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Fiona M. Blyth is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine, contributing a total of 228 publications. Their work spans several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, General Health Professions, Pharmacology, and Geriatrics and Gerontology.

The scholar's research covers a range of main topics reflecting their multidisciplinary interests. These include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Blyth has published extensively in a number of academic journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Pain
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • JAMA Network Open
  • The journal of nutrition health & aging

Their collaborative network includes regular co-authorship with researchers such as Vasi Naganathan, David G. Le Couteur, David J. Handelsman, Louise M. Waite, and Robert G. Cumming, with co-publication counts ranging from 35 to 46 papers.

Among recent significant publications are:

  • Global low back pain prevalence and years lived with disability from 1990 to 2017: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, 2020, Annals of Translational Medicine
  • Global, regional, and national burden of low back pain, 1990-2020, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, 2023, The Lancet Rheumatology
  • Managing patients with chronic pain during the COVID-19 outbreak: considerations for the rapid introduction of remotely supported (eHealth) pain management services, 2020, Pain
  • Global, Regional, and National Burden of Low Back Pain, 1990-2020, Its Attributable Risk Factors, And Projections to 2050: A Systematic Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Avoiding overadjustment bias in social epidemiology through appropriate covariate selection: a primer, 2022, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi;Kyle Foreman;Stephen Lim

  • Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Theo Vos;Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • A systematic review of the global prevalence of low back pain

    Damian Hoy;Christopher Bain;Gail Williams;Lyn March

  • The global burden of low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study

    Damian Hoy;Lyn March;Peter Brooks;Fiona Blyth

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • The Epidemiology of low back pain.

    D G Hoy;Peter Brooks;Fiona Blyth;Rachelle Buchbinder

  • Assessing risk of bias in prevalence studies: modification of an existing tool and evidence of interrater agreement

    Damian Hoy;Peter G Brooks;Anthony Woolf;Fiona Blyth

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016

    Simon I. Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

    Joshua A. Salomon;Theo Vos;Daniel R. Hogan;Michael Gagnon

  • Chronic pain in Australia: a prevalence study

    Fiona M. Blyth;Lyn M. March;Alan J.M. Brnabic;Louisa R. Jorm

  • Polypharmacy cutoff and outcomes: five or more medicines were used to identify community-dwelling older men at risk of different adverse outcomes.

    Danijela Gnjidic;Sarah N. Hilmer;Sarah N. Hilmer;Fiona M. Blyth;Fiona M. Blyth;Vasi Naganathan;Vasi Naganathan

  • Global low back pain prevalence and years lived with disability from 1990 to 2017: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

    Aimin Wu;Lyn March;Lyn March;Xuanqi Zheng;Jinfeng Huang

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: Disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    J.A. Salomon;T. Vos;D.R. Hogan;M. Gagnon

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert G. Cumming
Robert G. Cumming University of Sydney
David J. Handelsman
David J. Handelsman University of Sydney
David G. Le Couteur
David G. Le Couteur University of Sydney
Markus J. Seibel
Markus J. Seibel University of Sydney
Michael K. Nicholas
Michael K. Nicholas University of Sydney
Lyn March
Lyn March University of Sydney
Sarah N. Hilmer
Sarah N. Hilmer University of Sydney
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
Anthony D. Woolf
Anthony D. Woolf Royal Cornwall Hospital
Rachelle Buchbinder
Rachelle Buchbinder Monash University

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