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The reversal of fortunes: trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United StatesMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 5:e66. 2008....
Trends and cardiovascular mortality effects of state-level blood pressure and uncontrolled hypertension in the United StatesMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave Bldg 1, 1107, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Circulation 117:905-14. 2008..Our aim was to estimate levels and trends in state-level mean systolic blood pressure (SBP), the prevalence of uncontrolled systolic hypertension, and cardiovascular mortality attributable to all levels of higher-than-optimal SBP...- The age associations of blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose: analysis of health examination surveys from international populationsGitanjali M Singh
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Circulation 125:2204-11. 2012..We examined worldwide variations in the age associations of systolic blood pressure (SBP), total cholesterol (TC), and fasting plasma glucose (FPG)... - National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participantsGoodarz Danaei
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Lancet 378:31-40. 2011..We estimated trends and their uncertainties in mean fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and diabetes prevalence for adults aged 25 years and older in 199 countries and territories... - National, regional, and global trends in serum total cholesterol since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 321 country-years and 3·0 million participantsFarshad Farzadfar
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Lancet 377:578-86. 2011..Previous analyses of trends in serum cholesterol were limited to a few countries, with no consistent and comparable global analysis. We estimated worldwide trends in population mean serum total cholesterol... - Household concentrations and exposure of children to particulate matter from biomass fuels in The GambiaKathie L Dionisio
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Environ Sci Technol 46:3519-27. 2012..01. Children in The Gambia have relatively high PM(2.5) exposure. There is a need for simple methods that can directly measure PM(2.5) exposure in field studies... - National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participantsMariel M Finucane
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Lancet 377:557-67. 2011..However, few worldwide comparative analyses of long-term trends of body-mass index (BMI) have been done, and none have used recent national health examination surveys. We estimated worldwide trends in population mean BMI... 
Improving child survival through environmental and nutritional interventions: the importance of targeting interventions toward the poorEmmanuela Gakidou
Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
JAMA 298:1876-87. 2007..A critical but underinvestigated question for planning and allocating resources toward the MDGs is how interventions related to one MDG might affect progress toward other goals...- Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factorsGoodarz Danaei
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Lancet 366:1784-93. 2005..INTERPRETATION: Reduction of exposure to key behavioural and environmental risk factors would prevent a substantial proportion of deaths from cancer... - The promise of prevention: the effects of four preventable risk factors on national life expectancy and life expectancy disparities by race and county in the United StatesGoodarz Danaei
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 7:e1000248. 2010.... - Effects of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis in China: a time-based, multiple risk factor, modelling studyHsien Ho Lin
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Lancet 372:1473-83. 2008..We aimed to predict the effects of risk-factor trends on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis... - Exploring the cost-effectiveness of Helicobacter pylori screening to prevent gastric cancer in China in anticipation of clinical trial resultsJennifer M Yeh
Department of Health Policy and Management, Program in Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 124:157-66. 2009..These results illustrate the potential promise of a gastric cancer screening program and provide rationale for urgent clinical studies to move the prevention agenda forward... - The exposure of infants and children to carbon monoxide from biomass fuels in The Gambia: a measurement and modeling studyKathie L Dionisio
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 22:173-81. 2012..A parsimonious model with fuel, season, and other PM sources as covariates explained 39% of between-child variation in exposure and helped remove within-child variability... - Is inequality at the heart of it? Cross-country associations of income inequality with cardiovascular diseases and risk factorsDaniel Kim
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:1719-32. 2008..Future studies should consider income inequality as an independent contributor to variations in CVD burden globally... - Air pollution in Accra neighborhoods: spatial, socioeconomic, and temporal patternsKathie L Dionisio
