INTRODUCTION The aims of this study were to estimate all-cause and cause-specific mortality and years of life lost, investigated by disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), due to colorectal cancer attributable to physical inactivity in Brazil and in the states; to analyze the temporal trend of these estimates over 25 years (1990-2015) compared with global estimates and according to the socioeco...

Exposure to chemical contaminants found in foods has been associated with diverse adverse health effects. The aim of this study was estimate the burden disease dietary exposure four chemicals Denmark 2019: lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), methylmercury (MeHg), and inorganic arsenic (i-As). We collected national food consumption monitoring data from Danish databases, dose-response severity scientific li...

According to the World Health Organization, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) (sleeping sickness) caused the loss of approximately 1.5 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2002. We describe the effect of HAT during 2000-2002 in Buma, a rural community near Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We used retrospective questionnaire surveys to estimate HAT-related household c...

BACKGROUND Young people aged 10-24 years represent 27% of the world's population. Although important health problems and risk factors for disease in later life emerge in these years, the contribution to the global burden of disease is unknown. We describe the global burden of disease arising in young people and the contribution of risk factors to that burden. METHODS We used data from WHO's 2...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health problem, so for better planning in the health sector, it is necessary to know the real burden of tuberculosis in our country. The main aim of this study was to calculate the burden of TB for the Iranian population in 2001-2012.    Methods: The Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) index was calculated using a computer model (DisMod versio...

background: the general pattern of epidemiologic transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases is also observed for gastrointestinal and liver diseases (gild), which constitute a heterogeneous array of causes of death and disability. we aimed to describe the trend of gild in iran based on the global burden of disease (gbd2010) study from 1990 to 2010. methods: the trend of number of...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the magnitude and characteristics of the injury burden in South Africa within a global context. METHODS The Actuarial Society of South Africa demographic and AIDS model (ASSA 2002) - calibrated to survey, census and adjusted vital registration data - was used to calculate the total number of deaths in 2000. Causes of death were determined from the National Injury Mortali...

AIMS To test the total consumption model claiming that alcohol-related ill health can best be diminished by a policy of severe restrictions and high price. METHODS The associations between an index measuring the severity of the alcohol policy, total alcohol consumption and number of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost due to alcohol were compared in 30 OECD countries in 2005. RESULT...

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the greatest single cause of mortality and loss of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide, accounting for roughly 7 million deaths and 129 million DALYs annually. Cardiovascular disease exerts a significant economic toll, accounting for one third of a projected $47 trillion in economic losses to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) for the next 20 years. Alt...