Global burden of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease attributable to smoking from 1990 to 2021: A secondary dataset analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Ze Chen, Ke Yuan, Chunxiao Wan · 2026
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Smoking drives much of the world's leg artery disease, and a 2026 analysis by Ze Chen, Ke Yuan, and Chunxiao Wan tracks that burden over three decades. The team reused data from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study, covering 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021.
Deaths tied to smoking-caused leg artery disease rose about 32 percent over the period, and years lost to illness and early death rose about 41 percent. Population aging drove most of that growth. Yet once age was taken into account, death rates fell by nearly half. Men carried more of the burden than women. The study separates raw growth from real progress in rates.
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| CREATOR | Ze Chen, Ke Yuan, Chunxiao Wan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |