Global Thyroid Cancer Burden Attributable to High BMI 1990-2021

Estimates of the global burden of thyroid cancer attributable to high body mass index (BMI) from 1990 to 2021. It includes metrics such as deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and age-standardized rates (ASRs), with temporal trends analyzed using estimated annual percentage change (EAPC). The data originates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in thyroid cancer deaths attributable to high BMI using estimated annual percentage change (EAPC) from 1990 to 2021.
• Examine global inequality in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for thyroid cancer using slope and concentration indices.
• Project future burden of thyroid cancer through 2036 using Bayesian age-period-cohort modeling on age-standardized rates (ASRs).
• Assess the relationship between high BMI and thyroid cancer risk by decomposing trends in age-standardized mortality rates (ASMR).

Strengths

• Data spans 32 years of global temporal coverage from 1990 to 2021.
• Derived from the authoritative Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
• Includes multiple burden metrics: deaths, DALYs, and age-standardized rates (ASRs).

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 28.9 KB, indicating limited scope and likely aggregated summary statistics.
• Specific row and column counts are unknown, limiting assessment of granularity.
• Analysis is based on modeled estimates from GBD, not primary case data.

Provenance

Source

Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.

Collection Method

Modeled estimates and analysis using joinpoint regression, decomposition, and Bayesian age-period-cohort modeling.

Time Range

1990 to 2021, with projections to 2036.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, with data covering through 2021.

Geography

Global.