BACKGROUND The circulatory system diseases (CAD), one of the most important current health problems, have started to show a declining trend in mortality in several countries, although they are still proportionally the number one regarding the statistics of morbimortality. OBJECTIVE To analyze the mortality trend due to CAD in Brazilian capital cities, during the period of 1950 to 2000. METH...

BACKGROUND Many Canadian patients who receive hemodialysis live far from their attending nephrologist, which may affect clinical outcomes. We investigated whether patients receiving hemodialysis who live farther from their attending nephrologist are more likely to die than those who live closer. METHODS We studied a random sample of 18,722 patients who began hemodialysis between 1990 and 2000...

“death” as one of the basic subject and a fact is considered by all contemporary and previous poets and scholars. ghaddeh-samman, an arab poet and writer, was influenced by the defeat of arabs from israel in one hand, and because of his presence in lebanon since the civil war in the country was influenced by bad effects of the war in the other hand. thats why the word “death” overruled its imag...

OBJECTIVE Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in women and men in Brazil, but the trends for the death ratios for ischemic heart disease and stroke in women and men remain unknown. METHOD In this study, the trends for the death ratios among women and men who were over 30 years of age were analyzed from 1980 to 2005. Data were collected for both the Brazilian population and the...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The prevalence of atrial fibrillation increases with age, but age-specific data on the incidence of stroke and death in anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation are more limited, particularly with regard to comparisons of relative risks of clinical outcomes between the different age strata in relation to quality of anticoagulation control among warfarin users. M...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between adherence to the Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top and total and cause specific mortality. DESIGN Large scale population based prospective cohort study in Japan with follow-up for a median of 15 years. SETTING 11 public health centre areas across Japan. PARTICIPANTS 36,624 men and 42,970 women aged 45-75 who had no history of cancer, stroke, isc...

  Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. There are approximately 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19 years) globally, roughly 90% of whom live in low and middle-income countries. Most are healthy, but there is still significant death, illness and diseases among adolescents. Illnesses...

background avoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. in this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban areas of one of iran’s southern provinces.   methods all deaths (29916) which happened during 2004–2011 in bushehr province were assessed. nolte ...

BACKGROUND The causes of maternal death are now classified internationally according to ICD-MM. One significant change with the introduction of ICD-MM in 2012 was the reclassification of maternal suicide from the indirect group to the direct group. This has led to concerns about the impact of this reclassification on calculated mortality rates. The aim of this analysis was to examine the trends...