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Coronary Risk Factors and Excess Mortality from All Causes and Specific Causes

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1983
Data from two Italian rural cohorts of the Seven Countries Study are used to examine the relationship between level at entry to the study of some coronary risk factors and subsequent mortality. The target follow-up period of 15 years after entry to the study is complete.
S, Conti, G, Farchi, A, Menotti
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Incidence of Myocardial Infarction and Mortality from Specific Causes among Bus Drivers in Sweden

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1993
Previous studies have indicated that urban bus drivers have an increased risk of coronary heart disease. In the present investigation two separate studies were carried out. In the first study the mortality from myocardial infarction (MI), as well as from other causes for all male bus drivers in Sweden (9446), was investigated and compared to those of ...
L, Alfredsson, N, Hammar, C, Hogstedt
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Impact of weight change on specific-cause mortality among middle-aged Japanese individuals

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2009
Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between long-term weight change after age 20 and overall mortality and cause-specific mortality in the general Asian population. Methods: From 1990 to 2005, the Japan Public ...
I, Saito, M, Konishi, H, Iso, M, Inoue, S, Tsugane   +4 more
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Effects of air pollution on specific causes of infant mortality: population-based study

Paediatric respiratory epidemiology, 2019
Background: Air pollution is associated with infant mortality, it is unclear if it differentially affects specific causes of mortality. Aims and Objectives: To investigate effects of air pollution on specific causes of mortality. Methods: We separately investigated associations of pollution exposures of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ...
Sarah Kotecha, W John Watkins, John Lowe, Jonathan Grigg, Sailesh Kotecha   +4 more
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Decline in mortality in Japan, USA, and the Federal Republic of Germany — The contribution of the specific causes of death

Klinische Wochenschrift, 1985
In Japan, total mortality of men and women in the age groups of 45-54, 55-64, and 65-74 years decreased, within the last three decades, by 50-60% to values which are now among the lowest in the world. During the same period, death rates of men decreased by approx. 20% in the USA and approx. 10% in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
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Birth weight-specific causes of infant mortality, United States, 1980.

Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974), 1987
To describe underlying causes of infant death by birth weight, we used data from the 1980 National Infant Mortality Surveillance project and aggregated International Classification of Diseases codes into seven categories: perinatal conditions, infections, congenital anomalies, injuries, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), other known causes, and ...
J W, Buehler, L T, Strauss, C J, Hogue, J C, Smith   +3 more
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[Evaluation of the epidemiological evidence of the association between specific causes of mortality and exposure].

Epidemiologia e prevenzione, 2010
SENTIERI Project is aimed at assessing IPSs residents’ health status through the analysis of mortality for the period 1995-2002, to set priorities in remediation intervention and so prevent environment-related diseases. SENTIERIWG agreed that the epidemiological evaluation of the evidence here bestowed, will be used to comment and interpret results ...
Comba, P, Iavarone, I, Bianchi, F, Conti, S, Forastiere, F, Martuzzi, M, Musmeci, L, PIRASTU, Roberta   +7 more
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Trends in educational inequalities in premature mortality in Belgium between the 1990s and the 2000s: the contribution of specific causes of deaths

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2016
Background Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, a key public health objective may be supported by a careful monitoring and assessment of the contributions of specific causes of death to the global inequality.
Renard, Françoise, Gadeyne, Sylvie, Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Tafforeau, Jean, Deboosere, Patrick   +4 more
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The current mortality rates of radiologists and other physician specialists: specific causes of death.

American journal of epidemiology, 1975
The cohort mortality experience of radiologists over a 50-year period has been compared to that of other specialists with low levels of radiation exposure. The 1920-1929 cohort of radiologists who joined the Radiological Society of North America had the highest mortality for several chronic diseases. After this early period, radiologists ranked highest
G M, Matanoski, R, Seltser, P E, Sartwell, E L, Diamond, E A, Elliott   +4 more
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[Study on mortality by specific cause among workers at a lead and zinc foundry in Sardinia].

Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia, 2006
The mortality of 918 Sardinian lead-smelter workers followed between 1972 and 2001 is reported. The assessment of individual exposure to inorganic lead was based on several environmental and blood lead measurements available, for each department and task, between 1985 and 2001.
P, Carta, G, Aru, P, Nurchis, C, Cadeddu, M, Polizzi, V, Nieddu, G, Sali, L, Gaviano, C, Flore, F, Sanna Randaccio   +9 more
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