BACKGROUND The international nasopharynx cancer (NPC) burdens are masked due to the lack of integrated studies that examine epidemiological data based on up-to-date international disease databases such as the Cancer Information (CIN) databases provided by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). METHODS By analyzing the most recently updated NPC epidemiological data available f...

objective: to determine the epidemiological characteristics of fatal traumatic accidents in patients referred to a hospital in babol, northern iran. methods: thiswas a cross-sectionalstudy being performed during a 1-year period including all the dead trauma patients referred to shahidbeheshtihospital of babol. we included all those patients who were transferred to our center to trauma and injur...

BACKGROUND In this study, we examined the epidemiological aspects of neonatal mortality due to intrauterine infections with regard to regional characteristics. METHODS Consolidated report of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan on children deceased during their first 28 days of life due to intrauterine infections (P23 - congenital pneumonia, P35-39 - inf...

Since its molecular characterisation, Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) has been regularly detected in Crassostrea gigas in France. Although its pathogenicity was demonstrated on larval stages, its involvement during mortality outbreaks at the juvenile stage was highly suspected but not evidenced. To investigate mortality outbreaks, the French National Network for Surveillance and Monitoring of Mo...

Obesity is the epidemic of the 21st century. Despite the fact that obesity is known to have major health consequences in the general population, an increasing number of large-scale epidemiological studies indicate an inverse association between increasing body mass index and mortality in dialysis patients. Here it is argued pro and con that epidemiological data derived from the healthy general ...

Considering the high coefficients of neonatal mortality from preventable causes registered in Brazilian health services, this study aimed to analyze profile last 5 years children under 1 year old living city Criciúma/SC using a database epidemiological surveillance Santa Catarina. This is descriptive, retrospective based on data Information System Live Births and Mortality. . We highlight need ...

Data from the national Peru Fertility Survey are used to estimate infant and childhood mortality ratios, 1968--77, for 124 Peruvian communities, ranging from small Indian hamlets in the Andes to larger cities on the Pacific coast. Significant mortality variations are found: mortality is inversely related to community population size and is higher in the mountains than in the jungle or coast. Mu...