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University of Massachusetts System
Education•Boston, Massachusetts, United States•
About: University of Massachusetts System is a education organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Years of potential life lost. The organization has 31 authors who have published 35 publications receiving 17969 citations.
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Gregory A. Roth1, Gregory A. Roth2, Degu Abate3, Kalkidan Hassen Abate4 +1025 more•Institutions (333)
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
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015) as discussed by the authors was used to estimate the incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for diseases and injuries at the global, regional, and national scale over the period of 1990 to 2015.
5,050 citations
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study provides a comprehensive assessment of all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2015, finding several countries in sub-Saharan Africa had very large gains in life expectancy, rebounding from an era of exceedingly high loss of life due to HIV/AIDS.
4,804 citations
Ashkan Afshin, Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Marissa B Reitsma, Patrick J Sur +164 more•Institutions (70)
TL;DR: The rapid increase in the prevalence and disease burden of elevated BMI highlights the need for continued focus on surveillance of BMI and identification, implementation, and evaluation of evidence‐based interventions to address this problem.
Abstract: BACKGROUND Although the rising pandemic of obesity has received major attention in many countries, the effects of this attention on trends and the disease burden of obesity remain uncertain. METHOD ...
4,519 citations
Jeffrey D. Stanaway1, Ashkan Afshin1, Emmanuela Gakidou1, Stephen S Lim1 +1050 more•Institutions (346)
TL;DR: This study estimated levels and trends in exposure, attributable deaths, and attributable disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) by age group, sex, year, and location for 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or groups of risks from 1990 to 2017 and explored the relationship between development and risk exposure.
2,910 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philimon Gona | 70 | 140 | 73741 |
| J.J. Gómez-Cadenas | 53 | 231 | 9491 |
| Karen H. Johannesson | 44 | 131 | 5621 |
| Laura L. Hayman | 43 | 232 | 13312 |
| Kenneth A. Marx | 33 | 188 | 4882 |
| Armando E. Fraire | 32 | 109 | 3773 |
| Gaurav Khanna | 30 | 93 | 2324 |
| P. Chowdhury | 26 | 199 | 2441 |
| Valeri Barsegov | 21 | 73 | 1356 |
| Erin D. Reilly | 15 | 28 | 1238 |
| Olga Kononova | 15 | 35 | 1011 |
| Carol Cohn | 12 | 19 | 1737 |
| Scott E. Stapleton | 11 | 55 | 445 |
| Melissa Pearrow | 9 | 26 | 309 |
| C. J. Lister | 7 | 18 | 259 |