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The increasing burden of mortality from neurological diseases

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A new study based on WHO data reports rates of mortality from neurological diseases in the developed world from 1989–1991 to 2012–2014. The reported increase in neurological disease mortality, which was greatest in the USA, highlights the rise of neurological diseases as an emerging threat to global health.

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  1. Nuffield Department of Population Health, Julia Pakpoor and Michael Goldacre are at the Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.,

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Pakpoor, J., Goldacre, M. The increasing burden of mortality from neurological diseases. Nat Rev Neurol 13, 518–519 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2017.112

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