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Actualmente, España ocupa el quinto lugar de los países con mayor esperanza de vida, con un 83,5%. Proyecciones pasadas, como la del Instituto para la Métrica y Evaluación de la Salud, que recoge el Foro Económico Global, situaron a España como el país con más longevo del mundo en 2040.

Entre 2020 y 2022, el Instituto de Métricas y Evaluación Sanitarias de la Universidad de Washington (IHME, por sus siglas en inglés) elaboró estimaciones periódicas de las tasas de casos de covid-19 y proyecciones de tendencias.

“With the key drivers of people living longer and a growing world population, we need to anticipate stress on health systems in most countries,” said study author Dr. Jaimie Steinmetz, lead research scientist at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.

That means long Covid creates a higher burden of disability than either heart disease or cancer, which cause about 52 and 50 DALYs for every 1,000 Americans, respectively, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Global Burden of Disease study.

A paper published in JAMA in July found that more than twice the number of people in the United States are dying of pregnancy-related causes than 20 years ago.

One analysis comparing state-level pandemic policies, published in the journal The Lancet, suggested state governments’ use of protective mandates was associated with a reduction in their cumulative coronavirus infection rates.

“When you look across these 19 causes, there are racial and ethnic disparities in mortality and there are also geographic disparities in mortality for every single cause,” said Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and study author. “The consistency of that overall finding – that these huge disparities are always there – really stuck out to me.”

According to a recent study published in The Lancet Hematology, in 2021, the leading cause of anemia globally was dietary iron deficiency (66.2% of all anemia cases).

States of healthcare: Data from Global Burden of Disease study will help states chart their individual trajectories. They need to strengthen disease monitoring systems

Bryant and her colleagues at Mass General Brigham and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington started with national vital statistics data on deaths and live births.

Statistics from University of Washington researchers indicate that about one in 30 of the region's residents have experienced “long COVID.” in the past three years, Kluge said.

The study, by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, suggested that people in Spain will have an average lifespan of 85.8 years by 2040, while those in Japan will lag ever so slightly behind on 85.7 years.

“If we don’t do anything,” said Kanyin Liane Ong, a researcher at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the lead author of the study, “it will cause a huge burden.”

Alcohol is responsible for three million deaths each year globally, and accounts for more than five per cent of global burden of disease as measured by disability adjusted life years (DALYs), a health metric that combines healthy years of life lost due to mortality and disability.

Taking the top spot for the world’s biggest cause of death in 2019 was high blood pressure (10.85 million), which was closely followed by smoking (7.69million), according to a Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet.