In our paper [1] which presented the profile of dr Ludwika Karpińska-Woyczyńska we reported 25 th August 1872 or 1875 as her date of birth and Warsaw as the city she was born in. That information was corroborated by the data collected by the University of Zurich [2] and Karpińska's curriculum vitae which she wrote herself and included as part of her doctoral thesis [3]. We deemed the sources th...

BACKGROUND Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a leading cause of death in the United States, but the relative public health burden is unknown. We estimated the burden of premature death from SCD and compared it with other diseases. METHODS AND RESULTS Analyses were based on the following data sources (using most recent sources that provided appropriately stratified data): (1) leading causes of dea...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether trends in mortality from heart failure (HF) in Australia are due to a change in awareness of the condition or real changes in its epidemiology. METHODS We carried out a retrospective analysis of official data on national mortality data between 1997 and 2003. A death was attributed to HF if the death certificate mentioned HF as either the underlying cause of death (...

Regional differences in mortality from cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, strokes, and other causes have been observed in England and Wales. To determine to what extent the death certification practices of doctors influence these variations, we surveyed 123 British general practitioners and housemen. Each doctor completed death certificates based on fictitious case histories. We fou...

Death rarely results from only one cause, and it can be caused by a variety of factors. Multiple cause-of-death data files can list as many as 20 contributing causes of death in addition to the reported underlying cause of death. Analysis of multiple cause-of-death data can provide information on associations between causes of death, revealing common combinations of events or conditions which l...

The aim of this study was to analyze trends in the listing of non-AIDS-related causes of death on the death certificates of adults with HIV/AIDS in Brazil. The study analyzed mortality data for persons 15 to 69 years of age from 1999 to 2010. Standardized mortality odds ratios were used to compare mortality from non-AIDS-related causes in the group with HIV/AIDS listed on the death certificate ...

Vital statistics for coronary heart disease (CHD) were dramatically influenced by the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) in 1995. To better understand the accuracy of death certificate diagnosis of CHD and heart failure, validation studies in Japan were reviewed. Positive predictive values and sensitivity, calculated as validation measures, varied widely bet...

erative in the enforcement of the law. As a result the examination has fallen into the province of the public health authorities, and the income therefrom has been lost to the private doctor. In many cities the examination has actually been abandoned because of the laxity with which the profession has carried on this work. Compensation for this examination has apparently not been enough to inte...

OBJECTIVES To determine the underlying causes of death in a large population based register series of patients with multiple sclerosis. METHODS The Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry, which contains virtually all diagnosed cases of multiple sclerosis in Denmark who were alive in 1949 plus cases with onset of multiple sclerosis in the period 1949-93, who have been diagnosed and notified by 1 J...