BACKGROUND In 1996, Brazil became the first developing country to provide free and universal access to HAART. Although a decrease in overall mortality has been documented, there are no published data on the impact of HAART on causes of death among HIV-infected individuals in Brazil. We assessed temporal trends of mortality due to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes mellitus (DM) and other c...

Information on obstructive lung disease (OLD) deaths is generally derived from the underlying cause of death on the death certificate. This neglects information on other conditions mentioned and may underestimate the burden of disease. Descriptive analyses of all conditions mentioned on the death certificate for all decedents where OLD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma) was menti...

OBJECTIVES Death certificates are an unreliable source of information on cause of death, and mortality due to epilepsy can thus be underestimated. METHODS We investigated people with epilepsy who had died, and attempted to identify factors that influence inclusion of epilepsy on the death certificate; eight factors were hypothesised and entered into a univariate logistic regression model. R...