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Sci Technol 44:2270-6. 2010..The results show that PM in these four neighborhoods is substantially higher than the WHO Air Quality Guidelines and in some cases even higher than the WHO Interim Target 1, with the highest pollution in the poorest neighborhood... - Global and regional mortality from ischaemic heart disease and stroke attributable to higher-than-optimum blood glucose concentration: comparative risk assessmentGoodarz Danaei
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Lancet 368:1651-9. 2006..Programmes for cardiovascular risk and diabetes management and control at the population level need to be more closely integrated... - The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factorsGoodarz Danaei
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
PLoS Med 6:e1000058. 2009.... - Effects of Helicobacter pylori infection and smoking on gastric cancer incidence in China: a population-level analysis of trends and projectionsJennifer M Yeh
Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health, 718 Huntington Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:2021-9. 2009..Our aim was to (1) retrospectively estimate the effects of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) and smoking on past gastric cancer incidence and (2) project how interventions on these two risk factors can reduce future incidence... - Characterizing the epidemiological transition in Mexico: national and subnational burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factorsGretchen Stevens
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 5:e125. 2008..Subnational analysis of the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors can improve characterization of the epidemiological transition and identify policy priorities... - Improving the comparability of diabetes mortality statistics in the U.S. and MexicoChristopher J L Murray
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 31:451-8. 2008..The aim of this study was to increase the cross-state comparability of diabetes mortality statistics related in the U.S. and Mexico... - Household and community poverty, biomass use, and air pollution in Accra, GhanaZheng Zhou
Department of Global Health and Population, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:11028-33. 2011..Lack of regular physical access to clean fuels is an obstacle to fuel switching in low-income neighborhoods and should be addressed through equitable energy infrastructure... - Trends in national and state-level obesity in the USA after correction for self-report bias: analysis of health surveysMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
J R Soc Med 99:250-7. 2006..To quantify population-level bias in self-reported weight and height as a function of age, sex, and the mode of self-report, and to estimate unbiased trends in national and state level obesity in the USA... - Household and community socioeconomic and environmental determinants of child nutritional status in CameroonRoland Pongou
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Public Health 6:98. 2006..We further consider age-specific effects of household economic status on child nutrition... - Eight Americas: investigating mortality disparities across races, counties, and race-counties in the United StatesChristopher J L Murray
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 3:e260. 2006.... - Cost-effectiveness of treatment and endoscopic surveillance of precancerous lesions to prevent gastric cancerJennifer M Yeh
Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer 116:2941-53. 2010..The objective of this study was to estimate the clinical benefits and cost-effectiveness of treatment and endoscopic surveillance to prevent gastric cancer... - Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic developmentMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 2:e133. 2005.... - Within-neighborhood patterns and sources of particle pollution: mobile monitoring and geographic information system analysis in four communities in Accra, GhanaKathie L Dionisio
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:607-13. 2010..Sources of air pollution in developing country cities include transportation and industrial pollution, biomass and coal fuel use, and resuspended dust from unpaved roads... - Health impacts of macroeconomic crises and policies: determinants of variation in childhood malnutrition trends in CameroonRoland Pongou
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:648-56. 2006..We examined the effects of economic crises and adjustment programmes during the 1990s in Cameroon on childhood malnutrition in population subgroups and evaluated the household and health system mediators of these effects... - Understanding the coronary heart disease versus total cardiovascular mortality paradox: a method to enhance the comparability of cardiovascular death statistics in the United StatesChristopher J L Murray
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Circulation 113:2071-81. 2006..The role of the exogenous predictors in validity and comparability of cause-of-death statistics should be confirmed in carefully designed validation autopsy studies... - Role of smoking in global and regional cardiovascular mortalityMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Circulation 112:489-97. 2005..There is little information on how it contributes to global and regional cause-specific mortality from cardiovascular diseases for which background risk varies because of other risks... - National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participantsGoodarz Danaei
