The growth rate of Medicare enrollees significantly exceeds the growth rate of the general population. Moreover, the group of enrollees aged 85 years or over is growing proportionately faster than all other groups of the aged. These phenomena and other interesting trends of the Medicare population are explored in this article.

BACKGROUND There is a lack of information on the epidemiological data and risk factors associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in Chinese population. We reported the primary results from screening five-community population in Middle China for AAA. METHODS From March 2014 to October 2015, an AAA screening program was performed in three urban and two rural communities. These communities...

a survey of mottled enamel in a military educational center in karaj area of metropolitan tehran was conducted from august to september 1978, on a population of 1789 student, aged 18-23 gathered from 32 areas of iran. dean clinical standards used for diagnosing dental fluorsis and orion lonalyzer fluoride electrode was used to determine the fluoride content of communal waters of endemic areas. ...

BACKGROUND To describe suicide rates in the indigenous and non-indigenous populations of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) in 2002-2012, as well as associated socio-demographic characteristics. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective population-based mortality study. METHODS Data from autopsy reports were used to identify 252 cases of suicide in the NAO in 2002-2012. Data on socio-demographic characteri...