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Yaw Ampem Amoako

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Other affiliations: American University of Beirut, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Bio: Yaw Ampem Amoako is an academic researcher from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Buruli ulcer. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 51 publications receiving 24907 citations. Previous affiliations of Yaw Ampem Amoako include American University of Beirut & Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
Topics: Population, Buruli ulcer, Mycobacterium ulcerans, Medicine, Years of potential life lost
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Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

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Theo Vos1, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Kalkidan Hassen Abate2, Cristiana Abbafati3  +775 more•Institutions (305)
16 Sep 2017-The Lancet
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 328 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016.

10,401 citations

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Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

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Gregory A. Roth1, Gregory A. Roth2, Degu Abate3, Kalkidan Hassen Abate4  +1025 more•Institutions (333)
10 Nov 2018-The Lancet
TL;DR: Non-communicable diseases comprised the greatest fraction of deaths, contributing to 73·4% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 72·5–74·1) of total deaths in 2017, while communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional causes accounted for 18·6% (17·9–19·6), and injuries 8·0% (7·7–8·2).

5,211 citations

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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

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Mohsen Naghavi1, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir2, Cristiana Abbafati3, Kaja Abbas4  +598 more•Institutions (31)
16 Sep 2017-The Lancet
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2016 Study (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of cause-specific mortality for 264 causes in 195 locations from 1980 to 2016 as discussed by the authors, which includes evaluation of the expected epidemiological transition with changes in development and where local patterns deviate from these trends.

3,228 citations

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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

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Simon I. Hay, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir1, Kalkidan Hassen Abate2, Cristiana Abbafati3  +800 more•Institutions (32)
16 Sep 2017-The Lancet
TL;DR: At a global level, DALYs and HALE continue to show improvements and the importance of continued health interventions, which has changed in most locations in pace with the gross domestic product per person, education, and family planning.

3,029 citations

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Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

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Max Griswold1, Nancy Fullman1, Caitlin Hawley1, Nicholas Arian1  +515 more•Institutions (37)
22 Sep 2018-The Lancet
TL;DR: It is found that the risk of all-cause mortality, and of cancers specifically, rises with increasing levels of consumption, and the level of consumption that minimises health loss is zero.

1,831 citations

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2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

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Piotr Ponikowski, Adriaan A. Voors, Stefan D. Anker, Héctor Bueno, John G.F. Cleland, Andrew J.S. Coats, Volkmar Falk, José Ramón González-Juanatey, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Ewa A. Jankowska, Mariell Jessup, Cecilia Linde, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, John Parissis, Burkert Pieske, Jillian P. Riley, Giuseppe M.C. Rosano1, Luis M. Ruilope, Frank Ruschitzka, Frans H. Rutten, Peter van der Meer, Gerasimos Filippatos, John J.V. McMurray, Victor Aboyans, Stephan Achenbach, Stefan Agewall, Nawwar Al-Attar, John Atherton, Johann Bauersachs, A. John Camm, Scipione Carerj, Claudio Ceconi, Antonio Coca, Perry M. Elliott, Çetin Erol, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Covadonga Fernández-Golfín, Donna Fitzsimons, Marco Guazzi, Maxime Guenoun, Gerd Hasenfuss, Gerhard Hindricks, Arno W. Hoes, Bernard Iung, Tiny Jaarsma, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh2, Stavros Konstantinides, Mitja Lainscak, Patrizio Lancellotti2, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Francesco Maisano, Christian Mueller, Mark C. Petrie, Massimo F Piepoli, Silvia G. Priori, Adam Torbicki, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Stephan Windecker, Clyde W. Yancy, José Luis Zamorano •
St George's, University of London1, University of Liège2
01 Aug 2016-European Journal of Heart Failure
TL;DR: Authors/Task Force Members: Piotr Ponikowski* (Chairperson) (Poland), Adriaan A. Voors* (Co-Chair person) (The Netherlands), Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Héctor Bueno (Spain), John G. F. Cleland (UK), Andrew J. S. Coats (UK)

13,400 citations

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Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

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Theo Vos1, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Kalkidan Hassen Abate2, Cristiana Abbafati3  +775 more•Institutions (305)
16 Sep 2017-The Lancet
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 328 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016.

10,401 citations

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世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

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泰彦 鳥居, 裕 秋山
01 Jan 1998

9,675 citations

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Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, andyears lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematicanalysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

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Gbd Disease, Injury Incidence, Lorenzo Monasta1, Luca Ronfani1, Ettore Beghi, Giorgia Giussani1, Boris Bikbov1, Norberto Perico1, Cristina Bosetti1, Monica Cortinovis1, Silvano Gallus, Giuseppe Remuzzi •
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research1
10 Nov 2018-The Lancet
TL;DR: All-cause age-standardised YLD rates decreased by 3·9% from 1990 to 2017; however, the all-age YLD rate increased by 7·2% while the total sum of global YLDs increased from 562 million (421–723) to 853 million (642–1100).

7,419 citations

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Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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Theo Vos1, Theo Vos2, Theo Vos3, Stephen S Lim  +2416 more•Institutions (246)
17 Oct 2020-The Lancet
TL;DR: Global health has steadily improved over the past 30 years as measured by age-standardised DALY rates, and there has been a marked shift towards a greater proportion of burden due to YLDs from non-communicable diseases and injuries.

5,802 citations