Background: As there is a lack of data on stomach cancer disease in Asia, the aim of the present study was to examine patterns and time trends for this neoplasm in Asian countries. Methods: A descriptive study was designed to examine the cancer pattern and time trend and to calculate the annual change in mortality and incidence of stomach cancer at 5-year intervals. Data were derived from the W...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to update and analyze data on mortality trend due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Brazil. METHODS Initially, the specific COPD mortality rates were calculated from 1989 to 2009 using data collected from DATASUS (Departamento de Informática do SUS - Brazilian Health System Database). Then, the polynomial regression models from the obse...

Background & aim: Maternal mortality is defined as the death during pregnancy or up to 42 days postpartum. This study sought to determine the trend of maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and its associated factors in Khorasan Razavi province, Iran. Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted in Khorasan Razavi Province, North East of Iran, during 2010 to 2014. Data was collected ...

ABSTRACT Even though the trend in mortality improvements has experienced several permanent changes past, uncertainty regarding future trends is often left unmodeled when pricing longevity-linked securities. In this paper, we present a stochastic modeling framework for valuation of securities which explicitly considers risk random long-term trend. We construct set meaningful probability distorti...

BACKGROUND Limited research has examined the association between dietary patterns and mortality, especially in non-Western populations. OBJECTIVE We examined the association of dietary patterns with all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality in the Singapore Chinese Health Study, which included a unique ethnic population with strong Western and South Asian cultural influences. DESIGN ...

The authors sought to investigate the relationship between dietary magnesium intake and mortality from cardiovascular disease in a population-based sample of Asian adults. Reported findings are based on dietary magnesium intake in 58,615 healthy Japanese aged 40-79 years, in the Japan Collaborative Cohort (JACC) Study. Dietary magnesium intake was assessed by a validated food frequency question...

A survey on opium use was earned out in Tinsukia district of upper Assam to assess the present prevalence and pattern of opium abuse and compared with earlier findings of the year 1981 (Baruah et al., 1995). A total of 75 addicts could be detected during the survey and 61 were interviewed using structured questionnaire. The results indicate significant decline in prevalence in opium use over th...

BACKGROUND Guidelines for optimal weight in older persons are limited by uncertainty about the ideal body mass index (BMI) or the usefulness of alternative anthropometric measures. OBJECTIVE We investigated the association of BMI (in kg/m(2)), waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio (WHR) with mortality and cause-specific mortality. DESIGN Subjects aged >/=75 y (n = 14 833) from 53 family ...