Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis between 1990 and 2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Authors: Hannah Han, Ian D Letourneau, Yohannes Habtegiorgis Abate, Michael Abdelmasseh, Eman Abu-Gharbieh, Tigist Demssew Adane, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Aqeel Ahmad, Ali Ahmadi, Ayman Ahmed, Fadwa Naji Alhalaiqa, Salman Khalifah Al-Sabah, Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi, Hubert Amu, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Amir Anoushiravani, Jalal Arabloo, Aleksandr Y Aravkin, Tahira Ashraf, Sina Azadnajafabad, Nayereh Baghcheghi, Sara Bagherieh, Berihun Bantie Bantie, Mainak Bardhan, Guido Basile, Nebiyou Simegnew Bayleyegn, Amir Hossein Behnoush, Alehegn Bekele, Vijayalakshmi S Bhojaraja, Ali Bijani, Antonio Biondi, Katrin Burkart, Dinh-Toi Chu, Isaac Sunday Chukwu, Natalia Cruz-Martins, Xiaochen Dai, Berecha Hundessa Demessa, Arkadeep Dhali, Daniel Diaz, Thanh Chi Do, Milad Dodangeh, Deepa Dongarwar, Haneil Larson Dsouza, Michael Ekholuenetale, Temitope Cyrus Ekundayo, Iman El Sayed, Muhammed Elhadi, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Ildar Ravisovich Fakhradiyev, Pietro Ferrara, Getahun Fetensa, Florian Fischer, Mesfin Gebrehiwot, Melaku Getachew, Mahaveer Golechha, Vivek Kumar Gupta, Joseph R Habib, Najah R Hadi, Nils Haep, Teklehaimanot Gereziher Haile, Erin B Hamilton, Ikramul Hasan, Hamidreza Hasani, Sara Hassanzadeh, Johannes Haubold, Simon I Hay, Khezar Hayat, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Sumant Inamdar, Chidozie C D Iwu, Assefa N Iyasu, Umesh Jayarajah, Shubha Jayaram, Mohammad Jokar, Nabi Jomehzadeh, Abel Joseph, Nitin Joseph, Charity Ehimwenma Joshua, Ali Kabir, Himal Kandel, Joonas H Kauppila, Phillip M. Kemp Bohan, Himanshu Khajuria, Maseer Khan, Haitham Khatatbeh, Min Seo Kim, Adnan Kisa, Farzad Kompani, Hamid Reza Koohestani, Rakesh Kumar, Thao Thi Thu Le, Munjae Lee, Seung Won Lee, Ming-Chieh Li, Stephen S Lim, Chun-Han Lo, Raimundas Lunevicius, Kashish Malhotra, Andrea Maugeri, Rishi P Mediratta, Tuomo J Meretoja, Tomislav Mestrovic, Mohammad Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari, Nouh Saad Mohamed, Ali H Mokdad, Lorenzo Monasta, Mohammad Ali Moni, Maryam Moradi, Vincent Mougin, George Duke Mukoro, Efren Murillo-Zamora, Christopher J L Murray, Mukhammad David Naimzada, Hastyar Hama Rashid Najmuldeen, Zuhair S Natto, Ionut Negoi, Hien Quang Nguyen, Taxiarchis Konstantinos Nikolouzakis, Isaac Iyinoluwa Olufadewa, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Ashok Pandey, Romil R Parikh, Hoang Tran Pham, Richard Charles G Pollok, Mehran Rahimi, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Mosiur Rahman, Shayan Rahmani, Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi, Salman Rawaf, Jennifer Rickard, Hamidreza Rouientan, Simanta Roy, Basema Ahmad Saddik, Umar Saeed, Mohamed A Saleh, Sana Salehi, Abdallah M Samy, Juan Sanabria, Senthilkumar Sankararaman, Austin E Schumacher, Subramanian Senthilkumaran, Pritik A Shah, Sina Shool, Migbar Mekonnen Sibhat, Negussie Boti Sidamo, Jasvinder A Singh, Bogdan Socea, Yonatan Solomon, Saraswathy Sreeram, Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Ker-Kan Tan, Seyed Mohammad Tavangar, Yibekal Manaye Tefera, Nikhil Kenny Thomas, Jansje Henny Vera Ticoalu, Guesh Mebrahtom Tsegay, Dejen Tsegaye, Sana Ullah, Abachebissa Nuru Usman, Rohollah Valizadeh, Massimiliano Veroux, Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Theo Vos, Mei Wang, Song Wang, Dakshitha Praneeth Wickramasinghe, Galal Yahya, Iman Zare, Armin Zarrintan, Zhi-Jiang Zhang, M Ashworth Dirac
Journal: The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology (2024)

Appendicitis is a common surgical emergency that poses a large clinical and economic burden. Understanding the global burden of appendicitis is crucial for evaluating unmet needs and implementing and scaling up intervention services to reduce adverse health outcomes. This study aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis, by age and sex, from 1990 to 2021.