Badal Kumar Datta

Dados Biográficos

ID830864
NOMEBadal Kumar Datta
PRENOMESBadal Kumar
SOBRENOMEDatta
ASSINATURADATTA B K
AFILIAÇÕESCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
ORCID0000-0002-2559-850X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR17
TOTAL COMO EDITOR13
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Physical activity levels and associated factors among Rohingya older adults living in the refugee camp in Bangladesh

    Open AccessSabuj Kanti Mistry, Afsana Anwar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Physical inactivity increases with age, yet evidence on physical activity (PA) among older adults affected by forced displacement remains scarce, particularly in refugee camp settings. We aimed to assess PA levels and identify associated factors among Rohingya older adults aged ≥60 years living in refugee camps in Southern Bangladesh. A cross-sectional survey was conducted between May and August 2024. PA was assessed using the Physical Activity V…

  • Happiness and hypertension prevalence

    Open AccessMoosa Tatar, Amir Habibdoust et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    The prevalence of hypertension around the world is high while hypertension control is relatively low. The objective of this study is to investigate the association between happiness and hypertension prevalence across countries. We used World Happiness Report (WHR) data, NCD (non-communicable disease) Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) data, and machine learning methods (K-means clustering, XGBoost) to assess the influence of key variables that …

  • Socio-economic inequalities in hypertension prevalence and care cascade in Bangladesh

    Open AccessMd Abdur Rafi, Urby Saraf Anika et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Hypertension is a leading contributor to non-communicable disease morbidity in Bangladesh. Despite increasing national attention to hypertension control, there remains limited population-level evidence quantifying how inequalities are distributed across the full cascade of diagnosis, treatment, and control using nationally representative data. We aimed to assess socioeconomic inequalities in hypertension prevalence, diagnosis, treatment, and bloo…

  • Face, head, and neck (FHN) problems and surgical need assessment among refugees living in Tanzania

    Open AccessAshwin Ram Reddy, Alexander B Blum et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (OHNS) conditions comprise a considerable and underprioritized portion of the global burden of surgical disease. While OHNS conditions have been found to disproportionately impact low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), no studies to date have sought to characterize the burden of OHNS disease within chronic refugee settings in LMICs. The cluster-randomized, cross-sectional Surgeons Overseas Assessment of Sur…

  • Assessing income heterogeneity of female sex as risk factor for long Covid

    Open AccessBadal Kumar Datta, Jennifer E Jaremski et al.ARTICLEBiodemography and Social Biology2026

    Women have a higher risk of Long COVID, defined as symptoms persisting for three or more months after SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study examines whether the elevated risk of Long COVID among women varies across income subgroups in a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population. Using data from the 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), we estimated adjusted odds ratios for Long COVID associated with female sex, stratif…

  • Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its association with cardiovascular disease risk and common risk factors amongst healthcare workers in Pakistan

    Open AccessUnab I Khan, Sonya F Khan et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Metabolic syndrome (MetS) significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at a higher risk of CVD. However, little is known about the association between MetS and CVD risk in healthcare workers in Pakistan. We aimed to assess the prevalence of MetS and its components and examined the association between MetS and 10-year CVD-risk using Framingham Risk Score (FRS) and common CVD risk factors amongst H…

  • Wealth-based inequalities in early childhood development (ECD) outcomes in Bangladesh

    Open AccessTasfia Tasneem Ahmed, Nafis Sadik et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Early Childhood Development (ECD) inequality among different socioeconomic groups is a rising concern in developing countries. This paper aimed to identify and decompose the ECD inequality among poor and non-poor groups in Bangladesh. For measuring inequality in ECD, concentration curves and their corresponding indices were used in this study utilizing the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2019 data. Furthermore, a standard decomposition approach…

  • Documentation of ethnomedicinal knowledge of native flora utilized by Bishnupriya Manipuri people of Tripura, India

    Open AccessChayan Dhar, Mayuri Bhagawati et al.ARTICLEEthnobotany Research and…2025

