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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE
Volume 56, Issue 9, Pages 993-1000Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22206
Keywords
asbestos; mesothelioma; asbestosis; asbestos-related diseases; potential years of life lost; disability adjusted life years (DALY); age adjusted mortality rate; burden of disease; global
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences
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Background We applied the well-established, but rather under-utilized, indicator of Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) to estimate the global burden of mesothelioma and asbestosis. Methods We analyzed all deaths caused by mesothelioma and asbestosis that were reported by 82 and 55 countries, respectively, to the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1994 to 2010. Results The 128,015 and 13,885 persons who died of mesothelioma and asbestosis, potentially lost a total of 2.18 million and 180,000 years of life (PYLL), or, an annual average PYLL of 201,000 years and 17,000 years, respectively. The average PYLL per decedent were 17.0 and 13.0 years for mesothelioma and asbestosis, respectively. Conclusions The current burden of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs) in terms of PYLL is substantial. The future burden of ARDs can be eliminated by stopping the use of asbestos. Am. J. Ind. Med. 56:993-1000, 2013. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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