Journal article
Global, regional, and national burden of diseases and injuries for adults 70 years and older: Systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study
BMJ | Published : 2022
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Abstract
Objectives To use data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD 2019) to estimate mortality and disability trends for the population aged ≥70 and evaluate patterns in causes of death, disability, and risk factors. Design Systematic analysis. Setting Participants were aged ≥70 from 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019. Main outcomes measures Years of life lost, years lived with disability, disability adjusted life years, life expectancy at age 70 (LE-70), healthy life expectancy at age 70 (HALE-70), proportion of years in ill health at age 70 (PYIH-70), risk factors, and data coverage index were estimated based on standardised GBD methods. Results Glo..
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Funding Acknowledgements
GBD is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This research work was supported by a Pilot Grants for Research on Subnational Burden of Disease, Center for Health Trends and Forecasts (CHTF) at IHME (National Institute on Ageing, National Institutes of Health) to GAK. ST was supported by the Foundation for Education and European Culture (IPEP) , the Miguel Servet programme (reference No CP18/00006 from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III- Spain) , the Fondos Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) , and awarded funding for a six month visiting fellowship at IHME from M-AES (reference No MV16/00035 from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III) . The funders of the study had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, writing of the report, or the decision to submit the article for publication. All authors had full access to the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.