INTRODUCTION: The present study sought to provide a comprehensive description of causes of mortality in a local Nigerian children population as a measure of their health status. METHODS AND PATIENTS: A retrospective study of the pattern of mortality among 12,522 children admitted into all the six wards of the department ...

OBJECTIVE: Most previous studies of mortality in anorexia nervosa patients have shown an increased risk of premature death but have been limited by methodological constraints. This study aimed to overcome some of these constraints by having a large original sample size, diagnosis confirmed by case note review, a long duration ...

Objective: To determine the causes of neonatal mortality in a referral centre in Nigeria with a view to developing strategies that will help in reducing it. Methods: This is a retrospective patient record review of the records of 166 infants that died in the newborn unit between 1998 when the ...

OBJECTIVES: This report presents final 2002 data on the 10 leading causes of death in the United States by age, race, sex, and Hispanic origin. Leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death are also presented. This report supplements the annual report of final mortality statistics. METHODS: Data in this ...

Bangladesh has a neonatal death rate that is substantially high and demands urgent attention. To assess the causes of neonatal mortality, 1,019 pregnant women were followed up in eight randomly-selected rural areas of the country. Trained female interviewers visited the households of the subjects at four-week intervals to record neonatal ...

OBJECTIVES: To better characterize the cause and location of death after radical prostatectomy (RP), as early mortality is relatively uncommon after RP, with little known about the cause of death among men who die within 30 days of RP, and the trend toward earlier discharge after surgery means that a ...

BACKGROUND: There are two sources of information on road traffic mortality in England and Wales: ONS records giving the place of residence and police records giving the place of the accident. Use of the police records has been limited by the lack of an obvious denominator to control for population ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the primary causes of death in home-cared rural neonates by using prospectively kept health records of neonates and a neonatologist's clinical judgment. STUDY DESIGN: In the first year (1995 to 1996) of the field trial in Gadchiroli, India, trained village health workers observed neonates in 39 villages ...

OBJECTIVE: To survey unnatural deaths among teenagers in northern Sweden and to suggest preventive measures. SETTING: The four northernmost counties (908,000 inhabitants, 1991), forming 55% of the area of Sweden. MATERIAL AND METHODS: All unnatural teenager deaths from 1981 through 2000 were identified in the databases of the Department of ...

Child mortality (the mortality of children less than five years old) declined considerably in the developing world in the 1990s, but infant mortality declined less. The reductions in neonatal mortality were not impressive and, as a consequence, there is an increasing percentage of infant deaths in the neonatal period. Any ...

OBJECTIVE: Majority of neonates in developing countries are born at home and most neonatal deaths occur without receiving medical care. This retrospective analysis was undertaken to develop simple clinical criteria for use in rural community to identify neonates at risk of death. STUDY DESIGN: By analyzing the observational data on ...

OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess the current status of global data on death registration and to examine several indicators of data completeness and quality. METHODS: We summarized the availability of death registration data by year and country. Indicators of data quality were assessed for each country and included the timeliness, ...

Investigations of terminal declines in mental abilities have assessed cognitive performance at a single time point and retrospectively compared survivors and decedents at a single later census date. Neglect of outcomes other than death, such as dropout, causes a loss of information on the relative frailty of survivors and deceased ...

Introduction: Nepal has one of the highest maternal mortality rates. Aims and objective: To identify the maternal deaths and identify the causes and key risk factors. Method: A retrospective (descriptive) study was carried out at BPKIHS by analyzing the case sheets of all maternal deaths of four years (April 1998- ...

BACKGROUND: Varicella disease has been preventable in the United States since 1995. Starting in 1999, active and passive surveillance data showed sharp decreases in varicella disease. We reviewed national death records to assess the effect of the vaccination program on mortality associated with varicella. METHODS: Data on deaths for which ...

AIMS: To investigate infant deaths in Cumbria, 1950-93, in relation to individual and community level socioeconomic status. METHODS: Retrospective birth cohort study of all 283,668 live births and 4889 infant deaths in Cumbria, 1950-93. Community deprivation (Townsend score) and individual social class were used to estimate socioeconomic status. Logistic regression ...

OBJECTIVE: To summarize fatal motor vehicle crash deaths in the United States by time of day, day of week, month, and season, and to determine why some days of the year tend to experience a relatively high number of deaths.Method: Crash deaths were identified and categorized using the Fatality Analysis ...

