The Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risks, 1990-2022, published in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Cardiology in December 2023, included contributions from MEMT’s Vice-Chairman, Dr. Tamás Joó, and expert, Dr. Tamás Palicz.
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is a multinational collaborative research study with more than 10,000 collaborators worldwide. GBD generates a time series of summary measures of health, including prevalence, cause-specific mortality (CSMR), years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to provide a comprehensive view of health burden for a wide range of stakeholders including clinicians, public and private health systems, ministries of health, and other policymakers. These estimates are produced for 371 causes of death and 88 risk factors according to mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive hierarchies of health conditions and risks. The study is led by a principal investigator and governed by a study protocol, with oversight from a Scientific Council and an Independent Advisory Committee.
The almanac presents results for 18 cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and the CVD burden attributed to 15 risk factors (including an aggregate grouping of dietary risks) by GBD region. The study estimated CVD burden for 204 countries and territories grouped into 21 regions and 7 super-regions. GBD regions are made up of countries and territories that are geographically close and epidemiologically similar.
Read the full article here: https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2023.11.007