functional forms of CVD-related biomarkers for all-cause and CVD mortality in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).Methods: We …-year mortality follow-up period.Results: The results show that the additive index has comparatively high predictive power, relative … to its simplicity. Risk profiles were identified in the data, with substantial differences in mortality risk between the …

This paper performs a systematic analysis of all currently available Russian data on mortality by region, census year … variations in cause-specific mortality, the negative general trends observed since 1965, and the wide fluctuations of the last … reliable mortality indicators by geographic units using census data for 1970, 1979, 1989, and micro-census data for 1994, and …

This study is a first attempt to produce reliable estimates of mortality in Georgia and Armenia in the 1990s. Official … statistics registered a decrease in mortality over the 1990s in spite of local wars, mass flows of refugees, and severe economic … in population, corrections are made for under-registration of deaths. Hospital statistics is used for infant deaths and …

Okinawa, in order to explain the presence of large numbers of centenarians. The mortality crossover obtained by comparing … mortality rates in Okinawa and Japan could be attributed either to different behavior of the generations born before and after …