About the Authors
- Gretchen Stevens
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: stevensg@who.int
Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America , Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Rodrigo H Dias
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Affiliation Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kevin J. A Thomas
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Affiliation Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Juan A Rivera
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Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Natalie Carvalho
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Affiliation Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Simón Barquera
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Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Kenneth Hill
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Affiliation Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Majid Ezzati
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Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America , Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
GS and ME designed and coordinated the study. KJAT and KH conducted analysis of all-cause mortality. GS, RHD, and NC conducted the analyses of causes of death and disease burden. JAR and SB gathered, and GS analyzed, risk factor exposure data. GS conducted comparative risk assessment analysis. GS and ME wrote the paper with input from other authors. ME oversaw the research and acts as the paper's guarantor.