Firearms: the leading cause of years of potential life lost [PDF]
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2022 Objectives Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that firearm deaths are increasing in the USA. The aims of this study were to determine the magnitude of potential years of life lost due to firearms and to examine the ...
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Disparities in years of potential life lost among racial and ethnic groups in Washington state [PDF]
Archives of Public Health, 2022 Background The disproportionate mortality burden racial and ethnic groups endure compared to their non-Hispanic white (NHW) counterparts is a widely known public health issue in the United States.
Solmaz Amiri +3 more
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Years of Potential Life Lost on Renal Replacement Therapy: Retrospective Study Cohort. [PDF]
J Clin Med, 2022 Background: Chronic kidney disease is the non-communicable disease with the highest growth in morbidity and mortality. Renal transplantation (RT) is the first option of renal replacement in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and dialysis is an alternative.
Muñoz-Terol JM +4 more
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Life expectancy and years of potential life lost in people with mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context [PDF]
EClinicalMedicine, 2023 Summary: Background: Mental disorders are associated with premature mortality. There is increasing research examining life expectancy and years-of-potential-life-lost (YPLL) to quantify the disease impact on survival in people with mental disorders.
Joe Kwun Nam Chan +7 more
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Burden of cancer in Poland analysed using potential years of life lost [PDF]
Contemporary Oncology, 2020 The aim was to assess the impact of the most frequent cancer-related causes of death in Poland by estimating the years of potential life lost (YPLL) and to compare different measures of the burden of cancer deaths on the population.Mortality rate, YPLL and mean YPLL were calculated for the 11 most frequently recorded cancer-related causes of death in ...
Katarzyna Orlewska +2 more
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Mortality and potential life years lost due to external causes: Colombia from 1998 to 2015 [PDF]
Universidad y Salud, 2018 Introduction: The external causes of mortality are constituted as a public health problem which affect young population, have social relevance, are avoidable and their impact is reducible in the long term. Objective: To describe the behavior of mortality
Alejandra Segura-Cardona +1 more
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Years of potential life lost secondary to COVID-19: Cook County, Illinois. [PDF]
Ann Epidemiol, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to substantial morbidity and mortality world-wide. Evidence suggests that ethnic and racial minorities have been disproportionately affected in the United States, particularly within major population centers.
Lilly D +4 more
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Years of Potential Life Lost from Cardiovascular Disease Among Hispanics. [PDF]
Ethn Dis, 2019 Objective: To quantify the impact of cardiovascular disease and its subtypes on the premature mortality of Hispanics in the United States.Methods: We used national death records to identify deaths for the three largest Hispanic subgroups (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans) in the United States from 2003 to 2012 (N = 832,550).
Manjunath L +3 more
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Mortality trends and years of potential life lost due to suicide in adolescents [PDF]
Revista de Saúde PúblicaOBJECTIVE To assess the trend in mortality rates and years of potential life lost (YPLL) due to suicide among adolescents in Northeast Brazil. METHODS This is an ecological time series study, with secondary data from 2011 to 2020 from the Mortality ...
Beatriz Catarina dos Santos de Oliveira +5 more
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Impact of tuberculosis on median survival time and years of potential life lost in patients: A scoping review [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial DiseasesObjective: Tuberculosis significantly affects human health and longevity. We aimed to systematically synthesize studies to summarize the median survival time range and years of potential life lost (YPLL) among tuberculosis patients.
Jingxian Ning +8 more
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