All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among People Using Extramedical Opioids

Personal Mastery and All-Cause Mortality among Older Americans Living with Diabetes

Introduction: Higher personal mastery is associated with better physical functioning, wellbeing, and longevity among older populations. However, few studies have focused on whether personal mastery is protective against mortality among older adults living with diabetes over time.  Methods: A total of 1,779 participants were identified from an off-year survey of the Health and Retirement Study....

All-cause and cause-specific mortality among black and white North Carolina state prisoners, 1995-2005.

PURPOSE We compared mortality rates among state prisoners and other state residents to identify prisoners' health care needs. METHODS We linked North Carolina prison records with state death records for 1995-2005 to estimate all-cause and cause-specific death rates among black and white male prisoners ages 20-79 years and used standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare these observed dea...

Cause-Specific Mortality among Medicare Enrollees

Depression, cardiac mortality and all-cause mortality

Depression is an illness that kills. The links between depression and medical illness are well established and bi-directional, but evidence is mounting that depression increases mortality as well as morbidity in adults, particularly older adults. We examine the evidence that the increase in mortality in depression applies to all-cause mortality as well as cardiac mortality, and describe plausib...

Heat waves and cause-specific mortality at all ages.

BACKGROUND Mortality has been shown to increase with extremely hot ambient temperatures. Details on the specific cause of mortality can be useful for improving preventive policies. Infants are often identified as a population that is vulnerable to extreme heat conditions; however, information on heat and infant mortality is scarce, with no studies reporting on cause-specific mortality. METHOD...