Impact of continuous care on cardiac function in patients with lung cancer complicated by coronary heart disease.

Background: Despite sharing similar pathogenic factors, cancer and coronary heart disease (CHD) occur in comparable populations at similar ages and possess similar susceptibility factors. Consequently, it is increasingly commonplace for patients to experience the simultaneous occurrence of cancer and CHD, a trend that is steadily rising.

Aim: To determine the impacts of continuing care on lung cancer patients with CHD following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Gender and age distribution of occupational fatalities in Taiwan.

This study analyzed fatal occupational injuries in Taiwan. One thousand eight hundred ninety work-related accident reports filed in the years 1996-1999 were extracted from the annual publication of the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA). These data were analyzed in terms of gender, age and work experience of the accident victim as well as accident type and the work-related source of injury to identify significant contributing factors.