Mortality

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Death and taxes": a contrary view. 
  • "Looking old for your age": genetics and mortality. 
  • "No one dies of old age": implications for research, practice, and policy. 
  • A Modified Healthy Aging Index and Its Association with Mortality: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002. 
  • A comparison of test statistics for assessing the effects of concomitant variables in survival analysis. 
  • A computer program for survival comparisons to a standard population. 
  • A longitudinal study of functional change and mortality in the United States. 
  • A mathematical model of the physiological dynamics of aging and correlated mortality selection. I. Theoretical development and critiques. 
  • A method for analyzing mortality data collected in follow-up studies. 
  • A quality assurance program for an inpatient department of ophthalmology. 'Indicators and criteria'. 
  • A random-walk model of human mortality and aging. 
  • A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission. 
  • Acute heart failure in the elderly: differences in clinical characteristics, outcomes, and prognostic factors in the VERITAS Study. 
  • Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: differing perspectives. 
  • Adiposity and risk of decline in glomerular filtration rate: meta-analysis of individual participant data in a global consortium. 
  • Adverse health outcomes after discharge from the emergency department--incidence and risk factors in a veteran population. 
  • Age-related changes in the associations of social network ties with mortality risk. 
  • Age-specific mortality trends in France and Italy since 1900: period and cohort effects. 
  • Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. 
  • Aggregate population and economic growth correlations: the role of the components of demographic change. 
  • Aging in the natural world: comparative data reveal similar mortality patterns across primates. 
  • Aging. It's never too late. 
  • Albuminuria and cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndromes: Results from the TRACER trial. 
  • Alma-Ata at 40 years: reflections from the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health. 
  • Alternative models for the heterogeneity of mortality risks among the aged. 
  • Alternative projections of the U.S. population. 
  • Analyses of black and white differentials in the age trajectory of mortality in two closed cohort studies. 
  • Analysis of Cervical Spine Injuries in Elderly Patients from 2001 to 2010 Using a Nationwide Database: Increasing Incidence, Overall Mortality, and Inpatient Hospital Charges. 
  • Anemia is associated with bleeding and mortality, but not stroke, in patients with atrial fibrillation: Insights from the Apixaban for Reduction in Stroke and Other Thromboembolic Events in Atrial Fibrillation (ARISTOTLE) trial. 
  • Angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism in relation to physical performance, cognition and survival--a follow-up study of elderly Danish twins. 
  • Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 and risk of mortality in African American and white older community residents. 
  • Apolipoprotein E genotype determines survival in the oldest old (85 years or older) who have good cognition. 
  • Assessing risk factors for mortality in elderly White and African American people: implications of alternative analyses. 
  • Assessment of Paravalvular Leak After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Transesophageal Echocardiography Compared With Transthoracic Echocardiography. 
  • Assessment of human exposure to ambient particulate matter. 
  • Assessment of spatial variation of risks in small populations. 
  • Assessment of the use of the age- and sex-specific United States population as a control group for analysis of survival in coronary artery disease. 
  • Association Between Baseline LDL-C Level and Total and Cardiovascular Mortality After LDL-C Lowering: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. 
  • Association between valvular surgery and mortality among patients with infective endocarditis complicated by heart failure. 
  • Association of Kidney Disease Quality of Life (KDQOL-36) with mortality and hospitalization in older adults receiving hemodialysis. 
  • Association of Perioperative Plasma Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin Levels with 3-Year Mortality after Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study. 
  • Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis. 
  • Association of preterm birth with long-term survival, reproduction, and next-generation preterm birth. 
  • Associations between Environmental Quality and Mortality in the Contiguous United States, 2000-2005. 
  • Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality. 
  • Associations of elevated interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein levels with mortality in the elderly. 
  • Associations of environmental factors with elderly health and mortality in China. 
  • Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN sustainable development goal for health. 
  • B-type natriuretic peptide - a biomarker for all seasons? 
  • Baseline health-related quality of life and 10-year all-cause mortality among 1739 Chinese adults. 
  • Benefits of smoking cessation for longevity. 
  • Bilateral action for right whales. 
  • Biodemographic trajectories of longevity. 
  • Biodemography of human ageing. 
  • Biological mechanisms of disease and death in Moscow: rationale and design of the survey on Stress Aging and Health in Russia (SAHR). 
  • Black-white differences in risk of becoming disabled and recovering from disability in old age: a longitudinal analysis of two EPESE populations. 
  • Black/white differences in health status and mortality among the elderly. 
  • Blood pressure and mortality risk in older people: comparison between African Americans and whites. 
  • Blood pressure and mortality risk in the elderly. 
  • Body Mass Index (BMI), BMI change and mortality in community-dwelling seniors without dementia. 
  • Body weight change, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. 
  • CVD mortality, 1968-1978: observations and implications. 
  • Cancer mortality in Ireland, 1926-1995. 
  • Cancer mortality trends in the EU and acceding countries up to 2015. 
  • Cardiovascular Outcomes Trials in Type 2 Diabetes: Where Do We Go From Here? Reflections From a Diabetes Care Editors' Expert Forum. 