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Lancet 377:568-77. 2011..However, few worldwide analyses of trends in blood pressure have been done. We estimated worldwide trends in population mean systolic blood pressure (SBP)... - Association between tobacco smoking and active tuberculosis in Taiwan: prospective cohort studyHsien Ho Lin
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 180:475-80. 2009.... - Eight Americas: new perspectives on U.S. health disparitiesChristopher J L Murray
Harvard University, Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:4-10. 2005..In particular, if blood pressure and cholesterol are confirmed as major contributors to current mortality patterns, innovative strategies such as the Polypill and unique individual and population approaches need to be explored... - Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factorsMajid Ezzati
Risk, Resources, and Environmental Management Division, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA
Lancet 362:271-80. 2003..But few such investigations have been attempted, and none on a global scale. Our aim was to estimate the potential health benefits from removal of multiple major risk factors... - A risk-based method for modeling traffic fatalitiesKavi Bhalla
Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Risk Anal 27:125-36. 2007..Regional adaptations of the model validated with local data can be used to evaluate the impacts of transportation planning and safety interventions, such as helmets, seat belts, and enforcement of traffic laws, on traffic fatalities... - Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveysGoodarz Danaei
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Popul Health Metr 7:16. 2009..Self-reported diabetes prevalence may be biased because respondents may not be aware of their risk status. Our objective was to estimate the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes by state... - Role of smoking in global and regional cancer epidemiology: current patterns and data needsMajid Ezzati
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 116:963-71. 2005..This variability illustrates the importance of coupling research and surveillance of smoking with that for other risk factors for more effective cancer prevention... - Tobacco smoke, indoor air pollution and tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysisHsien Ho Lin
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 4:e20. 2007..We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantitatively assess the association between these exposures and the risk of infection, disease, and death from TB... - Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010Joshua A Salomon
Harvard School of Public Health, MA, USA
Lancet 380:2129-43. 2012.... - Environmental risks in the developing world: exposure indicators for evaluating interventions, programmes, and policiesMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:15-22. 2005..Current large scale data collection efforts are generally disconnected from micro-scale studies in health sciences, which in turn have insufficiently investigated the behavioural and socioeconomic factors that influence exposure... - Effect of air pollution control on life expectancy in the United States: an analysis of 545 U.S. counties for the period from 2000 to 2007Andrew W Correia
From the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiology 24:23-31. 2013..Whether these more recent and slower declines of PM2.5 levels continue to improve life expectancy and whether they benefit all populations equally is unknown... - Indoor air pollution and health in developing countriesMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Lancet 366:104-6. 2005 - How can cross-country research on health risks strengthen interventions? Lessons from INTERHEARTMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Lancet 364:912-4. 2004 - Development of an empirically calibrated model of gastric cancer in two high-risk countriesJennifer M Yeh
Program in Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 718 Huntington Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:1179-87. 2008..As better data become available, the model can be refined and recalibrated, and, as such, be used as an iterative tool to assess the likely health and economic outcomes associated with gastric cancer prevention strategies... - Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000Majid Ezzati
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Lancet 362:847-52. 2003..Smoking is a risk factor for several diseases and has been increasing in many developing countries. Our aim was to estimate global and regional mortality in 2000 caused by smoking, including an analysis of uncertainty... - Association of secondhand smoke exposure with pediatric invasive bacterial disease and bacterial carriage: a systematic review and meta-analysisChien Chang Lee
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 7:e1000374. 2010..meningitidis), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), and Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae)... - Should interventions to reduce respirable pollutants be linked to tuberculosis control programmes?Enis Baris
World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
BMJ 329:1090-3. 2004 - Biomass fuels and respiratory diseases: a review of the evidenceCarlos Torres-Duque
Proc Am Thorac Soc 5:577-90. 2008..Consequently, complex solutions need to be locally adapted, and involve the commitment and active participation of governments, scientific societies, nongovernmental organizations, and the general community... - Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of diseaseMajid Ezzati
