The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been the largest public health emergency in recent decades. While there have many epidemiology studies on this pandemic, less research done to examine its indirect impact mortality. This paper utilizes Kolmogorov-Zurbenko (KZ) filter chronic kidney (CKD) mortality trend Florida hospitals and finds an of namely excess CKD deaths due pandemic-period...

It has long been known that health is geographically patterned (Jones and Moon, 1987). In fact, “place” has been a key dimension of epidemiology since its origins. Descriptive epidemiology emphasizes differences in disease distribution across places because it may provide important etiologic clues. Cardiovascular disease mortality, and in particular coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, vary...

Objective: Traumatic spine injuries are seriously important and are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. The goal of this study is to determine the epidemiology of the traumatic spine injuries in Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Kashan University of Medical Sciences (KAUMS), the main trauma center in Kashan, Iran.Methods: This cross-sectional study was undertaken on all cases ...

Variability between workers is reflected in differences in uptake, metabolism, and excretion of toxic substances, and thus individual response to toxic hazards. It is argued that biological monitoring takes account of these differences enabling individual risk assessments to be made. Risk, however, must be seen in terms of clinical and pathological changes-that is, estimated from morbidity and ...

OBJECTIVE In many countries, the cervical cancer prevalence has declined but less information about the changes is available in China. This study aims to understand the epidemiological characteristics and trend of cervical cancer in China. METHODS Cervical cancer data of 11 cancer registries during 1988-2002 in China were analyzed. The age and urban/rural differences and trend of cervical can...

BACKGROUND The measurement of atmospheric pollution for epidemiological studies is problematic. This study presents a new proxy measure of atmospheric pollution of industrial origin and uses it to determine, at electoral ward level, the relationship between atmospheric pollution and all-cause mortality. METHODS All-cause Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR), all ages, and for persons under 65 ...

In the pre-chemotherapy era, tuberculosis (TB) was almost universal, affected young and old, presented a wide array of morbid effects and carried a high mortality rate. In the post-chemotherapy era, the epidemiology has changed, and the strategies for controlling TB have had to be refocused. The abrupt switch from sanatorium to outpatient care taught important lessons about compliance with drug...

Mortality by abortion has continuously decreased over the past fifty years in Chile. In fact, maternal death as a result of an induced abortion has become an exceptionally rare phenomenon in epidemiological terms (a risk of 1 in 4 million pregnant women of fertile age or 0.4 per 100,000 life births for abortion of any type, excluding ectopic pregnancy). After abortion became illegal in 1989, de...

'The present inquiry, which is an epidemiological exercise in the vital statistics of infant mortality, uses the documents of birth and death registration of England and Wales, and for the first time brings them together. Information about the mother's age, the number of her children, the duration of her marriage before the birth, and whether the birth was single or multiple, is obtained at bir...