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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Purpose A set of treatment planning strategies were designed and retrospectively implemented for locally advanced, non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in order to minimize cardiac dose without compromising target coverage goals. Methods Retrospective analysis was performed for 20 NSCLC patients prescribed to 60–66 Gy that received a ...
Joshua P. Kim +5 more
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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 +7 more
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Image quality improvement in low‐dose chest CT with deep learning image reconstruction
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Objectives To investigate the clinical utility of deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) for improving image quality in low‐dose chest CT in comparison with 40% adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction‐Veo (ASiR‐V40%) algorithm. Methods This retrospective study included 86 patients who underwent low‐dose CT for lung cancer screening ...
Qian Tian +7 more
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Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2002 CONTEXT Associations have been found between day-to-day particulate air pollution and increased risk of various adverse health outcomes, including cardiopulmonary mortality.
A. Pope +6 more
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Does personality predict mortality? Results from the GAZEL French prospective cohort study.
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2007 BACKGROUND Majority of studies on personality and physical health have focused on one or two isolated personality traits. We aim to test the independent association of 10 personality traits, from three major conceptual models, with all-cause and cause ...
H. Nabi +8 more
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Self-rated health and mortality: a review of twenty-seven community studies.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1997 We examine the growing number of studies of survey respondents' global self-ratings of health as predictors of mortality in longitudinal studies of representative community samples. Twenty-seven studies in U.S.
E. Idler, Y. Benyamini
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 BackgroundA global reduction in hospital admissions for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) was observed during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jonas Poucineau +10 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background To promote institutional delivery, the Government of India, through the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) program, gives monetary reward to all pregnant women who give birth at the government or private health center.
Ratna Patel +4 more
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Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 Background Many reports on coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have highlighted age- and sex-related differences in health outcomes. More information is needed about racial and ethnic differences in outcomes from Covid-19.
E. Price-Haywood +3 more
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Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 shock on a stochastic multi-population mortality model [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We aim to assess the impact of a pandemic data point on the calibration of a stochastic multi-population mortality projection model and its resulting projections for future mortality rates. Throughout the paper we put focus on the Li & Lee mortality model, which has become a standard for projecting mortality in Belgium and the Netherlands. We calibrate
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