background: the data and determinants of mortality due to stroke in myocardial infarction (mi) patients are unknown. this study was conducted to evaluate the differences in risk factors for hospital mortality among mi patients with and without stroke history.materials and methods: this study was a retrospective, cohort study; 20,750 new patients with mi from april, 2012 to march, 2013 were foll...

This is an attempt to measure maternal mortality in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Data are from the registers of three Somerset parishes in the West of England. The author attempts to measure maternal mortality firstly by comparing differential mortality of husbands and wives over the first 15 years of marriage. Secondly, he attempts to calculate it through a limited ...

BACKGROUND The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has suffered from war and lingering conflicts in East DRC and has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. Prior research has documented increases in infant and child mortality associated with war, but the empirical evidence is limited in several respects. Measures of conflict are quite crude or conflict is not tightly linked to p...

introduction all nations are striving for development. economic development is one of the main parts of development process, but not all of it. populations health is one of the main factors of economic development, and child’s mortality is one of the main factors of population health status. the aim of this study is investigating the role of socioeconomic disparties in under 5 mortality in east...

the loss of a child is a tragedy - families suffer and human potential is wasted. 6.3 million children under the age of five died in 2013, nearly 17 000 every day. most deaths among children aged one to five years are due to diseases that can be prevented, but that can also be easily treated at home or in health facilities. leading causes of death in under-five children are preterm birth compli...

in this research, white spot syndrome virus (wssv) with 105.4ld50.ml-1 inactivated with gamma irradiation at a dose rate of 14-15 kgy.sec-1 was used as a vaccine. three hundred and sixty shrimp of litopenaeus vannamei, medium body weight (mbw) 1.0±0.17g), were prepared and experimentally exposed. they were distributed among four groups, inclusing vaccinated-virus exposed (t1), vaccinated-nonvir...

in this research a comparative study has been made between case and control groups. the cases were low birth weight newborns (under 2500 gr) and the controls were normal berth weighing 2500 gr or more at birth. four groups of birth weight were considered as follows: very low birth weight, low birth weight, moderately low birth weight and normal. the data were collected over a period of 8 months...

this is a mortality study in internal medicine wards of amir-alam hospital, since the beginning of 1374 to end of 1376. here, we reviewed, prevalence of disease lead to death, the ward and invasive interventions and duration of admission of patients before death. in this study, records of 85 patients were reviewed. 68.2% of patients were men and 31.8% women. mean of age was 61.6% with minimum o...

conclusions the state of santa catarina has reduced the disease burden rates attributed to disability from hepatitis b, but there has been an increase in the burden of premature mortality from 2005 to 2010. objectives to estimate and analyze the burden of hepatitis b in the state of santa catarina, in 2005 - 2010. materials and methods a time-series analysis was conducted using notification dat...