Cocaine Sudden Death in Europe
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Syncope Matters
The strongest predictors of mortality were structural heart disease or an abnormal electrocardiogram (hazard ratio [HR], 5.6), hypertension (HR, 3.0), and trauma from syncope (HR, 2.24).
Listen and Learn – Med Diet May Lower Stroke Risk
NIA Progress Report – Alzheimer’s
Unemployment and Mortality
Trauma of Job Loss Often Includes Health Problems – NYTimes.com
A sad reminder for those of us in the risk selection profession.
Life Underwriting Expert Witness (or how to find Gary Lee using Google)
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
After reading this article I learned a little about how Google works. The article is long but worth your time if you are interested in this kind of stuff.
Suicides in Mumbai
BBC News – Alarm at Mumbai’s teenage suicide trend
More than 100,000 people commit suicide in India every year and three people a day take their own lives in Mumbai.
Suicide is one of the top three causes of death among those aged between 15 and 35 years and has a devastating psychological, social and financial impact on families and friends.
Venlafaxine and SCD Risk
Conclusions In this large, population based study, the use of venlafaxine was not associated with an excess risk of sudden cardiac death or near death compared with fluoxetine, dosulepin, or citalopram, in patients with depression or anxiety.
Carotid Artery Stenosis – Endarterectomy or Stent?
Conclusions Carotid endarterectomy was found to be superior to carotid artery stenting for short term outcomes but the difference was not significant for intermediate term outcomes; this difference was mainly driven by non-disabling stroke. Significantly fewer cranial nerve injuries and myocardial infarctions occurred with carotid artery stenting.
High Risk for Recurrence or Death After 1st Stroke
After a Stroke, High Risk for a Recurrence – BusinessWeek
For the study, published in the Feb. 16 issue of Neurology, Feng’s team collected data on almost 10,400 people in South Carolina who’d had a stroke.
They found that 25 percent of those who had a stroke died within a year, and eight percent had another stroke within a year of their first stroke.
After one year, the risk for another stroke or death continued to rise, the researchers found, with about 18 percent having had another stroke within four years. In that time, about six percent had a heart attack and 41 percent had died from any cause, including 27 percent whose deaths were attributed to a stroke or heart attack.
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