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COVID-19 slashed overall life expectancy, according to a highly anticipated update of the Global Burden of Disease study.

If the low fertility rate persists, the population of Asia’s fifth-biggest economy is projected to almost halve to 26.8 million by 2100, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2016, coordinated by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, used 694 sources of individual and population-level alcohol consumption, along with 592 studies on the risk of alcohol to estimate that nearly 3 million deaths globally in 2016 were attributed to alcohol use.

The rate in the US is eight times greater than in Canada, which has the seventh highest rate of gun ownership in the world; 22 times higher than in the European Union and 23 times greater than in Australia, according to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) data from 2019.

On average, one person in five will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime, with the number of global cases growing by over 25 percent between 2009 and 2019, according to the US-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

“This comprehensive study marks a significant step in understanding the profound health impacts of intimate partner violence against women and childhood sexual abuse,” said Professor Emmanuela Gakidou from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and senior co-lead author of the paper.

Completing primary, secondary and tertiary education is the equivalent of a lifetime of eating a healthy diet, lowering the risk of death by 34% compared with those with no formal education, according to the peer-reviewed analysis in The Lancet Public Health journal.

Having very little schooling increases mortality as much as drinking five or more drinks a day or smoking 10 cigarettes a day for 10 years, says Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou, professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine and co-author of the study.

According to IHME's Dr. Theo Vos, developing diseases throughout your life impacts a person's good health span.

"We examined the temporal patterns of 29 cancers in 49 Asian countries between 1990 and 2019 using estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2019 Study."

Un estudio del 2018 elaborado por The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimó que en México existen más de 49 mil fallecimientos anuales atribuibles a la contaminación ambiental.

The new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) special report published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology provides an update of health estimates for the global, regional and national burden and trends of CVD from 1990-2022.

“My concern for COVID-19 is that we’re not ready for any variants that this virus will produce,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences and chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington.

Ali Mokdad, chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington, said that while it may be alarming to see new variants take hold going into the winter, he isn’t too worried about what he’s seen so far.

Consideraron datos de mortalidad extraídos del estudio Global Burden of Disease 2019, estadísticas de población y partículas finas basadas en observaciones satelitales de la NASA y modelos de química atmosférica, aerosoles y riesgo relativo.