Burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990-2013: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
Maziar Moradi-LakehMohammad H ForouzanfarStein Emil VollsetCharbel El BcheraouiFarah DaoudAshkan AfshinRaghid ChararaIbrahim KhalilHideki HigashiMohamed Magdy Abd El RazekAliasghar Ahmad KiadaliriKhurshid AlamNadia AkseerNawal Al-HamadRaghib AliMohammad AbdulAziz AlMazroaMahmoud A AlomariAbdullah A Al-RabeeahUbai AlsharifKhalid A AltirkawiSuleman AtiqueAlaa BadawiLope H BarreroMohammed BasulaimanShahrzad Bazargan-HejaziNeeraj BediIsabela M BensenorRachelle BuchbinderHadi DanawiSamath D DharmaratneFaiez ZannadMaryam S FarvidSeyed-Mohammad FereshtehnejadFarshad FarzadfarFlorian FischerRahul GuptaRandah Ribhi HamadehSamer HamidiMasako HorinoDamian G HoyMohamed HsairiAbdullatif HusseiniMehdi JavanbakhtJost B JonasAmir KasaeianEjaz Ahmad KhanJagdish KhubchandaniAnn Kristin KnudsenJacek A KopecRaimundas LuneviciusHassan Magdy Abd El RazekAzeem MajeedReza MalekzadehKedar MateAlem MehariMichele MeltzerZiad A MemishMojde MirarefinShafiu MohammedAliya NaheedCarla Makhlouf ObermeyerIn-Hwan OhEun-Kee ParkEmmanuel Kwame PeprahFarshad PourmalekMostafa QorbaniAnwar RafayVafa Rahimi-MovagharRahman ShiriSajjad Ur RahmanRajesh Kumar RaiSaleem M RanaSadaf G SepanlouMasood Ali ShaikhIvy ShiueAbla Mehio SibaiDiego Augusto Santos SilvaJasvinder A SinghJens Christoffer SkogenAbdullah Sulieman TerkawiKingsley N UkwajaRonny WestermanNaohiro YonemotoSeok-Jun YoonMustafa Z YounisZoubida ZaidiMaysaa El Sayed ZakiStephen S LimHaidong WangTheo VosMohsen NaghaviAlan D LopezChristopher J L MurrayAli H MokdadPublished in: Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2017)
This study shows a high burden of musculoskeletal disorders, with a faster increase in EMR compared with the rest of the world. The reasons for this faster increase need to be explored. Our findings call for incorporating prevention and control programmes that should include improving health data, addressing risk factors, providing evidence-based care and community programmes to increase awareness.