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Showing 1 to 20 of 266 for “"causes of death"”.
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Coverage of causes of death among women in 1991 magazines
… magazines were reviewed for their content on causes of mortality in women of four age groups: 15-24, 25-44, 45-64, and 65 & older. Two hundred and fifty-one articles were coded and analyzed using frequency distributions and a Spearman rank order correlation to determine the relationship …
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Unnatural causes of death in South African children under 14 years in 2001 : an intercity comparison
Includes bibliographical references.
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Regional Inequalities in Mortality in Bulgaria // Регионални неравенства в смъртността в България
… in age-standardized mortality rates from all causes of death, from Class II, IX, X, and XX and different specific causes of death for all 28 regions in Bulgaria for the period 2000-2012. To look for an association between regional mortality variations and socioeconomic factors. Materials and …
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Quality of cause of death certification at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town
Cause of death certification continues to be a useful tool in obtaining demographic, epidemiological and legal information. However errors in death certification are widespread and range from incomplete certificates to inaccurate causes and manners of death. The accuracy of the immediate and …
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Killing time: the effect of boredom during unstructured leisure time on men's health
… routinely show that across all ages and for most causes of death men die earlier than women and unmarried men die earlier than married men. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as tobacco and alcohol use and physical inactivity vary by sex, age, and marital status and other sociodemographic factors …
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The cost, cause and place of death in patients dying with HIV/AIDS and who have access to ART
The study aimed to explore the causes of death, the costs involved in these deaths as well as the places where these deaths occurred. As all patients had access to ART once registered with the disease management company, AfA, most patients would have received ART, once the criteria for starting …
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The association of fat patterning with blood pressure in rural South African children: the Ellisras longitudinal growth and health study
Hypertension is one of the major causes of death in developed and underdeveloped nations. Essential hypertension and obesity may have their inception in childhood, with little data in African children to support these findings. Objectives were to determine the prevalence of overweight and …
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A retrospective analysis of post-mortem procedures of sudden unexpected death in the young investigated at Salt River Forensic Pathology Services, Cape Town
Sudden unexpected death in the young (SUDY) is the demise of a seemingly healthy individual aged between one and 40 years. The scope of SUDY investigation varies and there is little research regarding SUDY at Salt River Mortuary (SRM). Accordingly, the objectives of this study were to determine the …
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A Look at the Deaths of Career and Volunteer Firefighters in America: Who has the Higher Rate of Death?
… including training. Also, it will look at the causes of death and determine the leading cause of death for both career and volunteer firefighters. This will be done through looking at the numbers of firefighter deaths reported and applying statistical analysis. Only municipal fire departments …
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Synthesis and evaluation of hybrid compounds based on antimalarial and anticancer pharmacophores
Malaria stills remains one of the leading causes of death in sub-Saharan Africa, with P. falciparum being the most virulent strain of Plasmodium. Due to the emergence of drug resistance, new antimalarial agents are needed to circumvent this. Similarly, in the treatment of cancer, there is an urgent …
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Validation of the Global Human Body Models Consortium Mid-Sized Male Model in Lateral Impacts and Sled Tests
… million people worldwide each year making it one of the most common causes of death. Side impact injuries are particularly dangerous and present different injury patterns than those seen in frontal crashes. This implies that any kind of predictive model must not only be validated in frontal …
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An Analysis Of The Cause, Effect & Control Of Hyperlipidemia From A Nursing Perspective
<p>Two of the top four causes of death worldwide, heart disease and stroke, are related to hyperlipidemia, elevated cholesterol levels; these two illnesses account for approximately seventeen million deaths each year (World Health Organization, 2014). In order to combat the prevalence of these …
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The Application of a Radial Basis Function Morphing Technique to a Validated Full Human Body Finite Element Model
… people worldwide each year making them one of the most common causes of death. With finite element models being used as tools to study blunt injuries, it is critical to validate them in a range of loading scenarios to ensure accurate model outputs. While human body models have typically been …
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Opioid use and abuse in the United States
<p>Opioids have quadrupled the number of unintentional drug overdose deaths since 1999 and are now among the leading causes of death in the United States. Though some reform has recently occurred, the United States continues to operate largely under a punitive criminal justice model despite …
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Development of a novel antibody molecule for redirected T cell immunity to tumor cells: The bispecific single chain antibody
Cancer is the one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and will affect one in three people in their lifetime. In addition to existing treatments, immunotherapy is emerging as a potential fourth tier of cancer therapy. The existence of tumor specific proteins and the production of …
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Deep Learning MRI-based Model for Prediction of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death for men globally, despite many men being diagnosed with indolent tumors that do not warrant treatment. Increasingly, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is being used as a risk assessment tool, before more invasive prostate biopsies are performed …
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ADDRESSING DIABETES IN THE UNDERSERVED POPULATION USING A COMMUNITY OUTREACH MOBILE UNIT APPROACH
Social determinants of health (SDOH) affect quality-of-life outcomes and risks. In underserved populations, health care access and quality are often poor. Mainstream bioethics has highlighted the importance of equity in the delivery of healthcare with a focus on the community's health disparities …
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Numerical simulation of platelet adhesion, activation and aggregation : application to Taylor-Couette systems
Heart attack and stroke are among the leading causes of death in industrial nations but the number of candidates needing a transplant exceeds the number of transplants performed. Due to this chronic shortage, blood pumps are needed to deliver appropriate hydraulic performance while maintaining …
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SECONDARY PREVENTION MEASURES FOR CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
… coronary artery disease (CAD), has long been one of the leading causes of death in the US. In order to reduce the morbidity and mortality from CAD, secondary prevention practice guidelines have been developed by the major cardiovascular societies in the US and abroad to provide a benchmark for the …
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