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Successful Extracorporeal Life Support for Life-threatening Hypercapnia with Bronchiolitis Obliterans after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is a disease with a poor prognosis, and a key factor that limits long-term survival after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
Ichiba, Shingo   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of COVID-19 on excess mortality, life expectancy, and years of life lost in the United States

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
This paper quantifies the net impact (direct and indirect effects) of the pandemic on the United States population in 2020 using three metrics: excess deaths, life expectancy, and total years of life lost.
Eunice Y S Chan, D. Cheng, Janet Martin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

National Burden of Cancers in Tunisia: A Disability Adjusted Life-year Approach

open access: yesDr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Journal, 2020
Cancer places a considerable burden on society that is reflected in both economic and humanitarian costs. We aimed to estimate the disease burden of cancers in Tunisia using the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) as a health measure. We performed the
Houda Ben Ayed   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Globalization and life lost due to tuberculosis: evidence from a multi-country study [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2021
Background: Tuberculosis affects around 30% of the population of the world. Tuberculosis causes an increase in early mortality and thus has the potential to increase the number of years of life lost.
Shyamkumar Sriram, Muayad Albadrani
doaj   +1 more source

Self-selection and risk sharing in a modern world of life-long annuities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Communicating a pension product well is as important as optimising the financial value. In a recent study, we showed that up to 80% of the value of a pension lump sum could be lost if customer communication failed.
Gerrard, R. J. G.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017

open access: yesJAMA Oncology, 2019
This systematic analysis describes cancer burden for 29 cancer groups across 195 countries from 1990 through 2017 to provide data needed for cancer control planning.
C. Fitzmaurice   +499 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Years of life lost due to asthma in a population-based 10-year study in Yazd, Iran

open access: yesLung India, 2018
Introduction: Asthma is a prevalent disease in both children and adults. Significant progress in the management of asthma and prevention of asthmatic attacks resulted in a reduction of asthma deaths, but there is a variation among different regions based
Hamidreza Rahavi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 and the difficulty of inferring epidemiological parameters from clinical data

open access: yes, 2020
Knowing the infection fatality ratio (IFR) is of crucial importance for evidence-based epidemic management: for immediate planning; for balancing the life years saved against the life years lost due to the consequences of management; and for evaluating ...
Fasiolo, Matteo   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Years of life lost due to unintentional drug overdose relative to the leading underlying causes of death in the United States: a comparative analysis of excess mortality 2017–2019

open access: yesJournal of Addictive Diseases, 2023
The present study aims to compare Years of Life Lost for unintentional drug overdose and the leading underlying causes of death in the United States annually from 2017 to 2019. Years of Life Lost provide valuable context to incident deaths when comparing
MD a Stephanie Garcia   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Socioeconomic status, non-communicable disease risk factors, and walking speed in older adults: multi-cohort population based study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
To assess the association of low socioeconomic status and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (diabetes, high alcohol intake, high blood pressure, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking) with loss of physical functioning at older ages. Multi-cohort
Avendaño, M   +30 more
core   +11 more sources

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