Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 BackgroundClarithromycin is widely used to treat various bacterial infections and has been reported to have potential cardiovascular risk. However, it is uncertain whether this association was dose dependent and confounded by indication bias in patients ...
Ben-Hui Yu +8 more
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Association between long-term exposure to air pollution and specific causes of mortality in Scotland [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2012 This study investigated the association between long-term exposure to black smoke (BS) air pollution and mortality in two related Scottish cohorts with 25 years of follow-up.Risk factors were collected during 1970-1976 for 15331 and 6680 participants in the Renfrew/Paisley and Collaborative cohorts respectively.
Yap, Christina +9 more
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Malaria Journal, 2017 Background Lack of valid and reliable data on malaria deaths continues to be a problem that plagues the global health community. To address this gap, the verbal autopsy (VA) method was developed to ascertain cause of death at the population level ...
Samantha Herrera +7 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 BackgroundThe effect of obesity on intensive care unit outcomes among critically ill patients and whether there are sex differences have not been well investigated.
Shan Li +7 more
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Association between PM2.5 and all-cause and specific-cause mortality in 27 US communities [PDF]
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 2006 While fine mode particulate matter (PM(2.5)) forms the basis for regulating particles in the US and other countries, there is a serious paucity of large population-based studies of its acute effect on mortality. To address this issue, we examined the association between PM(2.5) and both all-cause and specific-cause mortality using over 1.3 million ...
Meredith, Franklin +2 more
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Waist Circumference as Compared with Body-Mass Index in Predicting Mortality from Specific Causes
PLoS ONE, 2011 Background: Whether waist circumference provides clinically meaningful information not delivered by body-mass index regarding prediction of cause-specific death is uncertain. Methods: We prospectively examined waist circumference (WC) and body-mass index (BMI) in relation to cause-specific death in 225,712 U. S. women and men.
Leitzmann, Michael +6 more
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Overall and cause specific mortality.
, 2022 Overall and cause specific mortality.
Michael Bergqvist (62956) +6 more
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All-Cause and Cause-Specific Excess Mortality During the First Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic in NorthEast of Iran: Reiterating the Significance of High-Quality Healthcare Systems [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and ManagementBackground Excess mortality provides a comprehensive measure to assess the true impact of the disease on mortality rates. This study aimed to quantify excess mortality attributable to COVID-19 in northeastern Iran during the pandemic period (2020–2022).
Seyedeh Vajiheh Kazemian +4 more
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Cause-specific mortality of white-tailed deer fawns, Boone County, Iowa, USA, 2015–2017.
, 2020 Cause-specific mortality of white-tailed deer fawns, Boone County, Iowa, USA, 2015–2017.
Stephen J. Dinsmore (3843145) +2 more
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Relation between early life socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953 and their parents [PDF]
, 2005 Objective: To examine (1) the relation between parental socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations, (2) the relative importance of mother’s educational status and father’s occupational status on offspring mortality, and (3) the ...
Osler, M. +8 more
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