58例双瓣替换术体外循环管理体会

目的：回顾５８例双瓣替换术体外循环管理状况,总结双瓣替换术中灌注技术。方法：对５８例风湿性心脏瓣膜病人施行二尖瓣、主动脉瓣替换术中体外循环手术的临床资料、心肺转汉方法和心肌保护中的难点及处理进行回顾总结分析。结果：５８例中早期死亡２例,死亡率３．４５％Ｒ。结论：只有良好的体外循环灌注技术和心肌保护,才能保证双瓣替换术病人顺利渡过围术期,降低手术死亡率。     

天津市1999-2021年0~14岁儿童伤害死亡谱及城乡差异分析

目的 分析天津市0~14岁儿童伤害死亡谱的特征、变化情况及城乡差异。方法 1999-2021年天津市儿童伤害死亡数据来源于天津市全人口全死因监测数据库,计算不同亚组人群和主要伤害原因的构成比、粗死亡率和标化死亡率并比较城乡差异。采用Cochran-Armitage趋势检验分析死亡原因构成比的时间变化趋势。采用Joinpoint回归分析变化趋势,计算平均年变化百分比（AAPC）。伤害死亡风险的季节差异用死亡率比值及其95%CI表示。结果 1999-2021年,伤害是天津市0~14岁儿童的第3位死因。农村儿童死于医疗卫生机构的比例为31.08%,低于城市的37.82%。儿童伤害的总体标化死亡率呈下降趋势（AAPC=-5.54%,P<0.001）。溺水和道路交通伤害的标化死亡率在城市和农村地区呈下降趋势（P<0.001）。意外中毒的标化死亡率仅在农村地区呈下降趋势（AAPC=-8.09%,P<0.001）,在城市地区无明显变化趋势（P>0.05）。自杀标化死亡率在城市地区无明显变化趋势（P>0.05）,在10~14岁农村儿童中呈上升趋势（AAPC=4.58%）。跌倒/坠落标化死亡率在城市和农村地区均无明显变化趋势（P>0.05）。伤害死亡的总体风险和溺水死亡风险在城乡均为夏季最高;道路交通伤害在城市为秋季最高,在农村为夏季最高;意外中毒死亡风险在城乡均为冬季最高。结论 近年来天津市儿童伤害死亡情况得到明显改善。城市和农村地区的儿童伤害死亡水平仍存在较大差异,在未来政策制定中,应充分考虑缩小城乡差距。     

2616例肠癌死亡率分析及预防对策探讨

通过对成都市七区两县监测点中２６１６例肠癌死亡率的统计学分析,总死亡率为７．００／１０万,标化死亡率为６．６７／１０万（其中,大肠癌死亡１６７４例,占肠癌死亡例数构成比６４％,其总死亡率４．８８／１０万,标化死亡率４．２７／１０万）,均呈逐年上升趋势。男性死亡率７．６７／１０万,标化死亡率７．２９／１０万,女性死亡率６．２９／１０万,标化死亡率６．００／１０万,男性明显高于女性（Ｐ＜０．０１）;城区死亡率９．３０／１０万,郊（区）县死亡率４．９４／１０万,二者有显著性差异,城区高于郊（区）县（Ｐ＜０．０１）;在２６１６例肠癌死亡例数中,工人、农民、干部、离退休人员占８２．６５％,且以４５岁以上的男性居多。     

香港脑血管病死亡率时间趋势研究

OBJECTIVE: To describe the time trend of mortality rates of cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) in Hong Kong for the period of 1976 to 1995, and to compare them with those in the more developed countries around the world. METHODS: Mortality rates of CVD were standardized directly using world standard population in 1961. Annual percent changes of mortality rates of CVD were estimated with a non-linear regression. Birth-cohort analysis was carried out at an interval of five-year of age to compare their age-specific mortality rates of CVD in different birth cohorts. Time trend of cause-specific mortality rates of CVD both in males and females was fitted with a simple linear regression model. RESULTS: Considerable downward trend of CVD mortality was observed during the past twenty years. Mortality rates among men and women decreased by 50.96% and 37.85% in 1995, as compared to those in 1976, respectively. Although in general, a greater trend in CVD mortality was observed during the last 10 years, as compared with that in the previous 10 years, an annual increase in CVD mortality of 1.34% was found among males aged 35 to 44 years during the latter 10 years. CVD mortality for both males and females decreased steadily by 1% per year. CVD mortality for females will catch up with that for males by the year of 2013, if such a trend continues. Birth-cohort analysis showed that those born more recently at the same age-group had lower mortality of CVD (except for those born after 1955). Data from hospital admission showed that improvement in the treatment for CVD could have contributed partly to the decrease in its mortality. CONCLUSION: Time trend of mortality of CVD in Hong Kong was similar to that in many other economically developed areas around the world.     

