The death rate 6 and 12 months after surgery in 389 patients who had been treated for fracture of the proximal femur between 1989 and 1993 (1st semester) was studied. All of the patients submitted to surgery were traced through the official records on the population of the City of Padova. The overall death rate after 6 months was 16%, that after 12 months 23%. The best survival rate was observe...

BACKGROUND The frequency of sudden unexpected death is highest in the early post-myocardial infarction (MI) period; nevertheless, 2 recent trials showed no improvement in mortality with early placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator after MI. METHODS AND RESULTS To better understand the pathophysiological events that lead to sudden death after MI, we assessed autopsy records in ...

The article is devoted to the analysis and deciphering of ancestral Commemoration Book Malyuta Skuratov from death-bills Joseph-Volokolamsky Monastery. This material compared with other Books Novodevichy Convent Trinity-St. Sergius improves knowledge about genealogy relations within Belsky clan. has regular features that can help decipher synodic records.

Rowlands and Turner quote various mortality rates, the most recent being that of the Mayo Clinic which records 153 litholapaxies and 395 suprapubic lithotomies with death rates of 1.3 and 8.6 per cent, respectively. These figures presumably refer to well-fed Americans, whereas Sir Peter Fryer's figures consist chiefly of Indian rvots?a very different proposition. In my opinion Sir Peter's recor...

PURPOSE The Scottish school leavers cohort provides population-wide prospective follow-up of local authority secondary school leavers in Scotland through linkage of comprehensive education data with hospital and mortality records. It considers educational attainment as a proxy for socioeconomic position in young adulthood and enables the study of associations and causal relationships between ed...

Past research suggests that spouses influence one another to vote, but it relies almost exclusively on correlation in turnout. It is therefore difficult to establish whether spouses mobilize each other or tend to marry similar others. Here, we test the dependency hypothesis by examining voting behavior before and after the death of a spouse. We link nearly six million California voter records t...

BACKGROUND Rabbit antithymocyte globulin (rATG, Thymoglobulin®) is the most common induction immunosuppression therapy in kidney transplantation. We applied a database integration strategy to capture and compare long-term (10-year) outcome data for US participants in a clinical trial of rATG versus FDA-approved basiliximab. METHODS Records for US participants in an international, 1-year, rand...

teaching hospitals than from other hospitals. The retrieval rate was lower from one region than from the other, independent of the proportion of patients treated at teaching hospitals.-> / For deceased patients the retrieval of case notes varied with district of residence but no association was found with the region of residence, the year of death, or the teaching status of the hospital. Of 223...

This article analyzes a newly constructed individual level dataset of every English death and probate from 1892–1992. analysis shows that the twentieth century’s “Great Equalization” wealth stalled in mid-century. The rate, which captures proportion holding any significant at rose 10 percent 1890s to 40 by 1950 has stagnated 1992. Despite large declines share top 1 percent, 73 20 median died wi...