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Orish Ebere Orisakwe

Researcher at University of Port Harcourt

Publications -  248
Citations -  12516

Orish Ebere Orisakwe is an academic researcher from University of Port Harcourt. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 220 publications receiving 10516 citations. Previous affiliations of Orish Ebere Orisakwe include Nnamdi Azikiwe University & College of Health Sciences, Bahrain.

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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohsen Naghavi, +731 more
- 10 Jan 2015 - 
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.
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Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Nicholas J Kassebaum, +352 more
- 13 Sep 2014 - 
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.
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Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990???2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Christopher J L Murray, +370 more
- 13 Sep 2014 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2013 study provides a consistent and comprehensive approach to disease estimation for between 1990 and 2013, and an opportunity to assess whether accelerated progress has occured since the Millennium Declaration.
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Diagnostic health risk assessment of electronic waste on the general population in developing countries' scenarios

Chiara Frazzoli, +3 more
- 01 Nov 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a diagnostic risk assessment of health issues potentially elicited by e-waste related mixtures of toxicants is presented, where Endocrine disruption and neurotoxicity are specifically considered as main health burden issues relevant to perpetuation through life cycle and across generations.
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Heavy metals health risk assessment for population via consumption of food crops and fruits in Owerri, South Eastern, Nigeria

Orish Ebere Orisakwe, +4 more
- 01 Aug 2012 - 
TL;DR: The concentration of Pb, Cd, and Ni in Ohaji exceeded the maximum allowable concentrations for agricultural soil as recommended by EU.