BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are viewed worldwide as one of the main causes of death. This study aims to report the burden of ischemic heart diseases (IHDs) in Iran by using data of the global burden of disease (GBD) study, 1990-2010. MATERIALS AND METHODS The GBD study 2010 was a systematic effort to provide comprehensive data to calculate disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for dis...

In this issue of Blood, Kassebaum et al estimate that the global anemia prevalence in 2010 was 32.9%, resulting in 68.4 million years lived with disability (YLD). The results emphasize the important contribution made by anemia to the overall global burden of disease and should help focus attention and resources toward this problem.

ABSTRACT Several traits must be simultaneously considered in selection of tobacco cultivars for meeting the requirements farmers, manufacturers and consumers. Breeders should have an understanding associations between economically-important order to devise best strategy response all them. Utilization indices has been shown one most efficient selecting correlated characters. In tobacco, no repor...

to study the tolerance of genotypes under terminal drought stress, 20 promising winter and facultative bread wheat genotypes were evaluated at karadj, ardebil, arak and hamedan agricultural research stations during 2001-02 cropping season. the experimental design in all the locations was randomized complete block of three replications. grain yield (yld), harvest index (hi), grain number per spi...

Yellow leaf disease (YLD) is one of the important viral diseases in sugarcane. It caused by Sugarcane yellow virus (ScYLV), a positive sense single stranded RNA primarily transmits through infected setts and secondarily aphid Melanaphis sacchari. Earlier, it was identified as minor India, but recent years attained epidemic status with incidences from 30 to 50 % plant crop more than 70% ratoon c...

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BACKGROUND Injury is the major cause of death and suffering among children and adolescents, but awareness of the problem and political commitment for preventive actions remain unacceptably low. We have assessed variation in the burden of injuries in childhood and adolescence in eight European countries. METHODS Hospital, emergency department, and mortality databases of injury patients aged 0-...

BACKGROUND In the last decade of the 20th century, a considerable effort has been put into the development of summary measures of population health that combine information on mortality and non-fatal health outcomes. We used the DALYs (Disability adjusted life years) method to assess the burden of disease and injury in the population of Serbia. METHODS Our study, largely based on the methods ...

Tobacco use is a well-established risk factor for many types of cancers. Recent data on selected cancer incidence and mortality related to smoking in the Indonesian population are provided in this study. Morbidity and mortality data were derived from GLOBOCAN 2012 and the population attributable fraction (PAF) was estimated using the standard methodology developed by the World Health Organizati...

disability weight ð1Þ YLL 1⁄4 Number of deaths life expectancy at the age of death ð2Þ DALY 1⁄4 YLD þ YLL ð3Þ The philosophical and methodological aspects of the DALY calculation have been described (and debated) in great detail (Murray 1994; Murray and Acharya 1997; for critiques, see, amongst others, Anand and Hanson 1997), and are summarized in the accompanying Hints and Kinks paper (Devlees...