Hypothermia among newborns is considered an important contributor to neonatal morbidity and mortality in low-resource settings. However, in these settings only limited progress has been made towards understanding the risk of mortality after hypothermia, describing how this relationship is dependent on both the degree or severity of exposure and the gestational age and weight status of the baby,...

INTRODUCTION The study of epidemiology of asthma in Indonesia is still rare. It is still in limited scope, either in a region, school, hospital or limited community. Those studies have not been standardized. Many diagnoses were based on questioner, clinical or secondary data. A study using one consistent standard and carried out in unison for entire region of Indonesia has not been reported. Th...

To investigate the epidemiology and geographic distribution of histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, and blastomycosis in older persons in the United States, we evaluated a random 5% sample of national Medicare data from 1999 through 2008. We calculated national, regional, and state-based incidence rates and determined 90-day postdiagnosis mortality rates. We identified 776 cases (357 histoplasmo...

For preventive strategies to be efficient, it is essential to have information on the pattern of disease and exposure to major risk factors that predict future diseases in the population. Basic epidemiological data such as mortality rates are reported for less than one-third of the world's population and are almost exclusively from developed countries. However, it is the developing countries, p...

BACKGROUND Although it is generally believed that pregnancy exposes women to a wide variety of excess health risks that go beyond the direct obstetric complications of pregnancy, the epidemiological evidence in support of such excess indirect risks is inconclusive. In this article we attempt to document the contribution of indirect causes of death to maternal mortality in rural Senegal by using...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to present the epidemiologic features of bacterial meningitis in the developing country of Kosovo. METHODOLOGY Data were collected from active surveillance of bacterial meningitis cases treated at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo in the years 2000 (first post-war year) and 2010. RESULTS Meningitis cases in 2000 compared with 2010 showed a 3...

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Recent systematic reviews have encouraged the psychiatric research community to reevaluate the contours of schizophrenia epidemiology. This paper provides a concise overview of three related systematic reviews on the incidence, prevalence, and mortality associated with schizophrenia. The reviews shared key methodological features regarding search strategies, analysis of the distribution of the ...

Background: Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) is an opportunistic infection affecting immunocompromised individuals. Due to its high mortality, PJP prophylaxis commonly recommended for many immunocompromising conditions. However, evidence regarding the burden and role of in among rheumatic patients remains limited. There lack consensus when whom initiate prophylaxis. Delineating epidemiolog...

Recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are at substantial risk of bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections depending on the time elapsed since transplantation, presence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), and the degree of immunosuppression. Infectious complications in HSCT recipients are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Bacterial infections constit...