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Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: a large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Reliable mortality data are essential for the development of public health policies. In Brazil, although there is a well-consolidated universal system for mortality data, the quality of information on causes of death (CoD) is not even among ...
Carmen Diva Saldiva de André, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach, Lucia Pereira Barroso, Paulo Afonso de André, Lisie Tocci Justo, Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira, Mauro T. Taniguchi, Cátia Martinez Minto, Pedro Losco Takecian, Leonardo Tadashi Kamaura, João Eduardo Ferreira, Riley H. Hazard, Deirdre Mclaughlin, Ian Riley, Alan D. Lopez, Ana Maria de Oliveira Ramos, Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Elisabeth Barboza França, Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, Luiz Fernando Ferraz da Silva   +19 more
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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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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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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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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
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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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Sustained Therapeutic Efficacy of Intravenous Plasminogen Concentrate in Pediatric Patients With Type 1 Plasminogen Deficiency: An Analysis of Dosing Parameters and Clinical Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Type 1 plasminogen deficiency (PLGD‐1) is an ultra‐rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by variants in the PLG gene and affects approximately 1.6 individuals per million. The condition is characterized by decreased plasminogen levels and impaired function, resulting in fibrin‐rich lesions on mucous membranes throughout the body.
Charles Nakar, Karen Thibaudeau, Mary Mathias, Heather McDaniel, Madlen Reschke, Klaus Tenbrock, Joseph M. Parker, Amy Shapiro   +7 more
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Personalized Zebrafish Models for Fusion‐Positive Pediatric Sarcomas

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Clinical sequencing efforts have revolutionized our approaches to categorizing pediatric cancers in real time. This has dramatically improved our ability to profile pediatric tumors, identify actionable vulnerabilities, and influence clinical care.
Lisa H. Hall, Emma N. Harrison, Genevieve C. Kendall   +2 more
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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.
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