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Are contributory causes of death in part 2 of the death certificate mediators of chains of morbid events leading to death? [PDF]

Population Health Metrics
Background In the United States, over half of all deaths are attributed to five leading underlying causes of death (at the ICD-3 digit level). However, these underlying causes represent only 25% of the total medical information documented on death ...
Elizabet Ukolova
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Causes of Death [PDF]

Nature, 1968
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Overall and cause-specific mortality in patients with dementia: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2023
OBJECTIVES OBJECTIVES: Information regarding the underlying causes of death (UCODs) and standardized mortality ratio (SMR) of dementia is instrumental in formulating medical strategies to prolong life in persons with dementia (PWD).
Chia-Lun Kuo, Pei-Chen Lee, Li-Jung Elizabeth Ku, Yu Sun, Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Muhammad Atoillah Isfandiari, Chung-Yi Li   +6 more
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Reactive surveillance of suicides during the COVID-19 pandemic in France, 2020 to March 2022

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2023
Aims Mitigation actions during the COVID-19 pandemic may impact mental health and suicide in general populations. We aimed to analyse the evolution in suicide deaths from 2020 to March 2022 in France.
Anne Fouillet, Diane Martin, Isabelle Pontais, Céline Caserio-Schönemann, Grégoire Rey   +4 more
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Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide

Population Health Metrics, 2023
Background Mortality data obtained from death certificates have been studied to explore causal associations between diseases. However, these analyses are subject to collider and reporting biases (selection and information biases, respectively).
Moussa Laanani, Vivian Viallon, Joël Coste, Grégoire Rey   +3 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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Fatal drowning statistics from the Netherlands – an example of an aggregated demographic profile

BMC Public Health, 2022
Introduction Incompleteness of fatal drowning statistics is a familiar problem impeding public health measures. Part of the problem may be that only data on accidental drowning are used and not the full potential of accessible data.
Joost Bierens, Jan Hoogenboezem
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Frailty at death: An examination of multiple causes of death in four low mortality countries in 2017

Demographic Research, 2023
Background: The increasing prevalence of frailty in ageing populations represents a major social and public health challenge which warrants a better understanding of the contribution of frailty to the morbid process.
Sergi Trias-Llimós, Magali Barbieri, Viviana Egidi, Luisa Frova, Francesco Grippo, France Meslé, Marilena Pappagallo, Aline Désesquelles   +7 more
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Associations of cause-specific mortality with area level deprivation and travel time to health care in France from 1990 to 2007, a multilevel analysis

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background It is now widely accepted that social and physical environment participate in shaping health. While mortality is used to guide public health policies and is considered as a synthetic measure of population health, few studies deals with the ...
Walid Ghosn, Gwenn Menvielle, Stéphane Rican, Grégoire Rey   +3 more
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What was Killing Babies in Trondheim? An Investigation of Infant Mortality Using Individual Level Cause of Death Data, 1830–1907

Historical Life Course Studies, 2023
This paper examines infant mortality amongst newborns in Trondheim city, 1830–1907, working specifically with individual level cause of death data. Findings show that infant mortality in the city started to drop from 1895, primarily as a result of a ...
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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