Upper respiratory infections are the single leading cause of acute disease in…
Upper respiratory infections are the single leading cause of acute disease incidence worldwide — GBD 2021 estimates ~12.8 billion new episodes in 2021 (more than one per person) — yet mortality is near-zero (age-standardized mortality ~0.28/100,000; URI mortality ~0.2/100,000).
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- Type
- evidence-claim
- Domain
- common-cold-urti
- Grade
- A
- License
- proprietary-research-use
- instance
- m331
- domain_slug
- common-cold-urti
- pubmed_ids
- evidence_grade
- A
- tags
- burden,incidence
- source_ids
- Lancet-ID-GBD-URI-2024
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