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Changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae: underlying versus multiple causes of death

Population Health Metrics, 2021
Background The expanded definition of liver-related deaths includes a wide range of etiologies and sequelae. We compared the changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae for different age groups between 2008 and 2018 in the USA using both ...
Ming-Jen Sheu, Fu-Wen Liang, Ching-Yih Lin, Tsung-Hsueh Lu   +3 more
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Ischemic heart disease: medical certificate of cause of death analysis

Российский кардиологический журнал, 2022
Aim. According to data from the Moscow Oblast civil registry office in 2020, to analyze medical certificates of cause of death (MCCD), where the code from “Ischemic heart disease” (IHD) (I20-I25) group is indicated as underlying cause of death (UCD ...
I. V. Samorodskaya, T. K. Chernyavskaya, E. P. Kakorina, V. Yu. Semyonov   +3 more
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Neonatal deaths in rural Karnataka, India 2014–2018: a prospective population-based observational study in a low-resource setting

Reproductive Health, 2020
Background Neonatal mortality causes a substantial proportion of the under-5 mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Methods We undertook a prospective, population-based research study of pregnant women residing in defined geographic areas ...
Sangappa M. Dhaded, Manjunath S. Somannavar, Janet L. Moore, Elizabeth M. McClure, Sunil S. Vernekar, S. Yogeshkumar, Avinash Kavi, Umesh Y. Ramadurg, Tracy L. Nolen, Robert L. Goldenberg, Richard J. Derman, Shivaprasad S. Goudar   +11 more
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Barriers in adult vitamin D service provision by health care workers: a qualitative study in three ecologies of Ethiopia

BMC Nutrition, 2021
Background Adult vitamin D deficiency, which is a public health problem in low-income countries, is correlated with increased mortality. Although health care workers (HCWs) in Ethiopia are educated on important minerals their counseling on the uses of ...
Wubegzier Mekonnen, Yeweyenhareg Feleke, Wubetsh Asnake, Yakob Desalegn, Jemal Haidar, Biruk Lambisso, Tewabech Zewdie   +6 more
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Causes of sudden death

European Heart Journal Supplements, 2023
Abstract Sudden cardiac death (SCD) pathophysiological point of view can be either mechanical or electrical. In case of mechanical SCD, the most frequent causes are pulmonary thromboembolism and cardiac tamponade due to intrapericardial rupture (aortic dissection, heart rupture).
De Gaspari, Monica, Rizzo, Stefania, Thiene, Gaetano, Basso, Cristina   +3 more
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Death, sex and nutrition: analysis of the cause of death in the Coimbra human skeletal collection

Antropologia Portuguesa, 1995
The Human Skeleton Collection from the "Museu de Antropologia" of the University of Coimbra consists of 505 individuals mainly adults. The data for each of these skeletons includes birth place, the sex as well as the age and cause of death.
Ana Luísa Santos
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Cultivating research interest among undergraduate students: Becoming a career physician-scientist

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Although the importance of scientific research is self-evident, there need to be more physician-scientists1. There is a concern regarding how research interest can be cultivated among undergraduate students.
Shigeki Jin, Akiko Takeuchi, Manabu Murakami   +2 more
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Causes of death in Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2020
Aim: In this study we described the causes of mortality in Brazil, its 5 geographic regions, and in the most populated cities of Sao Paulo State in order to contribute for development of prevention and intervention strategies.
Matheus Ferreira Linares, Silvia Maria Paparotto Lopes, Adriana Eliza Brasil Moreira, Pablo Agustin Vargas, Alan Roger dos Santos Silva, Márcio Ajudarte Lopes   +5 more
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Avoidable mortality among long-stay patients with schizophrenia under different smoking-restriction settings

Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, 2019
Objective: Patients with schizophrenia are at a greater risk of avoidable death. Although smoking is a modifiable factor to reduce the mortality gap, the rate of quitting smoking in these inpatients is still lower than that in the general population.
Kan- Yuan Cheng, Shu- Yuan Chen
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Spontaneous hemothorax in Neurofibromatosis type 1 with a giant intrathoracic meningocele and intracystic hematoma: Diagnostic value of postmortem CT

Radiology Case Reports
We report a case of spontaneous hemothorax in a 48-year-old woman with Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), presumed to result from rupture of an intrathoracic meningocele. She had been hospitalized for treatment of an intracranial carotid artery aneurysm and
Yohei Ikebe, MD, PhD, Taisuke Harada, MD, PhD, Zen-ichi Tanei, MD, PhD, Nanase Okazaki, MD, Toshiya Osanai, MD, PhD, Shinya Tanaka, MD, PhD, Kohsuke Kudo, MD, PhD   +6 more
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