Background To our knowledge, no previous study has prospectively documented the
incidence of common diseases and related mortality in high-income countries (HICs), middle …

Importance Thyroid cancer is the most pervasive endocrine cancer worldwide. Studies
examining the association between thyroid cancer and country, sex, age, sociodemographic …

Background More than 90% of the adult population globally is chronically infected by the
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV). It is well established that EBV is associated with a number of …

The worldwide burden of kidney disease is rising, but public awareness remains limited,
underscoring the need for more effective communication by stakeholders in the kidney …

Air pollution kills nearly 1 million people per year in China. In response, the Chinese
government implemented the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (APPCAP) …

Background Previous attempts to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases
have focused only on specific disease conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary …

The sixth update of the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations: Rehabilitation,
Recovery, and Reintegration following Stroke. Part one: Rehabilitation and Recovery …

We summarise the evidence for medicinal uses of opioids, harms related to the extramedical
use of, and dependence on, these drugs, and a wide range of interventions used to address …

Background To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income
and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and …

Background Benign prostatic hyperplasia is a common urological disease affecting older
men worldwide, but comprehensive data about the global, regional, and national burden of …