INTRODUCTION This study is aimed at determining the incidence, survival rate, life expectancy, quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) and prognostic factors in patients with cancer in different organ systems undergoing prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV). METHODS We used data from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan from 1998 to 2007 and linked it with the National M...

introduction: individuals and families' accessible incomes increase as a result of economic development and income inequality reduction. this in turn leads to health promotion in the community. so, this study mainly aimed to survey the effects of unequal income distribution on health in selected members of organization of islamic countries (oic). methods: this descriptive-analytic study collect...

It is well known that life expectancy in nursing homes (NHs) lower for older adults than those residing elsewhere. In this paper, we attempt to discover the exact extent of loss expectancy, and whether it can be explained by pre-existing health state conditions, especially seriousness dementia. We use a parametric survival model, on large data set spanning up 13 years, which covers states types...

CONTEXT In the Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program (SHEP) trial, conducted between 1985 and 1990, antihypertensive therapy with chlorthalidone-based stepped-care therapy resulted in a lower rate of cardiovascular events than placebo but effects on mortality were not significant. OBJECTIVE To study the gain in life expectancy of participants randomized to active therapy at the 22-year...

BACKGROUND Cancer-specific mortality is projected to be only 1% in 15 years in approximately 75% of patients with screen-detected localized prostate cancer (LPC). Nearly 94% of patients choose treatment even though treatment damages health-related quality of life. No data are available regarding what survival benefit patients expected from treatment. OBJECTIVES A self-administered mailed surv...

OBJECTIVE Survival and causes of death (COD) in multiple sclerosis (MS) provide ultimate endpoints. We aimed to investigate survival and COD in a 60-year population-based MS cohort compared with the general population. METHODS All patients with incident multiple sclerosis (MS) (N=1388) with onset during 1953-2012 in Hordaland County, Western Norway, were included. Data were obtained from pati...

OBJECTIVES A policy model is a model that can evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions and inform policy decisions. In this study, we introduce a cardiovascular disease (CVD) policy model which can be used to model remaining life expectancy including a measure of socioeconomic deprivation as an independent risk factor for CVD. DESIGN A state transition model was deve...

Consumption of deep sea minerals (DSM), such as magnesium, calcium, and potassium, is known to reduce hypercholesterolemia-induced myocardial hypertrophy and cardiac-apoptosis and provide protection against cardiovascular diseases. Heart diseases develop as a lethal complication among diabetic patients usually due to hyperglycemia-induced cardiac-apoptosis that causes severe cardiac-damages, he...

BACKGROUND The survival benefit of heart transplantation (HT) compared with optimal medical therapy (OMT) has never been tested. METHODS AND RESULTS We created a decision analytic model that simulates a randomized clinical trial of OMT versus HT for each New York Heart Association (NYHA) class. The simulation calculates average life expectancy. The following assumptions were made for OMT annu...

background and aims: life expectancy is one of the most important indicators of health and well-being of a society. since it is claimed that in aran-bidgol region, center of iran, life expectancy is higher than the average of the country, this study was designed. methods: during a cross-sectional study, population and mortality data of kashan university of medical sciences (kaums) in 2011 were ...