BACKGROUND AIDS-related death and disease rates have declined in the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era and remain low; however, current causes of death in HAART-treated patients remain ill defined. OBJECTIVE To describe mortality trends and causes of death among HIV-infected patients in the HAART era. DESIGN Prospective, multicenter, observational cohort study of participants...

We use an array of diffusively coupled limit-cycle oscillators with a regular monotonic trend of natural frequencies to demonstrate that the disorder introduced in the form of random deviations from a linear trend of frequencies can weaken considerably desynchronization-induced oscillator death and, as a result, increase oscillation intensity substantially. There exist definite optimal levels o...

Mortality data for scleroderma derived from death certificates from England and Wales for the years 1968-1985 were analysed. The overall crude mortalities were 0.9 and 3.8 per million per year in men and women respectively, which are similar to comparable data from the United States. There has been a small but statistically significant increase in mortality of 3% a year over this period, possib...

BACKGROUND Time trends of cancer of the gastric cardia differ between populations and the reasons are not fully understood. The object of this study was to investigate the occurrence of cancer of the gastric cardia in descriptive relation to age at death, calendar period, birth cohort and gender in the Netherlands between 1969 and 1994. METHODS Data on the number of people with cancer of the ...

AIMS To assess the prognostic importance of alternate ways of quantifying myocardial ischaemia by continuous ST analysis, the maximum ST vector magnitude and the area under the ST vector magnitude trend curve during the first 24 h of continuous ST monitoring. METHODS AND RESULTS During a 22-month period from 1991 to 1993, 195 patients admitted to our CCU with suspected unstable angina pectori...