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The general social survey-national death index: an innovative new dataset for the social sciences [PDF]

BMC Research Notes, 2011
Background Social epidemiology seeks in part to understand how social factors--ideas, beliefs, attitudes, actions, and social connections--influence health.
Smith Tom W, Kim Jibum, Johnson Gretchen, Muennig Peter, Rosen Zohn   +4 more
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National Death Index [PDF]

Data set containing death record information from the state vital statistics office. Background The National Death Index is maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Center for Disease control.
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Omega-3 Index and Sudden Cardiac Death [PDF]

, 2010
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is an unresolved health issue, and responsible for 15% of all deaths in Western countries. Epidemiologic evidence, as well as evidence from clinical trials, indicates that increasing intake and high levels of eicosapentaenoic ...
Schacky, Clemens von, Von Schacky
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Bias Implications of Outcome Misclassification in Observational Studies Evaluating Association Between Treatments and All‐Cause or Cardiovascular Mortality Using Administrative Claims

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background The bias implications of outcome misclassification arising from imperfect capture of mortality in claims‐based studies are not well understood.
Rishi J. Desai, Raisa Levin, Kueiyu Joshua Lin, Elisabetta Patorno   +3 more
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Comparison of Expert Adjudicated Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality With the National Death Index: Results From the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017
Background The National Death Index (NDI) is widely used to detect coronary heart disease (CHD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths, but its reliability has not been examined recently.
Olusola Tope Olubowale, Monika M. Safford, Todd M. Brown, Raegan W. Durant, Virginia J. Howard, Christopher Gamboa, Stephen P. Glasser, J. David Rhodes, Emily B. Levitan   +8 more
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Association of SGLT2 inhibitors with lower incidence of death in type 2 diabetes mellitus and causes of death analysis

Scientific Reports, 2022
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2i) potentially decrease all-cause and cardiovascular death, however, associations with non-cardiovascular death remain unclear.
Mu-Chi Chung, Hui-Tsung Hsu, Chao-Hsiang Chang, Peir-Haur Hung, Po-Jen Hsiao, Laing-You Wu, Ming-Ju Wu, Jeng-Jer Shieh, Chi-Jung Chung   +8 more
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The ‘regulated death’: a documentary analysis of the regulation and inspection of dying and death in English care homes for older people. [PDF]

, 2007
In England, processes of regulation and inspection have been established to ensure that older people living in long-term care settings receive quality care.
Froggatt, Katherine A.
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Association between body shape index and risk of mortality in the United States

Scientific Reports, 2022
The body mass index (BMI) neither differentiates fat from lean mass nor does it consider adipose tissue distribution. In contrast, the recently introduced z-score of the log-transformed A Body Shape Index (LBSIZ) can be applied to measure obesity using ...
Heysoo Lee, Hye Soo Chung, Yoon Jung Kim, Min Kyu Choi, Yong Kyun Roh, Wankyo Chung, Jae Myung Yu, Chang-Myung Oh, Shinje Moon   +8 more
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Death registration in Nigeria: a systematic literature review of its performance and challenges

Global Health Action, 2020
Background Death registration provides an opportunity for the legal documentation of death of persons. Documentation of deaths has several implications including its use in the recovery of inheritance and insurance benefits. It is also an important input
Olusesan Ayodeji Makinde, Clifford Obby Odimegwu, Mojisola O. Udoh, Sunday A. Adedini, Joshua O. Akinyemi, Akinyemi Atobatele, Opeyemi Fadeyibi, Fatima Abdulaziz Sule, Stella Babalola, Nosakhare Orobaton   +9 more
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Triglyceride glucose index as a predictor of mortality in middle-aged and elderly patients with type 2 diabetes in the US

Scientific Reports, 2023
Despite a wealth of research linking the triglyceride glucose index (TyG index) to metabolic diseases. However, little evidence links the TyG index to all-cause or CVD mortality in middle-aged and elderly individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Mengjie Zhao, Mengli Xiao, Qin Tan, Fang Lu   +3 more
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