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Association of physical activity and socio-economic status on mortality in older adults: a retrospective cohort study of KNHANES-mortality linked data
We examined the joint association of physical activity (PA) and socio-economic status (SES) on all-causes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality...
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Global trend analysis of diabetes mellitus incidence, mortality, and mortality-to-incidence ratio from 1990 to 2019
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a common chronic disease and a public health challenge worldwide. The present study aimed to analyze the trend in DM...
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Excess mortality in adults from Sao Paulo during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: analyses of all-cause and noncommunicable diseases mortality
In this study, we estimated the excess mortality from all-causes of death and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in adults living in the state of São...
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Predicting mortality and visualizing health care spending by predicted mortality in Danes over age 65
Health care expenditure in the last year of life makes up a high proportion of medical spending across the world. This is often framed as waste, but...
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Reducing childhood mortality extends mothers’ lives
During the twentieth century, childhood mortality was dramatically reduced globally, falling by more than 90% in the United States and much of...
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Rapid increase in the risk of heat-related mortality
Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to human health. Current research focuses largely on how...
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Demystifying COVID-19 mortality causes with interpretable data mining
While COVID-19 becomes periodical, old individuals remain vulnerable to severe disease with high mortality. Although there have been some studies on...
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CenSoc: Public Linked Administrative Mortality Records for Individual-level Research
In the United States, much has been learned about the determinants of longevity from survey data and aggregated tabulations. However, the lack of...
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Compound mortality impacts from extreme temperatures and the COVID-19 pandemic
Extreme weather and coronavirus-type pandemics are both leading global health concerns. Until now, no study has quantified the compound health...
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Research on social and economic factors influencing regional mortality patterns in China
Regional population mortality correlates with regional socioeconomic development. This study aimed to identify the key socioeconomic factors...
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Anthropogenic mortality threatens the survival of Canarian houbara bustards
Anthropogenic mortality is a major cause of global mortality in terrestrial vertebrates. Quantifying its impact on the dynamics of threatened species...
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Country-level predictors of COVID-19 mortality
This study aimed to identify country-level predictors of COVID-19 mortality, after controlling for diverse potential factors, and utilizing current...
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Association between inflammation-based prognostic markers and mortality after hip replacement
We aimed to evaluate the association between inflammation-based prognostic markers and mortality after hip replacement. From March 2010 to June 2020,...
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Estimating excess mortality due to female genital mutilation
Globally, over 200 million women and girls have been subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This practice, illegal in most countries, often...
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Democratic quality and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic
The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between democratic quality and excess mortality produced in the year 2020 before COVID-19...
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Obesity and COVID-19 mortality are correlated
In view of a conspicuous absence of any cross-country study linking obesity and COVID-19 mortality, we conduct an empirical analysis of plausible...
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Influencing factors on morbidity and mortality in intertrochanteric fractures
We aimed to evaluate the effect of the patient’s clinical and paraclinical condition before and after surgery on short-term mortality and...
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Racial difference in mortality among COVID-19 hospitalizations in California
In the US, racial disparities in hospital outcomes are well documented. We explored whether race was associated with all-cause in-hospital mortality...
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Biomarkers of mortality in adults and adolescents with advanced HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
One-third of people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa start antiretroviral therapy (ART) with advanced disease. We investigated associations between...
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Deep learning to estimate lung disease mortality from chest radiographs
Prevention and management of chronic lung diseases (asthma, lung cancer, etc.) are of great importance. While tests are available for reliable...
