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Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of dea...
Roth, GA; Abate, D; Abate, KH; Abay, SM; Abbafati, C; Abbasi, N; Abbastabar, H; Abd-Allah, L; Abdela, J; Abdelalim, A; Abdollahpour, I; Abdulkader, RSBackground 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 global, regional, national, and, for selected locations, subnational cause-specific mortality beginning in the year 1980. Here we report an update to that study, making use of newly availa...
Burden of cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2005–2015: findings from ...
Alsharif, U; El Bcheraoui, C; Khalil, I; Charara, R; Moradi-Lakeh, M; Afshin, A; Collison, M; Chew, A; Krohn, K; Daoud, F; Dicker, D; Foreman, KObjectives: To estimate incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) caused by cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) between 2005 and 2015. Methods: Vital registration system and cancer registry data from the EMR region were analyzed for 29 cancer groups in 22 EMR countries using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 methodology. Results: In 2015, cancer was responsible for 9.4%...