Unmasking the rising global burden of depression: A 32-year GBD analysis of gender disparities and regional hotspots in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Junping Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junping Liu, Zhongming Ye

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Traditional Medicine, Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Zhongming Ye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junping Liu, Zhongming Ye

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Yan Cai,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Traditional Medicine, Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Jiaying Li,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Traditional Medicine, Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Zhe Dong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Traditional Medicine, Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Xiaodan Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 18235291956@163.com

  Affiliation Department of Traditional Medicine, Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4272-1370

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• Ming Lei

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 18235291956@163.com

  Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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