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Title: | What is the true tuberculosis mortality burden? Differences in estimates by the World Health Organization and the Global Burden of Disease study |
Author: | García-Basteiro, Alberto L. Brew, Joe Williams, Brian Borgdorff, Martien Cobelens, Frank |
Keywords: | Tuberculosi Mortalitat Tuberculosis Mortality |
Issue Date: | 12-Jul-2018 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Abstract: | Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) periodically provide global estimates of tuberculosis (TB) mortality. We compared the 2015 WHO and GBD TB mortality estimates and explored which factors might drive the differences. Methods: We extracted the number of estimated TB-attributable deaths, disaggregated by age, HIV status, sex and country from publicly available WHO and GBD datasets for the year 2015. We ‘standardized’ differences between sources by adjusting each country’s difference in absolute number of deaths by the average number of deaths estimated by both sources. Results: For 195 countries with estimates from both institutions, WHO estimated 1 768 482 deaths attributable to TB, whereas GBD estimated 1 322 916 deaths, a difference of 445 566 deaths or 29% of the average of the two estimates. The countries with the largest absolute differences in deaths were Nigeria (216 621), Bangladesh (49 863) and Tanzania (38 272). The standardized difference was not associated with HIV prevalence, prevalence of multidrug resistance or global region, but did show correlation with the case detection rate as estimated by WHO [r ¼ 0.37, 95% confidence interval (CI): 049; 0.24] or, inversely, with case detection rate based on GBD data (r ¼ 0.44, 95% CI: 0.31; 0.54). Countries with a recent national prevalence survey had higher standardized differences (higher estimates by WHO) than those without (P ¼ 0.006). After exclusion of countries with recent prevalence surveys, the overall correlation between both estimates was r ¼ 0.991. Conclusions: A few countries account for the large global discrepancy in TB mortality estimates. The differences are due to the methodological approaches used by WHO and GBD. The use and interpretation of prevalence survey data and case detection rates seem to play a role in the observed differences. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy144 |
It is part of: | International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018, vol. 47, num. 5, p. 1549–1560 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/128565 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1093/ije/dyy144 |
ISSN: | 0300-5771 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal) |
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