BACKGROUND Limited and dated evidence shows ethnic inequalities in health status and health care in respiratory diseases. METHODS This retrospective, cohort study linked Scotland's hospitalization/death records on respiratory disorders to 4.65 million people in the 2001 census (providing ethnic group). For all-respiratory diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from April 20...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Mortality after cerebral infarction (CI) has remained unchanged during the past 20 years, despite advances in neurologic care. Key factors affecting survival may be underrecognized. The purpose of this study was to determine the rate and cause of mortality after first CI. METHODS In this case-control, population-based study, all available medical records were reviewed f...

The characteristics and outcome of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may have changed with time. Some studies have reported that mortality is more commonly related to the development of sepsis/multiple organ failure (MOF), and others that it is related to the severity of acute respiratory failure (ARF). The present study evaluates the relative importance of the two phenomena in a large...

THE incidence of sudden unexpected death of infants ('cot death' 'crib death' in USA 'sudden unexpected and unexplained death in infants', 'sudden infant death syndrome'), termed below cot death, is 2.0 3.0 per 1,000 live births in 'developed' countries of Europe and North America1, less than 1.0 in Israel2' while no data are available for underdeveloped countries. In Northern Ireland the 'corr...

SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2), a novel and currently intensively studied beta coronavirus, is the causing agent of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019), highly contagious devastating disease that has killed more than 2 million human beings since December 2019. Building on what already been understood from studying SARS-CoV, closely related single-strand RNA virus s...

In the first half of twentieth century, racial inequality in rate death from infectious disease was immense. every year 1906 to 1920, Black Americans cities died diseases at a higher than that urban White during 1918 influenza pandemic. We decompose mortality into three broad causes determine which were most influential. Our results suggest primarily driven by TB and flu--the two major respirat...

background : the word death has been brought in several verses of quran. the purpose of this study is to discuss and compare similarities and differences between quran’s and forensics’ perspective in terms of death. methods: the present study is carried out by library studies on multiple interpretations of quran, interpretation of juridical references and comparing them with current forensics k...