Do patients who die from an alcohol-related condition ‘drift’ into areas of greater deprivation? Alcohol-related mortality and health selection theory in Scotland [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Health selection has been proposed to explain the patterning of alcohol-related mortality by area deprivation. This study investigated whether persons who die from alcohol-related conditions are more likely to experience social drift than ...
Gordon, Ruth +5 more
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Multiple causes of death related to cerebrovascular diseases in the State of Parana, Brazil [PDF]
, 2011 OBJETIVO: Identificar as causas associadas de morte e o número de causas informadas nas declarações de óbito por doenças cerebrovasculares entre residentes no Estado do Paraná. MATERIAL E MÉTODOS: O banco de dados de mortalidade do ano de 2004 foi obtido
FURUKAWA, Tatiane Sano +2 more
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Quantifying cause-related mortality by weighting multiple causes of death
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2016 To investigate a new approach to calculating cause-related standardized mortality rates that involves assigning weights to each cause of death reported on death certificates.We derived cause-related standardized mortality rates from death certificate data for France in 2010 using: (i) the classic method, which considered only the underlying cause of ...
Piffaretti, C +3 more
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Cause-of-death diversity trends from a multiple-cause perspective
European Journal of Public Health, 2021 Abstract Background Recent evidence suggests that the diversity in underlying cause-of-death has increased over the last two decades, especially among old age groups. However, current approaches ignore the presence of comorbidities, which are highly prevalent and complicate the assignation of a single
S Trias-Llimós, I Permanyer
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Multiple morbidities in companion dogs: a novel model for investigating age-related disease [PDF]
, 2016 The proportion of men and women surviving over 65 years has been steadily increasing over the last century. In their later years, many of these individuals are afflicted with multiple chronic conditions, placing increasing pressure on healthcare systems.
Delignette-Muller ML +5 more
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Cause-specific measures of life years lost [PDF]
, 2013 Background: A new measure of the number of life years lost due to specific causes of death is introduced. Methods: This measure is based on the cumulative incidence of death, it does not require "independence" of causes, and it satisfies simple ...
Andersen, Per Kragh +2 more
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Analysis of mortality in a pooled cohort of Canadian and German uranium processing workers with no mining experience. [PDF]
, 2017 PurposeLong-term health risks of occupational exposures to uranium processing were examined to better understand potential differences with uranium underground miners and nuclear reactor workers.MethodsA cohort study of mortality of workers from Port ...
Fenske, Nora +5 more
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Highly efficient optogenetic cell ablation in C. elegans using membrane-targeted miniSOG. [PDF]
, 2016 The genetically encoded photosensitizer miniSOG (mini Singlet Oxygen Generator) can be used to kill cells in C. elegans. miniSOG generates the reactive oxygen species (ROS) singlet oxygen after illumination with blue light.
Chisholm, Andrew D, Xu, Suhong
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Multiple cause-of-death data among people with AIDS in Italy: a nationwide cross-sectional study
Population Health Metrics, 2017 Background Multiple cause-of-death (MCOD) data allow analyzing the contribution to mortality of conditions reported on the death certificate that are not selected as the underlying cause of death.
Enrico Grande +10 more
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Causes of death among commercially insured multiple sclerosis patients in the United States. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND: Information on causes of death (CODs) for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the United States is sparse and limited by standard categorizations of underlying and immediate CODs on death certificates.
Douglas S Goodin +8 more
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