Disability-adjusted life years of clonorchiasis in China: a high-resolution spatial analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clonorchiasis is caused by the ingestion of raw freshwater fish containing infective metacercariae of Clonorchis sinensis. This study aimed to fully evaluate disease burden in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for clonorchiasis in China.

Methods

Following our previous study which established the fine-scale prevalence distribution of C. sinensis infection in China, we further adopted Bayesian geostatistical models to estimate the infection intensity in terms of eggs per gram of feces (EPG) in infected individuals based on the national surveillance data of clonorchiasis between 2016 and 2021. Disability weight was then captured through its quantitative association with EPG, and used to estimate years of life living with a disability (YLDs). Incidence o

SUBMITTER: Qian MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12729697 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature