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...
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...
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...
Sergei Põlme, Kessy Abarenkov, R. Henrik Nilsson, Björn D. Lindahl et al.
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Wei Zheng, Dale McLerran, Betsy Rolland, Xianglan Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: Most studies that have evaluated the association between the body-mass index (BMI) and the risks of death from any cause and from specific causes have been conducted in populations of European origin. METHODS: We performed pooled analyses to evaluate the association between BMI and the r...
Shiv Kumar Sarin, Ashok Choudhury, Manoj K. Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
The first consensus report of the working party of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up in 2004 on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) was published in 2009. With international groups volunteering to join, the “APASL ACLF Research Consortium (AARC)” was formed in...
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...
Jennifer Luedtke, Janice Chanson, Kelsey Neam, Louise Hobin et al.
Abstract Systematic assessments of species extinction risk at regular intervals are necessary for informing conservation action 1,2 . Ongoing developments in taxonomy, threatening processes and research further underscore the need for reassessment 3,4 . Here we report the findings of the second Glob...
Ahmed I. Osman, Mohamed Hosny, Abdelazeem S. Eltaweil, Sara Omar et al.
Microplastic pollution is becoming a major issue for human health due to the recent discovery of microplastics in most ecosystems. Here, we review the sources, formation, occurrence, toxicity and remediation methods of microplastics. We distinguish ocean-based and land-based sources of microplastics...
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 ...
Neal Russell, Anna C. Seale, Megan O’Driscoll, Catherine O’Sullivan et al.
BACKGROUND: Infections such as group B Streptococcus (GBS) are an important cause of maternal sepsis, yet limited data on epidemiology exist. This article, the third of 11, estimates the incidence of maternal GBS disease worldwide. METHODS: We conducted systematic literature reviews (PubMed/Medline,...
Heidi Kreibich, Anne F. Van Loon, Kai Schröter, Philip J. Ward et al.
Abstract Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally 1,2 , yet their impacts are still increasing 3 . An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered by a lack of empirical data 4,5 . On the basis of a global datase...
Simon Yadgir, Catherine O. Johnson, Victor Aboyans, Oladimeji Adebayo et al.
BACKGROUND: Nonrheumatic valvular diseases are common; however, no studies have estimated their global or national burden. As part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, mortality, prevalence, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD), degenerative mitr...