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Global, regional, and national mortality due to unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning, 2000–2021
Improvements in unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning mortality rates have been inconsistent across regions and over time since 2000.
Assessing discrepancies in estimates of road traffic deaths in Brazil
We assessed the quality of official reporting for road traffic deaths in Brazil and explained discrepancies.
Global, regional, and national burden of rheumatoid arthritis, 1990–2020, and projections to 2050
In 2020, an estimated 17.6 million people had rheumatoid arthritis worldwide.
Global burden of peripheral artery disease and its risk factors, 1990–2019
We aimed to estimate the global disease burden of peripheral artery disease, its risk factors, and temporospatial trends to inform policy and public measures.
Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis
We analysed changes in health care spending in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and Viet Nam.
Hearing loss prevalence, years lived with disability, and hearing aid use in the United States from 1990 to 2019
We utilized population-representative surveys from the United States to estimate hearing loss prevalence for the Global Burden of Disease study.
The global fatty liver disease Sustainable Development Goal country score for 195 countries and territories
We developed a fatty liver disease Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) country score to provide insights into country-level preparedness to address fatty liver disease through a whole-of-society lens.
The global, regional, and national burden of adult lip, oral, and pharyngeal cancer in 204 countries and territories
Smoking was the primary risk factor associated with lip, oral, and pharyngeal cancer in 2019.
Hepatitis B and C in Europe
This study aims to provide an overview of the burdens of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Europe and their changes from 2010 to 2019 using estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019.
Burden of lower respiratory infections and associated risk factors across regions in Ethiopia
This analysis is to present the burden and trends of morbidity and mortality due to lower respiratory infections (LRIs), their contributing risk factors, and the disparity across administrative regions and cities from 1990 to 2019.
Disease burden attributed to drug use in the Nordic countries
Using results from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, we extracted age-standardized estimates of deaths, DALYs, YLLs and YLDs per 100 000 population for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden during the years 1990 to 2019.
Global-, regional-, and national-level impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis diagnoses, 2020–2021
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a 1.55 million decrease in TB diagnoses in 2020 and a 1.28 million decrease in 2021 at a global level.
Global, regional, and national burden of osteoarthritis, 1990–2020 and projections to 2050
We estimated global cases, deaths, and disability due to osteoarthritis from 1990 to 2020, and made projections through 2050.
The burden of antimicrobial resistance in the Americas in 2019
We estimated death and disability associated with antimicrobial resistance in the WHO Region of the Americas in 2019.
The burden of stomach cancer mortality by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000-2019
We investigated the burden of stomach cancer in the United States.
Cause-specific mortality by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000–19
We estimated age-standardised mortality by racial–ethnic group, county, and cause of death and describe the intersection between racial–ethnic and place-based disparities in mortality in the USA, comparing patterns across health conditions.
Burden of breast cancer and attributable risk factors in the North Africa and Middle East region, 1990–2019
The North Africa and Middle East (NAME) region is coping hard with the burden of breast cancer. We aimed to present the latest epidemiology of breast cancer and its risk factors in this region.
Prevalence, years lived with disability, and trends in anaemia burden by severity and cause, 1990–2021
Anaemia is a major health problem worldwide. Global estimates of anaemia burden are crucial for developing appropriate interventions to meet current international targets for disease mitigation.
Population health outcomes in South Korea 1990–2019, and projections up to 2040
We used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2019 to present estimates of cause-specific mortality, incidence, prevalence, years of life lost (YLLs), years of life lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) in South Korea from 1990 to 2019.
The burden and trend of diseases and their risk factors in Australia, 1990–2019
We explored the burden and trends of diseases and their risk factors in Australia from 1990 to 2019 through a comprehensive analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2019.
Time-trends in air pollution impact on health in Italy, 1990–2019
We explored temporal variations in disease burden of ambient particulate matter 2.5 μm or less in diameter (PM2.5) and ozone in Italy using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.