Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

Background Iron deficiency (ID) is common in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), but its prognostic implications and optimal diagnostic criteria, particularly in those with and without ...

In such cases, a more straightforward formula ... mortality are employed to create quasi-Poisson regressions integrated with distributed lag nonlinear models (DLNM). This approach is adopted to ...

Qin-Qiao-Xiao-Du (QQXD), a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula, has been used in the clinical treatment ... used to make the model of influenza virus pneumonia, and a 50% mortality rate was ...

A standard life table translates cross-sectional age-specific mortality rates into a theoretical cohort lasting from ... We then added the number of recalled quit attempts at baseline to this figure.

From 2011 to 2023, there was an increase in early adult mortality in the US, with further acceleration seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

States that implemented abortion bans had higher infant mortality rates. A new study finds that the infant mortality rate for births connected to the abortion ban were higher than expected.

The IRS has published a private letter ruling on Section 430 granting the taxpayer permission to continue using the existing Plan gender-specific substitute mortality tables for the post-merger Plan ...

Opens in a new tab or window In states with abortion bans, birth rates ... subgroup-specific changes in fertility" associated with abortion bans in the 14 states. For the infant mortality study ...

“The groups that are most likely to have children as a result of abortion bans are also individuals who are most likely, for a number of different reasons, to have higher rates of infant ...

In a recent report from the Commonwealth Fund, data revealed that the United States had 22 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in 2022 — by far the highest maternal mortality rate of ...

reported an almost 17% decrease in the maternal mortality rate in 2023 — its lowest point since 2018. The maternal mortality rate dropped to 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births from 22.3 in 2022 ...