"I've had 11 attempts on my life, with knives, guns, bombs, even rocket launchers," he boasted, as if these brushes with death verified his importance in life.
Coronary heart disease was defined as the occurrence of fatal or nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) or sudden death, verified by two independent clinical assessors.
With coronary death verified from the autopsy record as the outcome the hazard ratio was 1.52 95% CI [1.17, 1.99], both adjusted for age at baseline and gender.
Vital status and date of death were obtained from the population registries and the cause of death was verified by death certificates obtained from the health authorities in the Rhein-Neckar-Odenwald region.
Data on vital status and date of death were obtained from the population registries and the cause of death was verified by death certificates obtained from the health authorities in the Rhein Neckar Odenwald region.
The actual annual number of HIV/AIDS deaths after verifying cause of death from 2006 to 2010 was 7,013; 9,298; 11,921; 13,832; and 13,981, respectively, revealing a slower increase than in the data reported.
The case index date was the date of death as verified by death certificate information.
Vital status of all patients was ascertained via local population registries through the end of 2009, and causes of death were verified by death certificates and coded based on ICD-10 classifications.
In both the WHS and the Dieckmann cohorts, DES exposure (or lack thereof) was documented in the medical record, the occurrence of cancer was confirmed by medical record, and cause of death was verified by death certificate.
Among the 32,562 cases with a cause of death listed as "other reasons", some were confirmed as AIDS-related death by verifying the information filed.
