Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of lower respiratory infections in 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Authors: Christopher Troeger, Brigette Blacker, Ibrahim A Khalil, Puja C Rao, Jackie Cao, Stephanie R M Zimsen, Samuel B Albertson, Aniruddha Deshpande, Tamer Farag, Zegeye Abebe, Ifedayo Morayo O Adetifa, Tara Ballav Adhikari, Mohammed Akibu, Faris Hasan Al Lami, Ayman Al-Eyadhy, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Azmeraw T Amare, Yaw Ampem Amoako, Carl Abelardo T Antonio, Olatunde Aremu, Ephrem Tsegay Asfaw, Solomon Weldegebreal Asgedom, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Engi Farouk Attia, Euripide Frinel G Arthur Avokpaho, Henok Tadesse Ayele, Tambe Betrand Ayuk, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Aleksandra Barac, Quique Bassat, Masoud Behzadifar, Meysam Behzadifar, Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Ali Bijani, Michael Brauer, Alexandria Brown, Paulo A M Camargos, Carlos A Castañeda-Orjuela, Danny Colombara, Sara Conti, Abel Fekadu Dadi, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Huyen Phuc Do, Eleonora Dubljanin, Dumessa Edessa, Hajer Elkout, Aman Yesuf Endries, Daniel Obadare Fijabi, Kyle J Foreman, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Nancy Fullman, Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro, Bradford D Gessner, Peter W Gething, Rahul Gupta, Tarun Gupta, Gessessew Bugssa Hailu, Hamid Yimam Hassen, Mohammad T Hedayati, Mohsen Heidari, Desalegn Tsegaw Hibstu, Nobuyuki Horita, Olayinka S Ilesanmi, Mihajlo B Jakovljevic, Amr A Jamal, Amaha Kahsay, Amir Kasaeian, Dessalegn Haile Kassa, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Young-Ho Khang, Yun Jin Kim, Niranjan Kissoon, Luke D Knibbs, Sonali Kochhar, Parvaiz A Koul, G Anil Kumar, Rakesh Lodha, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Joseph L Mathew, Desalegn Tadese Mengistu, Haftay Berhane Mezgebe, Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad, Mohammed A Mohammed, Fatemeh Momeniha, Srinivas Murthy, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Katie R Nielsen, Dina Nur Anggraini Ningrum, Yirga Legesse Nirayo, Eyal Oren, Justin R Ortiz, Mahesh PA, Maarten J Postma, Mostafa Qorbani, Reginald Quansah, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Saleem M Rana, Chhabi Lal Ranabhat, Sarah E Ray, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, George Mugambage Ruhago, Saeid Safiri, Joshua A Salomon, Benn Sartorius, Miloje Savic, Monika Sawhney, Jun She, Aziz Sheikh, Mekonnen Sisay Shiferaw, Mika Shigematsu, Jasvinder A Singh, Ranjani Somayaji, Jeffrey D Stanaway, Muawiyyah Babale Sufiyan, Getachew Redae Taffere, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Matthew J Thompson, Ruoyan Tobe-Gai, Roman Topor-Madry, Bach Xuan Tran, Tung Thanh Tran, Kald Beshir Tuem, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Stein Emil Vollset, Judd L Walson, Fitsum Weldegebreal, Andrea Werdecker, T Eoin West, Naohiro Yonemoto, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Lei Zhou, Sanjay Zodpey, Theo Vos, Mohsen Naghavi, Stephen S Lim, Ali H Mokdad, Christopher J L Murray, Simon I Hay, Robert C Reiner
Journal: The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2018)

Lower respiratory infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality around the world. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study 2016, provides an up-to-date analysis of the burden of lower respiratory infections in 195 countries. This study assesses cases, deaths, and aetiologies spanning the past 26 years and shows how the burden of lower respiratory infection has changed in people of all ages.