Majed Asad

TL;DR: In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors, the authors used the GBD 2010 methods with some refinements to improve accuracy applied to an updated database of vital registration, survey, and census data.

TL;DR: Global rates of change suggest that only 16 countries will achieve the MDG 5 target by 2015, with evidence of continued acceleration in the MMR, and MMR was highest in the oldest age groups in both 1990 and 2013.

TL;DR: Decreases since 2000 in under-5 mortality rates are accelerating in many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and rising income per person and maternal education and changes in secular trends led to 4·2 million fewer deaths.

TL;DR: The burden of diseases and injuries in the Arab world for 1990, 2005, and 2010 is examined using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010.

TL;DR: The projected population with diabetes mellitus in Jordan from 2005 to 2050 according to 4 different projected prevalence variants is generated using data from the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat and Zindah et al.