Chunk #39 — Methods — Mortality and disease burden attributable to individual and clusters of risk factors

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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

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We computed the mean deaths and DALYs attributable to each risk factor and risk factor cluster from the 1000 draws. The 95% uncertainty intervals (95% UI) were calculated as the 2·5th and 97·5th percentiles of the 1000 draws. We also computed the mean rank and 95% UI for the 43 risk factors included in the ranking list. The mean of the ranks for a risk factor was not necessarily equivalent to the rank of the mean deaths or mean DALYs attributable to the risk factor.