Katharina Buczek
Interestingly, though, despite metabolic disease rates trending upward, mortality rates from a variety of conditions– such as high cholesterol, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and liver disease– have decreased.
The analysis also revealed how the rate of obesity-related deaths did not significantly change from 2000 to 2019– although it did remain the highest of the studied diseases. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)– or the estimated lost years due to premature mortality– saw a 0.48% annual increase. This accounted for over 160 million years of lost life in just 2019.
Death rates related to type 2 diabetes also remained stable despite a 1.56% annual increase globally from 2000 to 2019. Approximately 6.6 million years of life (DALYs) were lost in 2019 due to type 2 diabetes, with annual increases from 2000 to 2019 landing at 0.77%.
Finally, deaths related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease actually decreased by 0.63% annually– despite rates of the disease increasing by 0.83% yearly. This meant that in 2019, approximately 4.4 million years of life were lost (DALYs).
This analysis ultimately revealed how, despite death rates remaining stagnant or even decreasing, global disease acquisition is trending upward– pushing the researchers to advocate for more public health attention.
“Urgent attention is needed to address the unchanging mortality rates attributed to metabolic disease and the entrenched [gender]-regional-socioeconomic disparities in mortality,” the team concluded.
To read the study’s complete findings, visit the link here.
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