Browsing by Author "Ezzati, Majid"
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Association of Secondhand Smoke Exposure with Pediatric Invasive Bacterial Disease and Bacterial Carriage: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Lee, Chien-Chang; Middaugh, Nicole Anna; Howie, Stephen R. C.; Ezzati, Majid (Public Library of Science, 2010)Background: A number of epidemiologic studies have observed an association between secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure and pediatric invasive bacterial disease (IBD) but the evidence has not been systematically reviewed. We ... -
The Burden of Disease and Injury in the United States 1996
Begg, Stephen; Tomijima, Niels; Majmudar, Meghna; Bulzacchelli, Maria T; Ebrahim, Shahul; Gaber Kreiser, Jessica; Hogan, Mollie; Michaud, Catherine M.; McKenna, Matthew; Ezzati, Majid; Salomon, Joshua A.; Murray, Christopher (BioMed Central, 2006)Background: Burden of disease studies have been implemented in many countries using the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) to assess major health problems. Important objectives of the study were to quantify intra-country ... -
Characterizing the Epidemiological Transition in Mexico: National and Subnational Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors
Stevens, Gretchen; Dias, Rodrigo H; Rivera, Juan A; Barquera, Simón; Tobias, Martin; Thomas, Kevin J. A.; Carvalho, Natalie; Hill, Kenneth H.; Ezzati, Majid (Public Library of Science, 2008)Background: Rates of diseases and injuries and the effects of their risk factors can have substantial subnational heterogeneity, especially in middle-income countries like Mexico. Subnational analysis of the burden of ... -
The Contribution of Leading Diseases and Risk Factors to Excess Losses of Healthy Life in Eastern Europe: Burden of Disease Study
Powles, John W; Zatonski, Witold; Vander Hoorn, Stephen; Ezzati, Majid (BioMed Central, 2005)Background: The East/West gradient in health across Europe has been described often, but not using metrics as comprehensive and comparable as those of the Global Burden of Disease 2000 and Comparative Risk Assessment ... -
Diabetes Prevalence and Diagnosis in US states: Analysis of Health Surveys
Danaei, Goodarz; Friedman, Ari B; Oza, Shefali; Murray, Christopher; Ezzati, Majid (BioMed Central, 2009)Background: Current US surveillance data provide estimates of diabetes using laboratory tests at the national level as well as self-reported data at the state level. Self-reported diabetes prevalence may be biased because ... -
Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States
Murray, Christopher; Kulkarni, Sandeep C; Michaud, Catherine M.; Tomijima, Niels; Bulzacchelli, Maria T; Iandiorio, Terrell J; Ezzati, Majid (Public Library of Science, 2006)Background: The gap between the highest and lowest life expectancies for race-county combinations in the United States is over 35 y. We divided the race-county combinations of the US population into eight distinct groups, ... -
Household and Community Socioeconomic and Environmental Determinants of Child Nutritional Status in Cameroon
Pongou, Roland; Ezzati, Majid; Salomon, Joshua A. (BioMed Central, 2006)Background: Undernutrition is a leading cause of child mortality in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. We examine the household and community level socioeconomic and environmental factors associated ... -
Impact of Multiple Risk Factors and Preventive Interventions on Cardiovascular Diseases and Disparities
Lu, Yuan (2015-01-16)Major cardiovascular risk factors have changed over the past 3-4 decades throughout the world. While adiposity and diabetes are rising worldwide, blood pressure and cholesterol are declining in high-income and even some ... -
Measuring the Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Global Burden of Disease Framework
Mathers, Colin D.; Ezzati, Majid; Lopez, Alan D. (Public Library of Science, 2007)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 health sector. Traditional sources of information ... -
Most Colorectal Cancer Survivors Live a Large Proportion of Their Remaining Life in Good Health
Soerjomataram, Isabelle; Thong, Melissa S. Y.; Ezzati, Majid; Lamont, Elizabeth Bernier; Nusselder, Wilma J.; van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke V. (Springer Netherlands, 2012)Purpose Colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnosis reduces life expectancy and decreases patients’ well-being. We sought to assess the determinants of health and functional status and estimate the proportion of remaining life that ... -
