ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1603244
This article is part of the Research TopicIntegrated Public Health Approaches for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases: Challenges and OpportunitiesView all 5 articles
Analysis of the trends in burden of meningitis in China from 1990 to 2021, and projections until 2036
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Wenzhou People's Hospital, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
- 2Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second People's Hospita of Li shui, Lishui, China, Lishui, China
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This study aimed to describe the temporal trends in age and sex burdens of meningitis in China from 1990 to 2021 and to compare them with the global burden of the disease.Methods Using data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021, this study analysed the features of meningitis burden in China and globally, including incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR), age-standardized rates of mortality (ASMR), age-standardized rates of prevalence (ASPR), and age-standardized DALY rate (ASDR). The average annual percentage change (AAPC) and associated 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were computed using Joinpoint. A comprehensive comparative analysis of the differences in meningitis burden between China and the world was conducted from multiple dimensions, including age, sex, and periods. Using the BAPC and INLA software tools to perform a Bayesian Age-Period-Cohort (BAPC) analysis in R.
Keywords: Meningitis, Global burden of disease, Incidence, Prevalence, Mortality, Disability-adjusted life years
Received: 31 Mar 2025; Accepted: 21 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Xi Xu, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Wenzhou People's Hospital, Wenzhou, 325000, Zhejiang Province, China
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