Authors
Samar Al-Hajj, Sarah H Farran, Abla Mehio Sibai, Randah R Hamadeh, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajaa M Al-Raddadi, Farideh Sadeghian, Zahra Ghodsi, Wael Alhajyaseen, Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, Behzad Abbasi, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Amir Abdoli, Salam Abdulqadir Abdulrahman, Hiwa Abubaker Ali, Eman Abu-Gharbieh, Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Bahman Ahadinezhad, Sajjad Ahmad, Ali Ahmadi, Ali Ahmed, Haroon Ahmed, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Marjan Ajami, Hanadi Al Hamad, Fahad Mashhour Alanezi, Turki M Alanzi, Suliman A Alghnam, Fadwa Naji Alhalaiqa, Beriwan Abdulqadir Ali, Liaqat Ali, Yousef Alimohamadi, Cyrus Alinia, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Sami Almustanyir, Tarek Tawfik Amin, Saeed Amini, Sohrab Amiri, Mohammad Hosein Amirzade-Iranaq, Ali Arash Anoushirvani, Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam, Davood Anvari, Muhammad Aqeel, Jalal Arabloo, Morteza Arab-Zozani, Judie Arulappan, Armin Aryannejad, Saeed Asgary, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Tahira Ashraf, Seyyed Shamsadin Athari, Maha Moh'd Wahbi Atout, Zahra Azadmanjir, Sina Azadnajafabad, Mohammadreza Azangou-Khyavy, Amirhossein Azari Jafari, Ahmed YY Azzam, Sara Bagherieh, Mohammad Hossein Bakhshaei, Abdul-Monim Mohammad Batiha, Neeraj Bedi, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sadia Bibi, Ali Bijani, Nadeem Shafique Butt, Zahra Chegini, Omar B Da'ar, Saad MA Dahlawi, Sajad Delavari, Mostafa Dianatinasab, Mojtaba Didehdar, Shirin Djalalinia, Saeid Doaei, Milad Dodangeh, Fatemeh Eghbalian, Elham Ehsani-Chimeh, Iman El Sayed, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Hala Rashad Elhabashy, Muhammed Elhadi, Sharareh Eskandarieh, Azin Etemadimanesh, Mohamad Ezati Asar, Shahab Falahi, Farshad Farzadfar, Ali Fatehizadeh, Hamed Fattahi, Masoud Foroutan, Mansour Ghafourifard, Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, Reza Ghanbari, Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh, Ahmad Ghashghaee, Maryam Gholamalizadeh, Alireza Ghorbani, Syed Amir Gilani, Kimiya Gohari, Pouya Goleij, Michal Grivna, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen Gubari, Rasool Haddadi, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Arvin Haj-Mirzaian, Rabih Halwani, Sajid Hameed, Asif Hanif, Ahmed I Hasaballah, Amr Hassan, Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam, Soheil Hassanipour, Hadi Hassankhani, Khezar Hayat, Mohammad Heidari, Mohammad-Salar Hosseini, Mostafa Hosseini, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mowafa Househ, Soodabeh Hoveidamanesh, Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, Behzad Imani, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, Roxana Jabbarinejad, Mohammad Ali Jahani, Mahsa Jalili, Amirreza Javadi Mamaghani, Seyed Ali Jeddi, Farahnaz Joukar, Ali Kabir, Laleh R Kalankesh, Leila R Kalankesh, Rohollah Kalhor, Aziz Kamran, Leila Keikavoosi-Arani, Mohammad Keykhaei, Yousef Saleh Khader, Rovshan Khalilov, Mohammad Khammarnia, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Maseer Khan, Moien AB Khan, Javad Khanali, Hamid Reza Khayat Kashani, Omid Khosravizadeh, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Hamid Reza Koohestani, Sogol Koolaji, Faris Hasan Lami, Savita Lasrado, Farzan Madadizadeh
Publication date
2022/4/1
Journal
The Lancet Healthy Longevity
Volume
3
Issue
4
Pages
e262. e1-e262. e4
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Injury poses a major threat to health and longevity in adults aged 50 years or older. The increased life expectancy in the Eastern Mediterranean region warrants a further understanding of the ageing population's inevitable changing health demands and challenges. We aimed to examine injury-related morbidity and mortality among adults aged 50 years or older in 22 Eastern Mediterranean countries.
Methods
Drawing on data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019, we categorised the population into adults aged 50–69 years and adults aged 70 years and older. We examined estimates for transport injuries, self-harm injuries, and unintentional injuries for both age groups, with sex differences reported, and analysed the percentage changes from 1990 to 2019. We reported injury-related mortality rates and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). The Socio …
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S Al-Hajj, SH Farran, AM Sibai, RR Hamadeh… - The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2022