  • Caregiving behavior is associated with decreased mortality risk. 
  • Cause specific mortality patterns among the oldest old: multiple cause of death trends 1968 to 1980. 
  • Changes in health service use and mortality among U.S. elderly in 1980-1986. 
  • Changes in nocturnal sleep and daytime nap durations predict all-cause mortality among older adults: the Panel on Health and Ageing of Singaporean Elderly. 
  • Changes in the age dependence of mortality and disability: cohort and other determinants. 
  • Changing concepts of morbidity and mortality in the elderly population. 
  • Changing hemodialysis thresholds for optimal survival. 
  • Child survival and development revolution. 
  • Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil. 
  • Childhood cancer survivorship research in minority populations: A position paper from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Children in dark times: a year of silent emergency. 
  • China's response to the rising stroke burden. 
  • Cholinergic receptors in heart and brainstem of rats exposed to nicotine during development: implications for hypoxia tolerance and perinatal mortality. 
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular risk: insights from the NAVIGATOR trial. 
  • Clinical Characteristics, Oral Anticoagulation Patterns, and Outcomes of Medicaid Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Insights From the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF I) Registry. 
  • Clinical outcomes in a cohort of patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. 
  • Clinical presentation and outcome by age categories in acute heart failure: results from an international observational cohort. 
  • Clinical risks and healthcare utilization of hematopoietic cell transplantation for sickle cell disease in the USA using merged databases. 
  • Clopidogrel use and clinical events after drug-eluting stent implantation: findings from the HealthCore Integrated Research Database. 
  • Cognitive and sociodemographic risk factors for mortality in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. 
  • Cohort and life-course patterns in the relationship between education and health: a hierarchical approach. 
  • Cohort studies of health effects among people exposed to estuarine waters: North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. 
  • Combining forward and backward mortality estimation. 
  • Comment on "Inflammatory exposure and historical changes in human life-spans". 
  • Comparative Efficacy of Coronary Revascularization Procedures for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Comparative health and self-rated health are equivalently associated with health indicators among older adults. 
  • Comparative mortality risks of antipsychotic medications in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Comparing mortality and time until death for medicare HMO and FFS beneficiaries. 
  • Comparing personality scales across time: an illustrative study of validity and consistency in life-span archival data. 
  • Comparison of Associations of Reduced Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate With Stroke Outcomes Between Hypertension and No Hypertension. 
  • Comparison of Long-Term Mortality of Patients Aged ≤40 Versus >40 Years With Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Comparison of pneumatic and electrically powered total artificial hearts in vivo. 
  • Complication rates for carotid endarterectomy. A call to action. 
  • Compositional interpretations of medfly mortality. 
  • Comprehensive geriatric assessment: toward understanding its efficacy. 
  • Compression of mortality: myth or reality? 
  • Computation of expected deaths for prediction and for long-term follow-up studies. 
  • Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots. 
  • Consistency and timing of marital transitions and survival during midlife: the role of personality and health risk behaviors. 
  • Constant Lethality of Gunshot Injuries From Firearm Assault: United States, 2003-2012. 
  • Coronary bypass surgery with or without surgical ventricular reconstruction. 
  • Coronary intervention for persistent occlusion after myocardial infarction. 
  • Correction. Hospitalization in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. 
  • Correlated individual frailty: an advantageous approach to survival analysis of bivariate data. 
  • Correlation between levator ani muscle injuries on magnetic resonance imaging and fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and urinary incontinence in primiparous women. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of integrated care for people with HIV, chronic mental illness and substance abuse disorders. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of dual-chamber pacing compared with ventricular pacing for sinus node dysfunction. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Cross-national comparison of sex differences in health and mortality in Denmark, Japan and the US. 
  • Cumulative deficits and physiological indices as predictors of mortality and long life. 
  • Cumulative index of elderly disorders and its dynamic contribution to mortality and longevity. 
  • Cumulative index of health disorders as an indicator of aging-associated processes in the elderly: results from analyses of the National Long Term Care Survey. 
  • DNA methylation age is associated with mortality in a longitudinal Danish twin study. 
  • Days alive and out of hospital and the patient journey in patients with heart failure: Insights from the candesartan in heart failure: assessment of reduction in mortality and morbidity (CHARM) program. 
  • Debilitation's aftermath: stochastic process models of mortality. 
  • Decision strategies to reduce teenage and young adult deaths in the United States. 
  • Decomposing change in life expectancy: a bouquet of formulas in honor of Nathan Keyfitz's 90th birthday. 
  • Definitions of peri-procedural myocardial infarction and the association with one-year mortality: Insights from CHAMPION trials. 
  • Demographic thinking. 
  • Demographic trends for the aging female population. 
  • Demography of genotypes: failure of the limited life-span paradigm in Drosophila melanogaster. 
  • Demography. Broken limits to life expectancy. 
  • Dependent competing risks: a stochastic process model. 
  • Development and Validation of a High-Quality Composite Real-World Mortality Endpoint. 
