Christopher J L Murray

TL;DR: The global nutrient database provides a picture of the supply of various nutrients at the country level and can be useful to assess the performance of national food systems in addressing the nutritional needs of their population.

TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) as mentioned in this paper provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new data for exposure, relative risks, and evidence on the appropriate counterfactual risk distribution.

TL;DR: The age-standardized DALY rates in the EMR are considerably higher than the global average, and these findings call for a comprehensive approach to prevent and control the burden of CVD in the region.

TL;DR: The findings show that diabetes causes a major burden in the EMR, which is increasing, and aging and population growth do not fully explain this increase in the diabetes burden.

TL;DR: Chandramohan et al. as discussed by the authors argue that the major obstacles to sharing data are technical, managerial, and financial rather than proprietorial concerns about analysis and publication, and argue that DSS data in the INDEPTH database should be made available to all researchers worldwide, not just to those within the International Network for the Continuous Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH).