Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published the article, “Global, regional, and national burden of chronic respiratory diseases and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2023: A Global Burden of Disease study,” as a senior collaborator in the journal, Nature Medicine (Impact factor 50.0). The study found that globally, in 2023, chronic respiratory diseases accounted for about 569 million cases and about 4 million deaths, with a declining trend from 1990 to 2023.
