Death/mortality

Mortality—Death mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a population during a specified interval of time. 

Though still the second leading cause of cancer death, mortality rates for colon cancer have declined over the last 30 years as a result of better and increasingly used screening programs and more effective and better tolerated treatments. 

Indirect costs Lost wages (morbidity) Income forgone due to premature death (mortality)... 

Deaths, Mortality Rates, and Mortality-Rate Ratios among the Study Subjects According to Cause of Death and Sex... 

Cause of Death No. of Deaths Mortality Rate No. of Deaths Mortality Rate Crude Adjusted (95% Cl) ... 

The essence of the epidemiologic method is that it measures the risk of illness (morbidity) or death (mortality) in an exposed population and compares it with the same risks in an unexposed population which is identical in all other respects. 

Year Number of incidents Number of patients Number of deaths Mortality (%)... 

Neill, Michael, Issues of Death Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1997)... 

In 1987, CASH began to assess which therapy would be most effective for patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (170). There were four treatment arms ICD, )5-blocker (metoprolol), amiodarone, and propafenone. Three hundred forty-six patients were enrolled 99 to ICD, 92 to amiodarone, 97 to metoprolol, and 58 to propafenone. Propafenone was stopped in 1992 because of increased mortality. The mortality in the ICD compared to propafenone was 11.5% versus 29.3% ip = 0.01). Sudden death mortality in the ICD limb was 2% versus 11% (p < 0.001) in the metoprolol or amiodarone limbs. ICD mortality versus amiodarone or metoprolol was 12% versus 19.6% (p = 0.04), a 37% reduction at 2 years (after 10 years accruing data). There was no significant difference between metoprolol and amiodarone. Although CASH was a small study with a long enrollment period, it provided further evidence for ICD therapy independent from j3-blocker use. 

In the western countries the most prevalent form of heart disease is coronary heart disease, i.e. the sequelae of atherosclerosis [18] of the coronary arteries. Culmination of coronary arteriosclerosis is manifested by erratic heart activity, arrhythmia or fibrillation, i.e. in drastic cases by coronary occlusion, myocardial infarction and sudden death. Mortality from coronary heart disease varies greatly from one country to the other. The following statistics represent the death rate due to coronary heart disease among the male population between the ages of... 

Death Mortality from a naltrexone implant (w = 376) and methadone ( = 658) have been compared in opioid-dependent individuals [91 ]. Methadone was associated with increased mortality during the induction period. 

A dose-response curve does not reaUy focus upon death, but rather mortality. Death is the response of an individual organism, and clearly each individual can be in only one of two states dead or alive. In contrast to death, mortality is the response of a population of individuals. The mortality rate describes the proportion of a population that dies in response to a calamitous exposure to toxic chemicals. To graphically illustrate the mortality of a group of animals that are exposed to the same dose of a toxic compound, we use the discrete dose-response curve. At one extreme of the toxicology curve, animals exposed to low doses survive (mortality rate is zero), whereas at the other extreme all of the animals exposed to higher doses of a chemical die (mortality rate is 100 percent). 

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