GBD 2021 Diarrhoeal Diseases Collaborators Elsevier 2024 Diarrhoeal diseases claim more than 1 million lives annually and are a leading cause of death in children younger than 5 years. Comprehensive global estimates of the diarrhoeal disease burden for specific age groups of children younger than 5 years are scarce, and the burden in children older than 5 years and in adults is also understudied. We used results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2021 to assess the burden of, and trends in, diarrhoeal diseases overall and attributable to 13 pathogens, as well as the contributions of associated risk factors, in children and adults in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021. PDFDocument eng 2025-02-05T09:50:57.367809Z 2024-12-18 diarrhoeal diseases risk factors 2486706 b application/pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/