1. Global, regional, and national prevalence and disability-adjusted life-years for infertility in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: results from a global burden of disease study, 2017
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Yu-Ting Jiang, Ting-Ting Gong, Hui Sun, Yu-Hong Zhao, Shuang Zhang, and Qi-Jun Wu
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Male ,Burden of disease ,Infertility ,Aging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,female infertility ,prevalence ,Prevalence ,Observational period ,male infertility ,Global Burden of Disease ,Male infertility ,Epidemiology ,Humans ,Medicine ,disability-adjusted life-years ,Disease burden ,business.industry ,Female infertility ,Bayes Theorem ,Cell Biology ,medicine.disease ,global burden of disease study ,Female ,Quality-Adjusted Life Years ,business ,Research Paper ,Demography - Abstract
To provide comprehensive estimates of the global, regional, and national burden of infertility from 1990 to 2017, using findings from a 2017 study on the global burden of disease (GBD), we assessed the burden of infertility in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017. DisMod-MR 2.1 is a Bayesian meta-regression method that estimates non-fatal outcomes using sparse and heterogeneous epidemiological data. Globally, the age-standardized prevalence rate of infertility increased by 0.370% per year for females and 0.291% per year for males from 1990 to 2017. Additionally, age-standardized disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) of infertility increased by 0.396% per year for females and 0.293% per year for males during the observational period. An increasing trend to these burden estimates was observed throughout the all socio-demographic index (SDI) countries. Interestingly, we found that high SDI countries had the lowest level of prevalence and DALYs in both genders. However, the largest increasing trend was observed in high-SDI countries for females. By contrast, low-SDI countries had the largest increasing trend in males. Negative associations were observed between these burden estimates and the SDI level. The global disease burden of infertility has been increasing throughout the period from 1990 to 2017.
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- 2019