introduction air pollution is one of the critical challenges in metropolitans around the world. according to world health organization (who), three millions people die from air pollution annually. in some studies mortality costs by air pollution was estimated. social cost of air pollution was estimated 28990 billions rials in tehran city. the mortality cost by air pollution was estimated about ...

OBJECTIVE To document mortality in a consecutive series of 302 individuals who made medically serious suicide attempts and were followed-up for 5 years. METHOD All sources of mortality were examined in a 5 year prospective study of 302 individuals who made medically serious suicide attempts. Mortality data were obtained by checks with the national mortality database and, for suicide and accid...

Introduction: Surgery for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma is demanding. Frequently, vascular invasion occurs. Vascular resection correlates with worse perioperative outcomes. The authors aim to discuss the limits of resection. Methods: A prospective database ranging from October 2004 May 2021 was analyzed. Relevant clinical-pathological variables correlating outcomes and survival were collected co...

BACKGROUND It is currently unknown whether revascularization procedures are associated with an improvement in mortality among diabetic subjects, as compared with a more conservative medical treatment. METHODS AND RESULTS In MASS II, a total of 611 patients with stable multivessel coronary disease were randomly assigned to medical treatment, surgery, or angioplasty. From these, 190 patients ha...

BACKGROUND India has the largest number of child deaths of any country in the world, and has wide local variation in under-5 mortality. Worldwide achievement of the UN 2015 Millennium Development Goal for under-5 mortality (MDG 4) will depend on progress in the subregions of India. We aimed to estimate neonatal, 1-59 months, and overall under-5 mortality by sex for 597 Indian districts and to a...

OBJECTIVE Determine the relationship between the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) value and all-cause mortality in life insurance applicants aged 50 years and over. METHOD By use of the Social Security Master Death Index, mortality was examined in 115,590 insurance applicants aged 50 and up for whom blood samples for CEA were submitted to the Clinical Reference Laboratory. Results were stratifi...

BACKGROUND Established in 2000, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) catalysed extraordinary political, financial, and social commitments to reduce under-5 mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. At the country level, the pace of progress in improving child survival has varied markedly, highlighting a crucial need to further examine potential drivers of accelerated or slowed decreases in...

background: improving the neonatal health and reducing the neonatal mortality rate is valuable for not only health reasons, but social, psychological and economic reasons. it has advantages not just for the neonatal period of life but for the whole life. unfortunately in iran, in spite of efforts, there has been little success in decreasing the neonatal mortality rate. since investigating the c...

to identify the characteristics of completed suicide by burning in tehran. a retrospective analysis of data obtained from tehran's legal medicine organization and judiciary system over 5-years (from 2002 to 2006). during the 5 years, 374 decedents (64.2% female and 35.8% male) were diagnosed as suicide by self-burning, and the annual incidence rate was 0.9 per 100,000 general population-years. ...