... at least one hospitalization, assurance record, or delivery of anti-seizure medication linked to epilepsy on the French National Health Data System (SNDS). Mortality rates and standardized mortality ratios (SMR) were estimated according to age and sex. Specific causes of death from death certificates were...

... incident PD patients who initiated anti-parkinsonian medications at age >40 years. The reference population ( n = 401,498) consisted of members of a large health maintenance organization. We estimated the PD patients’ death risk and sex- and age-specific standardized mortality ratio (SMR). Results...

... to that of the Swiss general population; to identify differentials in risk of cause-specific mortality according to lesion characteristics. Methods: All-cause and cause-specific standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated using data from the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury cohort study. Cause-specific subhazard...

... of standardized mortality ratios in tetraplegics were 2.53 (2.00-3.21) and 2.07 (1.47-2.92) in paraplegics. Conclusion: This study found substantial variation in mortality and longevity within the SCI population, compared to the general population, and between WHO regions and country income level. Improved...