Akram Pourshams

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Gregory A. Roth, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate et al. · The Lancet · 2018 · 8.5K citations · Full text

Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen, Zargar Abdul Hamid et al. · The Lancet · 2017 · 7.4K citations · Full text

Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Valery L. Feigin, Benjamin Stark, Catherine O. Johnson et al. · The Lancet Neurology · 2021 · 7K citations · Full text

Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei et al. · The Lancet · 2021 · 3.4K citations · Full text

Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017

Christina Fitzmaurice, Degu Abate, Naghmeh Abbasi et al. · JAMA Oncology · 2019 · 2.6K citations · Full text