Marie Ng, Tom Fleming, Margaret S. Robinson, Blake Thomson et al.
Background In 2010, overweight and obesity were estimated to cause 3.4 million deaths, 3.9% of years of life lost, and 3.8% of DALYs globally. The rise in obesity has led to widespread calls for regular monitoring of changes in overweight and obesity prevalence in all populations. Comparative, up-to...
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...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, M. H. M. Borhannuddin Bhuyan, Faisal Zulfiqar, Ali Raza et al.
Global climate change and associated adverse abiotic stress conditions, such as drought, salinity, heavy metals, waterlogging, extreme temperatures, oxygen deprivation, etc., greatly influence plant growth and development, ultimately affecting crop yield and quality, as well as agricultural sustaina...
Christina Fitzmaurice, Degu Abate, Naghmeh Abbasi, Hedayat Abbastabar et al.
<h3>Importance</h3> Cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are now widely recognized as a threat to global development. The latest United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs reaffirmed this observation and also highlighted the slow progress in meeting the 2011 Political Declaration on the P...
Daniel J. Klionsky, Amal Kamal Abdel‐Aziz, Sara Abdelfatah, Mahmoud Abdellatif et al.
autophagic responses. Here, we critically discuss current methods of assessing autophagy and the information they can, or cannot, provide. Our ultimate goal is to encourage intellectual and technical innovation in the field.
Christopher J L Murray, Ryan M Barber, Kyle J Foreman, Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören et al.
Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age–sex grou...
Global Burden of Disease Long COVID Collaborators, Sarah Wulf Hanson, Cristiana Abbafati, Joachim G.J.V. Aerts et al.
Importance: Some individuals experience persistent symptoms after initial symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection (often referred to as Long COVID). Objective: To estimate the proportion of males and females with COVID-19, younger or older than 20 years of age, who had Long COVID symptoms in 2020 and 2021 ...
Christopher J L Murray, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja Abbas, Mohammad Hossein Abbasi et al.
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. GBD 2019 covered 204 countries and territories, as well as first ...
Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan, Md. Saddam Hossain Mukta, Kaniz Fatema, Nur Mohammad Fahad et al.
Large Language Models (LLMs) recently demonstrated extraordinary capability, including natural language processing (NLP), language translation, text generation, question answering, etc. Moreover, LLMs are a new and essential part of computerized language processing, having the ability to understand ...
Akram Pourshams, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Kevin S Ikuta, Catherine Bisignano et al.
BACKGROUND: Worldwide, both the incidence and death rates of pancreatic cancer are increasing. Evaluation of pancreatic cancer burden and its global, regional, and national patterns is crucial to policy making and better resource allocation for controlling pancreatic cancer risk factors, developing ...
Syed Ishtiaq Anjum, Amjad Ullah, Khalid Ali Khan, Mohammad Attaullah et al.
Propolis is a natural substance collected by honey bees from various plants such as, poplar, palm, pine, conifer secretions, gums, resins, mucilage and leaf buds. It is collected and brought very painstakingly by honey bees to be used for sealing cracks and crevices occurring in their hives. Origina...
Mir Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Lokman Ali, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Zillur Rahman
Contamination of heavy metals in sediment is regarded as a global crisis with a large share in developing countries like Bangladesh. Four heavy metals such as arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) in sediments and water were investigated from Karnaphuli River in Bangladesh. The dec...
Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman, Preetom S. Arko, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Mohammad Ashik Iqbal Khan et al.
Accurate and timely detection of diseases and pests in rice plants can help farmers in applying timely treatment on the plants and thereby can reduce the economic losses substantially. Recent developments in deep learning-based convolutional neural networks (CNN) have greatly improved image classifi...
Lorenz von Seidlein, Deok Ryun Kim, Mohammad Ali, Hyejon Lee et al.
BACKGROUND: The burden of shigellosis is greatest in resource-poor countries. Although this diarrheal disease has been thought to cause considerable morbidity and mortality in excess of 1,000,000 deaths globally per year, little recent data are available to guide intervention strategies in Asia. We ...