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• Global Burden of Disease 2010

  The Global Burden of Disease Study commenced in 1990 as a World Bank commissioned initiative that measures the health impact of disease and injuries. It introduced the term disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as a new measure to quantify the burden of diseases and injuries.

  It is managed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington with the purpose of "understanding the current state of population health and the strategies necessary to improve it."

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  27 April 2019

• DASH Diet and Blood Pressure

  The concept that diet and blood pressure are linked has been discussed since at least the 1920s. In 1926, Donaldson noted that “vegetarians, we believe, run a consistently lower blood pressure than those who use flesh foods."

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  22 October 2016