ALLMedicine™ Cause Of Death Center

Jul 1st, 2022 - SETTING: In an urban demographic, high TB burden surveillance site in Guinea-Bissau, most deaths occur at home, and information on cause of death (CoD) is lacking.OBJECTIVE: To examine CoD and the proportion of TB deaths in three groups: among pat...

Jun 29th, 2022 - US hepatitis B mortality has been described nationally, but examination subnationally may identify differences in mortality rates and decedent characteristics, including birthplace. To examine characteristics of decedents with hepatitis B-listed d...

Jun 25th, 2022 - Amid the global aging, an establishment of healthcare policies for the aged population is a common issue to be addressed. However, few studies on centenarians have reported place and cause of death (PoD and CoD, respectively) as indicators of end-...

Jun 11th, 2022 - Cancer rates are on the rise across the world, making the illness a public health crisis, particularly in developed countries where cancer has become a leading cause of death [...].

May 2nd, 2022 - Parkinson's disease (PD) mortality burden is increasing worldwide, but accurate estimates on the magnitude of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic are missing. Mortality rates vary largely when considering PD as underlying cause of death (UCOD), or...

Sep 2nd, 2020 - Obesity rarely appears as a cause of, or contributory factor to, mortality on death certificates, despite nearly half of deaths in individuals with obesity being associated with obesity-related comorbidities, shows a new study from the UK. Of thos...

Mar 23rd, 2018 - Hello and welcome. I'm Dr George Lundberg, and this is At Large at Medscape. We talk a lot about patient safety, albeit perhaps not enough. But who talks about physician safety? Another young resident physician recently jumped off a 33-story build...

Mar 23rd, 2018 - Hello and welcome. I'm Dr George Lundberg, and this is At Large at Medscape. We talk a lot about patient safety, albeit perhaps not enough. But who talks about physician safety? Another young resident physician recently jumped off a 33-story build...

Jun 30th, 2016 - Learning to dance the tango might help patients overcome chemotherapy-associated balance problems. (Ohio State University) Cancer retained its dubious distinction as the second leading cause of death (trailing only heart disease) in the United Sta...

Jun 10th, 2016 - Limitations of the study include a lack of information on the cause of death (whether related to the cancer, the treatment received, or other), and researchers did not review the medical records to investigate the medical reasons for the use of ag.