co-morbidity_metadata.txt

Mordibity data provenance

Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (GBD 2017) Results. Seattle, United States: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2018.
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Diabetes mellitus (B.8.1 within GBD hierarchy)
[location]_diabetes_[measure]_[sex].csv
Combined prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes (B.8.1.1 and B.8.1.2)

Cardiovascular diseases (B.2 within GBD hierarchy)
[location]_cardiovascular_[measure]_[sex].csv
Combined prevalence of Rheumatic heart disease (B.2.1), Ischemic heart disease (B.2.2), Stroke (B.2.3),
Hypertensive heart disease (B.2.4), Non-rheumatic valvular heart disease (B.2.5), Cardiomyopathy and myocarditis (B.2.6),
Atrial fibrilation and flutter (B.2.7), Aortic aneurysm (B.2.8), Peripheral artery disease (B.2.9),
Endocarditis (B.2.10), Other cardiovascular and circulatory disases (B.2.11)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (B.3.1 within GBD hierarchy)
[location]_copd_[measure]_[sex]


Provisional formatting (last updated on 10th February 2020)

Location: Reference of Global Burden of Disease hierarchy; character field
Year: Year of estimate; numeric field
Age: Age group distinction; character field
Sex: Sex of estimate; character field Male Female
Measure: Health measure reported; character field "Prevalent cases per 100,000"
Value: Mean estimated value in Measure reported; numeric field
Lower bound: Lower bound of estimate of Measure reported; numeric field
Upper bound: Upper bound of estimate of Measure reported; numeric field

Defintion of "Sub-Saharan Africa"
The following countries constitute GBD definition of Sub-Saharan Africa
Central Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Southern Sub-Saharan Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Western Sub-Saharan Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, The gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo