Although overall the risk of having an infant of low birth weight was decreased in overweight and obese women (0.84, 0.75 to 0.95), the decrease was greater in developing countries than in developed countries (0.58, 0.47 to 0.71 v 0.90, 0.79 to 1.01).
The fraction of cases attributable to HBV is greater in developing countries (59%) than in developed countries (23%) The corresponding percentages for HCV are 33 and 20%, respectively (1).
A 2011 Lancet study found that whereas breast cancer diagnoses occurred more frequently in developed countries in 1980, incidence rates have become greater in developing countries since 2010 [ 3].
"The health risk posed by air pollution is the greatest in developing countries," said the authors.
The toll is much greater in developing countries with inadequate screening programs, though those countries would probably have trouble affording Avastin, which costs tens of thousands of dollars a year.
The World Bank president said the Chinese and Indian governments were coming under pressure from their populations due to heavily-polluted cities, and that appreciation of the dangers of climate change was greater in developing countries.
Different analyses concerning the impact of disasters associated with natural hazards suggest that the number of fatalities is greater in developing countries.
For example, in the regional scenario cropland growth is greater in developing countries than it is under the country scenario.
The impact of this problem on doctors' prescribing behaviour might be even greater in developing countries and post-Soviet Russia where access to industry-free medicine information is limited.
For these reasons, deaths associated with a future pandemic may be greater in developing countries than in industrialized countries.
