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A pesar de que muchos pacientes con coronavirus se recuperan con el tiempo, alrededor del 15 por ciento todavía experimenta síntomas después de 12 meses, según el Instituto de Métricas y Evaluación de la Salud (IHME) de la Universidad de Washington.
Long COVID's link to suicide: scientists warn of hidden crisis
While many long COVID patients recover over time, around 15% still experience symptoms after 12 months, according to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
Las tabacaleras buscan hacerse con el botín de los jóvenes fumadores africanos
Un estudio sobre la edad de iniciación del tabaquismo a nivel global elaborado en 2019 por el Instituto de Métricas y Evaluación de la Salud (IHME, por sus siglas en inglés) estima que alrededor del 82% de los fumadores actuales comenzaron a fumar entre los 14 y los 25 años.
10.5 million children were orphaned or lost a primary caregiver due to COVID, study finds
The JAMA pediatrics study utilized excess mortality-derived estimates from the WHO, The Economist and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Why Paxlovid is still not available in many LMICs
Ali Mokdad, professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said only high-income countries, and the rich in several countries, are able to access the drug at the moment.
US health officials brace for another fall COVID surge, but with fewer deaths
Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said his group is predicting a rise in COVID cases, deaths and hospitalizations this fall. “But the rise in mortality and hospitalization will not be similar to what we have seen before, simply because most people have some kind of immunity against illness,” Mokdad said.
Monkeypox infections are slowing in the US. It's not clear if that will last
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington built an influential Covid-19 forecast model early on in the pandemic, but will not be doing the same for monkeypox. "In our mind, this disease is not going to spread into the community as wide as we've seen with Covid," said Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist and professor of health metrics sciences at IHME.
Do you really need this new Omicron booster? Here’s what experts say.
“COVID is not going to disappear. It's going to stay with us for a long time. And that's what we have seen with similar viruses in the past,” Ali Mokdad, chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington, told BuzzFeed News. “This virus is going to keep mutating and could possibly produce an escape variant that could be more severe than what we’re seeing right now."
Tabaco e álcool são principais causas de câncer no mundo, diz estudo
"Segundo nossa análise, 44,41% das mortes por câncer no mundo podem ser atribuídas a um fator de risco determinado," considera o estudo, publicado na revista Lancet como parte do projeto mundial Global Burden of Disease.
Smoking and other risk factors cause almost half of cancer deaths, study finds
Researchers at the University of Washington’s school of medicine have become the first to work out how risk factors contribute to cancer deaths globally. “This study illustrates that the burden of cancer remains an important public health challenge that is growing in magnitude around the world,” said Dr Christopher Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s school of medicine and a co-senior author of the study.
West African cities rank 2nd only to South Asia for polluted air; India saw world’s sharpest air quality decline 2000-2019
The study by the State of Global Air Initiative, a collaboration between Boston-based Health Effects Institute (HEI) and Seattle-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s (IHME) Global Burden of Disease project, is the largest analysis of urban air pollution to date – examining data spanning the years 2010-2019 for 7,239 cities, home to some 2.8 billion people. It is also the first global analysis to compare trends in cities over time.
Column: How I’ve stayed COVID-free — caution, good luck and a smart wife
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, based at the University of Washington, estimates that more than 80% of Americans have contracted COVID-19 at least once.
New maximum levels for heavy metals in food products fixed
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated that in 2019, lead exposure accounted for 900,000 deaths and 21.7 million years of healthy life lost worldwide due to long-term effects on health. The highest burden was in low- and middle-income countries.
On a reservation where alcohol is banned, Oglala Sioux Tribe embraces recreational marijuana sales
The average life expectancy is just 64.5 years in Oglala Lakota County, which includes much of the Pine Ridge Reservation, according to a 2019 estimate from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
Early diagnosis can beat the valvular heart disease
According to the Global Burden of Disease, nearly a quarter (24.8 per cent) of all deaths in India is due to CVDs.