Fatality from COVID-19 does not affect palliative care duration among patients with advanced cancer: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo)Objective: This study aimed at investigating the extent to which COVID-19-induced fatalities affect the duration of palliative care among patients with advanced cancer.
Rafael Tavares Jomar +5 more
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Factors Cause of Maternal Death in Timor-Leste [PDF]
, 2017 Maternal mortality was an indicator of basic health services for mothers or women of reproductive age of a country and was one of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Pinto, F. (Feliciano) +3 more
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All-cause and cause-specific mortality in individuals with zero and minimal coronary artery calcium: A long-term, competing risk analysis in the Coronary Artery Calcium Consortium. [PDF]
, 2020 Background and aimsThe long-term associations between zero, minimal coronary artery calcium (CAC) and cause-specific mortality are currently unknown, particularly after accounting for competing risks with other causes of death.MethodsWe evaluated 66,363 ...
Berman, Daniel S +13 more
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Adult liver transplantation: An analysis of the early causes of death in 40 consecutive cases [PDF]
, 1986 One hundred twenty‐nine adult patients who received an orthotopic liver transplantation and survived at least 24 hr after surgery were evaluated. During the period of follow‐up, 48 of the 129 patients (37%) died.
Calne +17 more
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The role of histone modifications in transcription regulation upon DNA damage
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This review discusses the critical role of histone modifications in regulating gene expression during the DNA damage response (DDR). By modulating chromatin structure and recruiting repair factors, these post‐translational modifications fine‐tune transcriptional programmes to maintain genomic stability.
Angelina Job Kolady, Siyao Wang
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Timing of clinic visits after health checks and risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular events and all-cause death among the high-risk population [PDF]
, 2023 Jia-Yi Dong +4 more
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Why are so many Nepali women killing themselves? A review of key issues [PDF]
, 2015 Background: For decades the maternal mortality in Nepal was the lead cause of death among women, with great improvements in the maternal mortality ratio in the twentieth century the second most common cause has become more prominent.
Dhungel, A. +5 more
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Function‐driven design of a surrogate interleukin‐2 receptor ligand
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Interleukin (IL)‐2 signaling can be achieved and precisely fine‐tuned through the affinity, distance, and orientation of the heterodimeric receptors with their ligands. We designed a biased IL‐2 surrogate ligand that selectively promotes effector T and natural killer cell activation and differentiation. Interleukin (IL) receptors play a pivotal role in
Ziwei Tang +9 more
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Quality of death notification forms in North West Bank/Palestine: a descriptive study
BMC Research Notes, 2017 Background The death notification forms (DNFs) are important documents. Thus, inability to fill it properly by physicians will affect the national mortality report and, consequently, the evidence-based decision making.
Jamal A. S. Qaddumi +3 more
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Is Spinoza’s theory of Finite Mind Coherent? – Death, Affectivity and Epistemology in the Ethics [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper I examine the question whether Spinoza can account for the necessity of death. I argue that he cannot because within his ethical intellectualist system the subject cannot understand the cause of her death, since by understanding it renders ...
Toth, Oliver Istvan
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