Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei, Leanne M Riley et al.
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 hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHOD...
Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou, Mariachiara Di Cesare et al.
Abstract Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2...
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 ...
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 ...
Local Burden of Disease Vaccine Coverage Collaborators, Alyssa N. Sbarra, Sam Rolfe, Jason Q. Nguyen et al.
Abstract The safe, highly effective measles vaccine has been recommended globally since 1974, yet in 2017 there were more than 17 million cases of measles and 83,400 deaths in children under 5 years old, and more than 99% of both occurred in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) 1–4 . Globally co...
LBD Double Burden of Malnutrition Collaborators, Damaris K. Kinyoki, Jennifer M. Ross, Alice Lazzar-Atwood et al.
A double burden of malnutrition occurs when individuals, household members or communities experience both undernutrition and overweight. Here, we show geospatial estimates of overweight and wasting prevalence among children under 5 years of age in 105 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) from 20...
Parkes J Kendrick, Marissa B Reitsma, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Amir Abdoli et al.
BACKGROUND: Chewing tobacco and other types of smokeless tobacco use have had less attention from the global health community than smoked tobacco use. However, the practice is popular in many parts of the world and has been linked to several adverse health outcomes. Understanding trends in prevalenc...
Emily Haeuser, Audrey L. Serfes, Michael A. Cork, Mingyou Yang et al.
BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is still among the leading causes of disease burden and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and the world is not on track to meet targets set for ending the epidemic by the Joint United Nations Programme o...
D. N. Prabhakar Murthy, Md Rezaul Karim, Alireza Ahmadi
Rajesh Sharma, Hedayat Abbastabar, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Hassan Abidi et al.
Background: Cancers represent a challenging public health threat in Asia. This study examines the temporal patterns of incidence, mortality, disability and risk factors of 29 cancers in Asia in the last three decades. Methods: The age, sex and year-wise estimates of incidence, mortality, and disabil...
Meysam Vadiati, Leyla Ghasemi, Saeideh Samani, Md. Aminul Islam et al.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread across the globe producing hundreds of thousands of deaths, shutting down economies, closing borders and causing havoc on an unprecedented scale. Its potent effects have earned the attention of researchers in different fields worldwide. Among them, auth...
Alireza Mahdizadeh Hakak, Nimish Biloria, Amirmasoud Dabbagh, Armaghan Ahmadi Venhari
One of the main targets of this research is to find methods and tools for enhancing creativity. This chapter compares the results of an experiment focusing on the starting phase of a design process from two different dimensions: analogue 2D vs. digital 3D. The experiment involves providing the same ...
Md Rezaul Karim, Alireza Ahmadi, D. N. Prabhakar Murthy
Alireza Ahmadi, Amin Tohidi, Hassan Negahdar, Mohammad Reza Shakeri
This study investigates the flexural performance of metro tunnel segments reinforced with traditional rebar and fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC). Utilizing a comprehensive experimental approach, the mechanical properties of FRC were determined and compared with ordinary concrete through rigorous labo...
Emily Haeuser, Audrey L. Serfes, Michael A. Cork, Mingyou Yang et al.
Additional file 4: Supplemental results.1. README. 2. Prevalence range across districts. 3. Prevalence range between sexes. 4. Prevalence range between ages. 5. Age-specific district ranges.