Concepedia

The Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study: Examining the impact of societal influences on chronic noncommunicable diseases in low-, middle-, and high-income countries

Koon Teo, Clara K Chow, Mário Vaz, Sumathy Rangarajan, Salim Yusuf

American Heart Journal · 2009 · 605 citations · 25 references

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Concepts

Public HealthChronic Disease PreventionUrban HealthEpidemiologyPopulation HealthRural HealthChronic DiseaseChronic Disease EpidemiologyDisease EpidemiologyEpidemiology Of Noncommunicable DiseasesNoncommunicable Disease PreventionSocial EpidemiologyArea-level Socioeconomic DeprivationBurden Of Noncommunicable DiseasesChronic Disease PatternsDisease Prevalence PatternsRural Disease PatternsRural Population HealthSocietal Relevance

References

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Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study

Salim Yusuf, Steven Hawken, Stephanie Ôunpuu et al. · The Lancet · 2004 · 12K citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Internal Medicine +15

Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Using Risk Factor Categories

Peter W.F. Wilson, Ralph B. D’Agostino, Daniel Levy et al. · Circulation · 1998 · 9.6K citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Cardiology +16

Research confuses me: what is the difference between case-control and cohort studies in quantitative research?

S M F Higgins, A P Macken, Walter Cullen et al. · PubMed · 2013 · 4.8K citations

Public Health, Health Policy, Population Health Sciences +12

Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study

Christopher Murray, Alan D López · The Lancet · 1997 · 4.1K citations

Public Health, Population Health Sciences, Epidemiologic Methods +13

The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change

Abdel R. Omran · Milbank Quarterly · 2005 · 3.8K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Demography, Population Health Sciences +14