The Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study is an investigator initiated programme to assess the health of more than 600 communities selected from 17 countries. Three high-income countries, seven middle-income and seven low-income countries are taking part. As the name suggests, PURE also looks at differences between rural and urban communities. It’s a massive undertaking which is sta...

Endogenous population growth, i.e., making the rate of population growth dependent on society's opulence, causes parametric changes to have a larger impact and can cause multiplicity of steady states in a dynamic intertemporal optimization framework. This provides a simple explanation for the possibility of differing growth paths between countries (using a standard production function) or anoth...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is fast becoming a major public health issue, disproportionately burdening low-income to middle-income countries, where detection rates remain low. We critically assessed the extant literature on CKD screening in low-income to middle-income countries. We performed a PubMed search, up to September 2016, for studies on CKD screening in low-income to middle-income coun...

What we know as the developing world is approximately the group of countries classified by the World Bank as having “low” and “middle” income. An exact description is unnecessary and not too revealing; suffice it to observe that these countries make up over 5 billion of world population, leaving out the approximately one billion who are part of the “high” income developed world. Together, the l...

OBJECTIVE To study the impact of national economic and human development status on patient profiles and outcomes in the setting of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of the Targeted Platelet Inhibition to Clarify the Optimal Strategy to Medically Manage Acute Coronary Syndromes trial (TRILOGY ACS) population (51 countries; 9301 patients). Outcome meas...

1. Iceland 0.17 .. 83. China* 2.05 2. Norway 0.36 .. 109. Indonesia 2.75 3. Finland 0.39 .. 114. Nigeria 2.88 4. Estonia 0.51 .. 129. India 3.16 5. Denmark 0.52 .. 142. Benin 3.49 .. 8. U.S.A 0.55 148. Congo, Dem. 3.67 .. 17. United Kingdom 0.71 149. Malawi 3.72 .. 21. Germany 0.76 150. Yemen 3.78 .. 23. Japan 0.77 151. Myanmar 3.95 .. 39. Russia 1.04 152. Burkina Faso 4.04 2014 World Bank inco...