PURE Publications

PURE: Tobacco control environment: cross-sectional survey of policy implementation, social unacceptability, knowledge of tobacco health harms and relationship to quit ratio in 17 low-income, middle-income and high-income countries

BMJ Open

CK Chow, DJ Corsi, AB Gilmore, A Kruger, E Igumbor, J Chifamba, W Yang, L Wei, R Iqbal, P Mony, R Gupta, K Vijayakumar, V Mohan, R Kumar, O Rahman, K Yusoff, N Ismail, K Zatonska, Y Altuntas, A Rosengren, A Bahonar, AH Yusufali, G Dagenais, S Lear, R Diaz, A Avezum, P Lopez-Jaramillo, F Lanas, S Rangarajan, K Teo, M McKee, S Yusuf

March 2017

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Challenges to conducting epidemiology research in chronic conflict areas: examples from PURE- Palestine

BMC Conflict and Health

R Khatib, R Giacaman, U Khammash, S Yusuf

February 2017

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Effects of bidi smoking on all-cause mortality and cardiorespiratory outcomes in men from south Asia: An observational community-based sub-study of the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (PURE)

Lancet Global Health

M Duong, S Rangarajan, X Zhang, K Killian, P Mony, S Swaminathan, AV Bharathi, S Nair, K Vijayakumar, I Mohan, R Gupta, D Mohan, S Rani, V Mohan, R Iqbal, K Kazmi, O Rahman, R Yusuf, LVM Pinnaka, R Kumar, P O'Byrne, S Yusuf

February 2017

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Population muscle strength predicts Olympic medal tallies: Evidence from 20 countries in the PURE prospective cohort study

PLoS One

DP Leong, M McKee, S Yusuf

January 2017

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PURE: Wealth and cardiovascular health: a cross-sectional study of wealth-related inequalities in the awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in high-, middle- and low-income countries

International Journal for Equity in Health

B Palafox, M McKee, D Balabanova, KF AlHabib, A Avezum, A Bahonar, N Ismail, J Chifamba, CK Chow, DJ Corsi, GR Dagenais, R Diaz, R Gupta, R Iqbal, M Kaur, R Khatib, A Kruger, IM Kruger, F Lanas, P Lopez-Jaramillo, F Minfan, V Mohan, PK Mony, A Oguz, LM Palileo-Villanueva, P Perel, P Poirier, S Rangarajan, L Rensheng, A Rosengren, B Soman, D Stuckler, SV Subramanian, K Teo, LP Tsolekile, A Wielgosz, P Yaguang, K Yeates, M Yongzhen, K Yusoff, R Yusuf, A Yusufali, K Zatonska, S Yusuf

December 2016

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Reference ranges of handgrip strength from 125,462 healthy adults in 21 countries: a prospective urban rural epidemiologic (PURE) study

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle

DP Leong, KK Teo, S Rangarajan, VR Kutty, F Lanas, C Hui, X Quanyong, Q Zhenzhen, T Jinha, I Noorhassim, KF AlHabib, SJ Moss, A Rosengren, AA Akalin, O Rahman, J Chifamba, A Orlandini, R Kumar, K Yeates, R Gupta, A Yusufali, A Dans, A Avezum, P Lopez-Jaramillo, P Poirier, H Heidari, K Zatonska, R Iqbal, R Khatib, S Yusuf

December 2016

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