Risk, Resources and Environmental Management Division, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA
Lancet 360:1347-60. 2002..Developing countries suffer most or all of the burden due to many of the leading risks. Strategies that target these known risks can provide substantial and underestimated public-health gains... - Greenhouse gas implications of household energy technology in KenyaRob Bailis
Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3050, USA
Environ Sci Technol 37:2051-9. 2003..Policy implications and options for environment and public health are discussed... - Complexity and rigour in assessing the health dimensions of sectoral policies and programmesMajid Ezzati
Resources and Environmental Management Division, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA
Bull World Health Organ 81:458-9. 2003 - Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease studyAnthony Rodgers
School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
PLoS Med 1:e27. 2004..The distribution of risk-factor-attributable disease burden, for example by age or exposure level, can inform the selection and targeting of specific interventions and programs, and increase cost-effectiveness... - Patterns of household concentrations of multiple indoor air pollutants in ChinaGongli He
National Institute for Environmental Health and Related Product Safety, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, People's Republic of China
Environ Sci Technol 39:991-8. 2005..The findings indicate the need for monitoring of RPM and selected other pollutants in longer-term health studies, with focus on both cooking and living/sleeping areas... - Mortality and greenhouse gas impacts of biomass and petroleum energy futures in AfricaRobert Bailis
Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3050, USA
Science 308:98-103. 2005.... - The contribution of leading diseases and risk factors to excess losses of healthy life in Eastern Europe: burden of disease studyJohn W Powles
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
BMC Public Health 5:116. 2005..The East/West gradient in health across Europe has been described often, but not using metrics as comprehensive and comparable as those of the Global Burden of Disease 2000 and Comparative Risk Assessment studies... - Exposure to indoor air pollution from household energy use in rural China: the interactions of technology, behavior, and knowledge in health risk managementYinlong Jin
Institute for Environmental Health and Related Product Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Beijing, PR China
Soc Sci Med 62:3161-76. 2006..Based on the analysis, we present technological and behavioral interventions for these four Chinese provinces... - Geographical, spatial, and temporal distributions of multiple indoor air pollutants in four Chinese provincesYinlong Jin
National Institute for Environmental Health and Related Product Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Environ Sci Technol 39:9431-9. 2005..The implications of the findings for designing environmental health interventions in each province are discussed... - [Priority setting for health interventions in Mexico's System of Social Protection in Health]Eduardo Gonzalez-Pier
Unidad de Análisis Económico, Secretaria de Salud, Mexico, Paseo de la Reforma 450, PH, Col Juárez, 06600 Mexico, DF, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 49:S37-52. 2007.... - Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health dataAlan D Lopez
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4006, Australia
Lancet 367:1747-57. 2006..Our aim was to calculate the global burden of disease and risk factors for 2001, to examine regional trends from 1990 to 2001, and to provide a starting point for the analysis of the Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP)... - Chronic disease prevention: health effects and financial costs of strategies to reduce salt intake and control tobacco usePerviz Asaria
Kings Fund, London, UK
Lancet 370:2044-53. 2007.... - Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequencesRobert E Black
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Lancet 371:243-60. 2008 - The health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution from solid fuels in developing countries: knowledge, gaps, and data needsMajid Ezzati
Risk, Resource, and Environmental Management Division, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:1057-68. 2002.... - Priority setting for health interventions in Mexico's System of Social Protection in HealthEduardo Gonzalez-Pier
Mexican Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico
Lancet 368:1608-18. 2006.... - Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaboratorsChristopher J L Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Lancet 370:109-10. 2007 - Acute lower respiratory infections in childhood: opportunities for reducing the global burden through nutritional interventionsDaniel E Roth
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Bull World Health Organ 86:356-64. 2008..At present, a reduction in the burden of ALRI can be expected from the continued promotion of breastfeeding and scale-up of zinc supplementation or fortification strategies in target populations... - Characterizing air pollution in two low-income neighborhoods in Accra, GhanaRaphael E Arku
Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
Sci Total Environ 402:217-31. 2008..The implications of the results for future urban air pollution monitoring and measurement in developing countries are discussed...