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Background: The prevalence of obesity continues to rise worldwide with alarming rates in most of the world countries. Our aim was to compare the mortality of fatal disease attributable to excess body mass index (BMI) in Iran in 2005 and 2011.
Methods: Using standards implementation comparative risk assessment methodology, we estimated mortality attributable to excess BMI in Iranian adults of 25-65 years old, at the national and sub-national levels for 9 attributable outcomes including; ischemic heart diseases (IHDs), stroke, hypertensive heart diseases, diabetes mellitus (DM), colon cancer, cancer of the body of the uterus, breast cancer, kidney cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
Conclusions: Despite the priority of the problem, there is currently no comprehensive program to prevention or control obesity in Iran. The present results show a growing need to comprehensive implications for national and sub-national health policies and interventional programs in Iran.
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Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing global challenges, with rising temperature being a prominent consequence. The Earth's climate is undergoing unprecedented shifts primarily caused by human activities, particularly the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, industrial processes, and agricultural practices have all contributed to the accumulation of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane, creating a greenhouse effect that traps heat within the Earth's atmosphere. As a result, the planet's average temperature has been steadily climbing over the past century.
Iran's Persian Gulf International Airport experienced record-breaking heat on Sunday due to a rare combination of extremely high temperature and abundant atmospheric moisture that created a heat index.
"Persian Gulf International Airport in Iran reported a heat index of 152 degrees Fahrenheit (66.7 degrees Celsius) today at 12:30 pm. Those are intolerable conditions for human/animal life," he said in a tweet posted on July 16.
To calculate how hot or cold the weather feels, meteorologists use equations that factor in air temperature and other atmospheric variables. One of the most widely-used methods for estimating the impacts of hot weather is called the 'heat index', which combines air temperature and humidity.
At the time mentioned by Mr McCarthy, the temperature at the Persian Gulf International Airport reached 40 Degrees Celsius, with a relative humidity of 65 per cent, according to NOAA data. This created an apparent temperature of 66.7 degrees Celsius.
Extreme heat can have devastating impact on humans. According to vaccine alliance GAVI, it leads to dehydration and if a person doesn't drink enough water to replace that lost through sweating and urination, the blood starts to thicken, making it more prone to clotting, which increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Simultaneous heat waves are suffocating the US, much of Europe and parts of Asia, while El Nino intensifies in the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic waters off Florida hit an unprecedented 32.2 degrees Celsius. China has already recorded its highest-ever temperature of 52.2 degrees Celsius in Sanbo township.
Dr Akshay Deoras, from the University of Reading's meteorology department, has warned of "more frequent and intense" extreme weather events if global temperatures continue to rise at their current rate. Dr Deoras also said that Earth will become an "inferno" if the heatwaves don't spur on governments to tackle global warming.
Tuberculosis is one of the most serious challenges facing the global healthcare system. This study aims to investigate the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis in Iran from 2010 to 2019 as well as its relationship with the human development index (HDI).
The present study is an ecological study aiming at investigating the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis in Iran during the years 2010 to 2019. The related data were extracted from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) website. The spatial pattern attributed to tuberculosis in the provinces of Iran was analyzed using ArcGIS software. In this study, the two-variable correlation method was used to analyze the data extracted to study the correlation between Tuberculosis and HDI.
Since mortality is mostly observed in areas with low HDI, health system policymakers must pay more attention to these areas in order to improve care and perform screenings to diagnose and treat patients thus reducing the mortality rate of tuberculosis and preventing an increase in its incidence in Iran.
Policymakers and researchers are paying more and more attention to the significance of infectious diseases for public health and the economic development of countries in the last few decades [1, 2]. Despite its long history of about 3000 years, tuberculosis (TB) is still an acute health problem in human societies [3]. This disease is a global emergency leading to high morbidity and mortality, especially in sub-Saharan African countries, and, after acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), it is considered the second leading fatal infectious disease [4, 5]. Recent estimates of the global burden of people infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis indicate that about 1.7 billion people, i.e., 23% of the world's population, have this infection. This large number of people with latent tuberculosis is the bed of infectious tuberculosis patients in the future, and despite BCG immunization, adult forms of tuberculosis continue to emerge, indicating that the current vaccine has limited efficacy against adult tuberculosis, hence the need for tuberculosis vaccines with high protective efficiency [1, 4, 6]. It is estimated that by 2030 and 2050, latent tuberculosis patients will generate 16.3 and 8.3 active tuberculosis patients per 100,000 population, respectively [7]. The incidence of tuberculosis varies considerably among different countries and in different population groups and within countries [8, 9].
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) produces annual updates to the GBD study, including temporal and geographic trends, since 1990. Updating new data and methodological advances to provide policymakers with the most up-to-date information for health care planning and resource allocation. The 2019 GBD study estimated incidence, prevalence, and mortality by age, sex, year, and location for 354 diseases and injuries and 3484 sequelae i.e., disabling consequences of these diseases and injuries [23].
This ecological study in Iran was designed to investigate the distribution of the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis and its relationship with the human development index. All the data used in this research were made available to the public at -results-tool. Data were extracted using GBD results. These data including mortality and incidence estimates for all age and sex groups along with the 95% CI were accessible. For some indices, the percentage change between 1990 and 2019 was reported [24].
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical tool used to measure a country's overall achievements in its social and economic dimensions. According to this index, the social and economic dimensions of a country are evaluated based on the health of people, their level of education, and their standard of living. The United Nations measures the HDI index annually for the member countries of the United Nations in a report based on which different countries are ranked [25, 26].
The results showed that in 2010, the incidence rate in women was higher than that in men, and during the following years, this incidence in women decreased and became less than in men. Mortality decline has occurred among men from 2010 to 2019, and in women, although the trend of mortality has been almost constant between 2010 and 2014, since 2014, there has been a decreasing trend (Fig. 1).
Figure 2 compares the incidence rate of tuberculosis in 2010 compared to 2019 based on age groups. It can be observed that the incidence rate of tuberculosis has declined in all age groups in 2019 compared to 2010, and the highest incidence rate of tuberculosis can be seen among age groups above 60 years and the lowest incidence rate of tuberculosis is related to children under 5 years old.
Figure 3 compares the mortality rate of tuberculosis in 2010 compared to 2019 based on age groups. As can be seen in all age groups, the mortality rate of tuberculosis has decreased in 2019 compared to 2010, and the highest incidence rate of Tuberculosis is seen among the age groups above 60 years old, and a sharp decline in the mortality rate is observed in these age groups.
Figure 4 shows the incidence rate of tuberculosis in different provinces of the country from 2009 to 2019. As can be seen, the provinces of Sistan and Baluchistan, Khorasan Razavi, Golestan, and Tehran had the highest incidence rate in the country until 2015. In 2017 and 2019, the incidence rate decreased in Tehran and Khorasan Razavi provinces, but Sistan and Baluchestan and Golestan provinces still had the highest incidence rate of tuberculosis (Fig. 3).
Figure 5 shows the mortality rate of tuberculosis in different provinces of Iran from 2009 to 2019. As can be seen, the provinces of Sistan and Baluchistan, Khorasan Razavi, Golestan, and South Khorasan had the highest mortality rate in the country until 2011. And in 2015 to 2019, the highest mortality rate from tuberculosis was seen in Golestan, and Sistan and Baluchistan provinces (Fig. 5).
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