• Longitudinal assessments of child growth: A six-year follow-up of a cluster-randomized maternal education trial 

  Atukunda, Prudence; Ngari, Moses M.; Chen, Xi; Westerberg, Ane C.; Iversen, Per Ole; Muhoozi, Grace (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background & aims Child growth impairments are rampant in sub-Saharan Africa. To combat this important health problem, long-term follow-up studies are needed to examine possible benefits and sustainability of various ...

• The global burden of adolescent and young adult cancer in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Alvarez, Elysia M; Force, Lisa M.; Kisa, Adnan; Murray, Christopher J L; Fitzmaurice, Christina; Kisa, Sezer; Bleyer, Archie; Bhakta, Nickhill; Adult Cancer Collaborators, GBD 2019 Adolescent Young (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  In estimating the global burden of cancer, adolescents and young adults with cancer are often overlooked, despite being a distinct subgroup with unique epidemiology, clinical care needs, and societal impact. Comprehensive ...

• Mapping routine measles vaccination in low- and middle-income countries 

  Vaccine Coverage Collaborators, Local Burden of Disease; Kisa, Adnan; Kisa, Sezer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The safe, highly efective measles vaccine has been recommended globally since 1974, yet in 2017 there were more than 17 million cases of measles and 83,400 deaths in children under 5 years old, and more than 99% of both ...

• Global, regional, and national burden of colorectal cancer and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Sharma, Rajesh; Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen; Kisa, Adnan; Vos, Theo; Naghavi, Mohsen; Kisa, Sezer; Colorectal Cancer Collaborator, GBD 2019 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Background Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Given the recent increasing trends in colorectal cancer incidence globally, up-to-date information on the colorectal cancer burden could ...

• Myonuclear content regulates cell size with similar scaling properties in mice and humans 

  Hansson, Kenth-Arne; Eftestøl, Einar; Bruusgaard, Jo C.; Juvkam, Inga; Cramer, Alyssa W.; Malthe-Sørenssen, Anders; Millay, Douglas P.; Gundersen, Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  Muscle fibers are the largest cells in the body, and one of its few syncytia. Individual cell sizes are variable and adaptable, but what governs cell size has been unclear. We find that muscle fibers are DNA scarce compared ...

• Global, regional, and national sex differences in the global burden of tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Ledesma, Jorge R; Ma, Jianing; Vongpradith, Avina; Maddison, Emilie R.; Biehl, Molly H; LeGrand, Kate E.; Kisa, Adnan; Ross, Jennifer M.; Jahagirdar, Deepa; Kisa, Sezer; Bryazka, Dana; Feldman, Rachel; Murray, Christopher J L; Kyu, Hmwe Hmwe; Tuberculosis Collaborators, GBD 2019 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Tuberculosis is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, causing more than a million deaths annually. Given an emphasis on equity in access to diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in global health targets, ...

• Turkey’s COVID-19 strategy: “the West is jealous of us” 

  Kisa, Adnan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Populist nationalist attacks on health and human rights have been increasing throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. These attacks may be used to divert attention from the government’s inability to control the virus, to deflect ...

• Gaming and Gambling Disorders among Elderly and Challenges for Public Health Policy and Social Work 

  Tokovska, Miroslava; Kozubik, Michal; Seberini, Andrea; Walli Weihe, Hans Jørgen (Journal article, 2021)

• Exploring adolescents' experiences with personalized content on social media: A qualitative study 

  Bell, Ashley Rebecca Holt; Tennfjord, Merete Kolberg; Tokovska, Miroslava; Eg, Ragnhild (Chapter, 2021)

  This work-in-progress paper examines adolescents’ experiences with personalized content on social media and how it influences them. Through group interviews with Norwegian students aged 15 to 19 years, we investigated their ...

• Diabetes mortality and trends before 25 years of age: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Cousin, Ewerton; Duncan, Bruce B.; Stein, Caroline; Ong, Kanyin Liane; Vos, Theo; Kisa, Adnan; Mortality Collaborators, GBD 2019 Diabetes; Schmidt, Maria Inês; Kisa, Sezer; Naghavi, Mohsen; Murray, Christopher J L (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Background Diabetes, particularly type 1 diabetes, at younger ages can be a largely preventable cause of death with the correct health care and services. We aimed to evaluate diabetes mortality and trends at ages younger ...

• Global, regional, and national burden of diseases and injuries for adults 70 years and older: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study 

  Tyrovolas, Stefanos; Stergachis, Andy; Krish, Varsha Sarah; Chang, Angela Y.; Skirbekk, Vegard; Kisa, Adnan; Dieleman, Joseph L.; Chatterji, Somnath; Kisa, Sezer; Kotsakis, Georgios A.; Kassebaum, Nicholas J; Ageing Collaborators, GBD 2017 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Objectives To use data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD 2019) to estimate mortality and disability trends for the population aged ≥70 and evaluate patterns in causes of death, ...

