IHME in the news

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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The risk of heart disease after COVID

Health modeller Sarah Wulf Hanson at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle used Al-Aly’s data to estimate how many heart attacks and strokes COVID-19 has been associated with.

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Heart disease after COVID: what the data say

Health modeller Sarah Wulf Hanson at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle used Al-Aly’s data to estimate how many heart attacks and strokes COVID-19 has been associated with.

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Should people under 40 avoid alcohol? The numbers tell a more complicated story

An ambitious new study has prompted a flurry of sensational headlines suggesting that people under 40 should avoid alcohol entirely, while people over 40 may benefit from modest alcohol consumption.  The study was conducted by dozens of researchers through the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Their work was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published in July in the medical journal the Lancet.

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'Living with COVID': Where the pandemic could go next

In the United States alone, there could be up to a million infections a day this winter, Chris Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent modeling group at the University of Washington that has been tracking the pandemic, told Reuters.

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Ali Mokdad discusses monkeypox on NPR

With us to explain what's going on is Dr. Ali Mokdad. He's a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

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America is running out of ‘COVID virgins’

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation suggests that as of earlier this month, 82 percent of Americans have been infected with the coronavirus at least once.