Moderate to severe sleep apnea can increase the risk of all-cause mortality, according to new Western Australian research.
... standard measures of disease activity were investigated in order to assess their capacity to predict all-cause mortality. Over a period of 27 years (1978 – 2005), age-sex adjusted proportional ...
... no sleep apnea.
This is the first report to demonstrate an independent association between all-cause mortality and obstructive sleep apnea in a population-based cohort. The community-based sample ...
... a significant 13 percent reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality within the first 5 years of ... a never smoker 20 years after quitting, with some causes taking more or less time. “Significant trends ...
... death rate "report cards" indicated low mortality rates after heart bypass surgery, a review of in- ... deaths for each hospital and compared them to all-cause mortality rates. Both reviewers judged 52 ...
... not been screened. The relative reduction in lung cancer-specific mortality was 28 percent. However, reduction in all-cause mortality was only 4 percent. Fifteen-year follow-up showed ...
... time—so-called "all-cause mortality."
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In cause-specific death analyses, low testosterone ...
... During the follow-up period (through December 2006 for all-cause mortality and through December 2004 for prostate cancer–specific mortality) there were 1,560 prostate cancer deaths and 11 ...
... 390 non-IDUs). Through seven years after the initiation of HAART, the researchers found that the cumulative all-cause mortality rate was not statistically different between the 915 IDUs (26.5 percent) ...
... )D quartile (less than 17.8 nanograms per milliliter) is associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality in the general U.S. population," the authors conclude. "Further observational studies are ...
... to have been exaggerated by a number of observational studies that found a very large reduction in all-cause mortality among elderly patients who had been vaccinated. The results will appear in the ...
... -UCLA Medical Center.
"Prior studies have found mortality rates are lower in high-volume trauma ... volume becomes so great that it actually causes mortality rates to rise."
Trauma is the leading cause ...
... with any other oral diabetes agent or placebo; the results for cardiovascular morbidity [illness] and all-cause mortality were similar but not statistically significant," the authors write. "No other ...
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"Influenza causes substantial mortality and morbidity in older people, and even if the more general all cause mortality benefit may be lower than previously thought, the current vaccine programme ...
... use resides predominantly in cardiovascular outcomes, the present study suggests that differences in all-cause mortality [death] risk may be even more important to consider in elderly patients."
