INTRODUCTION Emerging non-AIDS related causes of death have been observed in HIV-positive subjects in industrialized countries. We aimed to analyze overall and cause-specific excess of mortality of HIV-positive patients compared to the general population and to assess the effect of prognostic factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS We used generalized linear models with Poisson error structure to estim...

b a c k g r o u n d & aim: the excess hazard rate proposed by andersen and vaeth may underestimate the long-term excess hazard rate for cancer survival. zahl explained the phenomenon by continuous selection of the most robust individuals after diagnosis. he applied correlated inverse gaussian and gamma  frailty  models  to estimate  excess  intensity  and reached  a better  estimate  of the rat...

Influenza-associated excess mortality is widely used to assess the severity of influenza epidemics. In Germany, however, it is not yet established as a routine component of influenza surveillance. We therefore applied a simple method based on the annual distribution of monthly relative mortality (relative mortality distribution method, RMDM) to a time-series of German monthly all-cause mortalit...

CONTEXT The association of body mass index (BMI) with cause-specific mortality has not been reported for the US population. OBJECTIVE To estimate cause-specific excess deaths associated with underweight (BMI <18.5), overweight (BMI 25-<30), and obesity (BMI > or =30). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cause-specific relative risks of mortality from the National Health and Nutrition Examinat...

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...

The magnitude of additional mortality produced by the development of atrial fibrillation not associated with major cardiovascular risk factors is demonstrated. In a community-based population followed for 10 years, men aged 55-74 years had a mortality ratio of 260% and an excess death rate of 57. Women in the same age group had a mortality ratio of 335% and an excess death rate of 59. Were one ...