OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to describe the regional malaria incidence in relation to the geographic and climatic conditions and describe the effect of altitude on the expansion of malaria over the last decade in Papua New Guinea. METHODS Malaria incidence was estimated in five provinces from 1996 to 2008 using national health surveillance data. Time trend of malaria incidence was com...

AIM To analyze and interpret incidence and mortality trends of breast and ovarian cancers and incidence trends of cervical and endometrial cancers in Croatia for the period 1988-2008. METHODS Incidence data were obtained from the Croatian National Cancer Registry. Themortality data were obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO) mortality database. Trends of incidence and mortality wer...

Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are the main causes of severe liver failure worldwide. This study was conducted to evaluate the incidence rate and trend of these infections over six successive years from 2008 to 2013 in Ilam Province, western Iran. Methods: We studied the registered data of HBV and HCV based on the National Notifiable Diseases Surveil...

CONTEXT Limited data exist regarding population-based epidemiologic changes in incidence of infective endocarditis (IE). OBJECTIVE To evaluate temporal trends in the incidence and clinical characteristics of IE. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Population-based survey using the resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project of Olmsted County, Minnesota. One hundred seven IE episodes occurred ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is a pandemic disease. It is the second leading cause of death from infectious diseases after human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the world.The main objective of this paper was to determine and compare the epidemiology of TB incidence rate and its trend changes during 1990-2010 in six WHO regions regarding age, gender and income levels. METHODS The Average Annua...

background: hepatitis b (hb) is a major global mortality. accurately predicting the trend of the disease can provide an appropriate view to make health policy disease prevention. this paper aimed to apply three different to predict monthly incidence rates of hb. methods: this historical cohort study was conducted on the hb incidence data of hamadan province, the west of iran, from 2004 to 2012....

OBJECTIVES To determine the trend of hypospadias incidence in New York State (NYS) by retrospectively evaluating both the incidence and surgical repair rates of hypospadias. Epidemiologic studies in the United States and Europe have suggested an observable trend in the incidence of hypospadias during the past 30 years. A comparison of the results from these studies, however, revealed inconsiste...