  • Development of a prognostic model for six-month mortality in older adults with declining health. 
  • Diagnostic and Prognostic Utility of Procalcitonin in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Dyspnea. 
  • Do nutrition indicators predict death in elderly Canadians with cognitive impairment? 
  • Does religious attendance prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,968 older adults. 
  • Does weight loss from middle age to old age explain the inverse weight mortality relation in old age? 
  • Door-to-balloon time and mortality among patients undergoing primary PCI. 
  • Dynamic habitat models: using telemetry data to project fisheries bycatch. 
  • Dynamic paradigms for human mortality and aging. 
  • Dynamic profile of health investment and the evolution of elderly health. 
  • Dynamics of biomarkers in relation to aging and mortality. 
  • Dynamics of health changes in the oldest old: new perspectives and evidence. 
  • Dysphoria and anhedonia as risk factors for disability or death in older persons: implications for the assessment of geriatric depression. 
  • Echocardiographic documentation of vegetative lesions in infective endocarditis: clinical implications. 
  • Ecology. North Atlantic right whales in crisis. 
  • Education-specific estimates of life expectancy and age-specific disability in the U.S. elderly population: 1982 to 1991. 
  • Educational differences in age-related patterns of disease: reconsidering the cumulative disadvantage and age-as-leveler hypotheses. 
  • Effect of Diagnosis on Outcomes in the Setting of Enhanced Recovery Protocols. 
  • Effect of cancer screening and desirable health behaviors on functional status, self-rated health, health service use and mortality. 
  • Effect of daily charge feedback on inpatient charges and physician knowledge and behavior. 
  • Effect of framing as gain versus loss on understanding and hypothetical treatment choices: survival and mortality curves. 
  • Effect of home testing of international normalized ratio on clinical events. 
  • Effectively identifying the inpatient with hyperglycemia to increase patient care and lower costs. 
  • Effects of dependency among causes of death for cause elimination life table strategies. 
  • Effects of early treatment with statins on short-term clinical outcomes in acute coronary syndromes: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Effects of perioperative statin use on cardiovascular complications in patients submitted to non-cardiac surgery: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and trial sequential analysis. 
  • Effects of red-cell storage duration on patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Empirical Bayes procedures for stabilizing maps of U.S. cancer mortality rates. 
  • Enoxaparin dosing and associated risk of in-hospital bleeding and death in patients with non ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Epidemiological, demographic, and social correlates of disability among the elderly. 
  • Epidemiology of cardiorenal syndrome. 
  • Established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly: study design and methodology. 
  • Estimates of U.S. multiple cause life tables. 
  • Estimates of change in chronic disability and institutional incidence and prevalence rates in the U.S. elderly population from the 1982, 1984, and 1989 National Long Term Care Survey. 
  • Estimating country-specific cost-effectiveness from multinational clinical trials. 
  • Estimating increment-decrement life tables with multiple covariates from panel data: the case of active life expectancy. 
  • Estimation of apolipoprotein E genotype-specific relative mortality risks from the distribution of genotypes in centenarians and middle-aged men: apolipoprotein E gene is a "frailty gene," not a "longevity gene". 
  • Estuary-associated syndrome in North Carolina: an occupational prevalence study. 
  • Evolution. Getting to the root of aging. 
  • Explaining fruit fly longevity. 
  • Extent of coronary and myocardial disease and benefit from surgical revascularization in ischemic LV dysfunction [Corrected]. 
  • Fatalities above 30,000 feet: characterizing pediatric deaths on commercial airline flights worldwide. 
  • Forecasts of active life expectancy: policy and fiscal implications. 
  • Frailty and type of death among older adults in China: prospective cohort study. 
  • Frailty and type of death among older adults in China: prospective cohort study. 
  • Frequency of attendance at religious services and mortality in a U.S. national cohort. 
  • Fruit fly aging and mortality. 
  • Fruiting trees as dispersal foci in a semi-deciduous tropical forest. 
  • Functional status and self-rated health in 2,262 nonagenarians: the Danish 1905 Cohort Survey. 
  • Fuzzy and crisp set-theoretic-based classification of health and disease. A qualitative and quantitative comparison. 
  • Gait Speed and Operative Mortality in Older Adults Following Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Genetic analysis of durations: correlated frailty model applied to survival of Danish twins. 
  • Genetic epidemiologic studies on age-specified traits. NIA Aging and Genetic Epidemiology Working Group. 
  • Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont. 
  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. 
  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. 
  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15) in patients admitted for acute heart failure: results from the RELAX-AHF study. 
  • HEART Failure? Episodes of Missed Major Cardiac Events When Applying the HEART Pathway to an Observation Unit Population. 
  • Handedness and mortality: a follow-up study of Danish twins born between 1900 and 1910. 
  • Handgrip strength and its prognostic value for mortality in Moscow, Denmark, and England. 
  • Has regional variation in mortality rates declined since 1931, and in all age groups, in Britain? A re-analysis using formal statistical modelling. 
  • Have the oldest old adults ever been frail in the past? A hypothesis that explains modern trends in survival. 
  • Health behaviors and all-cause mortality in African American men. 
  • Health care and equality of opportunity. 
  • Health decline, aging and mortality: how are they related? 
  • Health differentials between blacks and whites: recent trends in mortality and morbidity. 
  • Health equity in transition from planned to market economy in China. 
  • Health plan enrollment and mortality in the Medicare program. 
  • Health service use and outcome: comparison of low charge, integrated, comprehensive services with usual health care. 
  • Health status and service needs of the oldest old: current patterns and future trends. 
  • Health-Related Quality of Life: The Impact on Morbidity and Mortality. 
  • Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Heart disease and stroke statistics--2012 update: a report from the American Heart Association. 
  • Heat shock changes the heterogeneity distribution in populations of Caenorhabditis elegans: does it tell us anything about the biological mechanism of stress response? 
  • Hemodynamic Predictors of Heart Failure Morbidity and Mortality: Fluid or Flow? 
  • Heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan general theory of mortality and aging. 
  • Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics. 
  • High-risk myocardial infarction in the young: the VALsartan In Acute myocardial iNfarcTion (VALIANT) trial. 
  • High-risk patients with acute coronary syndromes treated with low-molecular-weight or unfractionated heparin: outcomes at 6 months and 1 year in the SYNERGY trial. 
  • Home use of automated external defibrillators for sudden cardiac arrest. 
  • Hospitalization and case-fatality rates for subarachnoid hemorrhage in Canada from 1982 through 1991. The Canadian Collaborative Study Group of Stroke Hospitalizations. 
  • Hospitalization in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): rates, concomitants, and predictors. 
  • How individual age-associated changes may influence human morbidity and mortality patterns. 
  • How the effects of aging and stresses of life are integrated in mortality rates: insights for genetic studies of human health and longevity. 
  • Human genetic variation and yellow fever mortality during 19th century U.S. epidemics. 
  • Human mortality improvement in evolutionary context. 
  • IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. 
  • Identifying a national death index match. 
  • Immunogenetics of consanguineous allografts in man. II. Correlation of renal allografting with HL-A genotyping. 
  • Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Events, and Death: Outcomes at 4 Years From the Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry. 
  • Impact of Sex and Contact-to-Device Time on Clinical Outcomes in Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction-Findings From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Impact of Visual Impairment and Eye diseases on Mortality: the Singapore Malay Eye Study (SiMES). 
  • Impact of inappropriate drug use on mortality and functional status in representative community dwelling elders. 
  • Impact of renal dysfunction on outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery: results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Adult Cardiac Database. 
  • Impact of smoking status on outcomes of primary coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction--the smoker's paradox revisited. 
  • Impact of spirituality/religiosity on mortality: comparison with other health interventions. 
  • Implantable cardioverter defibrillators in primary and secondary prevention: a systematic review of randomized, controlled trials. 
  • Inadequate intensity of various components of total environmental signals can lead to natural aging. 
  • Incidence, predictors, and outcomes of high-degree atrioventricular block complicating acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolytic therapy. 
  • Increased case-fatality rate associated with outbreaks of Neisseria meningitidis infection, compared with sporadic meningococcal disease, in the United States, 1994-2002. 
  • Inference on treatment effects from a randomized clinical trial in the presence of premature treatment discontinuation: the SYNERGY trial. 
  • Influence of Baseline Characteristics, Operative Conduct, and Postoperative Course on 30-Day Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Among Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Results From the Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) Trial. 
  • Influence of a performance-improvement initiative on quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: results of the Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF). 
  • Influence of racial disparities in procedure use on functional status outcomes among patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Insufficient reduction in heart rate during hospitalization despite beta-blocker treatment in acute decompensated heart failure: insights from the ASCEND-HF trial. 
  • Intelligence in early adulthood and life span up to 65 years later in male elderly twins. 
  • Intercommunity variations in the association between social ties and mortality in the elderly. A comparative analysis of three communities. 
  • Intercontinental impacts of ozone pollution on human mortality. 
  • Is birth order associated with adult mortality? 
  • Is life expectancy really falling for groups of low socio-economic status? Lagged selection bias and artefactual trends in mortality. 
  • Is there a link between childhood adversity, attachment style and Scotland's excess mortality? Evidence, challenges and potential research. 
  • Laparoscopic Splenectomy for Benign Hematological Disorders in Adults: A Systematic Review. 
  • Levosimendan in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Life table techniques for multiple-cause mortality. 
  • Life-sustaining therapy. A model for appropriate use. 
  • Liver function tests in patients with acute heart failure and associated outcomes: insights from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Long-term mortality of patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with stent implantation for acute and stable coronary artery disease. 
  • Long-term outcomes of the symmetry vein graft anastomosis device: a matched case-control analysis. 
  • Long-term prediction of mortality in elderly persons by dobutamine stress echocardiography. 
  • Longevity in the united states: age and sex-specific evidence on life span limits from mortality patterns 1960-1990. 
