eTable 2. Causes of burden of disease, selected for calculation and listed according to their relative proportion of all disability-adjusted life years (DALY) (level 3) based on the GBD study (2017) (Germany, both sexes).
| Rank | Cause of burden of disease (Level 3) | Relative proportion of total DALY for Germany*1 (in %) |
| 1 | Ischemic heart disease | 9.3 |
| 2 | Low back pain | 6.6 |
| 3 | Tracheal, bronchial and lung cancer | 4.0 |
| 4 | Stroke | 4.0 |
| 5 | Chronic obstructive lung disease | 3.9 |
| 6 | Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias | 3.6 |
| 7 | Diabetes mellitus | 2.9 |
| 8 | Headache disorders | 2.7 |
| 9 | Neck pain | 2.3 |
| 10 | Depressive disorders | 2.2 |
| 11 | Colorectal cancer | 2.1 |
| 12 | Anxiety disorders | 1.9 |
| 13 | Breast cancer | 1.7 |
| 14 | Alcohol use disorders | 1.3 |
| 15 | Road injuries*2 | 1.3 |
| 16 | Lower respiratory infections | 1.2 |
| 17 | Prostate cancer | 1.0 |
| 18 | Hypertensive heart disease | 1.0 |
| Total | 53.0 |
*1 The results fluctuate due to methodological adjustments during the GBD study and are also recalculated for earlier years with each wave of results. The exact values reported here are therefore no longer available in the information systems of the GBD study.
*2 The use of road traffic accident statistics also produced the group “Other transport injuries” (level 3) after operationalization of “Road injuries” (level 3). These are not explicitly listed here because they were originally not selected as an entity for the project.