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MARY A retrospective study of 228 consecutive carotid endctomies was conducted to determine the operative stroke and lity rate in two 600-bed community hospitals. The combined -mortality rate for the series was 21.1% (48 of 228). Eleven :erectomies were performed for asymptomatic bruits and the ned stroke-mortality rate was 18.2% (2 of 11). Fifty-seven endctomies were performed for transient is...

The first three figures show estimates of the instantaneous mortality rate, which is the expected rate at which people die per unit of time (here the year) at each precise age, relative to the surviving population at that age. If this is called M, and if it were constant, then the probability that a particular individual will die within one time unit (year) would be 1 – exp(–M), the remaining l...

A method is proposed which provides a minimum estimate of the rate of bacterial mortality in growing natural populations of planktonic bacteria. This estimate is given by the rate of decrease of radioactivity from the DNA of a [H]thymidine-labeled natural assemblage of bacteria after all added thymidine has been exhausted from the medium. Results obtained from river water, estuarine water, and ...

We analyzed data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural area of the Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event-history models were used to demonstrate that having a living mother, maternal grandmother, or elder sisters had a significant positive effect on the survival probabilities of children, whereas having a living father, paterna...

This study presents estimates of maternal mortality for India from two indirect procedures, the sisterhood method and a regression method involving sex differentials in adult mortality, and compares them with estimates available from other sources. The sisterhood method is applied to the data collected in a human development survey that covered all rural areas of India in 1994, while the latter...

because of significant reduction of rupture rate and increase in the patient’s life expectancy, elective surgical treatment in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm has been widely accepted. the present article aims at assessing the postoperative complications and mortality rate in patients who had been submitted to elective surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysms. this is a retrospective stud...