Humans present sex-driven biological differences. Consequently, the prevalence of analyzing specific diseases and comorbidities differs between the sexes, directly impacting patients’ management and treatment. Despite its relevance and the growing evidence of said differences across numerous diseases (with 4,370 PubMed results published within the past year), knowledge at the comorbidity level remains limited. ...
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of ty...
Universidad de Valencia. Facultad de Medicina. Valencia, Spain.; Hospital de Denia-Marina Salud. Alicante, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental. Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias. Servicio de Salud del Principado de Asturias. Oviedo, Spain; Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Psicologia. Oviedo, Spain.; Universidad de Sevilla. Facultad d...
Background: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in the global ambition of "leaving no one behind". Understanding today's gains and gaps for the health-related SDGs is essential for decision makers as they aim to improve the health of populations. As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016), we measured 37 of the 50 health-related SDG indicato...