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Burden of skin diseases

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, 2009
Skin diseases are among the most common health problems worldwide and are associated with a considerable burden. The burden of skin disease is a multidimensional concept that encompasses psychological, social and financial consequences of the skin disease on the patients, their families and on society.
Mohammad K A, Basra, Muhammad, Shahrukh
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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

open access: yesLancet, The, 2012
Background: Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by-disease analysis. No complete revision of global disease burden caused by risk
Alan D Lopez, Ratilāl Lalloo
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Multimorbidity and Burden of Disease

2016
With effective antiretroviral therapy, HIV has become a chronic disease, and life expectancy among HIV-infected persons is approaching that of HIV-uninfected persons. Despite this success, epidemiologic evidence suggests that the burden of multiple aging-related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, liver disease, metabolic abnormalities, chronic
Brown, TT, Guaraldi, G
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The Burden of Chronic Disease

Science, 2003
The shift from acute infectious and deficiency diseases to chronic noncommunicable diseases is not a simple transition but a complex and dynamic epidemiological process, with some diseases disappearing and others appearing or reemerging. The unabated pandemic of childhood and adulthood obesity and concomitant comorbidities are affecting both rich and ...
C G Nicholas, Mascie-Taylor   +1 more
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Alcohol, The Burden of Disease of

2008
Alcohol is a major risk factor for burden of disease and injury. In terms of major disease categories, alcohol impacts several categories of cancer, neuropsychiatric conditions, the cardiovascular system, the liver, and both intentional and unintentional injuries. Globally, in the year 2002, 3.7% of all deaths were attributable to alcohol (6.1% in men;
Rehm, J.   +5 more
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Malaria: Burden of Disease

Current Molecular Medicine, 2006
Despite more than 100 years since Laveran described plasmodium species and Ross confirmed that they were transmitted by female anopheline mosquitoes, malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although the areas where transmission takes place have reduced, and they are by now confined to the inter tropical areas, the number ...
C, Guinovart   +3 more
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The burden of tropical diseases

Medical Journal of Australia, 1993
More than half the world's population is at risk of the tropical diseases malaria, leprosy, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, Chagas disease, African trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis, and half a billion people are infected with at least one of these diseases.
J H, Remme, P, De Raadt, T, Godal
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Onchocerciasis: the burden of disease

Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 1998
The greatest burdens related to human onchocerciasis are the result of the eye and skin lesions and severe itching produced by the microfilariae. Although the major manifestations of the disease do show geographical variation (e.g. onchocercal blindness is not a common complication in all endemic countries), they are often sufficiently severe to ...
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Calculating Disease Burden

Epidemiology, 2007
To the Editor:With interest, I read the overview of methods for calculating the burden of disease due to specific risk factors given by Steenland and Armstrong.1 Although I agree that epidemiologists should try to make the consequences of their research work more obvious to potential users, such ...
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Burden of bone disease

European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2007
Malignant bone disease can cause clinically relevant skeletal morbidity that negatively affects quality of life. The prevalence and consequences of skeletal-related events (SREs) resulting from bone metastases, and the effects of bone metastasis therapies will be discussed.The burden of bone disease was researched through PubMed and the proceedings of ...
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