Burden of tobacco in Nepal: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study systematically reviews the data extracted from the Global Burden of Disease Study and sets out to assess the age-specific and sex-specific mortality and disability attributable to different forms of tobacco from 1990 to 2017, for Nepal.

Design

This cross-sectional study extracted data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's Global Burden of Disease database, then was quantitatively analysed to show the trends and patterns of prevalence of tobacco use, deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributable to tobacco use from different diseases from the year 1990 to 2017 in Nepal.

Setting

Nepal.

Results

In between 1990 and 2015, the age-standardised prevalence of daily tobacco smoking decreased by 33% in males, 48% in

SUBMITTER: Shrestha G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8383890 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature