BACKGROUND Switzerland had the highest life expectancy at 82.8 years among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in 2011. Geographical variation of life expectancy and its relation to the socioeconomic position of neighbourhoods are, however, not well understood. METHODS We analysed the Swiss National Cohort, which linked the 2000 census with mortality re...

Measures of Population Health (SMPH) are useful simply to follow trends and reveal patterns in the health of members of a population. For example, an SMPH like health-or disability-adjusted life expectancy (HALE or DALE), will hopefully increase over time for a given population. If this measure increases more rapidly than life expectancy (LE), then we may conclude that not only are we " adding ...

Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and end-stage renal disease may remain on dialysis or undergo cadaveric kidney transplantation, living kidney transplantation, sequential pancreas after living kidney transplantation, or simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation. It is unclear which of these options is most effective. The objective of this study was to determine the optimal treatment st...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Few studies have evaluated the long-term health impact of stroke as categorized into different subtypes. The aim of this study is to quantify the loss of quality-adjusted life expectancy related to ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS The hospital-based cohort, which consisted of 13,194 patients with first-ever stroke onset dates between 1995 and 2007, ...