Background: The incidences of head injuries are growing with increasing number of high speed motor vehicle, more movement of the public and mechanization in industry. Head injury is most common causes of mortality in road traffi c accidents and fall from Height. This is because of this special anatomical location of the Head in our body. This study is being taken into account to explore and eva...

Data on home accidents for a 3-year period (2000-2002) were collected from health houses, health centres and hospitals involved in a home accident prevention programme in Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. A total of 15 402 accidents were registered, with a mortality rate of 1.3%. Accidents were more common in women than in men (52.1% versus 47.9%) and urban than rural areas (66.3% versus 33.7%)...

Arterial hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease.1 Epidemiological studies have provided unequivocal evidence for the association between arterial hypertension and mortality from ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accident (CVA), and vascular diseases.2 Additionally, there is a strong association between blood pressure (BP) reduction and prevention of coronary artery...

Stroke, also known as a cerebral vascular accident (CVA), is the most common and the most threatening cerebrovascular condition and is one of the main factors contributing to the increase in global mortality. In this paper an approached is proposed for detection of brain stroke.

Background: Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is one among the top five causes of morbidity and mortality in South-East Asian countries including India. 1 Its socioeconomic repercussions are a matter of great concern. Efficient addressing of the issue requires quality information on different causative factors. ObjectivesWhat are different epidemiological determinants of RTA in Bhopal MP and examine ...

The coroner's records of 110 accidental deaths resulting from poisoning, drowning and falling were examined for evidence of mental illness. Sixty per cent were classified as mentally ill before they died, depression, drug dependence and alcoholism accounting for over three-quarters of the diagnoses. Deaths given accident verdicts should be included in the study of the mortality of the mentally ...

Colonic seat belt injuries are rare but carry higher mortality rates than small bowel injuries. The case of a 44 year old man is described who had severe sigmoid colon compression injury from his seat belt a few days after a road traffic accident.

Background Mortality from stroke has declined in many countries. This decline may result from a fall in incidence of stroke or a decrease in case fatality from stroke. The present study was conducted to investigate the temporal trends of incidence rate, mortality rate, and case fatality of stroke in an urban and rural Chinese population. Methods A community-based registry study was established ...

Background Prior studies showed dementia is associated with the increased risk of injuries in motorcycle crashes, especially young onset dementia. However, little known about effect on organ failure and hospital mortality crash-related hospitalizations. This study describes prevalence hospitalizations among patients without assesses whether at higher Method In this population-based cohort study...

BACKGROUND Retroperitoneal hematoma (RH) can present as an acute life-threatening condition, report on RH in low-income countries are lacking. OBJECTIVE We present the severity, pattern, challenges, and outcome of RH in a low-resource country such as Nigeria. METHODS This was a retrospective observational study of all patients with blunt or penetrating abdominal injury needing surgery, pati...