BACKGROUND A warming climate will affect future temperature-attributable premature deaths. This analysis is the first to project these deaths at a near national scale for the United States using city and month-specific temperature-mortality relationships. METHODS We used Poisson regressions to model temperature-attributable premature mortality as a function of daily average temperature in 209...

OBJECTIVE To obtain the exposure-response relationship for temperature and mortality, and assess the risk of heat-related premature death. METHODS A statistical model was developed using a Poisson generalized linear regression model with Beijing mortality and temperature data from October 1st, 2006 to September 30th, 2008. We calculated the exposure-response relationship for temperature and m...

INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States and disproportionately affects racial/ethnic minority groups. Healthy neighborhood conditions are associated with increased uptake of health behaviors that reduce CVD risk, but minority neighborhoods often have poor food access and poor walkability. This study tested the community-driven hypothesis that...

BACKGROUND Reducing premature mortality is a crucial public health objective. After a long gap in the publication of Belgian mortality statistics, this paper presents the leading causes and the regional disparities in premature mortality in 2008-2009 and the changes since 1993. METHODS All deaths occurring in the periods 1993-1999 and 2003-2009, in people aged 1-74 residing in Belgium were in...

To estimate the indirect costs related to productivity losses attributable premature mortality by diabetes mellitus (DM) in Colombia, 1998-2017.

People with epilepsy are at increased risk of premature death, with a mortality rate that is 2–3 times higher than the general population (Cockerell et al, 1994). Premature death in people with epilepsy is associated with disease-linked factors (such as status epilepticus), sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) or underlying disease (for example, brain tumour) (National Sentinel Clinical ...