We use data from the 1985, 1987 and 1991 United States Vital Statistics Linked Infant Birth and Death Records to assess the relationship between state-level economic inequality and an infant's probability of death. We find that economic inequality is associated with higher neonatal mortality even after we control mother's age ...

No epidemiological surveys have examined risk factors related to the death of very low birth weight infants (VLBWIs) in Japan. The objectives of this study were to examine the death rate and fatalities related to complications among VLBWIs, and to analyze factors possibly determining the death of VLBWIs. The subjects ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The reported prevalence, morbidity and mortality of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) varies in different countries due to actual differences and to differences in classification criteria. This study analyzed the trends in COPD mortality and its rank among leading causes of death in Taiwan. METHODS: Using national ...

AIMS: To investigate the epidemiology of illness among young infants at remote health clinics in a rural developing country, and to determine risk factors for mortality that might be used as triggers for emergency treatment or referral. METHODS: Multi-site 12 month observational study of consecutive presentations of infants less than ...

PURPOSE: Where population-based studies of epilepsy mortality are impossible to conduct, other sources of data must be considered. We provide descriptive data on mortality and causes of death for epilepsy in Taiwan. METHODS: Two settings in Taiwan were used. First, we evaluated the mortality ratio for epilepsy, using the national ...

The number, rates and causes of early neonatal deaths in South Africa were not known. Neither had modifiable factors associated with these deaths been previously documented. An audit of live born infants who died in the first week of life in the public service could help in planning strategies to ...

A descriptive study was conducted in the pediatric inpatient unit of Gulhane Military Medical Academy, to investigate the morbidity and mortality characteristics of 532 infants hospitalized between January 1 and December 31, 2001, for treatment purposes. Of the study participants, 55.8% were boys and 44.2% were girls. The most common ...

The relative and absolute risks of perinatal death that are estimated from observational studies are used frequently in counseling about obstetric intervention. The statistical basis for these estimates therefore is crucial, but many studies are seriously flawed. In this review, a number of aspects of the approach to the estimation ...

This study presents data on over 350,000 insured Swedish dogs up to 10 years of age contributing to over one million dog-years at risk (DYAR) during 1995-2000. A total of 43,172 dogs died or were euthanised and of these 72% had a claim with a diagnosis for the cause of ...

A fundamental aspect of public health is the accuracy of death certification. Assessing the death registration system is a step toward improving the quality of death reporting. Thailand implemented a more rigorous and informative pilot death registration system in March 2001 in 18 provinces, followed by nationwide implementation in August ...

U.S. preliminary data for 2002 show a significant increase in the infant mortality rate to 7.0 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, the first rise in the infant mortality rate since 1958. The increase in infant mortality was concentrated in the neonatal period, particularly in deaths occurring within seven days ...

Verbal autopsy (VA) is a method used increasingly in low-income countries to ascertain the likely cause of death. Originally developed for use in pediatrics and infectious disease, it is also useful in situations with poor data on adult mortality. Using information on cause of death ascertained through interviews with relatives ...

In this paper, the causes of death are presented of 322 foreign tourists that occured during summer holidays in County of Istria, Croatia, in the period from May to September, during 5 years (from 2000 to 2004). The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of the common ...

BACKGROUND: Progress in reducing late fetal deaths has slowed in recent years, despite changes in intrapartum and antepartum care. OBJECTIVES: To describe recent trends in cause-specific fetal death rates. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: North of England. POPULATION/SAMPLE: 3,386 late fetal deaths (> or = 28 weeks of gestation and ...

OBJECTIVE: To present population-based data on prevalence, surgery and mortality for infants and children up to 5 years of age with congenital heart disease (CHD). DESIGN: Data from the EUROCAT Registry of Congenital Malformations for Funen County, Denmark, 1986-1998. RESULTS: Five hundred and seventy-three infants and children were diagnosed with ...

OBJECTIVES: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is considered a relatively common cause of death in the young. Screening for the disorder has been advocated, but its potential value cannot be assessed because the number of deaths in asymptomatic cases in the general population has not been investigated. We determined the annual number of ...

BACKGROUND: Two areas of uncertainty about routine statistics for mortality after hospital admission for myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke are i) whether most deaths occur in the admission episode itself rather than after discharge, and ii) whether most deaths are certified on death certificates as, respectively, MI or stroke. METHODS: ...

