background: a person's beliefs can influence the progression of his/her disease; and battling an illness can trigger severe anxiety about death. this study aims to compare the attitude toward death between healthy people and those suffering from diabetes and cancer. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 300 individuals were selected by convenient sampling method. three groups were matched by gen...

OBJECTIVES To describe trends in advance directive (AD) completion from 2000 to 2010 and to explore the relationship between AD and hospitalization and hospital death at the end of life. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Health and Retirement Study (HRS). PARTICIPANTS HRS participants who died between 2000 and 2010 and were aged 60 and older at death (N = 6,122). MEASUREMENTS T...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the trend in Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) among hospitalized children in the United States and to evaluate the severity of and risk factors associated with these cases of CDI. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study using the triennial Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database for the years 1997, 2000, 2003, and 2006. SETTING Hospitalized c...

background : the word death has been brought in several verses of quran. the purpose of this study is to discuss and compare similarities and differences between quran’s and forensics’ perspective in terms of death. methods: the present study is carried out by library studies on multiple interpretations of quran, interpretation of juridical references and comparing them with current forensics k...

background: cancer is the third most common cause of death in iran. gastric cancer (gc) and colorectal cancer (crc) are two important causes of mortality due to cancer. with regards to cancer mortality, data are important to monitor the effects of screening program, earlier diagnosis, demographic data and other prognostic factors. the aim of this study was to evaluate the mortality rates and tr...

BACKGROUND Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) measures all atherogenic apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins and predicts risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The association of non-HDL-C with risk of death from CVD in diabetes is not well understood. This study assessed the hypothesis that, among adults with diabetes, non-HDL-C may be related to the risk of death from CV...

AIMS We tried to determine the influence of age on complication rates of carotid artery stenting (CAS). METHODS AND RESULTS Two thousand seven hundred eighty CAS procedures were included in the registry. Median age of the patients was 70.8 years, with a proportion of octogenarians of 11.2% and a significant increase between 1996 (5.9%) and 2005 (13.7%; P for trend = 0.002). In octogenarians, ...

OBJECTIVE - To analyze the trends in risk of death due to cardiovascular diseases in the northern, northeastern, southern, southeastern, and central western Brazilian geographic regions from 1979 to 1996. METHODS - Data on mortality due to cardiovascular, cardiac ischemic, and cerebrovascular diseases in 5 Brazilian geographic regions were obtained from the Ministry of Health. Population estima...