The disease burden of inguinal, femoral, and abdominal hernias in children from low- and middle-income countries, 1990–2023 with projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study
Xinjia Gu, Zhihui Zheng, Jihua Zhu, Wenwen Lv, Taixiang Liu · 2026
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Xinjia Gu and colleagues charted in 2026 the toll of childhood hernias across low- and middle-income countries using Global Burden of Disease data. Groin and abdominal hernias are fixable by surgery, yet late care kills children where services are thin. Their analysis spanned ninety-three countries across 1990 to 2023 and projected the trends to 2050.
In 2023 these countries held well over half the world's cases but the great majority of deaths and disability years. Babies under one year accounted for more than eighty-five percent of deaths, and boys carried the heavier load. Standardized rates fell in most regions, though raw case counts rose where development lagged, driven by population growth. Frontier analysis flagged countries squeezing more health from similar resources. The authors urge earlier screening and stronger basic surgical systems for infants.
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| CREATOR | Xinjia Gu, Zhihui Zheng, Jihua Zhu, Wenwen Lv, Taixiang Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |