Majid Ezzati

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Worldwide Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation

Background— The global burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) is unknown. Methods and Results— We systematically reviewed population-based studies of AF published from 1980 to 2010 ...

Characterizing the Epidemiological Transition in Mexico: National and Subnational Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors

Mexico is at an advanced stage in the epidemiologic transition, with the majority of the disease and injury burden from noncommunicable diseases. A unique characteristic of the ...

Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement

Comparative quantification of health risks: Conceptual framework and methodological issues

The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics

Measuring the Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Global Burden of Disease Framework

Reliable, comparable information about the main causes of disease and injury in populations, and how these are changing, is a critical input for debates about priorities in the ...

The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996

Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

Maternal and child malnutrition in low-income and middle-income countries encompasses both undernutrition and a growing problem with overweight and obesity. Low body-mass index,...

Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences

Abstract Background Overweight and obesity prevalence are commonly used for public and policy communication of the extent of the obesity epidemic, yet comparable estimates of tr...

Comparative quantification of health risks : global and regional burden of disease attributable to selected major risk factors

During the last quarter of the twentieth century, a number of works have addressed both the methodological and empirical aspects of population-wide impacts of major causes of di...

Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000

An Integrated Risk Function for Estimating the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Exposure

We developed a fine particulate mass-based RR model that covered the global range of exposure by integrating RR information from different combustion types that generate emissio...

UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease