A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

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A Davis is employed by the NHS on works for the UK Dept of Health as lead adviser on audiology. E R Dorsey has been a consultant for Medtronic and Lundbeck and has received grant support from Lundbeck and Prana Biotechnology. M Ezzati chaired a session and gave a talk at the World Cardiology Congress (WCC), with travel cost reimbursed by the World Heart Federation. At the WCC, he also gave a talk at a session organised by Pepsico with no financial remuneration. G A Mensah is a former employee of PepsiCo. D Mozaffarian has received: ad hoc travel reimbursement and/or honoraria for one-time specific presentations on diet and cardiometabolic diseases from Nutrition Impact (9/10), the International Life Sciences Institute (12/10), Bunge (11/11), Pollock Institute (3/12), and Quaker Oats (4/12; modest); and Unilever's North America Scientific Advisory Board (modest). B Neal is the Chair of the Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health. He has consulted to Roche and Takeda. He has received lecture fees, travel fees, or reimbursements from Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca, George Clinical, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Pharmacy Guild of Australia, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Seervier, and Tanabe. He holds research support from the Australian Food and Grocery Council, Bupa Australia, Johnson and Johnson, Merck Schering-Plough, Roche, Servier, and United Healthcare Group. He is not employed by a commercial entity and has no equity ownership or stock options, patents or royalties, or any other financial or non-financial support that might be viewed as a conflict of interest. L Rushton received honorarium for board membership of the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals and research grants to Imperial College London (as PI) from the European Chemical Industry Council and CONCAWE.We thank the countless individuals who have contributed to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 in various capacities. We specifically acknowledge the important contribution to this work from multiple staff members of the World Health Organization. We also thank the following organisations that hosted consultations during the final stages of the analytical process, providing valuable feedback about the results and the data to improve the study's findings overall: Pan American Health Organization; Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of WHO; UNAIDS; Ministry of Health, Brazil; China Centers for Disease Control; and the University of Zambia. We thank Regina Guthold, Jordis Ott, Annette Pruss-Ustun, and Gretchen A Stevens for their collaboration and input into the analyses and estimates. Finally, we acknowledge the extensive support from all staff members at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and specifically thank: James Bullard, Andrew Ernst, and Serkan Yalcin for their tireless support of the computational infrastructure required to produce the results; Linda A Ettinger for her expert administrative support to facilitate communication and coordination amongst the authors; Peter Speyer, Abigail McLain, Katherine Leach-Kemon, and Eden Stork for their persistent and valuable work to gain access to and catalogue as much data as possible to inform the estimates; and Erin C Mullany for her systematic efforts in organising drafts of papers, formatting correspondence with expert groups, and preparing the final manuscript. J Balmes, Z Chafe, and K R Smith acknowledge that their aspects of the research were also supported by USEPA and the Shell Foundation, neither of which had any role in design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or decisions related to publication. R Bourne acknowledges Institutional Support: Vision & Eye Research Unit, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. Funding support: Fight for Sight (Dr Hans and Mrs Gertrude Hirsch award). R Buchbinder was partially supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellowship, Monash University, and Cabrini Health. A J Cohen received support from the Health Effects Institute and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. S Darby was supported by Cancer Research UK. L Degenhardt was supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship. T Driscoll was supported in part by funding from the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (now Safework Australia). K M Hanafiah's work for the GBD hepatitis C prevalence study was funded partly by Johns Hopkins Vaccine Initiative Scholarship and partly by WHO. H W Hoek acknowledges the support of: the Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, Netherlands; the Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands; and the Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, USA. D Hoy was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. N Kawakami notes that data used in the study was collected through support from the following grants: The World Mental Health Japan is supported by the Grant for Research on Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases and Mental Health (H13-SHOGAI-023, H14-TOKUBETSU-026, H16-KOKORO-013) from the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. He thanks staff members, filed coordinators, and interviewers of the WMH Japan 2002-2004 Survey.Q Lan was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH (National Cancer Institute). S London is supported by the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA. T R Merriman acknowledges the Health Research Council of New Zealand. B Neal was supported in his contribution to this work by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Senior Research Fellowship. C Olives was supported in his contribution to this work by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Senior Research Fellowship. E A Rehfuess acknowledges financial support from the Munich Centre of Health Sciences. R Room's position at the University of Melbourne and Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre is funded by the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education and the Victorian Department of Health. J A Salomon received support from the Burke Global Health Fellowship while working on this study. U Sampson was supported in part by: The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; The Vanderbilt Clinical and Translational Scholars Award. L Sanchez-Riera acknowledges the Spanish Society of Rheumatology for their funds. S Seedat is supported by the South African Research Chairs Initiative, hosted by the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation. G D Thurston was supported in part by grant ES00260 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. J M Zielinski acknowledges institutional support from: Health Canada, University of Ottawa, and WHO (International Radon Project). M Ezzati's research is supported by a Strategic Award from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and by the National Institute for Health Research Comprehensive Biomedical research Centre at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Work on micronutrient deficiencies was supported by the Nutrition Impact Model Study (NIMS) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The GBD Osteoporosis Expert Group was supported by the Spanish Rheumatology Association, Institute of Bone and Joint Research, University of Sydney. The GBD Osteoporosis Expert Group also acknowledges the contributions made by Professor Philip Sambrook who passed away in April, 2012.