Secular trends of epidemiologic patterns of chronic kidney disease over three decades: an updated analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Jing Liu, Xue Li, Yongping Liu, Xiaodong Sun, Xiaojin Feng, Ningning Hou, Zhenna Chen

“…Objectives To assess the characteristics of the global death burden imposed by chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the attributable risk factors from 1990 to 2019 to help inform a framework for policy discussions, resource allocation and research priorities.Design A population-based observational study.Setting The death data and relative risk factors were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019 database.Main outcome measures Based on the GBD database, we estimated the death burden attributable to CKD stratified by sociodemographic index (SDI), geographic location, sex, age group, time period and risk factors from 1990 to 2019.Results Over three decade study period, the global number of CKD-related deaths increased from 0.60 million (95% uncertainty interval (UI): 0.57–0.63 million) in 1990 to 1.43 million (95% UI: 1.31–1.52 million) in 2019. …”
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Examining the relationship between incidence and mortality for commonly diagnosed cancers in the USA: an observational study using population-based SEER database by H Gilbert Welch, Adewole S Adamson, Vishal R Patel

“…For patients with these cancers, the risk of death from the diagnosed cancer was >4-times the risk of death from other causes. …”
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Comprehensive Insight of Neurodegenerative Diseases and The Role of Neurotoxin Agents — Glutamate by Hui-Min Yap, Kwan-Liang Lye, Loh Teng-Hern Tan

“…Studies showed excessive extracellular glutamate leads to nerve cell death via the activation of N-methyl-Daspartate (NMDA) receptors in the cases of trauma or stroke. …”
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Postmortem Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis: A Marker of Inflammation or Postmortem Artifact? by James A. Morris, Linda M. Harrison, David R. Telford

“…But the marked increase in lymphocyte counts seen in some cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and in other deaths in the paediatric age range could well be a marker of inflammation.…”
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Martin Luther King, 40 ans après sa disparition by Hélène Harter

“…Less than five years after the death of President Kennedy, the United States were affected again by political violence. …”
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La mort au cœur de l’histoire des « Sept Maisons » de l’Ouest Gurāgē by Arnaud Kruczynski

“…The processes of bereavement and funerals are described while raising questions about death in the culture of the western Gurage “Seven Houses”. …”
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A Nomogram Model for Mortality Risk Prediction in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Subjected to Directly Observed Treatment Shortcourse (DOTS) by Yi Xie, Jing Han, Weili Yu, Zhili Hou, Zhen Wan

“…Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that age, male, relapse cases, first sputum positivity, patient delay, and HIV-positive were independent risk factors for pulmonary TB death. The calibration curve shows that the average absolute error between the predicted mortality risk and the actual death risk is 0.003. …”
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Risk factors associated with mortality among vaccinated COVID-19 patients: A retrospective study by Hossein Lajmiri, Nioosha Ahmadi, Saeedeh Ebrahimi, Hadi Razavi Nikoo, Mehrdad Farrokhnia, Elham Heidari, Elham Mousavi

“…Objective: To explore the underlying causes of death among vaccinated COVID-19 patients. Methods: The medical record of COVID-19 patients admitted to the main COVID-19 referral center in southeast Iran from January to March 2022 was investigated. …”
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Comparing Exceptionalism in France and the USA by Elsa Devienne

“…This article challenges the current scholarship on the history of the death penalty and its abolition by adopting a transatlantic framework and debunking the popular contemporary conception of the “Barbaric Americans” against the “civilised” anti-death penalty French. …”
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Disturbances in the Mechanism of Apoptosis as One of the Causes of the Development of Cancer Diseases by Paweł Rusin, Karolina Jabłońska

“…This mechanism of programmed cell death is designed to protect the body against uncontrolled proliferation of cells with impaired functions. …”
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Relationship between VEGF to PEDF ratio and in-hospital mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients by Qifeng Luo, Ningning Shen, Jingtian Liang, Xichun Qin, Shoujie Feng, Yuting Chen, Lei Xu

“…Abstract Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has a high mortality rate worldwide; thus, identifying death risk factors related to ARDS is critical for risk stratification in patients with ARDS. …”
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Âge au décès de l’enfant néandertalien de l’Hortus by Fernando Ramirez Rozzi

“…The determination of age at death of Neanderthal children is at the centre of discussion on the type of growth which characterised these fossil humans. …”
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Patients deceased in Cienfuegos city. Kind of patients, causes and place where they died. by María Gloria Fabregat Rodríguez

“…The variables under study were total of deaths per age group and per municipality in each cause of death calculating the specific rates per inhabitant. …”
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Dödsstraffet i USA by Martin Bergqvist

“…The number of executions per year has increased substan­tially during the last decade, and there is reason to believe that the excessive use of the death penalty will continue. This article focuses on only one of many debated issues regarding the death penalty, namely its potential effect on the homicide rate. …”
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Adjustment of the Framingham index by abdominal aortic calcification scores enables a more accurate prediction of long-term cardiac events in general population aged 40 years and a... by Xiao-Jun Liu, Li Wang, Li-sha Zhang, Li-Fei Cao, Zhao-Fei Wan, Jia-Hong Xue, Yan-Ru He, Xin-Hong Wang, Xiao-Fang Bai

“…The Spearman’s rank correlation was performed to explore the correlation between the AAC score and FRS. the Kaplan-Meier method was used to make cumulative cardiac death curve. Predictors of cardiac death was identified by multivariate Cox regression. …”
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Gambaran Format dan Tata Cara Pengeluaran Surat Keterangan Kematian pada Rumah Sakit di Kota Padang by Abdullah Arief Syahputra, Rika Susanti, Henny Mulyani Mulyani

“…It needs a death certificate</em><em> to </em><em>the bereaved family and  the benefit of epidemiological data. …”
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OVERCOMING THE ANTINOMIES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: ONTOLOGY OF TRICKSTER by T. V. Danylova

“…In the given narrative the binary opposition “Life – Death” is replaced by its metaphor – Bull and Lion, herbivore (metaphor for life) and carnivore (metaphor for death). …”
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Short- and long-term survival after ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with pharmacoinvasive versus primary percutaneous coronary intervention strategy: a prospective cohor... by Sigrun Halvorsen, Jon Michael Gran, Kristin Kvakkestad

“…Consecutive STEMI patients were registered on admission to our PCI centre and classified in a PI or pPCI group, based on the reperfusion strategy chosen in the prehospital or local hospital location. Time and cause of death was provided by the Norwegian Cause of Death registry. …”
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Melanoma bone metastasis-induced osteocyte ferroptosis via the HIF1α-HMOX1 axis by Yewei Jia, Rui Li, Yixuan Li, Katerina Kachler, Xianyi Meng, Andreas Gießl, Yi Qin, Fulin Zhang, Ning Liu, Darja Andreev, Georg Schett, Aline Bozec

“…Here, we investigated the pathogenic mechanisms driving melanoma-induced osteocyte death. Both in vivo models and in vitro assays were combined with untargeted RNA sequencing approaches to explore the pathways governing melanoma-induced osteocyte death. …”
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OVERCOMING THE ANTINOMIES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: ONTOLOGY OF TRICKSTER by T. V. Danylova

“…In the given narrative the binary opposition “Life – Death” is replaced by its metaphor – Bull and Lion, herbivore (metaphor for life) and carnivore (metaphor for death). …”
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