  • Longitudinal follow-up of adult survivors of Ewing sarcoma: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was inversely associated with 3-year all-cause mortality among Chinese oldest old: data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. 
  • Lower socioeconomic status and increased mortality: early childhood roots and the potential for successful interventions. 
  • Males' Later-Life Mortality Consequences of Coresidence With Paternal Grandparents: Evidence From Northeast China, 1789-1909. 
  • Management of recalled pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: a decision analysis model. 
  • Mantel-Haenszel statistics and direct standardization. 
  • Marital history at midlife as a predictor of longevity: alternative explanations to the protective effect of marriage. 
  • Marital trajectories and mortality among US adults. 
  • Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Men: good health and high mortality. Sex differences in health and aging. 
  • Mental health in Sumatra after the tsunami. 
  • Meta-Analysis of Soluble Suppression of Tumorigenicity-2 and Prognosis in Acute Heart Failure. 
  • Metabolic dysregulation and cancer mortality in a national cohort of blacks and whites. 
  • Methodology of a reevaluation of cardiovascular outcomes in the RECORD trial: study design and conduct. 
  • Methods for combining ancillary data in stochastic compartment models of cancer mortality: generalization of heterogeneity models. 
  • Methods for comparing the mortality experience of heterogeneous populations. 
  • Methods for evaluating the heterogeneity of aging processes in human populations using vital statistics data: explaining the black/white mortality crossover by a model of mortality selection. 
  • Models of the interaction of mortality and the evolution of risk factor distribution: a general stochastic process formulation. 
  • Molecular malaria epidemiology: mapping and burden estimates for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007. 
  • Morbidity and mortality disparities among colonist and indigenous populations in the Ecuadorian Amazon. 
  • Morbidity and mortality risk among the "forgotten few": why are girls in the justice system in such poor health? 
  • Mortality Trends in Colorectal Cancer in China During 2000-2015: A Joinpoint Regression and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. 
  • Mortality among North Carolina construction workers, 1988-1994. 
  • Mortality among twins after age 6: fetal origins hypothesis versus twin method. 
  • Mortality and Health Outcomes in North Carolina Communities Located in Close Proximity to Hog Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. 
  • Mortality and aging in a heterogeneous population: a stochastic process model with observed and unobserved variables. 
  • Mortality and apolipoprotein E in African-American, and White elders: an attempted replication. 
  • Mortality and cognitive status among elderly Canadians living in the community and in institutions: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. 
  • Mortality and morbidity remain high despite captopril and/or Valsartan therapy in elderly patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction, heart failure, or both after acute myocardial infarction: results from the Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial (VALIANT). 
  • Mortality and religion/spirituality: a brief review of the research. 
  • Mortality data analysis using a multiple-cause approach. 
  • Mortality in Italy: contours of a century of evolution. 
  • Mortality in Vietnam, 1979-1989. 
  • Mortality in patients with schizophrenia, mania, depression and surgical conditions. A comparison with general population mortality. 
  • Mortality of the chronically impaired. 
  • Mortality patterns in developed countries. 
  • Mortality rate and screening. 
  • Mortality recovery and stabilization in Kazakhstan, 1995-2001. 
  • Mortality selection in a genetic sample and implications for association studies. 
  • Mortality trends associated with acute renal failure requiring dialysis after CABG surgery in the United States. 
  • Mortality versus survival graphs: improving temporal consistency in perceptions of treatment effectiveness. 
  • NIH funding trajectories and their correlations with US health dynamics from 1950 to 2004. 
  • Nesiritide in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure: does timing matter? Implication for future acute heart failure trials. 
  • New age patterns of survival improvement in Sweden: do they characterize changes in individual aging? 
  • No increased mortality in later life for cohorts born during famine. 
  • Non-communicable diseases and injuries in Pakistan: strategic priorities. 
  • Nonmedical Opioid Pain Relievers and All-Cause Mortality: A 27-Year Follow-Up From the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study. 
  • Nutritional risk and time to death; predictive validity of SCREEN (Seniors in the Community Risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition). 
  • Obesity affects nursing-care facility admission among whites but not blacks. 
  • One-year and three-year mortality prediction in adult major blunt trauma survivors: a National Retrospective Cohort Analysis. 
  • One-year outcome following biological or mechanical valve replacement for infective endocarditis. 
  • Outcomes Associated With Familial Versus Nonfamilial Atrial Fibrillation: A Matched Nationwide Cohort Study. 
  • Outcomes With Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair in the United States: An STS/ACC TVT Registry Report. 
  • Outcomes of anatomical versus functional testing for coronary artery disease. 
  • Outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in 24,461 patients aged 80 years or older. 
  • Overview of women's health. 
  • Parental divorce: effects on individual behavior and longevity. 
  • Parenteral glutamine supplementation in critical illness: a systematic review. 
  • Passage to Methuselah: some demographic consequences of continued progress against mortality. 
  • Past and future life expectancy increases at later ages: their implications for the linkage of chronic morbidity, disability, and mortality. 
