Sex, Age, and Regional Disparities in the Burden of Asthma in Mexico from 1990 to 2019: A Secondary Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Ana Lopez-Bago, Ricardo Lascurain (), Pavel E. Hernandez-Carreño, Francisco Gallardo-Vera, Jesus Argueta-Donohue, Francisco Jimenez-Trejo, David A. Fuentes-Zavaleta, Saul A. Beltran-Ontiveros, Delia M. Becerril-Camacho, Victor A. Contreras-Rodriguez and Daniel Diaz ()
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Ana Lopez-Bago: Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Ricardo Lascurain: Unidad de Vinculación Científica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México en el Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Tlalpan 14610, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Pavel E. Hernandez-Carreño: Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Francisco Gallardo-Vera: Laboratorio de Biología Molecular y Bioseguridad Nivel III, Centro Médico Naval, Coyoacán 04470, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Jesus Argueta-Donohue: Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría “Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz”, Tlalpan 14370, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Francisco Jimenez-Trejo: Laboratorio de Morfología Celular y Tisular, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Coyoacán 04530, Ciudad de México, Mexico
David A. Fuentes-Zavaleta: Laboratorio de Neuropsicología, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Saul A. Beltran-Ontiveros: Centro de Investigación y Docencia en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán Rosales 80030, Sinaloa, Mexico
Delia M. Becerril-Camacho: Laboratorio de Biomedicina, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Unidad Regional Culiacán, Culiacán Rosales 80020, Sinaloa, Mexico
Victor A. Contreras-Rodriguez: Unidad Académica de Criminalística, Criminología y Ciencias Forenses, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán Rosales 80040, Sinaloa, Mexico
Daniel Diaz: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 16, 1-17

Abstract: Asthma is the most prevalent cause of chronic respiratory diseases. Herein, we evaluate the asthma burden in Mexico based on results from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD 2019) study 2019. Using data from the GBD 2019, we estimated asthma prevalence, incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted lived years (DALYs) counts and crude and age-standardized rates per 100,000 people with a 95% uncertainty interval (UI) by sex and age at the national and subnational levels in Mexico from 1990 to 2019. At the national level, asthma affected 3.35 million (95% UI, 2.59–4.37) people, with 606.0 thousand (433.0–811.1) new incident cases and 1655 (3–1931) deaths during 2019. Asthma caused a slightly higher burden in females and affected mainly age groups between 1 and 14 years of age. The burden of asthma gradually decreased from 1990 to 2010. However, during the last decade (2010–2019), prevalence increased by 8.2%, as did incidence, by 11.3%, whereas mortality and DALYs decreased by 23.3 and 1.6%, respectively. Finally, the burden of asthma displayed a heterogeneous pattern of disease at the subnational level. In conclusion, asthma causes a significant health loss in Mexico that differentially affects the population distributed among the states of the country, thus causing health disparities that should be addressed to provide sustainable asthma diagnosis and control to reduce its burden, especially in the early stages of life.

Keywords: allergic diseases; atopic march; burden of disease; chronic respiratory diseases; DALYs; epidemiology; incidence; prevalence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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