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SUBMITTER: GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6227755 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lancet (London, England) 20181108 10159
<h4>Background</h4>The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising evidence on risks and risk-outcome associations. With each annual GBD study, we update the GBD CRA to incorporate improved methods, new risks and risk-outcome pairs, and new data on risk exposure levels and risk-outcome associations.<h4>Methods</h4>We used the CRA framew ...[more]