Complete elimination of all deaths due to cancer at all ages would increase US life expectancy at birth by 3.4 years- Complete elimination of cardiovascular diseases (heart disease, strokes, etc) would increase US life expectancy by 4.0 years, not quite enough to raise US life expectancy to tha...
Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a major contributor to loss of physical function, quality of life and longevity. The epidemiology of VHD varies substantially around the world, with a predominance of functional and degenerative disease in high-income countries, and a predominance of rheumatic heart ...
The leading etiologies of HF were ischemic heart disease (IHD), followed by hypertensive heart disease (HHD), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease contributed to 265.7 (197.2-346.4), 233.8 (170.5-312.9), and 65.6 (45.3-94.1) prevalent cases per 100,000 population, respectively. Although HF...
” is a condition where the heart muscle gets progressively thicker and poorer (leading to respiratory and heart failure). Your vet may carry out an echocardiogram to acquire clues into whether your puppy has DCM; however, the ideal way to allow them to achieve a diagnosis is through ...
A retrospective cross-sectional study on tinnitus prevalence and disease associations in the Dutch population-based cohort Lifelines. Hear Res. 2021;411:108355. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2021.108355 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 28. Coles RR. Epidemiology of tinnitus: (1) prevalence. ...
77. Some of these factors, including malaria-induced and iron deficiency anemia, hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia, and antiretroviral therapy, are more prevalent in parts of Asia and Africa78,79,80, and may have shifted the population distribution of HbA1c or ...
59 The higher prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in LMICs may reduce the number of patients in whom DOAC therapy is appropriate. Availability of drug therapy for medical issues that impact cardiac risk factors (eg, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia) could also forestall development of ischemic ...
11 Diabetes is also a major risk factor for ischaemic heart disease and stroke,12 which were estimated by GBD 2019 to be the first and second leading causes, respectively, of the global disease burden.6 Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are the most common forms of the disease and are diagnosed...
To specifically understand geographic variations in Alzheimer's disease mortality, Ambar Kulshreshtha, M.D., Ph.D., from Emory University, and colleagues used data from the National Center for Health Statistics to examine trends in Alzheimer's death rates between 1999 and 2019 by urbanization levels...
Heavy drinking in Bulgaria is related to the high death number of ischemic heart disease14. High proportions of current smokers and heavy drinking in men were reported in Vietnam15, which has the greatest men to women’s ASDR ratio due to IS in our study. These sex-specific risk factors ...