National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences
Stevens, Gretchen A; Singh, Gitanjali Maya; Lu, Yuan; Danaei, Goodarz; Lin, John K; Finucane, Mariel M; Bahalim, Adil N; McIntire, Russell K; Gutierrez, Hialy R; Cowan, Melanie; Paciorek, Christopher J; Farzadfar, Farshad; Riley, Leanne; Ezzati, Majid (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Overweight and obesity prevalence are commonly used for public and policy communication of the extent of the obesity epidemic, yet comparable estimates of trends in overweight and obesity prevalence by country ... -
Poverty, Energy Use, Air Pollution and Health in Ghana: A Spatial Analysis
Arku, Raphael E. (2015-05-01)Some of the major themes that characterize the relationship between the environment and population health in the developing world today include poverty, household access to clean cooking fuel, air pollution, sanitation, ... -
The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States
Friedman, Ari B; Kulkarni, Sandeep C; Novotny, Thomas; Ezzati, Majid; Murray, Christopher (Public Library of Science, 2008)Background: Counties are the smallest unit for which mortality data are routinely available, allowing consistent and comparable long-term analysis of trends in health disparities. Average life expectancy has steadily ... -
Social Inequalities and Mortality in Europe – Results from a Large Multi-National Cohort
Gallo, Valentina; Mackenbach, Johan P.; Ezzati, Majid; Menvielle, Gwenn; Kunst, Anton E.; Rohrmann, Sabine; Kaaks, Rudolf; Teucher, Birgit; Boeing, Heiner; Bergmann, Manuela M.; Tjønneland, Anne; Dalton, Susanne O.; Overvad, Kim; Redondo, Maria-Luisa; Agudo, Antonio; Daponte, Antonio; Arriola, Larraitz; Navarro, Carmen; Gurrea, Aurelio Barricante; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Wareham, Nick; Key, Tim; Naska, Androniki; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; Masala, Giovanna; Panico, Salvatore; Contiero, Paolo; Tumino, Rosario; Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. Bas; Siersema, Peter D.; Peeters, Petra P.; Zackrisson, Sophia; Almquist, Martin; Eriksson, Sture; Hallmans, Göran; Skeie, Guri; Braaten, Tonje; Lund, Eiliv; Illner, Anne-Kathrin; Mouw, Traci; Riboli, Elio; Vineis, Paolo (Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Socio-economic inequalities in mortality are observed at the country level in both North America and Europe. The purpose of this work is to investigate the contribution of specific risk factors to social ... -
Tobacco smoke, indoor air pollution and tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Lin, Hsien-Ho; Ezzati, Majid; Murray, Megan Blanche (Public Library of Science, 2007)Background: Tobacco smoking, passive smoking, and indoor air pollution from biomass fuels have been implicated as risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) infection, disease, and death. Tobacco smoking and indoor air pollution ... -
Trends and mortality effects of vitamin A deficiency in children in 138 low-income and middle-income countries between 1991 and 2013: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys
Stevens, Gretchen A; Bennett, James E; Hennocq, Quentin; Lu, Yuan; De-Regil, Luz Maria; Rogers, Lisa; Danaei, Goodarz; Li, Guangquan; White, Richard A; Flaxman, Seth R; Oehrle, Sean-Patrick; Finucane, Mariel M; Guerrero, Ramiro; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Then-Paulino, Amarilis; Fawzi, Wafaie W.; Black, Robert E; Ezzati, Majid (Elsevier BV, 2015)BACKGROUND: Vitamin A deficiency is a risk factor for blindness and for mortality from measles and diarrhoea in children aged 6-59 months. We aimed to estimate trends in the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency between 1991 ... -
Vitamin A deficiency: policy implications of estimates of trends and mortality in children – Authors' reply
Ezzati, Majid; Bennett, James E; Black, Robert E; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Fawzi, Wafaie W. (Elsevier BV, 2016)Our reference to the work of Mason and colleagues was in a sentence that stated that “until this [an improvement in the overall nutrition of the population, including through dietary diversification and improved access to ...