Journal article
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 Diseases and Injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
The Lancet, Vol.392(10159), pp.1789-1858
11/10/2018
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32279-7
PMCID: PMC6227754
PMID: 30496104
Abstract
BackgroundThe Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2017) includes a comprehensive assessment of incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 354 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017. Previous GBD studies have shown how the decline of mortality rates from 1990 to 2016 has led to an increase in life expectancy, an ageing global population, and an expansion of the non-fatal burden of disease and injury. These studies have also shown how a substantial portion of the world's population experiences non-fatal health loss with considerable heterogeneity among different causes, locations, ages, and sexes. Ongoing objectives of the GBD study include increasing the level of estimation detail, improving analytical strategies, and increasing the amount of high-quality data.MethodsWe estimated incidence and prevalence for 354 diseases and injuries and 3484 sequelae. We used an updated and extensive body of literature studies, survey data, surveillance data, inpatient admission records, outpatient visit records, and health insurance claims, and additionally used results from cause of death models to inform estimates using a total of 68 781 data sources. Newly available clinical data from India, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Nepal, China, Brazil, Norway, and Italy were incorporated, as well as updated claims data from the USA and new claims data from Taiwan (province of China) and Singapore. We used DisMod-MR 2.1, a Bayesian meta-regression tool, as the main method of estimation, ensuring consistency between rates of incidence, prevalence, remission, and cause of death for each condition. YLDs were estimated as the product of a prevalence estimate and a disability weight for health states of each mutually exclusive sequela, adjusted for comorbidity. We updated the Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a summary development indicator of income per capita, years of schooling, and total fertility rate. Additionally, we calculated differences between male and female YLDs to identify divergent trends across sexes. GBD 2017 complies with the Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting.FindingsGlobally, for females, the causes with the greatest age-standardised prevalence were oral disorders, headache disorders, and haemoglobinopathies and haemolytic anaemias in both 1990 and 2017. For males, the causes with the greatest age-standardised prevalence were oral disorders, headache disorders, and tuberculosis including latent tuberculosis infection in both 1990 and 2017. In terms of YLDs, low back pain, headache disorders, and dietary iron deficiency were the leading Level 3 causes of YLD counts in 1990, whereas low back pain, headache disorders, and depressive disorders were the leading causes in 2017 for both sexes combined. All-cause age-standardised YLD rates decreased by 3·9% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 3·1–4·6) from 1990 to 2017; however, the all-age YLD rate increased by 7·2% (6·0–8·4) while the total sum of global YLDs increased from 562 million (421–723) to 853 million (642–1100). The increases for males and females were similar, with increases in all-age YLD rates of 7·9% (6·6–9·2) for males and 6·5% (5·4–7·7) for females. We found significant differences between males and females in terms of age-standardised prevalence estimates for multiple causes. The causes with the greatest relative differences between sexes in 2017 included substance use disorders (3018 cases [95% UI 2782–3252] per 100 000 in males vs s1400 [1279–1524] per 100 000 in females), transport injuries (3322 [3082–3583] vs 2336 [2154–2535]), and self-harm and interpersonal violence (3265 [2943–3630] vs 5643 [5057–6302]).InterpretationGlobal all-cause age-standardised YLD rates have improved only slightly over a period spanning nearly three decades. However, the magnitude of the non-fatal disease burden has expanded globally, with increasing numbers of people who have a wide spectrum of conditions. A subset of conditions has remained globally pervasive since 1990, whereas other conditions have displayed more dynamic trends, with different ages, sexes, and geographies across the globe experiencing varying burdens and trends of health loss. This study emphasises how global improvements in premature mortality for select conditions have led to older populations with complex and potentially expensive diseases, yet also highlights global achievements in certain domains of disease and injury.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 Diseases and Injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
- Creators
- GBD 2017 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence CollaboratorsSpencer L James (Contributor) - University of WashingtonDegu Abate (Contributor) - Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationKalkidan Hassen Abate (Contributor) - Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationSolomon M Abay (Contributor) - Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationCristiana Abbafati (Contributor) - Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationNooshin Abbasi (Contributor) - Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationHedayat Abbastabar (Contributor) - Tehran University of Medical SciencesFoad Abd-Allah (Contributor) - Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationJemal Abdela (Contributor) - Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationDavid C Schwebel (Contributor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Lancet, Vol.392(10159), pp.1789-1858
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32279-7
- PMID
- 30496104
- PMCID
- PMC6227754
- NLM abbreviation
- Lancet
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
- eISSN
- 1474-547X
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Grant note
- Bill AMP; Melinda Gates FoundationBritish Heart Foundation: RG/13/13/30194 Cancer Foundation Finland sr: 160100, 180129 Chief Scientist Office: SCAF/15/02 Medical Research Council: HDR-5009, HDR-1004, MR/M015084/1, MC_UP_A620_1014, MR/L003120/1, MC_UU_12017/13, MC_UU_12017/15, MC_U147585819, MC_UU_12011/2, MC_UU_12011/1 National Institute for Health Research: NF-SI-0617-10113, NF-SI-0512-10165 Wellcome Trust: 201900/Z/16/Z, 206471/Z/17/Z National Institute on Aging: U01AG009740 MRC: MC_U147585819, MC_UU_12011/2, MR/L003120/1, MC_UU_12017/13, MC_UU_12017/15, MR/M015084/1
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/10/2018
- Academic Unit
- Research Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984958622602771
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