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Risk factors and mortality associated with multimorbidity in people with stroke or transient ischaemic attack: a study of 8,751 UK Biobank participants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: Multimorbidity is common in stroke, but the risk factors and effects on mortality remain poorly understood. Objective: To examine multimorbidity and its associations with sociodemographic/lifestyle risk factors and all-cause mortality in UK ...
Gallacher, Katie I.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Migraine, headache, and mortality in women: a cohort study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Migraine carries a high global burden, disproportionately affects women, and has been implicated as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Migraine with aura has been consistently associated with increased risk of cardiovascular mortality.
Buring, Julie Elizabeth   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries

open access: yesCa
This article presents global cancer statistics by world region for the year 2022 based on updated estimates from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
F. Bray   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cause-specific mortality as a sentinel indicator of current socioeconomic conditions in Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study aims to assess whether simple, widely available demographic indexes, like mortality measures, may serve as sentinel indicators of the economic development and the social wellbeing in Italy.
Barbi, Elisabetta   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Mortality among Lifelong Nonsmokers Exposed to Secondhand Smoke at Home: Cohort Data and Sensitivity Analyses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Evidence is growing that secondhand smoke can cause death from several diseases. The association between household exposure to secondhand smoke and disease-specific mortality was examined in two New Zealand cohorts of lifelong nonsmokers (‘‘never smokers’
Blakely, Tony   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Socioeconomic inequalities in the place of death in urban small areas of three Mediterranean cities

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Dying at home is the most frequent preference of patients with advanced chronic conditions, their caregivers, and the general population. However, most deaths continue to occur in hospitals.
Andreu Nolasco   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overweight/obesity risks and prevalence of diabetes and hypertension in North Eastern India: An analysis using seemingly unrelated probit model

open access: yesClinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2021
Objective: It would be reasonable to hypothesize that common unobserved factors, such as psychological stress and anxiety, as well as genetic and environmental factors, simultaneously influence the tendency for overweight or obesity and the prevalence of
Strong P. Marbaniang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disposal of children’s stools and its association with childhood diarrhea in India

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Background Children’s stool disposal is often overlooked in sanitation programs of any country. Unsafe disposal of children’s stool makes children susceptible to many diseases that transmit through faecal-oral route.
Rahul Bawankule   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospital admissions and mortality for acute exacerbations of COPD during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide study in France

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Placental weight and mortality in premenopausal breast cancer by tumor characteristics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Placental weight may be regarded as an indirect marker of hormone exposures during pregnancy. There is epidemiological evidence that breast cancer mortality in premenopausal women increases with placental weight in the most recent pregnancy.
Adolfsson, J.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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