    Background: Traditional medicinal knowledge remains integral to healthcare among indigenous communities, yet it is increasingly threatened by modernization and the decline of oral traditions. The Bishnupriya Manipuri community in Tripura, India, has a longstanding tradition of using native plants to treat diverse ailments. This study documents and analyses their ethnomedicinal practices and evaluates the therapeutic potential of locally used spec…

  • Non-adherence to antihypertensive drugs and its risk factors among hypertensive patients, Marrakech, Morocco

    Open AccessSafae Belayachi, Fatima Zahra Boukhari et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Non-adherence to hypertensive drugs is a barrier to controlling blood pressure and decreases hypertensive patients’ quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of non-adherence to hypertensive drugs among hypertensive patients treated at Marrakech’s primary health care facilities. A cross-sectional survey of 922 hypertensive patients treated at Marrakech’s primary health care facilities for arterial hypertension was con…

  • Trends in prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among school-going adolescents in Bhutan

    Open AccessTshewang Gyeltshen, Mahbubur Rahman et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Tobacco use remains a major public health challenge globally. In Bhutan, despite the implementation of strict tobacco control measures, the tobacco uses among the students continue to be alarmingly high compared to neighboring countries. This study aims to analyze the trends and correlates of tobacco use among students in Bhutan, utilizing the nationally representative Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data from multiple survey years. Secondary …

  • Tobacco use among adults with disabilities in nine countries–Demographic and Health Survey, 2016–2021

    Open AccessAlissa C Kress, M Tauchi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Few studies have investigated tobacco use among people with disabilities living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to examine current tobacco use among men and women with disabilities using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 9 LMICs. We considered a respondent currently use tobacco products if they reported current use of any combustible/smoked tobacco products or smokeless tobacco products. We performed secondary an…

  • Adolescent pregnancy persists in Nigeria

    Open AccessChristian Otado Mbulu, Li Yang et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    About 700,000 pregnant youths die each year in developing countries. To determine whether the persistent adolescent pregnancy in Nigeria between 2013 and 2018 was influenced by proximal factors, particularly household head age, we carried out a cross-sectional study on adolescent girls that participated in the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Age of first birth, residence type, age, and gender of household heads was collected us…

  • Phytoliths in bamboos from eastern and north-eastern India

    Open AccessOindrila Biswas, Madhab Naskar et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2024Referências: 15

    To develop a phytolith (biogenic silica) reference and to understand the eco-climatic indicative values of some grass silica short cells (GSSCs) occurring in the bamboos (Bambusoideae grasses), one of the chief floral components of eastern and north-eastern parts of India, we studied 44 modern bambusoid grasses and 26 surface soils from different eco-climatic zones covering both the plains and mountainous regions. Of the diverse phytoliths retrie…

  • Sixteen-year trends in multiple lifestyle risk behaviours by socioeconomic status from 2004 to 2019 in New South Wales, Australia

    Open AccessBinh Nguyen, Janette L Smith et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Few studies have examined trends in inequalities related to lifestyle risk behaviours. This study examined 1) 16-year (2004–2019) trends of individual lifestyle risk factors and a combined lifestyle risk index and 2) trends in socioeconomic inequalities in these risk factors, in New South Wales (NSW; Australia) adults. Data was sourced from the NSW Adult Population Health Survey, an annual telephone survey of NSW residents aged ≥16 years, totalli…

  • Cardiovascular disease risk stratification in the Pakistani population with and without metabolic syndrome

    Open AccessAmber Hanif Palla, Asad Saulat Fatimi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Existing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk stratification algorithms are predominantly validated only for Western populations, and do not include parameters of metabolic syndrome (MetS) which may increase the relative risk for cardiovascular disease in South Asians. This study aimed to compare the differences between 10-year ASCVD risk by the Framingham Risk Score (FRS), Pooled Cohort Risk Equations (PCE), and QRISK3 calculators…

  • Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Financial Hardship Among CVD Patients in the USA During the Pre- and Post-Affordable Care Act Era

    Open AccessBadal Kumar Datta, Daniel Mehrabian et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2023

  • The role of child marriage and marital disruptions on hypertension in women - A nationally representative study from India

    Open AccessAshwini Tiwari, Badal Kumar Datta et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2023

    Child marriage is associated with negative health trajectories among women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Marital disruptions in LMICs are also associated with adverse socioeconomic and health outcomes in women. Yet, little is known about the compounded health effects of experiencing both child marriage and marital disruptions. Using nationally representative data from India among women aged 18-49 years, we examined the effects of m…

  • The Influence of Parent’s Cardiovascular Morbidity on Child Mental Health

    Open AccessBadal Kumar Datta, Ashwini Tiwari et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    The results suggest a strong association between child mental health and parental cardiovascular morbidity, demonstrating the need for the development or adaptation of existing public health interventions to facilitate mental health support for children of parents with CVD

  • Relationship between social support, life satisfaction, and smoking status among US adults with cardiovascular risks

    Badal Kumar Datta, Biplab Kumar Datta et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2023

    Social support and life satisfaction are important determinants of health behaviors and health outcomes. Cigarette smoking, a health risk behavior that increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, is deemed to have association with perceived social support and life satisfaction. This study assessed this relationship among US adults with one or more cardiovascular (CV) risks, namely, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity. Using n…

  • Stolen childhood taking a toll at young adulthood

    Open AccessBadal Kumar Datta, Ashwini Tiwari et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Despite notable progress being made in preventing child marriage, a significant proportion of women worldwide are still married before reaching adulthood. Though many aspects of child marriage have been widely studied, little is known on the later life health outcomes of child brides, let alone the critical need for healthcare during adulthood. This paper examines whether child brides at a young adult age bear a greater risk of high blood pressur…

  • Non-communicable diseases risk factors among the forcefully displaced Rohingya population in Bangladesh

    Open AccessAyesha Rahman, Jheelam Biswas et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Rohingya refugees of Ukhiya, Cox’s bazar are an unaccounted group of people who form the largest cluster of refugees worldwide. Non-communicable disease (NCD) alone causes 70% of worldwide deaths every year therefore, the trend of NCD among Rohingya refugees demands proper evaluation and attention. The objective of this study was to measure the NCD risk factors among a convenient sample of Rohingya refugees. This cross-sectional study was conduct…

  • An analytical model of population level chronic conditions and Covid-19 related hospitalization in the United States

    Open AccessBadal Kumar Datta, Biplab K Datta et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Our model, thus, provides evidence on the importance of prevention, control, and management of chronic conditions to lessen the overwhelming financial and public health burden on the health system during a pandemic like the COVID-19

  • Hypertension in women

    Open AccessBadal Kumar Datta, Biplab K Datta et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Adolescent childbearing was strongly associated with a higher probability of adult female hypertension in India. This finding illustrates the intertemporal relationship between health risk factors during the life cycle, informing the importance of addressing adverse early life events (e.g. child marriage and adolescent childbirth) for hypertension outcomes among women in India

  • The cost-effectiveness of hypertension management in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessDobrinka Kostova, Garrison Spencer et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Hypertension in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is largely undiagnosed and uncontrolled, representing an untapped opportunity for public health improvement. Implementation of hypertension control strategies in low-resource settings depends in large part on cost considerations. However, evidence on the cost-effectiveness of hypertension interventions in LMICs is varied across geographical, clinical and evaluation contexts. We conduc…

  • Revisiting the association between worldwide implementation of the MPOWER package and smoking prevalence, 2008–2017

    Open AccessMuhammad Jami Husain, Badal Kumar Datta et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2020

    A decade after the introduction of the WHO MPOWER package, we observed that the countries with higher initial tobacco control preparedness and higher smoking burden were able to reduce the adult daily smoking prevalence significantly