Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in 6 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Findings From Wave 1 of the World Health Organization's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE)

Perianayagam, Arokiasamy; , Uttamacharya; Kowal, Paul; D. Capistrant, Benjamin; E. Gildner, Theresa; A. Thiele, Elizabeth; Biritwum, Richard; Edwin Yawson, Alfred; Mensah, George; Maximova, Tamara; Wu, Fan; Guo, Yanfei; Zheng, Yang; Kalula, Sebastiana; Salinas‐Rodríguez, Aarón; Manrique Espinoza, Betty; A. Liebert, Melissa; N. Eick, Geeta; N. Sterner, Kirstin; M. Barrett, Tyler; Obeng Duedu, Kwabena; Gonzales, Ernest; Ng, Nawi; Negin, Joel; Jiang, Yong; Byles, Julie; Madurai, Savathree; Minicuci, Nadia; Josh Snodgrass, J.; Naidoo, Nirmala; Chatterji, Somnath

doi:10.1093/aje/kww125

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Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in 6 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Findings From Wave 1 of the World Health Organization's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE)

Published in American Journal of Epidemiology • Feb 18, 2017

Authors:

Arokiasamy Perianayagam

Uttamacharya

Paul Kowal

Abstract

In this paper, we examine patterns of self-reported diagnosis of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and prevalences of algorithm/measured test-based, undiagnosed, and untreated NCDs in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa. Nationally representative samples of older adults aged ≥50 year...

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Medicine

Depression (economics)

Odds ratio

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