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Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016
GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Neurological disorders are increasingly recognised as major causes of death and disability worldwide. The aim of this analysis from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 is to...
Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016
GBD 2016 Dementia Collaborators
Feb 08, 2019
BACKGROUND: The number of individuals living with dementia is increasing, negatively affecting families, communities, and health-care systems around the world. A successful response to these challenges requires an accurate...
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016
GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators
Oct 03, 2018
BACKGROUND: Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations. Understanding how all-cause...
Adolescent Adult Age Distribution Aged Aged 80 and over Birth Rate Cause of Death Child Child Preschool Educational Status Female Global Burden of Disease Global Health HIV Infections Humans Infant Infant Newborn Life Expectancy Male Middle Aged Socioeconomic Factors Stillbirth Survival Rate Young Adult
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017
GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising...
Adolescent Adult Age Distribution Aged Aged 80 and over Child Child Preschool Disabled Persons Environmental Exposure Female Global Burden of Disease Global Health Health Risk Behaviors Humans Infant Infant Newborn Life Expectancy Male Metabolic Diseases Middle Aged Occupational Diseases occupational exposure Quality-Adjusted Life Years Risk Assessment Sex Distribution Socioeconomic Factors Young Adult
Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017
GBD 2017 Causes of Death Collaborators
Feb 01, 2019
BACKGROUND: Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated...
Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories
GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver on...
Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015
GBD 2015 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators. Electronic address: cjlm@uw.edu, GBD 2015 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators
Dec 12, 2017
BACKGROUND: National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality)....
Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980-2015
GBD 2015 Child Mortality Collaborators
Nov 30, 2017
BACKGROUND: Established in 2000, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) catalysed extraordinary political, financial, and social commitments to reduce under-5 mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. At the country level...
Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries
GBD 2015 SDG Collaborators
Nov 21, 2017
BACKGROUND: In September, 2015, the UN General Assembly established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs specify 17 universal goals, 169 targets, and 230 indicators leading up to 2030. We provide an analysis of 33...
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015
BACKGROUND: Non-fatal outcomes of disease and injury increasingly detract from the ability of the world's population to live in full health, a trend largely attributable to an epidemiological transition in many countries from...
The Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG)-ten years of cultivating interest in clinical neurosciences.
Jay J Park, Setthasorn Zhi Yang Ooi, Conor S Gillespie, Soham Bandyopadhyay, Yasir A Chowdhury, Georgios Solomou, Melissa Gough, Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye, Alvaro Yanez Touzet, Michael TC Poon, Andreas K Demetriades, Michael D Jenkinson, Alistair Jenkins, Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG)
Feb 18, 2022
Collaboration and successful teamworking are important components of clinical practise, and these skills should be cultivated early in medical school. The breadth of current medical school curricula means that students often...
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015
GBD 2015 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators
Nov 21, 2017
BACKGROUND: Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides a...
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2017) includes a comprehensive assessment of incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 354 causes in 195 countries and...
Adolescent Adult Age Distribution Aged Aged 80 and over Child Child Preschool Disabled Persons Female Global Burden of Disease Global Health Humans Incidence Infant Infant Newborn Life Expectancy Male Middle Aged Morbidity prevalence Sex Distribution Socioeconomic Factors Wounds and Injuries Young Adult
Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950-2017
GBD 2017 Population and Fertility Collaborators
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development. To date, internationally available estimates of...
Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990–2016
Nicholas Steel, John A. Ford, John N. Newton, Adrian C.J. Davis, Theo Vos, Mohsen Naghavi, Scott Glenn, Andrew Hughes, Alice M. Dalton, Diane Stockton, Ciaran Humphreys, Mary Dallat, Jürgen Schmidt, Julian Flowers, Sebastian Fox, Ibrahim Abubakar, Robert W. Aldridge, Allan Baker, Carol Brayne, Traolach Brugha, Simon Capewell, Josip Car, Cyrus Cooper, Majid Ezzati, Justine Fitzpatrick, Felix Greaves, Roderick Hay, Simon Hay, Frank Kee, Heidi J. Larson, Ronan A. Lyons, Azeem Majeed, Martin McKee, Salman Rawaf, Harry Rutter, Sonia Saxena, Aziz Sheikh, Liam Smeeth, Russell M. Viner, Stein Emil Vollset, Hywel C. Williams, Charles Wolfe, Anthony Woolf, Christopher J.L. Murray
Nov 03, 2018
Background: Previous studies have reported national and regional Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates for the UK. Because of substantial variation in health within the UK, action to improve it requires comparable...
Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990–2016
Nicholas Steel, John A. Ford, John N. Newton, Adrian C.J. Davis, Theo Vos, Mohsen Naghavi, Scott Glenn, Andrew Hughes, Alice M. Dalton, Diane Stockton, Ciaran Humphreys, Mary Dallat, Jürgen Schmidt, Julian Flowers, Sebastian Fox, Ibrahim Abubakar, Robert W. Aldridge, Allan Baker, Carol Brayne, Traolach Brugha, Simon Capewell, Josip Car, Cyrus Cooper, Majid Ezzati, Justine Fitzpatrick, Felix Greaves, Roderick Hay, Simon Hay, Frank Kee, Heidi J. Larson, Ronan A. Lyons, Azeem Majeed, Martin McKee, Salman Rawaf, Harry Rutter, Sonia Saxena, Aziz Sheikh, Liam Smeeth, Russell M. Viner, Stein Emil Vollset, Hywel C. Williams, Charles Wolfe, Anthony Woolf, Christopher J.L. Murray
Nov 03, 2018
Background: Previous studies have reported national and regional Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates for the UK. Because of substantial variation in health within the UK, action to improve it requires comparable...
