BACKGROUND AND AIMS Sepsis is a major worldwide cause of morbidity and mortality. Most sepsis epidemiologic data are from the Western literature. Sparse data from India describe the epidemiology of infection rather than sepsis which is a host response to infection. This study describes the epidemiology of sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of an Indian tertiary care hospital. SUBJECTS AN...

The menopause is the transition from the reproductive to the non-reproductive stage of life in women and is characterized clinically by permanent cessation of menstruation and biologically by loss of ovarian function. The menopause occurs around a mean age of 50 years; virtually all women by the age of 55 years or so will have experienced the menopause. The changes in birth and mortality rates ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether periodic variations in annual infant mortality were associated with malnutrition and the poor quality of the food supply available to the community. DESIGN Retrospective study of historical epidemiology of infant mortality by time series analysis and family reconstitution of parish registers of burials and baptisms. SETTING Penrith, Cumbria, England, 1557-1812. ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to compare all-cause mortality and drowning-specific mortality rates and survival times among birth cohorts of children from rural Bangladesh over a 14-year period. METHOD Seven birth cohorts of children aged 12-59 months were created using data from the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Bangladesh. Each cohort represents children b...

OBJECTIVES Studies on factors affecting neonatal mortality have rarely considered the impact of place of delivery on neonatal mortality. This study provides epidemiological information regarding the impact of place of delivery on neonatal deaths. METHODS We analyzed data from the Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance System (RHDSS) in Tanzania. A total of 5,124 live births and 166 neonat...

BACKGROUND The under-five mortality rate (the probability of dying between birth and age 5 y, also denoted in the literature as U5MR and (5)q(0)) is a key indicator of child health, but it conceals important information about how this mortality is distributed by age. One important distinction is what amount of the under-five mortality occurs below age 1 y ((1)q(0)) versus at age 1 y and above (...

BACKGROUND Teenage fecundity rates are an indicator of epidemiological discrimination in developing countries. AIM To study fertility rates of girls under 14 years of age in Chile from 1993 to 2003. MATERIAL AND METHODS Information of children born alive from mothers aged 10 to 15 years, was obtained from the Chilean National Institute of Statistics. Age segmented population data was obtain...

Valvular diseases are a leading cause of morbidity, mortality and impaired quality life in all over the world with different epidemiology. It is extremely important to know hemodynamic changes for proper development strategy future interventions. The recent years shows progress various methodologies field surgery interventional treatments valvular diseases. In this section, we focus mainly on a...