Burden of diarrhea in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990-2015 : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study

x Gbd 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Diarrhea Collaborators, Ibrahim Khalil, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Raghid Charara, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Ashkan Afshin, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Michael Collison, Adrienne Chew, Kristopher J. Krohn, Farah Daoud, Danny Colombara, Kyle J. Foreman, William W. Godwin, Michael Kutz, Mojde Mirarefin, Puja C. Rao, Robert Reiner, Christopher Troeger, Haidong WangHaftom Niguse Abraha, Remon Abu-Elyazeed, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Alireza Ahmadi, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Khurshid Alam, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Nahla Anber, Palwasha Anwari, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Euripide Frinel G. Arthur Avokpaho, Umar Bacha, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Neeraj Bedi, Isabela M. Bensenor, Adugnaw Berhane, Pascal Obong Bessong, Addisu Shunu Beyene, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Geoffrey Colin Buckle, Zahid A. Butt, Hadi Danawi, Amare Deribew, Shirin Djalalinia, Manisha Dubey, Aman Yesuf Endries, Babak Eshrati, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Harish Chander Gugnani, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Abdullatif Husseini, Spencer Lewis James, Jost B. Jonas, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Gulfaraz Khan, Jagdish Khubchandani, Niranjan Kissoon, Jacek A. Kopec, Ai Koyanagi, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, Heidi J. Larson, Asma Abdul Latif, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Reza Majdzadeh, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Peter Memiah, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Desalegn Tadese Mengistu, Shafiu Mohammed, Srinivas Murthy, Josephine Wanjiku Ngunjiri, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Farshad Pourmalek, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Usha Ram, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf Salman, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Satar Rezaei, Gholamreza Roshandel, Mahdi Safdarian, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Juan Ramon Sanabria, Benn Sartorius, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Masood Ali Shaikh, Mika Shigematsu, Badr H. A. Sobaih, Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Bryan L. Sykes, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Tenaw Yimer Tiruye, Roman Topor-Madry, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Stein Emil Vollset, Tolassa Wakayo, Andrea Werdecker, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Abdulhalik Workicho, Mohsen Yaghoubi, Mehdi Yaseri, Muluken Yenesew, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Bassel Zein, Sanjay Zodpey, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

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Abstract

Objectives: Diarrheal diseases (DD) are an important cause of disease burden, especially in children in low-income settings. DD can also impact children's potential livelihood through growth faltering, cognitive impairment, and other sequelae. Methods: As part of the Global Burden of Disease study, we estimated DD burden, and the burden attributable to specific risk factors and etiologies, in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) between 1990 and 2015. We calculated disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs)"”the sum of years of life lost and years lived with disability"”for both sexes and all ages. Results: We estimate that over 103,692 diarrhea deaths occurred in the EMR in 2015 (95% uncertainty interval: 87,018-124,692), and the mortality rate was 16.0 deaths per 100,000 persons (95% UI: 13.4-19.2). The majority of these deaths occurred in children under 5 (63.3%) (65,670 deaths, 95% UI: 53,640-79,486). DALYs per 100,000 ranged from 304 (95% UI 228-400) in Kuwait to 38,900 (95% UI 25,900-54,300) in Somalia. Conclusions: Our findings will guide evidence-based health policy decisions for interventions to achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the DD burden.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S109-S121
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Journal of Public Health
Volume63
Issue numberSupplement 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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Keywords

  • Middle East
  • diarrhea

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