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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
Publication date: 10–16 November 2018Source: The Lancet, Volume 392, Issue 10159Author(s): Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Solomon M Abay, Cristiana Abbafati, Nooshin Abbasi, Hedayat Abbastabar, Foad Abd-Allah, Jemal Abdela, Ahmed Abdelalim, Ibrahim Abdollahpour, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Molla Abebe, Zegeye Abebe, Olifan Zewdie Abil, Victor Aboyans, Aklilu Roba Abrham, Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad, Niveen M E Abu-Rmeileh, Manfred Mario Kokou AccrombessiSummaryBackgroundHow long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading caus...
Source: The Lancet - November 11, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

Barriers to and facilitators of hypertension management in Asmara, Eritrea: patients' perspectives.
CONCLUSIONS: Counseling patients about adherence to medication, strengthening family and government support, and empowering families and the community with appropriate knowledge of hypertension management could potentially help in an individual's adherence. PMID: 28407794 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition - April 13, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gebrezgi MT, Trepka MJ, Kidane EA Tags: J Health Popul Nutr Source Type: research

The Man Who Grew Eyes
The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully automated train pulls out of Sannomiya station, guided smoothly along elevated tracks that stand precariously over the bustling city streets below, across the bay to the Port Island. The island, and much of the city, was razed to the ground in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 – which killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 of Kobe’s buildings – and built anew in subsequent years. As the train proceeds, the landscape fills with skyscrapers. The Rokkō mounta...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction in an Eritrean war invalid with neuromuscular disease
Left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction (LVHT) is categorized as an unclassified cardiomyopathy and is characterized by a two-layered left ventricular myocardium distal to the papillary muscles with a thicker noncompacted inner (endocardial) layer and a compacted thinner outer (pericardial) layer . LVHT is complicated by ventricular arrhythmias, stroke/embolism, or heart failure, which is why these patients require close cardiologic surveillance . In more than half of the patients LVHT is associated with a neuromuscular disorder (NMD) or a chromosomal aberration . LVHT has been occasionally reported in African pa...
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - April 28, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Josef Finsterer, Claudia Stöllberger, Maria Motamen Tags: Online Letters to the Editor Source Type: research