  • Patient journey after admission for acute heart failure: length of stay, 30-day readmission and 90-day mortality. 
  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. 
  • Patterns of anticoagulation following bioprosthetic valve implantation: observations from ANSWER. 
  • Pediatric Neurosurgical Outcomes Following a Neurosurgery Health System Intervention at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • Perceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing: cohort study. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of mortality among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Periprosthetic fractures: epidemiology and future projections. 
  • Personality facets and all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 66 to 102 years: a follow-on study of Weiss and Costa (2005). 
  • Physical Activity and Mortality in Patients With Stable Coronary Heart Disease. 
  • Physician-diagnosed depression as a correlate of hospitalizations in patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 
  • Plasticity of death rates in stationary phase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
  • Pollution and regional variations of lung cancer mortality in the United States. 
  • Poor Nutrition Status and Lumbar Spine Fusion Surgery in the Elderly: Readmissions, Complications, and Mortality. 
  • Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Population impact of mortality reduction: the effects of elimination of major causes of death on the 'saved' population. 
  • Positive emotions, physical disability, and mortality in older adults. 
  • Power and sample size calculations for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test in the presence of death-censored observations. 
  • Predialysis health, dialysis timing, and outcomes among older United States adults. 
  • Predicting long-term mortality in older patients after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: the CRUSADE long-term mortality model and risk score. 
  • Predicting mortality over different time horizons: which data elements are needed? 
  • Prediction of all-cause mortality by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Optimism-Pessimism Scale scores: study of a college sample during a 40-year follow-up period. 
  • Predictors of disability in the final year of life. 
  • Predictors of five-year mortality in older Canadians: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. 
  • Predictors of mortality in 2,249 nonagenarians--the Danish 1905-Cohort Survey. 
  • Predictors of mortality in patients with bloodstream infection due to ceftazidime-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. 
  • Predictors of two-year post-hospitalization mortality among elderly veterans in a study evaluating a geriatric consultation team. 
  • Prenatal exposure to famine and health in later life. 
  • Prevalence, predictors and clinical outcome of residual congestion in acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • Prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of premature discontinuation of thienopyridine therapy after drug-eluting stent placement: results from the PREMIER registry. 
  • Primary Health Care and Cervical Cancer Mortality Rates in Brazil: A Longitudinal Ecological Study. 
  • Procalcitonin-based indication of bacterial infection identifies high risk acute heart failure patients. 
  • Prognosis of mechanically ventilated patients. 
  • Prognostic Value of Soluble Suppression of Tumorigenicity-2 in Chronic Heart Failure: A Meta-Analysis. 
  • Prolonged duration of initial empirical antibiotic treatment is associated with increased rates of necrotizing enterocolitis and death for extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Propensity-matched comparisons of clinical outcomes after transapical or transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a placement of aortic transcatheter valves (PARTNER)-I trial substudy. 
  • Pulmonary embolism in childhood. 
  • Pulmonary function and adverse cardiovascular outcomes: Can cardiac function explain the link? 
  • Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana. 
  • Race and Sex Differences in QRS Interval and Associated Outcome Among Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction. 
  • Rates of mortality in populations of Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Rationale and Design of the ATHENA-HF Trial: Aldosterone Targeted Neurohormonal Combined With Natriuresis Therapy in Heart Failure. 
  • Rationale and design of the Affordability and Real-world Antiplatelet Treatment Effectiveness after Myocardial Infarction Study (ARTEMIS): A multicenter, cluster-randomized trial of P2Y12 receptor inhibitor copayment reduction after myocardial infarction. 
  • Re: "Personality and all-cause mortality: individual-participant meta-analysis of 3,947 deaths in 76,150 adults". 
  • Reactive hyperemia is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in heart failure. 
  • Readmissions After Surgical Resection of Metastatic Tumors of the Spine at a Single Institution. 
  • Recent changes in the U.S. age at death distribution: further observations. 
  • Reconsidering mortality compression and deceleration: an alterative model of mortality rates. 
  • Recovery and survival from aging-associated diseases. 
  • Reduction in Late Mortality among 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer. 
  • Regional, age and sex differences in baseline characteristics of patients enrolled in the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS). 
  • Regression models in clinical studies: determining relationships between predictors and response. 
  • Relation of Angina Pectoris to Outcomes, Quality of Life, and Response to Exercise Training in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure (from HF-ACTION). 
  • Relations of a marker of endothelial activation (s-VCAM) to function and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Relationship Between Arterial Access and Outcomes in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction With a Pharmacoinvasive Versus Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Strategy: Insights From the STrategic Reperfusion Early After Myocardial Infarction (STREAM) Study. 
  • Relationship between ever reporting depressive symptoms and all-cause mortality in a cohort of HIV-infected adults in routine care. 
  • Relationship between galectin-3 levels and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist use in heart failure: analysis from HF-ACTION. 
  • Relationship of health-related quality of life to health care utilization and mortality among older adults. 
  • Religious attendance and mortality: implications for the black-white mortality crossover. 
  • Religious commitment and health status: a review of the research and implications for family medicine. 
