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...
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 ...
Masayuki Teramoto, Kanyin Liane Ong, Damian Santomauro, A Bhoomadevi et al.
BACKGROUND: For more than three decades, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) has provided a framework to quantify health loss due to diseases, injuries, and associated risk factors. This paper presents GBD 2023 findings on disease and injury burden and risk-attribut...
Roy Burstein, Nathaniel J Henry, Michael L. Collison, Laurie B. Marczak et al.
Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable child deaths by 2030-we need consistently estimated data at the subnational ...
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...
Sahar Abbasiliasi, Joo Shun Tan, Tengku Azmi Tengku Ibrahim, Fatemeh Bashokouh et al.
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are the major interest in food industry primarily by virtue of their biopreservative properties.
Jing Zhao, Avik Sinha, Nasiru Inuwa, Yihan Wang et al.
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...
Jannatun Nahar Jerin, H. M. Touhidul Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Shamsuddin Shahid et al.
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...
Ismail Hosen, Firoj Al‐Mamun, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, Amir Zaib Abbasi et al.
Background: Problematic smartphone use (PSU) has been increasing hastily in recent decades, and it has become inseparable during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among the students who are at risk of problematic smartphone use. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence and as...
Sherine George, Siddharth V Bhalerao, Erich A. Lidstone, Irfan Ahmad et al.
BACKGROUND: There has been a long standing interest in the identification of medicinal plants and derived natural products for developing cancer therapeutics. Our study focuses upon pancreatic cancer, due to its high mortality rate, that is attributed in part to the lack of an effective chemotherape...
Authia P Gray, Erin Chung, Rebecca Hsu, Daniel T Araki et al.
BACKGROUND: The global burden of sepsis, a life-threatening dysregulated host response to infection leading to organ dysfunction, remains challenging to quantify. We aimed to comprehensively estimate the global, regional, and national burden of sepsis, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic a...