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Heart failure quantified by underlying cause and multiple cause of death in Brazil between 2006 and 2016

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) does not produce estimates of heart failure (HF) since this condition is considered the common end to several diseases (i.e., garbage code).
Paolo Blanco Villela, Sonia Carvalho Santos, Glaucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira   +2 more
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Fatality from COVID-19 does not affect palliative care duration among patients with advanced cancer: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]

Einstein (São Paulo)
Objective: This study aimed at investigating the extent to which COVID-19-induced fatalities affect the duration of palliative care among patients with advanced cancer.
Rafael Tavares Jomar, Jéssica Thaís Nascimento Marques, Livia Costa de Oliveira, Gelcio Luiz Quintella Mendes, Daianny Arrais de Oliveira da Cunha, Raphael Mendonça Guimarães   +5 more
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Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Taiwan >From 1998 Through 2014

Journal of Epidemiology, 2021
Background: To investigate all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Taiwanese patients with type 1 diabetes. Methods: A cohort of 17,203 patients with type 1 diabetes were identified from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance claims in the period of 1998 ...
Chin-Li Lu, Ya-Hui Chang, Santi Martini, Ming-Fong Chang, Chung-Yi Li   +4 more
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Long-term secular trends in dermatomyositis and polymyositis mortality in the USA from 1981 to 2020 according to underlying and multiple cause of death mortality data

Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2023
Background People with dermatomyositis (DM) or polymyositis (PM) often die from cancer, pulmonary, cardiac complications, or infections. In such cases, DM or PM might not be designated as the underlying cause of death (UCD) for mortality tabulation.
Pengyan Qiao, Qianyu Guo, Jinfang Gao, Dan Ma, Sumiao Liu, Xiang Gao, Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Liyun Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rectangularization of the Survival Curve in The Netherlands: An Analysis of Underlying Causes of Death [PDF]

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 1997
This study analyzed the contribution of selected causes of death to rectangularization of the survival curve of Dutch men and women above age 60 in the 1980s, and determined why rectangularization took place in the 1980s but not in the 1970s. The contribution of causes of death was determined by means of a decomposition analysis, using mortality data ...
Nusselder, Wilma, Mackenbach, Johan
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Heart failure describing the underlying cause of death: a misconception, lack of information on the true underlying causes, or both?

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2022
Aim: The underlying cause of death represents the most important information on death certificates. Often, conditions that cannot represent a true underlying cause of death are listed as such. This phenomenon affects the quality of vital statistics and results of studies using cause-specific mortality as ...
Gerhard Sulo, Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Enxhela Sulo, Mohsen Naghavi, Stein Emil Vollset   +4 more
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The Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Childhood Cancer Survival: A Population‐Based Assessment of Survival Patterns Between 2015 and 2023 in Germany

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Numerous international studies have reported declines in new cancer diagnoses, delayed diagnoses and disruptions in cancer treatment following the implementation of COVID‐19 pandemic public health measures, raising concerns that these effects may ultimately contribute to increased cancer mortality.
Friederike Erdmann, Maike Wellbrock, Javier Louro, Arndt Borkhardt, Martin Schrappe, Claudia Trübenbach, Desiree Grabow, Cécile M. Ronckers, Joachim Schüz   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying Patterns of Hospitalizations Among Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Population‐Based Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) experience more hospitalizations than the general population. We aimed to identify distinct hospitalization patterns among Queensland CCSs and the associated characteristics. Methods Cases (aged ≤14 years) diagnosed between 1995 and 2019 while residents of Queensland were identified through the ...
Hai Pham, Teyl Engstrom, Peter Baade, Natalie Bradford, Sarah Pont, Louise Marquart‐Wilson, Natasha Nassar, Jason D. Pole   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The interpretation of COVID-19 in cause-of-death statistics: a matter of causality

GMS Infectious Diseases
Background: Mortality is an important indicator for estimating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, different registrations provide different figures and the question is how to interpret the number of COVID-19 deaths reported.
Harteloh, Peter P. M.
doaj   +1 more source

A Method for Identifying Underlying Causes of Death in Epidemiological Study.

Journal of Epidemiology, 2000
To obtain the underlying causes of death in individuals of a cohort (male only), the items of date of birth, date of death and address code at the time of death were linked between the data of resident cards and the death tapes of National Vital Statistics supplied by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Iwasaki, Tamiko, Miyake, Toshio, Ohshima, Sumio, Kudo, Shin'ichi, Yoshimura, Takesumi   +4 more
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