Citation

Hu G, Mamady K. Lancet 2013; 382(9898): 1092-1093.

Comment On:

Lancet 2012;380(9859):2224-60.

Comment In:

Lancet 2013;382(9898):1093.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62014-0

PMID

24075041

Abstract

Quantification of the disease burden of potentially modifiable risk factors is crucial for health decision-makers. The 2010 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides an update of comparative risk assessment of the burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and cluster risk factors.1 However, the validity of GBD 2010 estimates of burden attributable to risk factors remains unreported because of the lack of country-level directly reported data.
We analysed data for road injuries from the USA, Canada, UK, and New Zealand, and compared them with alcohol-related deaths from transport injury from GBD 2010....

Because of the large difference between GBD data and reported data from four countries with high-quality data, the GBD 2010 data should be used cautiously to support policy related to alcohol use. When possible, high-quality directly observed data should be given priority, and further studies are needed to explain the large differences observed.

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