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Causes of death among people living with HIV/AIDS in Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND: The monitoring of the underlying causes of death in people living with HIV/AIDS is important so that actions to reduce morbidity and mortality can be taken. OBJECTIVE: To describe the temporal trends of underlying causes of death among people
Erika Luiza Lage Fazito Rezende, Ana Maria Nogales Vasconcelos, Mauricio Gomes Pereira   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Causes of death in a nationwide cohort of community-dwellers with Alzheimer’s disease

BMC Geriatrics, 2020
Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is related to higher mortality but it is not entirely evident which causes of death explain this. The objective of this study was to assess the causes of death in a nationwide cohort of clinically verified AD cases and
Anna-Maija Tolppanen, Heidi Taipale, Marjaana Koponen, Jari Tiihonen, Sirpa Hartikainen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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., Fanning, C., Marahatta, S. B., Simkhada, Padam, van Teijlingen, Edwin, Winter, R. C.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The Role of Invasive Procedures in the Treatment of Complicated Gastrointestinal Graft‐Versus‐Host Disease in Pediatric Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Gastrointestinal graft‐versus‐host disease (GI GVHD) following hematopoietic stem cell transplant is typically managed with medical therapy, but surgery and angioembolization may be warranted in selected cases with life‐threatening complications.
Gaia Brunetti, Giorgio Persano, Chiara Grimaldi, Pier Luigi Di Paolo, Carmen Malaspina, Francesco Quagliarella, Valerio Balassone, Anna Chiara Iolanda Contini, Gian Luigi Natali, Rita Alaggio, Ivan Pietro Aloi, Tamara Caldaro, Alessandro Crocoli   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individual-Level Data on Causes of Death in Madrid From 1905 to 1927

Historical Life Course Studies
In this article, we present the Madrid database on causes of death, which currently covers the entire city for the period 1905–1927 and includes 366,542 individual notices. Such a resource is unique in the Mediterranean context.
Diego Ramiro Fariñas, Stanislao Mazzoni, Mélanie Bourguignon, Begoña Villuendas Hijosa, Michel Oris   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mortality From Cardiovascular Diseases in Sub-saharan Africa, 1990-2013: A Systematic Analysis of Data From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 [PDF]

, 2015
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been the leading cause of death in developed countries for most of the last century. Most CVD deaths, however, occur in low- and middle-income, developing countries (LMICs) and there is great concern that CVD mortality ...
Feigin, VL, Forouzanfar, MH, GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death collaborators, Mensah, GA, Moran, AE, Murray, CJ, Naghavi, M, Roth, GA, Sampson, UK   +8 more
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Infection Control Practices for Vascular Access Management in Hemodialysis: Results From a Nationwide Survey of Japanese National University Hospitals

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Bloodstream infections due to repeated vascular access (VA) puncture and circuit connections remain major concerns in hemodialysis. Therefore, we examined current practices for glove, disinfectant, and personal protective equipment (PPE) use according to VA type in national university hospitals in Japan.
Aiko Yamada, Makoto Harada, Tadahiko Kikugawa, Takeshi Nakata, Koji Hashimoto, Tsuneo Konta, Yuji Kamijo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi, Pilar Samperio Ventayol, Natalie Burkard, Nicolas Schlegel, Carmen Aguilar, Sina Bartfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cause of Death in Emergency Department; a Brief Report

طب اورژانس ایران, 2015
Introduction: This epidemiologic study was aimed to identify the causes of death in the emergency department of Imam Khomeini hospital in Urmia, Iran. Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out on the profiles of all of the dead patients in the ...
Gholamreza Faridaalaee, Farshid Nikzad, Seyed Hesam Rahmani   +2 more
doaj  

Mortality in Moscow and other megacities of the world: similarities and differences

Демографическое обозрение, 2017
This paper is devoted to the comparison of mortality by cause of death in Moscow and other megacities of the world since 1990. The selection of megacities was determined by the availability of detailed mortality data in the selected period.
Evgeny Andreev, Ekaterina Kvasha, Tatiana Kharkova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source