Jalal Arabloo

TL;DR: The prevalence of IBD increased substantially in many regions from 1990 to 2017, which might pose a substantial social and economic burden on governments and health systems in the coming years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden for 204 countries and territories, by age and sex, from 1990 to 2019 as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study.

TL;DR: Although the overall colorectal cancer age-standardised death rate has been decreasing at the global level, the increasing age- standardised incidence rate in most countries poses a major public health challenge across the world.

TL;DR: The global age-standardised rates of incidence, prevalence, and YLDs for fractures decreased slightly from 1990 to 2019, but the absolute counts increased substantially, and older people have a particularly high risk of fractures.