  • Religious involvement and mortality: a meta-analytic review. 
  • Repeated resuscitation: how lifesaving alters life tables. 
  • Results of a reevaluation of cardiovascular outcomes in the RECORD trial. 
  • Retinal arteriolar emboli and long-term mortality: pooled data analysis from two older populations. 
  • Retinal microvascular signs and risk of stroke and stroke mortality. 
  • Revisiting the association of blood pressure with mortality in oldest old people in China: community based, longitudinal prospective study. 
  • Risk due to inactivity in physically capable older adults. 
  • Risk factor dynamics, mortality and life expectancy differences between eastern and western Finland: the Finnish Cohorts of the Seven Countries Study. 
  • Risk factors associated with unfavorable short-term treatment outcome in patients with documented Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. 
  • Risk factors for deaths during the 2009 heat wave in Adelaide, Australia: a matched case-control study. 
  • Risk of mortality with vitamin E supplements: the Cache County study. 
  • SO2 levels and perturbations in mortality. A study in the New York-New Jersey metropolis. 
  • Safety of Intravenous Iron in Hemodialysis: Longer-term Comparisons of Iron Sucrose Versus Sodium Ferric Gluconate Complex. 
  • Sample size considerations of prediction-validation methods in high-dimensional data for survival outcomes. 
  • Seasonal mortality patterns in non-human primates: implications for variation in selection pressures across environments. 
  • Self-perception of uselessness and mortality among older adults in China. 
  • Self-rated health and mortality in the high-functioning elderly--a closer look at healthy individuals: MacArthur field study of successful aging. 
  • Self-rated health and mortality: does the relationship extend to a low income setting? 
  • Self-reported delay in seeking care has poor validity for predicting adverse outcomes. 
  • Senescence is not inevitable. 
  • Serious infections among unselected patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with contemporary primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Sex differences in health and mortality in Moscow and Denmark. 
  • Sex differences in human mortality and aging at late ages: the effect of mortality selection and state dynamics. 
  • Sex differences in medical care and early death after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Sex differential in mortality trends of old-aged Danes: a nation wide study of age, period and cohort effects. 
  • Sex-specific acute heart failure phenotypes and outcomes from PROTECT. 
  • Sex-specific health deterioration and mortality: the morbidity-mortality paradox over age and time. 
  • Shifts in the seasonal distribution of deaths in Australia, 1968-2007. 
  • Significance of blood stream infection after lung transplantation: analysis in 176 consecutive patients. 
  • Simulation-based morbidity and mortality conference: new technologies augmenting traditional case-based presentations. 
  • Simultaneous modelling of time trends and regional variation in mortality rates. 
  • Skewed X inactivation and survival: a 13-year follow-up study of elderly twins and singletons. 
  • Slowing of mortality rates at older ages in large medfly cohorts. 
  • Social support and mortality in an elderly community population. 
  • Social/health maintenance organization and fee-for-service health outcomes over time. 
  • Sociodemographic and psychosocial factors in childhood as predictors of adult mortality. 
  • Socioeconomic background and war mortality during Vietnam's wars. 
  • Socioeconomic correlates of mortality differentials by local government area in rural northern New South Wales, 1981-1995. 
  • Socioeconomic status and the Black-White mortality crossover. 
  • Spectrum of excess mortality due to carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections. 
  • Spirituality, religion, and clinical outcomes in patients recovering from an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Steep increase in best-practice cohort life expectancy. 
  • Stochastic model for analysis of longitudinal data on aging and mortality. 
  • Strengthening maternal and child health in China: Lessons from transforming policy proposals into action. 
  • Study shows growing inequalities in health in Britain. 
  • Suboptimal prescribing in older inpatients and outpatients. 
  • Successful linking of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database to Social Security data to examine the accuracy of Society of Thoracic Surgeons mortality data. 
  • Suicide in late life. Review and commentary. 
  • Survival after bariatric surgery among high-risk patients. 
  • Survival among high-risk patients after bariatric surgery. 
  • Survival of related individuals: an extension of some fundamental results of heterogeneity analysis. 
  • Symptoms of depression, acute myocardial infarction, and total mortality in a community sample. 
  • Targeted investment improves access to hospice and palliative care. 
  • Targeting lifesaving: demographic linkages between population structure and life expectancy. 
  • Tea consumption and mortality in the oldest-old Chinese. 
  • Telomere length and mortality: a study of leukocytes in elderly Danish twins. 
  • Temporal and age variation of United States black/white cause-specific mortality differentials: a study of the recent changes in the relative health status of the United States black population. 
  • Temporal trends in U. S. multiple cause of death mortality data: 1968 to 1977. 
  • Terminal change in cognitive function: an updated review of longitudinal studies. 
  • The Burden of Primary Liver Cancer and Underlying Etiologies From 1990 to 2015 at the Global, Regional, and National Level: Results From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates. 
  • The Public Health Burden of Lymphatic Malformations in Children: National Estimates in the United States, 2000-2009. 
  • The State of US Health, 1990-2016: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States. 
