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University of Balamand
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About: University of Balamand is a education organization based out in Tripoli, Lebanon. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Catalysis. The organization has 1092 authors who have published 1619 publications receiving 32534 citations.
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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.
5,792 citations
Mohammad H. Forouzanfar1, Lily Alexander1, H. Ross Anderson2, Victoria F Bachman1 +718 more•Institutions (295)
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.
1,656 citations
Nicholas J Kassebaum1, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa1, Megan Coggeshall1, Katya Anne Shackelford1 +349 more•Institutions (179)
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.
1,383 citations
Christopher J L Murray1, Katrina F Ortblad1, Caterina Guinovart1, Stephen S Lim1 +367 more•Institutions (179)
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.
875 citations
Harvard University1, University of California, Davis2, Pompeu Fabra University3, Stony Brook University4, Universidade Nova de Lisboa5, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre6, Centre for Mental Health7, University College Hospital, Ibadan8, University of Barcelona9, Peking University10, St George's Hospital11, University of Balamand12, University of Tokyo13, The Chinese University of Hong Kong14, Paris Descartes University15, Mental Health Services16, University of Michigan17, Cayetano Heredia University18, University of Otago19, University of Cape Town20, Center for Excellence in Education21, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo22
TL;DR: Although a substantial minority of PTSD cases remits within months after onset, mean symptom duration is considerably longer than previously recognized and differential across trauma types with respect to PTSD risk.
Abstract: Background: Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) onset-persistence is thought to vary significantly by trauma type, most epidemiological surveys are incapable of assessing this because they evaluate lifetime PTSD only for traumas nominated by respondents as their 'worst.' Objective: To review research on associations of trauma type with PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys, a series of epidemiological surveys that obtained representative data on trauma-specific PTSD. Method: WMH Surveys in 24 countries (n = 68,894) assessed 29 lifetime traumas and evaluated PTSD twice for each respondent: once for the 'worst' lifetime trauma and separately for a randomly-selected trauma with weighting to adjust for individual differences in trauma exposures. PTSD onset-persistence was evaluated with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Results: In total, 70.4% of respondents experienced lifetime traumas, with exposure averaging 3.2 traumas per capita. Substantial between-trauma differences were found in PTSD onset but less in persistence. Traumas involving interpersonal violence had highest risk. Burden of PTSD, determined by multiplying trauma prevalence by trauma-specific PTSD risk and persistence, was 77.7 person-years/100 respondents. The trauma types with highest proportions of this burden were rape (13.1%), other sexual assault (15.1%), being stalked (9.8%), and unexpected death of a loved one (11.6%). The first three of these four represent relatively uncommon traumas with high PTSD risk and the last a very common trauma with low PTSD risk. The broad category of intimate partner sexual violence accounted for nearly 42.7% of all person-years with PTSD. Prior trauma history predicted both future trauma exposure and future PTSD risk. Conclusions: Trauma exposure is common throughout the world, unequally distributed, and differential across trauma types with respect to PTSD risk. Although a substantial minority of PTSD cases remits within months after onset, mean symptom duration is considerably longer than previously recognized.
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keith W. Waldron | 60 | 275 | 11866 |
| Ali T. Taher | 57 | 595 | 13810 |
| Elie G. Karam | 53 | 145 | 21731 |
| Hala Tamim | 46 | 183 | 6174 |
| G. de Girolamo | 40 | 75 | 11247 |
| Bassem S. Bassil | 37 | 139 | 4519 |
| Pierre Zalloua | 36 | 142 | 9388 |
| Pascale Salameh | 33 | 421 | 5144 |
| Ioannis Z. Gitas | 31 | 121 | 2560 |
| John Fayyad | 30 | 49 | 10241 |
| Peter G. Blain | 30 | 119 | 3090 |
| John J. Haddad | 29 | 52 | 3129 |
| Joseph J. Assaad | 28 | 95 | 2001 |
| Zeina Mneimneh | 28 | 66 | 7800 |
| Hiam Chemaitelly | 27 | 119 | 2620 |