• Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      GBD 2017, DALYs and HALE Collaborators; Kyu, Hmwe Hmwe; Bjørge, Tone; Eggen, Anne Elise; Htet, Aung Soe; Kisa, Adnan; Knudsen, Ann Kristin Skrindo; Øverland, Simon Nygaard; Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse; Sulo, Gerhard; Steiner, Timothy J.; Stovner, Lars Jacob; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Winkler, Andrea Sylvia; Murray, Christopher J.L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-08)
      <p><i>Background - </i>How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, and provision of services. We comparatively assessed the patterns and trends of healthy life expectancy (HALE), which quantifies the number of years of life expected ...
    • Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years 

      Afshin, Ashkan; Forouzanfar, Mohammad H.; Reitsma, Marissa B.; Sur, Patrick; Estep, Kara; Lee, Alex; Marczak, Laurie; Mokdad, Ali H.; Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar; Naghavi, Mohsen; Salama, Joseph S.; Vos, Theo; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abbafati, Cristiana; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa; Amare, Azmeraw T.; Amberbir, Alemayehu; Amegah, Adeladza K.; Amini, Erfan; Amrock, Stephen Marc; Anjana, Ranjit Mohan; Ärnlöv, Johan; Asayesh, Hamid; Banerjee, Amitava; Barac, Aleksandra; Baye, Estifanos; Bennett, Derrick A.; Beyene, Addisu Shunu; Biadgilign, Sibhatu; Biryukov, Stan; Bjertness, Espen; Boneya, Dube J.; Campos-Nonato, Ismael; Carrero, Juan Jesus; Cecilio, Pedro; Cercy, Kelly; Ciobanu, Liliana G.; Cornaby, Leslie; Damtew, Solomon Abrha; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Dharmaratne, Samath D.; Duncan, Bruce Bartholow; Eshrati, Babak; Esteghamati, Alireza; Feigin, Valery L.; Fernandes, João Carlos; Fürst, Thomas; Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde; Gold, Audra; Gona, Philimon N.; Goto, Atsushi; Habtewold, Tesfa D.; Hadush, Kokeb T.; Hafezi-Nejad, Nima; Hay, Simon I.; Horino, Masako; Islami, Farhad; Kamal, Ritul; Kasaeian, Amir; Katikireddi, Srinivasa V.; Kengne, André Pascal; Kesavachandran, Chandrasekharan Nair; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Khang, Young-Ho; Khubchandani, Jagdish; Kim, Daniel; Kim, Yun J.; Kinfu, Yohannes; Kosen, Soewarta; Ku, Tiffany; Defo, Barthelemy Kuate; Larson, Heidi J.; Leinsalu, Mall; Liang, Xiaofeng; Lim, Stephen S.; Liu, Patrick; Lopez, Alan D.; Lozano, Rafael; Majeed, Azeem; Malekzadeh, Reza; Malta, Deborah Carvalho; Mazidi, Mohsen; McAlinden, Colm; McGarvey, Stephen Theodore; Mengistu, Desalegn T.; Mensah, George A.; Mensink, Gert B.M.; Mezgebe, Haftay B.; Mirrakhimov, Erkin M.; Mueller, Ulrich O.; Noubiap, Jean J.; Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf; Ogbo, Felix A.; Owolabi, Mayowa O.; Patton, George C.; Pourmalek, Farshad; Qorbani, Mostafa; Rafay, Anwar; Rai, Rajesh Kumar; Ranabhat, Chhabi L.; Reinig, Nikolas; Safiri, Saeid; Salomon, Joshua A.; Sanabria, Juan Ramon; Santos, Itamar S.; Sartorius, Benn; Sawhney, Monika; Schmidhuber, Josef; Schutte, Aletta E.; Schmidt, Maria I.; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Shamsizadeh, Moretza; Sheikhbahaei, Sara; Shin, Min-Jeong; Shiri, Rahman; Shiue, Ivy; Roba, Hirbo S.; Silva, Diego Augusto Santos; Silverberg, Jonathan I.; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Stranges, Saverio; Swaminathan, Soumya; Tabares-Seisdedos, Rafael; Tadese, Fentaw; Tedla, Bemnet Amare; Tegegne, Balewgizie S.; Terkawi, Abdullah Sulieman; Thakur, J.S.; Tonelli, Marcello; Topor-Madry, Roman; Tyrovolas, Stefanos; Ukwaja, Kingsley Nnanna; Uthman, Olalekan A.; Vaezghasemi, Masoud; Vasankari, Tommi; Vlassov, Vasiliy Victorovich; Vollset, Stein Emil; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Werdecker, Andrea; Wesana, Joshua; Westerman, Ronny; Yano, Yuichiro; Yonemoto, Naohiro; Yonga, Gerald; Zaidi, Zoubida; Zenebe, Zerihun Menlkalew; Zipkin, Ben; Murray, Christopher J.L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-06)
      Background:<br> Although the rising pandemic of obesity has received major attention in many countries, the effects of this attention on trends and the disease burden of obesity remain uncertain.<br> <br>Methods: <br> We analyzed data from 68.5 million persons to assess the trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adults between 1980 and 2015. Using the ...