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Regional Patterns of Adult Mortality by Sex and Place of Residence in India
This chapter examined the level, trends, and differential patterns of adult mortality by sex (male–female) and place of residence (rural–urban) in...
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Does Democracy Matter for Lifespan Inequalities? Regime Type and Premature Mortality by Sex
Reductions in premature mortality are widely attributed to economic, educational, and medical factors. This study contributes to our understanding of...
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Rural-urban differences in pulmonary embolism mortality by race-ethnicity and sex in the United States, 1999–2020
Introduction : Racial and ethnic differences in pulmonary embolism (PE) mortality within rural and urban regions in the U.S. have not previously been...
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Disparities in cause-specific mortality by race and sex among bladder cancer patients from the SEER database
PurposePrevious literature shows that more bladder cancer patients overall die from causes other than the primary malignancy. Given known disparities...
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Mortality trends in primary malignant brain and central nervous system tumors vary by histopathology, age, race, and sex
PurposePrimary malignant brain and other central nervous system tumors are rare cancers that have shown rising mortality rates in recent years. To...
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Unveiling sex-based geographical disparities in myelodysplastic syndrome mortality trends in Spain (1999–2022)
AimTo comprehensively analyze trends in myelodysplastic neoplasm (MDS) mortality across Spain (1999–2022), examining sex and regional differences.
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Estimation and probabilistic projection of age- and sex-specific mortality rates across Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2030
BackgroundMortality rate estimation in small areas can be difficult due the low number of events/exposure (i.e. stochastic error). If the death...
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Long-term trends of nasopharyngeal carcinoma mortality in China from 2006 to 2020 by region and sex: an age-period-cohort analysis
BackgroundChina has a high mortality from nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The NPC mortality trends in China from 2006 to 2020 were described and...
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Sex ratio and sex-specific chick mortality in a species with moderate sexual size dimorphism and female brood desertion
An equal sex ratio at the population level is the usual, evolutionarily stable condition. However, at the individual level, it may be adaptive for...
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Sex differences in the frailty phenotype and mortality in the I-Lan longitudinal aging study cohort
BackgroundFrailty is a common geriatric syndrome related to multiple adverse outcomes. Sex differences in its prevalence and impact on mortality...
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Sex differences in myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery and postoperative mortality
BackgroundMyocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) has recently been accepted as a predictor of mortality. However, sex differences in the...
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Independent association between age- and sex-specific metabolic syndrome severity score and cardiovascular disease and mortality
Traditional metabolic syndrome (MetS) criteria have several limitations, which hinder its use in clinical practice. To overcome the limitations, we...
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COVID-19 mortality in Italy varies by patient age, sex and pandemic wave
SARS-CoV-2 has caused a worldwide epidemic of enormous proportions, which resulted in different mortality rates in different countries for unknown...
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Drivers of sex differences in the South African adult tuberculosis incidence and mortality trends, 1990–2019
Males have higher tuberculosis incidence and mortality rates than females. This study aimed to assess how sex differences in tuberculosis incidence...
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Standardized mortality ratios in systemic sclerosis: a meta-analysis assessing overall and sex- and disease subtype-specific differences
ObjectiveThis study aims to evaluate the overall and sex- and illness subtype-specific standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) in patients with systemic...
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Inflammation and cytomegalovirus viremia during pregnancy drive sex-differentiated differences in mortality and immune development in HIV-exposed infants
Children who are HIV-exposed but uninfected have increased infectious mortality compared to HIV-unexposed children, raising the possibility of immune...
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Sex disparities in mortality among patients with kidney failure receiving dialysis
Females are known to have a better survival rate than males in the general population, but previous studies have shown that this superior survival is...
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Sex difference in incidence and risk factors of hospitalization for heart failure, and subsequent mortality: findings from the China PEACE million persons project
BackgroundEpidemiological study of sex differences in incidence and risk factors of heart failure (HF), and subsequent mortality attributed to HF in...
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Sex differences in comorbidities and mortality risk among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a study based on NHANES data
BackgroundPatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) commonly have coexisting comorbidities that contribute to higher exacerbation...
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Sex differences in the nonlinear association of triglyceride glucose index with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the general population
BackgroundThe evidence on the association between the triglyceride glucose (TyG) index and the risk of death in the general population remains...
