OBJECTIVE: To describe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) morbidity and mortality in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in the
state of Bahia, Brazil. METHODS: This is an ecological study involving identified and active LTCFs in Bahia, monitored by the
Intersectoral Monitoring Commission of LTCFs. Data a...
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of frailty on 1-year mortality in long term-care facility (LTCF) residents. METHODS: This
was a prospective cohort study with survival analysis of 209 participants living in 15 Brazilian LTCFs. Data on chronic diseases,
age, sex, medication use, dependence in activit...
ABSTRACT: Objective: To analyze cancer-specific mortality (CSM) and other-cause mortality (OCM) among patients with prostate cancer that initiated treatment in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), between 2002 and 2010, in Brazil. Methods: Retrospective observational study that used the Nationa...
ABSTRACT: Objective: To develop a linkage algorithm to match anonymous death records of cancer of the larynx (ICD-10 C32X), retrieved from the Mortality Information System (SIM) and the Hospital Information System of the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SIH-SUS) in Brazil. Methodology: Death r...
Objetivo: Analisar a associação entre determinantes sociais e morbidades para os desfechos de internação, internação em unidade de terapia intensiva e óbito por COVID-19 no Espírito Santo, Brasil. Métodos: Estudo transversal, com dados secundários de casos confirmados de COVID-19 notificados ...
ABSTRACT Objective: People receiving dialysis have a high mortality rate due to life-threatening, chronic renal failure. These patients experience the fear of pain and suffering, loneliness and death in the haemodialysis unit. This research aimed at determining the perception of death in people receivin...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate autopsy findings in hypothermia-related deaths in Van Province, Turkey, a city near the Turkey-Iran border. Methods: Autopsy reports on 43 hypothermia fatalities were retrospectively reviewed. Data regarding age, gender, nationality of the cases, seasonality of the death...
Antecedente: El infarto miocárdico es un problema
de salud global. El conocimiento del perfil de riesgo podría con-
tribuir a planificar intervenciones sobre todo en la atención prima-
ria. Objetivo: Describir el perfil de riesgo en fallecidos por infarto
miocárdico en la atención pre-hospitalaria...
La diabetes mellitus tipo 2 (DM2), habitualmente asociada a adultos en edad media y adulto mayor, ha presentado un aumento en su incidencia en pacientes menores de 40 años, lo que se conoce como DM2 de inicio en paciente joven. Varios estudios sugieren que este tipo de diabetes presenta no sólo un dete...
Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/epidemiología,
Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/complicaciones,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores de Edad,
Edad de Inicio,
Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/mortalidad,
Nefropatías Diabéticas/epidemiología,
Nefropatías Diabéticas/etiología,
Neuropatías Diabéticas/epidemiología,
Neuropatías Diabéticas/etiología,
Chile/epidemiología
