AGE STANDARDIZATION OF RATES: A NEW WHO STANDARD

By O. Ahmad, C. Boschi-Pinto, Alan D. Lopez, Christopher J. L. Murray, R. Lozano, Mie Inoue. 2000

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European cancer mortality predictions for the year 2014. (2014, methodology): “tion has been published [14], we chose to keep using the 1982 version to maintain comparability with previous work [10].”
Global Burden of Thrombosis: Epidemiologic Aspects. (2016, methodology): “The Global Burden of Disease projects reported agestandardized rates using the World Health Organization World Standard Population.20 When possible, the average estimate was reported for each stratum; however, ranges or sex-stratified estimates were reported when average estimates were not available”
Incidence and phenotype of inflammatory bowel disease based on results from the Asia-pacific Crohn's and colitis epidemiology study. (2013, methodology): “Incidence rates were age standardized using the World Health Organization’s Standard Population.18 A c2 test was used to compare demographics and disease classification between groups.”
Globalization, Urbanization and Nutritional Change in the Developing World (2004, methodology): “Prevalence figures were age-adjusted by the direct method, using the age distribution of the world population as a reference (Ahmad et al. 1999).”
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults (2024, methodology): “13 The number of people who were affected by underweight, thinness, and obesity was calculated by multiplying the corresponding age-specific prevalence by the age-specific population by sex, country, and year.”
Overweight exceeds underweight among women in most developing countries. (2005, methodology): “Data were age-adjusted by using a direct method with the age distribution of the world population as a reference (10).”
The descriptive epidemiology of female breast cancer: an international comparison of screening, incidence, survival and mortality. (2012, unknown): “An estimated total of 1,384,000 females were diagnosed with breast cancer globally in 2008 [31], corresponding to an age-standardised rate of 42.3 new cases per 100,000 population (using the 2000 World Standard Population [32]).”
Projecting the future burden of cancer: Bayesian age–period–cohort analysis with integrated nested Laplace approximations (2017, methodology): “Age-standardized projected rates are computed based on the world standard population and compared to the aggregated observed values (Ahmad et al., 2001).”