The need for morbidity statistics approaching in volume and accuracy those for births and deaths is obvious. The practicability of available methods of accomplishing this object has not yet been widely disseminated. Bolduan 1 has recently revived a suggestion made by him in 1913 showing how the ...
mortalityprevalenceincidence rateincidence proportionDALYHALEQALYThe frequency of overall or cause-specific morbidity and mortality is used in national and global statistics to characterize the health status of a population. Summary measures of population health combine the frequency of morbidity and ...
Poetry and Medicine The Mind, It Strays in the Dark Noah M. Raizman, MD, MFA JAMA The great Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, others) are renowned for expressing the sense that nature and humans are harmoniously one. “The Mind, It Strays in the Dark”1 is, despite its title, an...
The demographics, immunologic parameters, medical complications, and mortality statistics from 473 subjects with common variable immune deficiency followed over 4 decades in New York were analyzed. Median immunoglobulin levels were IgG, 246 mg/dL; IgA, 8 mg/dL; and IgM, 21 mg/dL; 22.6% had an...
We identify 21 predetermined country-level factors that explain marked variations in weekly COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across 91 countries between January and the end of 2020. Besides factors commonly associated with infectious diseases (e.g., popu
nature publishing group Population Study Articles Open Trends in morbidity and mortality among very-low-birth-weight infants from 2003 to 2008 in Japan Satoshi Kusuda1, Masanori Fujimura2, Atsushi Uchiyama1, Satsuki Totsu1 and Katsura Matsunami2; for the Neonatal Research Network, Japan Background:...
MorbidityandMortality U.S.Departmentof HEALTH,EDUCATION,ANDWELFAREPublicHealthService NATIONALOFFICEOFVITALSTATISTICS September30,1954Vol.2,No.53 ANNUALSUPPLEMENT ReportedIncidenceofNotifiableDiseasesintheUnitedStates,1953 Theannualsummaryofnotifiablediseasesfor1953contains ...
Objectives: To identify the main causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) during a 5-year period and to determine clinical and immunological parameters with prognostic significance. Methods: The clinical and immunological features of a cohort of 1000 patients ...
The secondary aims were to evaluate: (1) morbidity at 30 days, (2) mortality at 30 and 90 days after surgery, and (3) associations between critical events during anaesthetic care and the measured outcomes at 30 and 90 days. Methods Study design NECTARINE is a European multicentre, ...
Mortality was higher in patients with NES than in controls (HR: 3.21; 95% CI: 1.92–5.34; P < 0.001). Conclusion Morbidity is more frequent in several domains, including neurological, psychiatric, and other diseases, before and after a diagnosis of NES. Mortality is significantly higher ...