Health inequality and population variation in fertility-timing

We estimate the impact of fertility-timing on the chances that children in poor urban African American communities will have surviving and able-bodied parents until maturity. To do so, we use census and vital statistics data to compute age- and sex-specific rates of mortality and functional limitation among prime-aged adult residents of impoverished African American areas in Harlem, Detroit, Chicago, and the Watts area of Los Angeles and for blacks and whites nationwide. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the early fertility-timing characteristic of poor urban African American populations mitigates some of the costs to families associated with excess mortality and early health deterioration in young through middle adulthood.     

Predictors of cancer mortality in elderly subjects

Cancer mortality was analysed in 3282 elderly subjects aged 65 years from 2 cohorts of general population having different life-style patterns. They took part in the CASTEL (CArdiovascular STudy in the ELderly), a 12-year lasting prospective Italian study. The aim of the present analysis was to identify the items able to influence cancer mortality. A biochemical profile and a questionnaire on lifestyle were collected. Continuous items were averaged and compared with analysis of variance, frequencies with the Pearson's ² test. Mortality was recorded yearly for 12 years from the Registrar's Office and causes of death double-checked by consulting medical case sheets and family doctors' files. The influence of items on mortality was evaluated with the Cox multivariate analysis. Relative risk (RR) of each item was adjusted for confounders. Age, gender, tobacco smoking, the presence of respiratory symptoms, low body mass index in males, serum alanine transaminase (ALT) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP), as well as the town of residence, were powerful predictors of cancer mortality. In the entire population, 12-year overall mortality was 49.4%, cardiovascular 22.8%, and neoplastic 11%; the latter was higher in males than in females (15.7% vs. 7.9%, p < 0.00001). In subjects with respiratory symptoms neoplastic mortality was 11.6% (RR: 1.47) vs. 9.7% in those without symptoms (p < 0.01). Subjects with very low cholesterol ( 178 mg/dl), those with high uric acid ( 8.7 mg/dl) and males with low body mass index ( 22.7 kg/m²) has an increased risk of cancer mortality. RR of cancer mortality increased with increasing ALT or ALP. It was 1 in those having ALT and ALP between 9 and 41.2U/I, 1.41 in those exceeding this latter level and < 1 in those below 9U/I. RR of ALP had a similar trend, the best protective cut-off value being <106 and the worst one > 177U/I. When both serum enzymes were simultaneously raised, RR of cancer mortality increased to 2.84.     

The evolution of breast cancer mortality and morbidity in Spain (1977–1988)

A study of breast cancer mortality and cancer morbidity has been carried out in Spain recently for the period 1977–1988, covering the population of the 17 Autonomous Communities and 50 provinces of the country. Data was obtained from INE, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (National Institute of Statistics), with age standardization using the indirect method. The different Autonomous Communities and provinces were compared in order to establish possible significant differences. The crude mean mortality rate was 21 cases per 100,000 inhabitants/year; Las Palmas, Gerona, Barcelona, the Balearic Islands, Navarra and Zaragoza have the highest mortality rates, with a proportional increment of 54% in that period. The crude national mean morbidity rate for the considered period was 64.0 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the proportional increment 180%. According to provincial figures, Alava had the highest fitted mean morbidity rate, 135 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, whilst the highest fitted mean rate was Las Palmas (28 cases/100,000 inhabitants), and the highest proportional increment was the rate for the province of Huesca (169%). When using the ANOVA test on the mean rate of the period, for mortality as well as morbidity, we observed significant differences among provinces and among Autonomous Communities (p 0.05).     

Epidemiology and risk factors of pneumonia in critically ill patients

Risk factors for pneumonia were analysed in a large population of critically ill patients, collected in two prospective multicentre pneumonia studies in Italy. Twenty-three intensive care units were involved and the study time was 150 unit months. Only patients without previous pulmonary infection, with intensive care unit stay 48 hours and no rapidly irreversible illness at admission were included. The incidence of pneumonia in the 1475 selected patients was 15% (220 cases). 239 patients died in ICU; the mortality rate was significantly higher in patients developing pneumonia (p<0.0001); pneumonia was found to be an independent highly significant risk factor for death in critically ill patients (OR = 3.88; p<0.0001).Multivariate analysis of seven risk factors for pneumonia showed a significantly higher risk in patients with neuromuscular disease (OR = 3.8, p<0.002), impairment of airway reflexes at admission (OR = 2.93, p<0.0001), and 24h respiratory assistance (OR=3.05, p<0.0001). Impairment of airway reflexes at admission to the emergency room or intensive care unit identifies the population who will experience 3/4 of the overall lower respiratory tract infections.Rapid recognition of at-risk patients seems clinically important and may improve awareness programs and preventive approaches.Intensive Care Unit Group for Infection Control (I.C.U.G.I.C.), a list of participating physician co-authors of the paper is reported at the endCorresponding author.