… High blood pressure is an important preventable cause of mortality, and accounts for a
substantial portion of global burden of disease. In the United States, hypertension is a common …

… hypertensive disorders as the leading causes of maternal mortality in developing regions. …
comparing International Classification of Diseases 10 (ICD-10) codes for underlying cause of …

… We modelled 250 causes and cause groups organised by the Global Burden of Diseases, …
, and nutritional diseases are likely to remain among the leading causes of early death. …

… global estimates of maternal mortality, which are excerpted in this chapter (WHO 2015). A
complete description of the methodology and underlying data and statistical model can be …

… Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project.We then calculated age-specific and cause-specific
mortality … It will also provide a baseline for analysis of trends in cause-specific mortality in …

… Cardiovascular disease (CVD), principally ischaemic heart disease and stroke, constitute
the leading cause of global mortality, and accounted for 17.3 million deaths worldwide in 2013. …

… disease in China include all-cause mortality; cause-specific mortality and years of life lost
(YLLs) for 282 causes … Unlike all-cause mortality, we estimated cause-specific mortality only at …

… Ischemic heart disease was the leading cause of global mortality, accounting for 1.4
million deaths in the developed world and 5.7 million deaths in developing regions. [5] …

… disease and all-cause mortality. The study showed that the prevalence of the five modifiable
risk factors and the incidence of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality varied …

… of death, the least developed countries show a far higher mortality due to diseases of
infancy and maternal causes than the developing countries on average. The differential in …