Joinpoint analysis of colorectal cancer trend in the Slovakia.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to describe the colorectal cancer trend in the Slovakia between 2002 and 2019.

Background: In 2020, the Slovakia ranked second among the 10 countries with the highest incidence of colorectal cancer and the highest number of deaths from colorectal cancer (hereafter also referred to as CRC).

Methods: To describe the situation of CRC, indicators of incidence and mortality rates stratified by age and sex for the available time period were chosen.

The impact of climatic conditions on the dynamics of tick-borne encephalitis in Slovakia in 2012-2016.

Objectives: The main aim of our work was to analyse the development of the dynamics of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in connection with climatic conditions in Slovakia in 2012-2016.

Material And Methods: We performed the analysis based on the data provided by the Epidemiological Information System and the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute. The study group consisted of 639 patients with confirmed diagnosis.

Characteristics and outcome of severe traumatic brain injuries based on occupational status.

Purpose: The association of TBI with socioeconomic characteristics of patients has not been studied extensively. The objective of this study was to analyse the differences in injury characteristics and outcome in TBI patients based on their occupational status.

Methods: Data on patients from 13 centres based in Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia were included in the analysis.

Explaining the decline in coronary heart disease mortality rates in the Slovak Republic between 1993-2008.

Objective: Between the years 1993 and 2008, mortality rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the Slovak Republic have decreased by almost one quarter. However, this was a smaller decline than in neighbouring countries. The aim of this modelling study was therefore to quantify the contributions of risk factor changes and the use of evidence-based medical therapies to the CHD mortality decline between 1993 and 2008.

Trends in age-adjusted coronary heart disease mortality rates in Slovakia between 1993 and 2009.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and especially coronary heart disease (CHD) are the main causes of death in the Slovak Republic (SR). The aim of this study is to explore trends in age-adjusted coronary heart disease mortality rates in the whole Slovak population and in the population of working age between the years 1993 and 2009. A related indicator - potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to CHD--was calculated in the same period for males and females.