Ethnicity, Russification, and Excess Mortality in Kazakhstan.

Impact Analysis of Coronavirus on Elderly Population in Worldwide and Kazakhstan

Covid-19 pandemics has affected the lives of all level population but brought an unprecedented threat to the health and daily life of the elderly population. Starting from Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, the virus spread to the world fleetingly, from 44 cases in January 2019 to 171,615,923 cases all around the world as of June 01, 2021, including Kazakhstan. SARS-CoV-2 positive patients ...

Breast cancer diagnosis by mammography in Kazakhstan - staging results of breast cancer with double reading.

While mammography has been used for diagnosis of breast cancer in Kazakhstan for a long period, published data are very limited. Recently stress has been placed on increasing the accuracy by double reading of mammograms. Here we provide an overview of breast cancer screening in the different regions of Kazakhstan with data on the stages of cancers detected. A total 459,816 women aged 50, 52, 54...

Russification and the Political Colonization of Transoxiana in Tsarid Era (1864-1917)

Can chronotropic incompetence predict life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias in patients with stable ischemic heart disease?

Background: Chronotropic incompetence has prognostic value of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in both patients with asymptomatic and symptomatic ischemic heart disease (IHD), regardless of traditional risk factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between chronotropic response during exercise test and the development of ventricular arrhythmias. Methods: 153 pati...

Ethnic disparities in stroke: the scope of the problem.

An excess stroke mortality rate among African Americans is well known and should be considered a national crisis. This excess persists today despite dramatic declines in stroke mortality between 1970 and 1990 for both White and African-American men and women. Only a portion of this excess stroke mortality among African Americans can be explained by the higher prevalence of hypertension and diab...