Remembering the forgotten non-communicable diseases

López, Alan D.; Williams, Thomas N.; Levin, Adeera; Tonelli, Marcello; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Burney, Peter; Rehm, Jürgen; Volkow, Nora D.; Koob, George F.; Ferri, Cleusa P.

doi:10.1186/s12916-014-0200-8

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“…We will concentrate on the links to psychoactive substance use as risk factors (overviews on psychoactive substances as risk factors: for alcohol see [17]; for illicit drugs see [18]; for tobacco see [19]). Alcohol and tobacco use are major risk factors for the 4 most important NCDs in the World Health Organization Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs [5], but, as will be shown below, both of these substances and other psychoactive substances are also causally related to other NCD causes of death such as liver cirrhosis or mental disorders [20], as well as in communicable disease and injury mortality [17-19]. …”

Section: What Causes Of Death Were Associated With Increases In Premamentioning

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Decreases of Life Expectancy Despite Decreases in Non-Communicable Disease Mortality: The Role of Substance Use and Socioeconomic Status

Rehm

Probst

2018

Eur Addict Res

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With the epidemiological transition, causes of death shifted from communicable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and life expectancy increased, as these NCD deaths occurred later in life. However, in the United States, over the past years, life expectancy has been stagnating or decreasing despite decreasing NCD mortality rates. Analyses of the most important underlying causes of death with increasing premature mortality reveal that psychoactive substance use played a crucial role for these increases. Furthermore, it can be shown, that a high proportion of the increased premature mortality and decreased life expectancies happened in lower socio-economic strata. Substance use policies should thus focus on lowering the gap between substance-attributable mortality in higher versus lower socioeconomic strata.

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Section: What Causes Of Death Were Associated With Increases In Premamentioning

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Decreases of Life Expectancy Despite Decreases in Non-Communicable Disease Mortality: The Role of Substance Use and Socioeconomic Status

Rehm

Probst

2018

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“…WHO describes how people of all age groups, regions and countries are affected by NCDs, and these diseases are, among others, driven by forces such as unhealthy lifestyles and population aging. Unhealthy lifestyles such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and the harmful use of alcohol all increase the risk of NCDs (Lopez et al 2014).…”

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Lifestyle factors in somatic patients with and without potential alcohol problems

Schwarz

Nielsen

2018

J Public Health (Berl.)

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Background In the present study, we investigated the overall lifestyles of patients with hazardous alcohol use and alcohol dependence who were admitted to the hospital and investigated unhealthy lifestyle factors and their clustering in inpatients. Methods Patients admitted to the gastrointestinal, neurologic or orthopedic departments at Odense University Hospital or to the emergency department at Aabenraa Hospital in the inclusion period, October 2013 to June 2016, completed a lifestyle questionnaire asking questions about their diet, alcohol consumption, exercise and smoking habits. Patients were divided into three groups depending on their score from the alcohol use disorder identification test, which was embedded in the lifestyle questionnaire, and odds ratios were calculated using logistic regression. Results Patients with alcohol dependence had statistically significantly higher odds of being smokers, having unhealthy diets and being physically inactive compared with patients without alcohol problems. Among patients with hazardous alcohol drinking, we found an increased occurrence of smokers and an inverse association between hazardous alcohol drinking and being physically inactive. Many of the patients had attempted to change their unhealthy lifestyles. Conclusion We found that alcohol problems are related to a clustering of other lifestyle factors and that many of the patients admitted to certain departments showed signs of various kinds of alcohol problems. Therefore, specific hospital departments could be opportune settings for preventive alcohol interventions.

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“…NCDs are categorized as a long-term, chronic diseases and non-infectious diseases that can lead to premature death and disability to the sufferer. There are four major diseases under NCDs [3]. One of the NCD diseases is diabetes that had contributed 1.5 million number of deaths in 2012 [1] and it is expected to be the seventh leading disease that causes death [4].…”

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A hardware acceleration based on high-level synthesis approach for glucose-insulin analysis

Daud¹,

Mahmud²,

Jabbar³

2017

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Abstract. In this paper, the research is focusing on Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM). Since this disease requires a full attention on the blood glucose concentration with the help of insulin injection, it is important to have a tool that able to predict that level when consume a certain amount of carbohydrate during meal time. Therefore, to make it realizable, a Hovorka model which is aiming towards T1DM is chosen in this research. A high-level language is chosen that is C++ to construct the mathematical model of the Hovorka model. Later, this constructed code is converted into intellectual property (IP) which is also known as a hardware accelerator by using of high-level synthesis (HLS) approach which able to improve in terms of design and performance for glucose-insulin analysis tool later as will be explained further in this paper. This is the first step in this research before implementing the design into system-on-chip (SoC) to achieve a highperformance system for the glucose-insulin analysis tool.

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Remembering the forgotten non-communicable diseases

Cited by 94 publications

References 90 publications

Decreases of Life Expectancy Despite Decreases in Non-Communicable Disease Mortality: The Role of Substance Use and Socioeconomic Status

Decreases of Life Expectancy Despite Decreases in Non-Communicable Disease Mortality: The Role of Substance Use and Socioeconomic Status

Lifestyle factors in somatic patients with and without potential alcohol problems

A hardware acceleration based on high-level synthesis approach for glucose-insulin analysis

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