by Sara Moraca | Oct 21, 2024 | Cardiovascular disease, Global Burden of Diseaase Project, Maternal and developmental health, Neurological diseases, Tumors
On a sunny day in Clearwater, Florida, more than a dozen people gathered in a United Way resource center parking lot, eager to receive free weekly meals offered by the 360 Eats food truck. This truck cooks dishes from food that would otherwise go to waste. That day,...
by Sara Moraca | Oct 12, 2024 | Cardiovascular disease, Global Burden of Diseaase Project, Italian GBD Initiative, Neurological diseases, Tumors
In 2022 in Tuscany, lung cancer caused 195 and 541 years of life lived with disability (YLD) in women and men, respectively, corresponding to about 9 and 25 YLD per 100,000 people. Of these, about 53% in women and 66% in men were caused by smoking. These data come...
by Sara Moraca | Oct 11, 2024 | Cardiovascular disease, Global Burden of Diseaase Project, Italian GBD Initiative, Maternal and developmental health, Neurological diseases, Tumors
Smoking is the leading behavioral risk factor for mortality globally, responsible for more than 175 million deaths and nearly 4.30 billion years of life lost (YLL) from 1990 to 2021. The pace of decline in smoking prevalence has slowed in recent years for many...
by Lorenzo Monasta | Aug 16, 2023 | Cardiovascular disease, Environmental exposures, Italian GBD Initiative, Tumors
Air pollution is one of the risk factors assessed by the Global Burden of Disease Study and is of great importance in population health. It actually ranks fourth in terms of impact on a global scale. Since it is known that air quality in Italy has peculiar...
by admin | Nov 29, 2022 | Tumors
Using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, we tracked Italy cancers in 2017 and trends for this disease over the past three decades. Specifically, we provided estimates of incidence (number of cases diagnosed per year), mortality (number of deaths per...