• Global mortality from dementia: Application of a new method and results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Nichols, Emma; Kisa, Adnan; Vos, Theo; Collaborators, GBD 2019; Kisa, Sezer; Murray, Christopher J L; Mokdad, Ali H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Introduction: Dementia is currently one of the leading causes of mortality globally, and mortality due to dementia will likely increase in the future along with corresponding increases in population growth and population ...

• Informal Caregivers and Psychosocial Support: Analysis of European Dementia Policy Documents 

  Tokovska, Miroslava; Nour, Magde Mohamed; Sørensen, Anette; Goth, Ursula-Georgine Småland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

• Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1 

  Galles, Natalie C.; Liu, Patrick Y.; Updike, Rachel L; Kisa, Sezer; Kisa, Adnan; Collaborators, Vaccine Coverage (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background Measuring routine childhood vaccination is crucial to inform global vaccine policies and programme implementation, and to track progress towards targets set by the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) and Immunization ...

• Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Paulson, Katherine R.; Kamath, Aruna M; Alam, Tahiya; Kisa, Adnan; Mortality Collaborators, GBD 2019 Under-5; Hay, Simon I.; Kisa, Sezer; Murray, Christopher J L; Kassebaum, Nicholas J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years ...

• Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Lozano, Rafael; Fullman, Nancy; Mumford, John Everett; Knight, Megan; Barthelemy, Celine M.; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abbastabar, Hedayat; Abd-Allah, Foad; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Abedi, Aidin; Abolhassani, Hassan; Abosetugn, Akine Eshete; Abreu, Lucas Guimarães; Abrigo, Michael R M; Abu Haimed, Abdulaziz Khalid; Abushouk, Abdelrahman I.; Adabi, Maryam; Adebayo, Oladimeji M.; Adekanmbi, Victor; Adelson, Jaimie D.; Adetokunboh, Olatunji O.; Adham, Davoud; Advani, Shailesh M.; Afshin, Ashkan; Agarwal, Gina; Agasthi, Pradyumna; Aghamir, Seyed Mohammad Kazem; Agrawal, Anurag; Ahmad, Tauseef; Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola; Alahdab, Fares; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alam, Khurshid; Albertson, Samuel B.; Alemu, Yihun Mulugeta; Alhassan, Robert Kaba; Ali, Muhammad; Ali, Saqib; Alipour, Vahid; Aljunid, Syed Mohamed; Alla, François; Almadi, Majid Abdulrahman Hamad; Almasi, Ali; Almasi-Hashiani, Amir; Almasri, Nihad A; Al-Mekhlaf, Hesham M; Kisa, Adnan; Yitayew, Teferi Mekonnen; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Øverland, Simon Nygaard; Hassan, Shoaib (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• Tobacco Use and Risk Factors for Hypertensive Individuals in Kenya 

  Walekhwa, Silvia Walekhwa; Kisa, Adnan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Abstract: This study aimed to examine the association between hypertension and tobacco use as well as other known hypertensive risk factors (BMI, waist–hip ratio, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and socio-economic ...

• Use of multidimensional item response theory methods for dementia prevalence prediction: an example using the Health and Retirement Survey and the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study 

  Nichols, Emma; Abd-Allah, Foad; Hay, Simon I.; Kisa, Adnan; Murray, Christopher J L; Vos, Theo; Kisa, Sezer; Mokdad, Ali H.; Dementia Collaborators, GBD 2019 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background Data sparsity is a major limitation to estimating national and global dementia burden. Surveys with full diagnostic evaluations of dementia prevalence are prohibitively resource-intensive in many settings. ...

• Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Ward, Joseph L.; Azzopardi, Peter S.; Francis, Kate Louise; Santelli, John S.; Skirbekk, Vegard; Sawyer, Susan M.; Kassebaum, Nicholas J.; Mokdad, Ali H.; Kisa, Adnan; Hay, Simon I.; Patton, George C.; Viner, Russell M.; Kisa, Sezer; Mortality Collaborators, GBD 2019 Adolescent; Villeneuve, Paul J.; Vos, Theo; Wamai, Richard G; Schwendicke, Falk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background Documentation of patterns and long-term trends in mortality in young people, which reflect huge changes in demographic and social determinants of adolescent health, enables identification of global investment ...

• Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

  Feigin, Valery L.; Stark, Benjamin A; Owens Johnson, Catherine; Roth, Gregory A.; Bisignano, Catherine; Kisa, Adnan; Stroke Collaborators, GBD 2019; Kisa, Sezer; Zhong, Chenwen; Zuniga, Yves Miel H; Murray, Christopher J L (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are important for evidence-based ...

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