Essentially a critique of Geertz's Religion of Java, which claimed that Islam has never really
taken hold in Java except among a small community of merchants. Argues that Islam is the …

… Neither SAS nor StataCorp is affiliated with Mark Woodward and they … Woodward and
Dorothy Margaret Woodward and my sons, Philip John Woodward and Robert Mark Woodward. …

Clinical prediction models are increasingly used to complement clinical reasoning and
decision-making in modern medicine, in general, and in the cardiovascular domain, in particular. …

Background Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases
and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean …

Objective To estimate the relative risk for fatal coronary heart disease associated with diabetes
in men and women. Design Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Data sources …

Background Diabetes mellitus is a major cause of death and disability worldwide and is a
strong risk factor for stroke. Whether and to what extent the excess risk of stroke conferred by …

Background Overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide. To help assess their
relevance to mortality in different populations we conducted individual-participant data meta-…

Background Whether rapid lowering of elevated blood pressure would improve the outcome
in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage is not known. Methods We randomly assigned …

Background Severe hypoglycemia may increase the risk of a poor outcome in patients with
type 2 diabetes assigned to an intensive glucose-lowering intervention. We analyzed data …

Background Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost
treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of …