338 fatal cases. Although all Brazilian regions have been affected, the Northeast and Southeast regions have registered the highest number of notifications. DENV-1 and DENV-4 were isolated for the first time in the...

1986 , Volume , Issue Apr-1986

Cancer mortality in Córdoba, Argentina, 1986-2006: an age-period-cohort analysis.

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Cancer is the second main cause of death in Argentina, surpassed only by cardiovascular disease. However, analytical approaches isolating some of the known effects, such as age at death, period of death and birth cohort, have never been performed in cancer mortality studies in Argentina. The aim of this study was to analyze cancer mortality trends in a representative region ...

Trends in body mass index, prevalence of overweight and obesity in preschool Lithuanian children, 1986-2006.

The study provides the body mass index (BMI), the prevalence of overweight and obesity in preschool Lithuanian children, 1986-2006. In the 2003-2006 more than 1000 preschool 3-6 year old children from Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania) were investigated according to the standard anthropometric methods. The prevalence of overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) was estimated according to the cut-off poi...