Articles: mortality.
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Multicenter Study
Mediterranean diet, lifestyle factors, and 10-year mortality in elderly European men and women: the HALE project.
Dietary patterns and lifestyle factors are associated with mortality from all causes, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer, but few studies have investigated these factors in combination. ⋯ Among individuals aged 70 to 90 years, adherence to a Mediterranean diet and healthful lifestyle is associated with a more than 50% lower rate of all-causes and cause-specific mortality.
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Comparative Study
Impact of the metabolic syndrome on mortality from coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, and all causes in United States adults.
Mortality resulting from coronary heart disease (CHD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and all causes in persons with diabetes and pre-existing CVD is high; however, these risks compared with those with metabolic syndrome (MetS) are unclear. We examined the impact of MetS on CHD, CVD, and overall mortality among US adults. ⋯ CHD, CVD, and total mortality are significantly higher in US adults with than in those without MetS.
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To review the mechanisms of metabolic acidosis in sepsis. ⋯ Understanding the effects of acid-base on the inflammatory response is relevant as all forms of metabolic acidosis appear to be associated with prolonged hospital and ICU length of stay. Since metabolic acidosis is both commonly caused and treated by clinicians, understanding of the physiologic consequences of altered blood pH is imperative.
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Heart, lung & circulation · Sep 2004
Initial twelve months experience and analysis for 2001-2002 from the Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons--Victorian database project.
The Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ASCTS) have established a database for the collection and analysis of the results of cardiac surgery in Australia and New Zealand. Initially data has been collected only in Victoria public hospitals. This report covers the first 12 months of data collection from 1st August 2001 to 1st July 2002. ⋯ The ASCTS database project is now well established and the electronic database and reporting module is in operation in all participating sites. The risk-adjusted isolated operative mortality suggests cardiac surgical performance in Victoria compares well with international standards. As the database develops, local risk-adjustment models for mortality and morbidity for each procedure will be developed to enable appropriate between hospital comparisons.
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Cancer mortality rates and trends over the period 1980-2000 for accession countries to the European Union (EU) in May 2004, which include a total of 75 million inhabitants, were abstracted from the World Health Organization (WHO) database, together with, for comparative purposes, those of the current EU. Total cancer mortality for men was 166/100,000 in the EU, but ranged between 195 (Lithuania) and 269/100,000 (Hungary) in central and eastern European accession countries. This excess related to most cancer sites, including lung and other tobacco-related neoplasms, but also stomach, intestines and liver, and a few neoplasms amenable to treatment, such as testis, Hodgkin's disease and leukaemias. ⋯ Over the last two decades, trends in mortality were systematically less favourable in accession countries than in the EU. Most of the unfavourable patterns and trends in cancer mortality in accession countries are due to recognised, and hence potentially avoidable, causes of cancer, including tobacco, alcohol, dietary habits, pollution and hepatitis B, plus inadequate screening, diagnosis and treatment. Consequently, the application of available knowledge on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment may substantially reduce the disadvantage now registered in the cancer mortality of central and eastern European accession countries.