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Polity’s Enduring Effect on Infant Health Outcomes
How a nation’s style of governance (polity) affects infant health is not fully understood. Here, the effects of polity on infant mortality rates (IMRs) is evaluated across 164 nations over a 28-year period.
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Open AccessSerious adverse events in African–American cancer patients with sickle cell trait and inherited haemoglobinopathies in a SEER-Medicare claims cohort
African–American (AA) cancer patients have long-experienced worse outcomes compared to non-Hispanic whites (NHW). No studies to date have evaluated the prognostic impact of sickle cell trait (SCT) and other in...
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Mortality risk from comorbidities independent of triple-negative breast cancer status: NCI-SEER-based cohort analysis
A comparatively high prevalence of comorbidities among African-American/Blacks (AA/B) has been implicated in disparate survival in breast cancer. There is a scarcity of data, however, if this effect persists w...
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Polity and health care expenditures: The association among 159 nations
This paper hypothesized that democratic nations, as characterized by Polity IV Project regime scores, spend more on health care than autocratic nations and that the association reported here is independent of ...
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Open AccessRace-specific geography of prostate cancer incidence
This study evaluated geographic distribution of race-specific prostate cancer incidence in Connecticut and Massachusetts. This cross-sectional analysis of census and cancer registry data included records of 29...
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Open AccessEffects of study area size on geographic characterizations of health events: Prostate cancer incidence in Southern New England, USA, 1994–1998
We consider how representations of geographic variation in prostate cancer incidence across Southern New England, USA may be affected by selection of study area and/or properties of the statistical analysis.
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Open AccessLum** or splitting: seeking the preferred areal unit for health geography studies
Findings are compared on geographic variation of incident and late-stage cancers across Connecticut using different areal units for analysis.
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Open AccessThe geographic distribution of breast cancer incidence in Massachusetts 1988 to 1997, adjusted for covariates
The aims of this study were to determine whether observed geographic variations in breast cancer incidence are random or statistically significant, whether statistically significant excesses are temporary or t...
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Incidental Findings in a Federally-Sponsored Cancer Screening Program
The volume of non-cancer related clinical services and referrals for medical care of women as a consequence of their enrollment in a federally-sponsored breast and cervical cancer screening program was examine...
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Stomach cancer patterns in European immigrants to Connecticut, United States
Age-adjusted annual incidence rates of stomach cancer (ICD-9 code #151) were examined for the period 1973–88 among Connecticut residents who were born in the United States or who emigrated from one of five Eur...
