The deaths are also partly the result of medical successes: People are living longer, and more people are surviving heart ...

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

Period life expectancy is the average length of life remaining at a given age, assuming people experience the age-specific death rates of a specific period from that age onwards. For example, life ...

We developed a new approach to help overcome previous gaps in data. We matched data on the proportion of girls subjected to FGM/C at different ages with age-specific mortality rates across 15 ...

Early adult death rates spiked during COVID-19 and stayed high in 2023, driven by drug deaths and other health crises.

In persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), illness severity scores have high accuracy and can predict mortality.

The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems is teaming up with the Society of Actuaries Research Institute ...

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency healthcare needs, rehospitalization or death.

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a global standard for classifying diseases, deaths and health conditions and has been used for more than a century. It assigns diagnostic codes to ...

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