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Gender Differences in Patients With COVID-19: Focus on Severity and Mortality

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Objective: The recent outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is reminiscent of the SARS outbreak in 2003. We aim to compare the severity and mortality between male and female patients with COVID-19 or SARS.
Jian-min Jin, P. Bai, Wei He, Fei Wu, Xiao-Fang Liu, D. Han, Shi Liu, Jinkui Yang   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does early childhood adversities affect physical, cognitive and language development in indian children? Evidence from a panel study

SSM: Population Health, 2020
Early childhood adversities are known to impair the development potential of children, however, there is limited evidence for the same in the Indian context. This study provides evidence of the effect of relevant biological and social risk factors during
Ronak Paul, Abhishek Singh
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Estimating the global cancer incidence and mortality in 2018: GLOBOCAN sources and methods

International Journal of Cancer, 2018
Estimates of the worldwide incidence and mortality from 36 cancers and for all cancers combined for the year 2018 are now available in the GLOBOCAN 2018 database, compiled and disseminated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
J. Ferlay, M. Colombet, I. Soerjomataram, C. Mathers, D. Parkin, M. Piñeros, A. Znaor, F. Bray   +7 more
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Association Between Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: A Meta-analysis.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Importance Effective therapies for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are needed, and clinical trial data have demonstrated that low-dose dexamethasone reduced mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 who required respiratory ...
J. Sterne, S. Murthy, Janet Diaz, Arthur S Slutsky, J. Villar, D. Angus, D. Annane, L. Azevedo, O. Berwanger, A. Cavalcanti, P. Dequin, B. Du, J. Emberson, D. Fisher, B. Giraudeau, A. Gordon, A. Granholm, Cameron Green, R. Haynes, Nicholas Heming, J. Higgins, P. Horby, P. Jüni, M. Landray, A. Le Gouge, M. Leclerc, W. Lim, F. Machado, C. McArthur, F. Meziani, M. Møller, A. Perner, M. W. Petersen, J. Savović, B. Tomazini, V. Veiga, S. Webb, J. Marshall   +37 more
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Racial disparities in mortality in the adult hispanic population

SSM: Population Health, 2020
Objective: We addressed three research questions: (1) Are there racial mortality disparities in the adult Hispanic population that resemble those observed in the non-Hispanic population in the US? (2) Does nativity mediate the race-mortality relationship
Elizabeth Arias, Norman J. Johnson, Betzaida Tejada Vera   +2 more
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Sarcopenic obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality: a population-based cohort study of older men. [PDF]

, 2014
OBJECTIVES: To examine associations between sarcopenia, obesity, and sarcopenic obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality in older men. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.
Atkins, JL, Lennon, LT, Morris, RW, Papacosta, O, Wannamethee, SG, Whincup, PH   +5 more
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Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022

Nature Medicine, 2023
This ecological analysis using the Eurostat database estimated that summer 2022, the hottest summer on record, was associated with over 61,000 heat-related deaths across 35 countries in Europe, with the highest mortality rates in countries near the ...
J. Ballester, M. Quijal-Zamorano, Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates, Ferran Pegenaute, François R. Herrmann, J. Robine, X. Basagaña, C. Tonne, J. Anto, H. Achebak   +9 more
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A retrospective review of the contribution of rare diseases to paediatric mortality in Ireland

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2020
Aims To ascertain the number of paediatric deaths (0–14 years) with an underlying rare disease in the Republic of Ireland between the years 2006–2016, and to analyse bed usage by a paediatric cohort of rare disease inpatients prior to in-hospital death ...
Emer Gunne, Cliona McGarvey, Karina Hamilton, Eileen Treacy, Deborah M. Lambert, Sally Ann Lynch   +5 more
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Mortality Salience and Metabolism: Glucose Drinks Reduce Worldview Defense Caused by Mortality Salience [PDF]

, 2012
The current work tested the hypothesis that a glucose drink would reduce worldview defense following mortality salience. Participants consumed either a glucose drink or placebo, wrote about either death or dental pain, and then completed a measure of ...
Gailliot, Matthew T.
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Using HIV-attributable mortality to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: The Tanzanian national HIV care and treatment programme has provided free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive persons since 2004.
Alison Wringe, Basia Zaba, Chifundo Kanjala, Clara Calvert, Denna Michael, Emma Slaymaker, Floyd S, Jim Todd, Kirkwood BR, Mark Urassa, Raphael Isingo, World Health Organization   +11 more
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