Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Ashkan Afshin, Lily Alexander, H Ross Anderson et al.
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden of disease. By providing national and subnational assessments spanning the past 25 years, this study can inform debat...
Theo Vos, Ryan M Barber, Brad Bell, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa et al.
Background Up-to-date evidence about levels and trends in disease and injury incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) is an essential input into global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), we estimated these quantities f...
Masayuki Teramoto, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, A Bhoomadevi, Mohammad Amin Aalipour et al.
BACKGROUND: Timely and comprehensive analyses of causes of death stratified by age, sex, and location are essential for shaping effective health policies aimed at reducing global mortality. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023 provides cause-specific mortality e...
Daniel J. Corsi, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, S. V. Subramanian
In Bangladesh, the prevalence of overweight among adults is increasing while underweight continues to be common. However, little is known about the pattern of underweight and overweight within Bangladesh and at the neighborhood level. The objective of this study was to assess the socioeconomic and g...
Adrien Allorant, Samanta Biswas, Shahriar Ahmed, Kirsten E. Wiens et al.
BACKGROUND: TB was the leading cause of death from a single infectious pathogen globally between 2014 and 2019. Fine-scale estimates of TB prevalence and case notifications can be combined to guide priority-setting for strengthening routine surveillance activities in high-burden countries. We produc...