Acknowledgments The findings in this report came from the 2017 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study. The GBD 2017 study’s findings were initially published in The Lancet on November 8, 2018. Those papers are freely available to the public at www.thelancet.com/gbd. Within the Singapore MOH, Benjamin Er oversaw the creation of this report, with advice from Drs. Derrick Heng, Lyn James, and Stefan Ma, and support from Zheng Zhao, Yi-Xian Chua, and Wei-Liang Chaw. Within IHME, this report was written by Sean McKee. The analyses in this report were executed by Varsha Krish. Julia Gall provided overarching communications support in conjunction with the MOH team. Joan Williams managed the report’s production support and content review. Adrienne Chew edited the report, and Pauline Kim fact-checked it. Michaela Loeffler served as the report’s graphic designer.
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