Clinical trials of intervention in chronic disease often use cause-specific mortality as a principal outcome variable. Surprisingly, there has been little standardization of the approach to determining cause of death. Some studies use standard nosological coding based on the International Statistical Clas...
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Findings In this Swedish nationwide matched-cohort study of 4129 individuals with a diagnosis of hypochondriasis and 41 290 demographically matched individuals without hypochondriasis, those with hypochondriasis had an increased risk of death from both natural and unnatural causes, particularly suicide. Me...
in Tokyo; and on December 31, 2012, in Osaka. We followed up participants who died or migrated to other areas through the residential registry. Information on the cause of death was ascertained from the death certificate with the permission of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfar...
on the so-called expanded CVD mortality, consisting of cardiovascular disease (ICD-9 codes 390-459), plus diabetes (ICD-9 code 250), plus kidney diseases (ICD-9 codes 580-589), to account for the common practice of physicians in Taiwan to enter diabetes as the underlying cause of death....
Over an average of 14.5 years, 466 deaths occurred: 238 attributed to cardiovascular disease (death certificate International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes 401–414 or codes 420–447 with the exception of code 427.5) and 117 attributed to coronary heart disease (codes 410–414)...
Among the studied HF etiologies, DCM and DICM have the lowest and highest risk of all-cause death, respectively, whereas IHD has the highest adjusted risk of CV death. Keywords: heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; heart failure etiology...
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Accuracy of cause-of-death coding in Taiwan: types of miscoding and effects on mortality statistics. Int J Epidemiol. 2000;29:336-43.Lu TH, Lee MC, Chou MC. Accuracy of cause-of-death coding in Taiwan: types of miscoding and effects on mortality statistics. Int J Epidemiol 2000; 29: ...
Death CertificatesSEER ProgramIncidenceMortalityCause of DeathAge DistributionThe rise and fall of prostate cancer mortality correspond closely to the rise and fall of newly diagnosed cases. To understand this phenomenon, we explored the role that screening, treatment, iatrogenic (i....