Showing posts with label Mortality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mortality. Show all posts
Friday, January 25, 2013

CDC FluView Week 3

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      # 6882   The FluView report for week three is out, and the news includes eight pediatric deaths and the continued spike...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013

JAMA: BMI And All Cause Mortality

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Photo Credit CDC PHIL   # 6816   *** UPDATED *** This study, which I knew would be controversial, has sparked serious rebukes fr...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

BMC: Exploring The `Age Shift’ Of Pandemic Mortality

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  The infamous `W shaped curve’ of the 1918 pandemic clearly shows that the death rates among those in their teens, 20s, and 30s was ...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Studies Weigh In On The `Obesity Paradox’

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  Photo Credit CDC PHIL     # 6651   While just about everyone will concede that being lean and athletic is preferable to bei...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Study: Kids, Underlying Conditions, And The 2009 Pandemic Flu

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Credit CDC   FluView   # 6522   The chart above illustrates the sharp rise in pediatric deaths from flu-related complications dur...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Lancet: Estimating Global 2009 Pandemic Mortality

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    # 6505     Sounding a bit like a broken record, during the first 12 months of the 2009 pandemic I wrote repeatedly on our inab...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

UK: Pregnancy And Swine Flu

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    # 5909     There’s a report making a splash in the UK media today showing a link between increases in stillbirths and maternal...
Friday, September 16, 2011

MMWR: Influenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths 2010-2011

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    # 5844     The CDC’s   MMWR yesterday contained an in-depth look at 115 flu-related pediatric deaths over the past 12 months ...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Study: Urban vs Rural Mortality From Spanish Flu

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    # 5528     The last `Great’ Influenza pandemic occurred in 1918-19, and while estimates vary widely, it may have claimed as ma...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Flu’s Double Whammy

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      # 4277     From the American Journal of Pathology today we get this study which uses a mouse model to explore the mechan...