Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide, with low and middle-income countries bearing the greatest burden. This article focuses on stroke prevention and awareness in the Philippines, a country grappling with high stroke incidence and limited healthcare r...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic communicable disease that comes second only to COVID-19 as a leading cause of mortality from a single infectious organism. According to the Global TB Report 2022, the disease accounted for 1.6 million deaths in 2021. In a preliminary report from the Philippine ...
Cirrhosis is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity across the world [89]. It is the 11th leading cause of death and 13th leading cause of morbidity, accounting for 2.4% of deaths and 1.7% of disability-adjusted life years (DALY) worldwide in 2019 [90]. CLD caused 1.315 million deat...
CVD has been the leading cause of mortality in the Philippines since 1990. ^ Although research h... CC Reyes-Gibby 被引量: 0发表: 1998年 Society and culture in the rural Philippines / Hypertension (HTN), the major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), is emerging as a major ...
In 2009, pneumonia was the fourth leading cause of mortality in the Phillipines, occurring in about 46 for every 100,000 Filipinos [1]. Moreover, together with acute lower respiratory tract infections, it was the second highest cause of morbidity, with a rate of about 613 per 100,000 Filip...
The annual global mortality rate due to road trauma remains unacceptably high and reflects the need for governments to prioritize the passage and implementation of road safety legislation. Alcohol is a leading risk factor for road trauma globally and the leading cause of death and disability in the...
According to 1975 data of the World Health Organization, the birthrate in the Philippines during the period 1970–75 was 26.1 per 1,000 population, and the mortality rate, 6.9; infant mortality was 58.9 per 1,000 live births. The principal causes of death are infectious diseases, such as ...
Importance of frailty in patients with cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. With the ageing population, the prognostic determinants among others inclu... S Mandeep,S Ralph,W Harvey - 《European Heart Journal》 被引量: 106发表: 2014...
However, the rate remains high in many developing countries[1], and pneumonia is still the leading cause of childhood mortality [2, 3],particularly in the developing countries. It is estimated that approximately 2 million children die from pneumonia annually, and 90% of these deaths occur in ...
Cancer is the third leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the Philippines. Leading cancer sites/types are lung, breast, cervix, liver, colon and rect... CA Ngelangel,EHM Wang - 《Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology》 被引量: 89发表: 2002年 Patterns of familial transmission of HBV ...