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Truong-Minh Pham, Tatsuhiko Kubo, Yoshihisa Fujino, Kotaro Ozasa + 2 more
'Shinya Matsuda' 'Takesumi Yoshimura'] Background We used disability-adjusted life years (DALY) to estimate the cancer burden in Japan for the year 2000. Methods We estimated years of life lost (YLL) by using mortality data and years lived with disability (YLD) by using incidence data. The DALY for cancer was…
Kevin Verstaen, Kevin Ibech, Inés Lammens, Jana Roels + 4 more
Single-cell RNA sequencing is instrumental to unravel the cellular and transcriptomic heterogeneity of T and B cells in health and disease. Recent technological advances add additional layers of information allowing researchers to simultaneously explore the transcriptomic, surface protein and immune receptor diversity…
Ruotong Li, Xunjie Cheng, David C. Schwebel, Yang Yang + 3 more
'Peishan Ning' 'Peixia Cheng' 'Guoqing Hu'] Background The Chinese population has aged significantly in the last few decades. Comprehensive health losses including both fatal and non-fatal health outcomes associated with ageing in China have not been detailed. Methods Based on freely accessible disability adjusted life…
Hana Kapadia, Arun Kumar Rajasekaran
This study delves into the causes and trends of disability-related health burdens across Indian states. Through multiple Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) types (covering communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases, and injuries), gender disparities, and Human Development Index (HDI) values, these disability…
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Moien AB Khan, Elpidoforos S Soteriades + 8 more
Aim To quantify and update the years of life lost (YLL), years lived with disability (YLD) and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) due to the adverse effects of medical treatment (AEMT) between 1990 and 2017. Subject and methods We analyzed the latest dataset from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study. We…
Katherine Gibney, Martha Sinclair, Joanne O'Toole, Karin Leder
Following the 1990 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) have been used widely to quantify the population health burden of diseases and to prioritise and evaluate the impact of specific public health interventions. In the context of the recent release of the 2010 GBD study, we…
Rajabali Daroudi, Ali Akbari Sari, Azin Nahvijou, Ahmad Faramarzi
Background Determining the cost-effectiveness thresholds for healthcare interventions has been a severe challenge for policymakers, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to estimate the cost per disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) averted for countries with different levels of Human…
Joanna Emerson, Ari Panzer, Joshua T. Cohen, Kalipso Chalkidou + 6 more
The iDSI reference case, originally published in 2014, aims to improve the quality and comparability of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs). This study assesses whether the development of the guideline has improved the reporting and methodology for CEAs using disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). We analyzed the Tufts…
Ziming Wang, Chang Liu, Junjie Zhao, Lijing Shao
The Fisher information matrix (FM) plays an important role in forecasts and inferences in many areas of physics. While giving fast parameter estimation with the Gaussian likelihood approximation in the parameter space, the FM can only give the ellipsoidal posterior contours of parameters and lose the higher-order…
Aquiles R. Henríquez-Trujillo, Marco Coral-Almeida, Manuel Calvopiña Hinojosa
Cutaneous (CL) and mucocutaneous (MCL) leishmaniasis remain as endemic tropical diseases in several Latin American countries. This study aimed to estimate the burden of CL and MCL in Ecuador for the period 2014-2018, in order to inform decision-making and resource allocation to tackle this neglected disease. Ambulatory…
S. M. Silverman, Hisashi Hayakawa
In addition to the regular Schwabe cycles of approximately 11 y, "prolonged solar activity minima" have been identified through the direct observation of sunspots and aurorae, as well as proxy data of cosmogenic isotopes. Some of these minima have been regarded as grand solar minima, which are arguably associated with…
Duane W. Hamacher, Craig O’Neill
The Dalgaranga meteorite crater, 100 km northeast of Yalgoo, Western Australia, was one of the first impact structures identified in Australia, the smallest isolated crater found in Australia, and the only confirmed crater in the world associated with a mesosiderite projectile. 17 years passed before the Dalgaranga…
Richard de Grijs, A. P. Jacob
On 13 May 1787, a convict fleet of 11 ships left Portsmouth, England, on a 24,000 km, 8 month-long voyage to New South Wales. The voyage would take the 'First Fleet' under Captain Arthur Phillip via Tenerife (Canary Islands), the port of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Table Bay at the southern extremity of the African…