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Cureus
December 2024
Cardiology, St. George's University School of Medicine, Port St. Lucie, USA.
Background This research examines mortality patterns and the place of death in individuals with chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in the United States, aiming to identify demographic predictors for home or hospice death. Additionally, the study aims to uncover trends in mortality due to RHD and provide a predictive forecast. Methods The study utilized data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database, which spans 22 years (1999-2020), and was categorized based on place of death, including home or hospice care, inpatient, outpatient, or emergency room deaths, and nursing home facility deaths.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Support Palliat Care
December 2024
Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in increasing numbers of patients with the aim of treating ventricular arrhythmias in high-risk patients and reducing their risk of dying. Individuals are also living longer with these devices. As a result, a greater number of patients with an ICD will deteriorate either with worsening cardiac failure, another non-cardiac condition or general frailty and will have a limited prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Exp Biol
December 2024
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Sections Integrative Ecophysiology and Deep-Sea Ecology & Technology, Am Handelshafen 12, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany.
Increasing frequencies of heatwaves threaten marine ectotherm species but not all alike. In exposed habitats, some species rely on a higher capacity for passive tolerance at higher temperatures, thereby extending time-dependent survival limits. Here we assess how the involvement of the cardiovascular system in extended tolerance at the margins of the thermal performance curve is dependent on warming rate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNPJ Prim Care Respir Med
December 2024
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
Acute exacerbations of COPD (ECOPD) are an important event in the life of a COPD patient as it causes significant deterioration of physical, mental, and social health, hastens disease progression, increases the risk of dying and causes a huge economic loss. Preventing ECOPD is therefore one of the most important goals in the management of COPD. Before the patient is discharged after hospitalization for ECOPD, it is crucial to offer an evidence-based care bundle protocol that will help minimize the future risk of readmissions and death.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Forensic Leg Med
December 2024
School of Biomedicine, The University of Adelaide and Forensic Science SA, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia. Electronic address:
Kodokushi is a Japanese term where 'a person dies without being cared for by anyone, and whose body is found after a certain period'. These cases have also been called 'lonely deaths'. Few forensic studies exist.
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