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cajgh-46	Linkov, Faina; Guzman, Robert; Soisson, Sean; Freese, Kyle E.; Sheikh, Aamir H.; Shubnikov, Eugene; LaPorte, Ronald E.	The Central Asian Supercourse to Increase Scientific Productivity	2013		.htm	text/html	1904	103	47	They also have similar health patterns and life expectancies (Uzbekistan, 67.2, Kazakhstan, 67.0, Tajikistan, 66.7, Kyrgyzstan, 65.9 and Turkmenistan, 63.2) which are near to the global average life expectancy.1 Figure 1: The countries of Central Asia Since World War II, Central Asian countries have demonstrated a rapid increase in life expectancy, although there is still a large gap between genders.2 Each country underwent the epidemiological transition, where life expectancy rose due to a major reduction of infectious diseases and an unmasking of chronic diseases including: diabetes,3 cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, COPD, and injuries. As presented in Figure 2, there are countries that are adjacent to Central Asian countries, such as Iran, with 40 times the number of articles published (9,257 per year) and Pakistan with 11 times more, 2,944 per year).6 Figure 2: Comparison of number of publications from countries adjacent to Central Asia and the countries of Central Asia.	cache/cajgh-46.htm	txt/cajgh-46.txt