The global burden of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
GBD 2017 Typhoid and Paratyphoid Collaborators
Apr 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Efforts to quantify the global burden of enteric fever are valuable for understanding the health lost and the large-scale spatial distribution of the disease. We present the estimates of typhoid and paratyphoid fever...
Adolescent Adult Aged Aged 80 and over Cause of Death Child Child Preschool Disabled Persons Female Global Burden of Disease Humans Incidence Infant Life Expectancy Male Mass Vaccination Middle Aged Paratyphoid Fever Quality-Adjusted Life Years Risk Factors Salmonella enterica Sanitation Typhoid Fever Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines Young Adult
Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990-2016
Nicholas Steel, John A Ford, John N Newton, Adrian CJ Davis, Theo Vos, Mohsen Naghavi, Scott Glenn, Andrew Hughes, Alice M Dalton, Diane Stockton, Ciaran Humphreys, Mary Dallat, Jürgen Schmidt, Julian Flowers, Sebastian Fox, Ibrahim Abubakar, Robert W Aldridge, Allan Baker, Carol Brayne, Traolach Brugha, Simon Capewell, Josip Car, Cyrus Cooper, Majid Ezzati, Justine Fitzpatrick, Felix Greaves, Roderick Hay, Simon Hay, Frank Kee, Heidi J Larson, Ronan A Lyons, Azeem Majeed, Martin McKee, Salman Rawaf, Harry Rutter, Sonia Saxena, Aziz Sheikh, Liam Smeeth, Russell M Viner, Stein Emil Vollset, Hywel C Williams, Charles Wolfe, Anthony Woolf, Christopher JL Murray
Feb 07, 2019
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have reported national and regional Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates for the UK. Because of substantial variation in health within the UK, action to improve it requires comparable estimates...
Adolescent Adult Aged Aged 80 and over Cause of Death Child Child Preschool Disability Evaluation Disabled Persons Female Global Burden of Disease health status Health Status Disparities Humans Infant Infant Newborn Life Expectancy Male Middle Aged Mortality Poverty Areas Quality-Adjusted Life Years Risk Factors Socioeconomic Factors United Kingdom Young Adult
Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990-2015
GBD 2015 Maternal Mortality Collaborators
Nov 30, 2017
BACKGROUND: In transitioning from the Millennium Development Goal to the Sustainable Development Goal era, it is imperative to comprehensively assess progress toward reducing maternal mortality to identify areas of success...
The Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG)-ten years of cultivating interest in clinical neurosciences.
Jay J Park, Setthasorn Zhi Yang Ooi, Conor S Gillespie, Soham Bandyopadhyay, Yasir A Chowdhury, Georgios Solomou, Melissa Gough, Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye, Alvaro Yanez Touzet, Michael TC Poon, Andreas K Demetriades, Michael D Jenkinson, Alistair Jenkins, Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG)
Mar 31, 2022
Collaboration and successful teamworking are important components of clinical practise, and these skills should be cultivated early in medical school. The breadth of current medical school curricula means that students often...
Use of multidimensional item response theory methods for dementia prevalence prediction
GBD 2019 Dementia Collaborators
Oct 11, 2021
BACKGROUND: Data sparsity is a major limitation to estimating national and global dementia burden. Surveys with full diagnostic evaluations of dementia prevalence are prohibitively resource-intensive in many settings. However...
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017
GBD 2017 DALYs and HALE Collaborators
Feb 08, 2019
BACKGROUND: How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, and...
Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990-2015
GBD 2015 Neurological Disorders Collaborator Group
Jan 31, 2019
BACKGROUND: Comparable data on the global and country-specific burden of neurological disorders and their trends are crucial for health-care planning and resource allocation. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk...
Replication Validity of Initial Association Studies
CONTEXT: There are growing concerns about effect size inflation and replication validity of association studies, but few observational investigations have explored the extent of these problems.
OBJECTIVE: Using...
Neurology-related protein biomarkers are associated with cognitive ability and brain volume in older age.
Sarah E Harris, Simon R Cox, Steven Bell, Riccardo E Marioni, Bram P Prins, Alison Pattie, Janie Corley, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Maria Valdés Hernández, Zoe Morris, Sally John, Paola G Bronson, Elliot M Tucker-Drob, John M Starr, Mark E Bastin, Joanna M Wardlaw, Adam S Butterworth, Ian J Deary
Mar 13, 2020
Identifying biological correlates of late life cognitive function is important if we are to ascertain biomarkers for, and develop treatments to help reduce, age-related cognitive decline. Here, we investigated the associations...
Published by: Nature Communications
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