Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) were coauthors among GBD 2021 Stroke Risk Factor Collaborators on the article, “Global, Regional, and National Burden of Stroke and its Risk Factors, 1990–2021: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” published in Lancet Neurology (Impact factor 46.5). The article highlighted that both the risk factors and burden of stroke have increased over the past 20 years. There is an urgent need to implement surveillance, prevention, acute care, and rehabilitation interventions all around the world.