To determine the causes and frequencies of maternal deaths in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) as seen at autopsy; to find their age associated frequencies; and to compare these findings with previous studies done in this hospital as well as those from other parts of the world. MATERIALS AND ...

This study was carried out to determine the incidence and causes of maternal deaths about a 20-year period at the Zekai Tahir Burak Women's Health Education and Research Hospital (ZTBWHERH), Ankara, Turkey. All maternal deaths from January 1982 to July 2001 were reviewed and classified retrospectively. Using a computer-generated list, ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine differential improvements in mortality rates according to age, and to discuss differences in neonatal and post-neonatal mortality rates, using longitudinal data from the past 50 years in three rural Gambian villages. METHODS: All villagers whose date of birth was recorded were followed up until death or October ...

Globally, newborn deaths account for two-thirds of all deaths in the first year of life and 40% of under-five mortality. As infant mortality declines, the proportion of neonatal deaths has been increasing because of the failure to address the causes. The data in this paper derive from a longitudinal study ...

BACKGROUND: Registration of the fact of death is almost complete in the city of Chennai and not so in the rural Villupuram district in Tamilnadu, India. The cause of death is often inadequately recorded on the death certificate in developing countries like India. A special verbal autopsy (VA) study of ...

OBJECTIVES: This report presents final 2002 data on U.S. deaths and death rates according to demographic and medical characteristics such as age, sex, Hispanic origin, race, marital status, educational attainment, injury at work, State of residence, and cause of death. Trends and patterns in general mortality, life expectancy, and infant ...

AIMS: Maternal mortality has declined dramatically over the past 30 years in developed countries. This retrospective study aims to provide an epidemiological overview of maternal deaths in Australia between 1973 and 1996. METHODS: Data were abstracted from national maternal mortality data collection and triennial reports for the period 1973-1996 for ...

BACKGROUND: In recent years there has been an emerging interest in sudden unexplained intrauterine death. Aims: To determine the major causes of late fetal death (LFD) in New Zealand during 1980-1999 and to document the proportion of deaths considered unexplained. In addition, to quantify the number of LFD undergoing post-mortem ...

INTRODUCTION: A descriptive epidemiological analysis to update trends of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) deaths, from 1979-2001, was undertaken. METHODS: Cases with CJD as underlying cause were extracted. Age-adjusted death rates by age, sex, and province were calculated. Information on birthplace, autopsy indications and type of work were examined for death certificates ...

Reliable and accurate data remain scarce on the cause and rates of mortality among adults in sub-Saharan Africa. The Idikan Adult Mortality Study, a prospective community-based study was initiated in order to obtain the overall as well as cause-specific mortality data for a community of adults (15 years and above). ...

OBJECTIVE: To calculate the gross and gender adjusted perinatal mortality rate (PMR) and determine the association between gender and susceptibility towards perinatal death. DESIGN: A cross-sectional hospital-based study conducted at Gynae Unit-I of Bolan Medical Complex Hospital, Quetta from 1st January to 31st December, 2002. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study ...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze US trends in deaths from arthritis and other rheumatic conditions (AORC). METHODS: Multiple cause of death tapes from the National Center for Health Statistics from 1979 to 1998 were reviewed. Age, sex, and race-specific death rates were calculated. RESULTS: During 1979-1998, the annual number of AORC deaths ...

This study reviews the available evidence on unknown pathogenic agents transmitted in food and examines the methods that have been used to estimate that such agents cause 3,400 deaths per year in the United States. The estimate of deaths was derived from hospital discharge and death certificate data on deaths ...

AIM: To test whether infant mortality from clearly respiratory causes has a consistent male excess that is different from the male excess in most cardiac conditions. METHODS: Analysis of male excess in infant mortality data from the United States and from north European countries. Data are analyzed for the period ...

The present study was conducted to analyse the changing trends in maternal deaths and the factors affecting them in a rural institution in India. Analysis of case records of maternal deaths over a period of 20 years, between April 1982 and March 2002 was performed in relation to the age, ...

Neonatal mortality (i.e., death at age <28 days) accounts for approximately two thirds of infant deaths in the United States. During 1989-2001, neonatal mortality rates (NMRs) declined; however, 2002 preliminary data indicated an increase. To characterize trends in neonatal mortality by gestational age and race/ethnicity, CDC analyzed linked birth/infant death ...