  • The X chromosome and the female survival advantage: an example of the intersection between genetics, epidemiology and demography. 
  • The association between depression and chronic kidney disease and mortality among patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure. 
  • The association between depressive symptoms and mortality among older participants in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area-Piedmont Health Survey. 
  • The association between temperature and mortality in tropical middle income Thailand from 1999 to 2008. 
  • The association between waist circumference and risk of mortality considering body mass index in 65- to 74-year-olds: a meta-analysis of 29 cohorts involving more than 58 000 elderly persons. 
  • The association of left ventricular ejection fraction with clinical outcomes after myocardial infarction: Findings from the Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network (ACTION) Registry-Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) Medicare-linked database. 
  • The beat goes on: status of the artificial heart, 1977. 
  • The black/white mortality crossover: investigation from the perspective of the components of aging. 
  • The black/white mortality crossover: investigation in a community-based study. 
  • The black/white mortality crossover: possible racial differences in the intrinsic rate of aging. 
  • The case for negative senescence. 
  • The clinical epidemiology of pulmonary cryptococcosis in non-AIDS patients at a tertiary care medical center. 
  • The conundrum of reducing ischemic and bleeding events after PCI. 
  • The effect of aprotinin on outcome after coronary-artery bypass grafting. 
  • The effect of middle- and old-age body mass index on short-term mortality in older people. 
  • The effects of health histories on stochastic process models of aging and mortality. 
  • The effects of mortality on fertility: population dynamics after a natural disaster. 
  • The effects of nutrition-related factors on four-year mortality among a biracial sample of community-dwelling elders in the North Carolina piedmont. 
  • The global burden of kidney disease and the sustainable development goals. 
  • The global impact of noncommunicable diseases: estimates and projections. 
  • The impact of health insurance on health outcomes and spending of the elderly: evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme. 
  • The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality. 
  • The impact of occupation on self-rated health: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the health and retirement survey. 
  • The interplay between atrial fibrillation and heart failure on long-term mortality and length of stay: Insights from the, United Kingdom ACALM registry. 
  • The longevity gap between Black and White men in the United States at the beginning and end of the 20th century. 
  • The new trends in survival improvement require a revision of traditional gerontological concepts. 
  • The participant effect: mortality in a community-based study compared to vital statistics. 
  • The propagation of uncertainty in human mortality processes operating in stochastic environments. 
  • The relationship between cholesterol level and myocardial infarction or mortality risk in patients with coronary artery disease. A report from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry. 
  • The remarkable improvements in survival at older ages. 
  • The structure of urban mortality. A methodological study of Hannover, Germany. Part I. 
  • The structure of urban mortality. A methodological study of Hannover, Germany. Part II. 
  • The waiting game: facing the consequences. 
  • Thromboembolism is a leading cause of death in cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy. 
  • Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI-1) trial: influence of infarct location on arterial patency, left ventricular function and mortality. 
  • Time-varying covariates in models of human mortality and aging: multidimensional generalizations of the Gompertz. 
  • Transitional care of older adults in skilled nursing facilities: A systematic review. 
  • Translating evidence into practice: a decade of efforts by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association to reduce death and disability due to stroke: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • Trends in Bare-Metal Stent Use in the United States in Patients Aged ≥65 Years (from the CathPCI Registry). 
  • Trends in stroke mortality: the impact of the Year 2000 Age Standard and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision. 
  • Trends in the Mortality of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States. 
  • Trends in the Use of Guideline-Directed Therapies Among Dialysis Patients Hospitalized With Systolic Heart Failure: Findings From the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Program. 
  • Trends in the surgical treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation: effects of mitral valve repair on hospital mortality. 
  • Tuberculosis Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in children initiating Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV infection: A systematic literature review. 
  • Two-dimensional global longitudinal strain is superior to left ventricular ejection fraction in prediction of outcome in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis. 
  • Unmet Need for ADL Assistance Is Associated With Mortality Among Older Adults With Mild Disability. 
  • Use of concomitant aspirin in patients with atrial fibrillation: Findings from the ROCKET AF trial. 
  • Variability of body weight and health outcomes in the Framingham population. 
  • Visualizing hidden heterogeneity in isogenic populations of C. elegans. 
  • Vitality index in survival modeling: how physiological aging influences mortality. 
  • What age trajectories of cumulative deficits and medical costs tell us about individual aging and mortality risk: Findings from the NLTCS-Medicare data. 
  • What symptoms of depression predict mortality in community-dwelling elders? 
  • Where do continuing care retirement community residents die? 
  • ["Looking your age"--genetics and mortality]. 
  • [More people live to be very old and with a better functioning]. 
  • [Mortality among twins after the age of six: the programming hypothesis versus the twin-method] 
  • [The demography of centenarians in Denmark] 
  • [The remarkable rise in life expectancy and how it will affect medicine]. 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine
  • Dupre, Matthew E., Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Granger, Christopher Bull, Professor of Medicine, School of Nursing
  • James, Michael Lucas, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia
  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine