Search Tag: all-cause mortality

2022 11 Oct

Outcomes research on ICU patients requires accurate measures of comorbidity to predict mortality. The Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS3) is widely used and provides some information on comorbidity. The Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) uses general comorbidity measures and may not be sufficiently discriminative. These risk scores use the presence...Read more

2017 23 May

According to new research presented at EuroHeartCare 2017, heart failure and stroke is a lethal combination. Heart failure patients who have had a previous stroke have greater risk of depression, hospitalisation and death as compared to those without a history of stroke. The purpose of this study was to identify differences in the psychosocial and...Read more

2017 15 May

According to latest results from the INTERCHF study presented at Heart Failure 2017 and the 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure, death in patients with heart failure is inversely related to the wealth of the country they live in. See Also : Heart Failure More Fatal Than Common Cancers Results show that death rates in India and Africa...Read more

2016 31 Oct

A study of 631,000 people has found that both low and very high levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) are associated with a higher risk of mortality from heart disease, cancer and other causes. The researchers suggest that the findings cast doubt on HDL being used as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease or for the goal of raising...Read more

2016 24 Mar

Prolonged Daily Sitting Linked to 3.8% of All-Cause Deaths   A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that sitting for more than three hours per day is responsible for 3.8% of all-cause mortality deaths. Investigators also estimate that reducing sitting time to less than three hours per day would increase life...Read more

2015 28 Jul

During 1999-2013, all-cause mortality and hospitalisation rates, along with inpatient expenditure per death, decreased for U.S. Medicare beneficiaries age 65 years or older, according to a new study published in JAMA . “Even though it is difficult to disentangle the specific reasons for improvement, it is clear that over the past 15 years there have...Read more

2015 08 Jun

A recent study shows that tooth loss is associated with future cardiovascular events, diabetes and death. The research is published in the Journal of Dental Research. The study was conducted by University of Helsinki in collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Welfare. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are the leading cause of death worldwide...Read more