Age-sex specific ranges of platelet count and all-cause mortality: prospective findings from the MOLI-SANI study Marialaura Bonaccio*, Augusto Di Castelnuovo , Simona Costanzo, Amalia De Curtis, Maria Benedetta Donati, Chiara Cerletti, Giovanni de Gaetano, Licia Iacoviello, on behalf of the Moli-sani Investigators**. Authors’ affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Istituto...

Despite the number of cases and attributable mortality having become reduced, malaria continues to be an important public health problem. This report presents some examples of epidemiology's contribution to malaria control; it also motivates reflexion to the contrary, i.e. malaria's contribution to the development of epidemiology. Attempting to identify methods for measuring epidemiology's cont...

Wade Hampton Frost, who was a Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University from 1919 to 1938, spurred the development of epidemiologic methods. His 6 publications in the American Journal of Hygiene, which later became the American Journal of Epidemiology, comprise a 1928 Cutter lecture on a theory of epidemics, a survey-based study of tonsillectomy and immunity to Corynebacterium dipht...

BACKGROUND Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected persons. Epidemiology of PCP in the recent era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is not well known and the impact of HAART on outcome of PCP has been debated. AIM To determine the epidemiology of PCP in HIV-infected patients and examine the impact of HAART on PCP outcome. ...

Wade Hampton Frost, who was a Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University from 1919 to 1938, spurred the development of epidemiologic methods. His 6 publications in the American Journal of Hygiene, which later became the American Journal of Epidemiology, comprise a 1928 Cutter lecture on a theory of epidemics, a survey-based study of tonsillectomy and immunity to Corynebacterium dipht...

Penetrating abdominal trauma (PAT) is seen daily in our trauma ward. We present a retrospective study of the patients managed in our hospital (Polokwane Hospital, Limpopo) from January 1999 to March 2000. Epidemiology, mechanism of injury, patterns of injury, management, morbidity and overall mortality were recorded for analysis. Morbidity and mortality were commonly associated with peritonitis...

non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in the united states and other industrialized countries, and the reported prevalence in the developing countries is also rather high. this disease is associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality and damage to the other organs. the cardiovascular system is, perhaps, the most vulnerable organ to nafl...

A review was performed to determine the epidemiology and outcomes of clostridial bacteremia (CB) at our institution. Ninety-two percent of patients had monomicrobial CB. Patients with Clostridium innocuum bacteremia had a significantly higher 2-day mortality rate compared to patients with C. septicum and C. perfringens. CB is associated with high and rapid mortality, especially in patients with...

Epidemiology is a field torn between practices of surveillance and methods analysis. Since the onset COVID-19, epidemiological expertise has been mostly identified with first, as dashboards case mortality rates took centre stage. However, since its establishment an academic in early 20th century, epidemiology’s have always impacted on how diseases are classified, knowledge collected, what kind ...