Epub 2018 Aug 3. 1. An extraordinarily large volume of data-on483 separate sequelae of 107 diseases and injuries, and 14 million death cenificates--hasbeen subjected to rigorous analysis using both newly developed and well­ established methods. Kidney Int. 2018 Sep;94(3):567-581. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2018.04.011. The latest iteration of that effort, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 1996), and WHO now regularly develops GBD estimates at regional and global level for a set of more than 135 causes of disease and injury (Mathers et al., 2002; WHO, 2002a). It comprises more than 3000 international collaborators from more than 130 countries and aims to quantitate the burden of disease, disability, The Lancet. GBD 2017 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators. To address these issues and fill the gaps in disease burden estimates across all countries, the GBD (Global Burden of Disease) Study was set up in 1992 within the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation of the University of Washington. Global Health Metrics www.thelancet.com Vol 392 November 10, 2018 1789 Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study … 8 November 2018. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) approach is a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography for specific points in time. Precise information on the burden … The Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) has involved an estimated forty person-yearsof effort. Acknowledgements A GBD study aims to quantify the burden of premature mortality and disability for major diseases or disease groups, and uses a summary measure of population health, the DALY, WHO Estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases X EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Foodborne diseases are an important cause of morbidity and mortality, and a significant impediment to socio-economic development worldwide, but the full extent and burden of unsafe food, and especially the burden arising from chemical and parasitic contaminants, has been unknown. Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study highlights the global, regional, and national trends of chronic kidney disease epidemiology from 1990 to 2016. Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD): A global research study group headquartered at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.