Mortality trends from hypertension in Mexico by socioeconomic region and state, 2000-2008

Mortality trends from hypertension in Mexico by socioeconomic region and state, 2000-2008.

OBJECTIVE To determine mortality trends from hypertension in Mexico nationwide, by state, by socioeconomic region, and by sex and to establish an association between education, state of residence, and socioeconomic region with mortality from hypertension in 2000-2008. METHODS Records of mortality associated with hypertension for 2000-2008 were obtained from the National Information System of ...

Mortality trends from diabetes mellitus in the seven socioeconomic regions of Mexico, 2000-2007.

OBJECTIVE To determine trends in mortality from diabetes mellitus nationwide according to federative entity, socioeconomic region, and sex and to establish the association between education level, federation entity of residence, and socioeconomic region and mortality from diabetes in Mexico during the years 2000-2007. METHODS Records of mortality associated with diabetes for 2000-2007 were ob...

Maternal Mortality Trends in Mexico: State Differences

Mortality trends and risk of dying from colorectal cancer in the seven socioeconomic regions of Mexico, 2000-2012.

BACKGROUND In Mexico, there has been an upward trend in mortality rates from colorectal cancer (CRC) over the past three decades. This tumor is ranked among the ten most prevalent causes of morbidity from malignancies in Mexico. AIMS To determine the mortality trends by socioeconomic region and by state, and to establish the relative risk between both educational level and socioeconomic regio...

Epidemiology and trends in mortality from liver cancer in Iran

Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of death from cancer. Liver cancer is more prevalent in countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the western Central Africa.1 Liver cancer rates in North America and Western Europe, less than 10 cases per hundred thousand people in Asia and Africa between 50-150 cases per hundred thousand people.2 The inc...