Mon, September 18 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Life, death, and disability in 2016: latest estimates from The Global Burden of Disease Study – The Lancet

Editorial: Life, death, and disability in 2016 (free)

– Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016 (free)

– Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016 (free)

– Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016 (free)

– Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016 (free)

– Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016 (free)

– Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries (free)

Commentaries: New global study finds countries saving more lives, despite a ‘triad of troubles’ in obesity, violence, and mental illness – Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (free) AND Smoking And Poor Diet Still Leading Killers Worldwide – Pursuit (free)

See also: GBD Compare Interactive Tool – Explore which causes & risk factors are causing the most death & disability in your country over time (free tool)

2 – Guideline: Type 2 diabetes: prevention in people at high risk – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)

3 – Guideline: Depression in children and young people: identification and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)

4 – Percutaneous Coronary Intervention vs Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients With Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Cardiology (free)

Commentary: CABG, PCI show similar long-term outcomes – Cardiovascular Business (free)

5 – Meat, Dietary Heme Iron, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Singapore Chinese Health Study – American Journal of Epidemiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Eating meat linked to higher risk of diabetes – DukeNUS Medical School, via EurekAlert (free)

Related articles: Meat Consumption as a Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes – Nutrients (free) AND Meat consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies – Diabetologia (free) AND Red meat consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: 3 cohorts of US adults and an updated meta-analysis – American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (free)

“The Singapore Chinese Health Study reveals increased risk of diabetes with higher intake of red meat and poultry, partially attributed to the dietary iron content in these meats” (from EurekAlert)

6 – How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food – The New York times (10 articles per month are free) (RT @glassmanamanda see Tweet)

“As growth slows in wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problems”.

7 – Evaluation of a Rapid Molecular Drug-Susceptibility Test for Tuberculosis – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Quick Take Video Summary: Detecting Tuberculosis Resistance (free)

Commentary: New rapid molecular test for MDR-TB shows promise – CIDRAP (free)

8 – European guidelines on perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis: Surgery in the elderly – European Journal of Anaesthesiology (free PDF)

9 – Effects on the incidence of cardiovascular events of the addition of pioglitazone versus sulfonylureas in patients with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled with metformin (TOSCA.IT): a randomised, multicentre trial – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Sulfonylureas, Pioglitazone Similarly Safe for Add-On Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes – Physician’s First Watch (free)

10 – Review: Drug-induced liver injury: recent advances in diagnosis and risk assessment – Gut (free)