1 the most prevalent and serious metabolic diseases
affecting people worldwide.
2 including essential trace elements, affect up to 3
billion people worldwide.
3 Approximately 1.5
billion people worldwide are overweight or affected by obesity, and a
4 Liver fluke infections occur
in people worldwide.
5 Millions of HIV-
infected people worldwide receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) in prog
6 There are already 12 million
infected people worldwide and two million new cases occur annually.
7 a cruzi, is endemic in Latin America and affects 10
million people worldwide.
8 ally transmitted disease that infects more than 100
million people worldwide.
9 trematode Schistosoma haematobium, affects over 112
million people worldwide.
10 niasis, a disease that can be lethal and affects 12
million people worldwide.
11 roduction and delivering nutrition to more than 150
million people worldwide.
12 Peripheral artery disease affects >200
million people worldwide and is associated with significant limb and
13 Schistosomiasis currently affects 240
million people worldwide, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.
14 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) chronically infects 250
million people worldwide, resulting in nearly one million deaths annu
15 Hepatitis B virus causes chronic infections in 250
million people worldwide.
16 Atrial fibrillation affects more than 33
million people worldwide and increases the risk of stroke, heart fail
17 HIV-1 infects more than 34
million people worldwide causing >1 million deaths per year.
18 ebilitating chronic illness that affects around 350
million people worldwide.
19 7000 rare, or orphan, diseases affect more than 350
million people worldwide.
20 Over 360
million people worldwide suffer from disabling hearing loss.
21 The HIV-1 pandemic affecting over 37
million people worldwide continues, with nearly one-half of the infec
22 on-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 39
million people worldwide; in isolation, it doubles annual health care
23 Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects more than 415
million people worldwide, and its costs to the health care system con
24 (RP) is a major cause of blindness that affects 1.5
million people worldwide.
25 A significant proportion of the more than 50
million people worldwide currently suffering with epilepsy are resist
26 Over 50
million people worldwide have epilepsy.
27 oked seizures-is a devastating disease affecting 65
million people worldwide.
28 An estimated 71
million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV).
29 disorders are debilitating diseases, affecting >80
million people worldwide.
30 An estimated 95
million people worldwide are affected by cataract.
31 ria, caused by Plasmodium spp., kills nearly half a
million people worldwide each year.
32 In addition, modern lifestyles force more and
more people worldwide into asynchrony between the external time an
33 About 1%
of people worldwide are carriers of chromosomally integrated HHV
34 TANCE Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) has infected over 90%
of people worldwide.
35 parts, thus improving the iron nutrition of the billions
of people worldwide whose inadequate diet causes iron deficiency
36 Air pollution affects billions
of people worldwide, yet ambient pollution measurements are limi
37 Parasitic worms infect billions
of people worldwide.
38 's deadliest diseases, is needed to enhance the immunity
of people worldwide, most of whom have been vaccinated with the
39 and Chlamydiales cause diseases in hundreds of millions
of people worldwide and in many animal species.
40 Alzheimer's disease affects tens of millions
of people worldwide and its prevalence continues to rise.
41 amming elevated CD8 T cell responses.IMPORTANCE Millions
of people worldwide are infected with herpes simplex virus 2 (HS
42 Millions
of people worldwide develop invasive infections during their liv
43 agility fractures caused by osteoporosis affect millions
of people worldwide every year with significant levels of associ
44 roIMPORTANCE Herpes simplex virus (HSV) affects millions
of people worldwide, causing painful oral and genital lesions, i
45 rointestinal inflammatory disorders that affect millions
of people worldwide.
46 leading globally neglected diseases, affecting millions
of people worldwide.
47 Arsenic exposure via drinking water impacts millions
of people worldwide.
48 has increased rapidly in recent years affecting millions
of people worldwide.
49 hreatening haematological disorder that affects millions
of people worldwide.
50 for the diarrheal disease cholera that infects millions
of people worldwide.