"My suspicion is that when you look at the determinants of mortality, which were weight gain and hypoglycemia in that study, Byetta would be the antimortality drug, because it's associated with weight loss and less hypoglycemia," said Dr. Alan Garber, an endocrinologist and professor of medicine at Baylor.
Determinants of mortality and comparative data across the main groups of CNS infections are being prepared.
FALD is considered one of the major non-cardiac determinants of mortality in adult Fontan patients [15, 16, 17, 18].
Previous tools are complicated or do no take into account some major determinants of mortality (i.e., frailty).
Demographic studies on the determinants of mortality rely on methods of quantifying differences in mortality between regions or populations and over time.
We investigated the determinants of mortality with respect to the timing of death by comparing the characteristics of patients who survived or died either early or lately (Table 1).
Both a patient-level US study and a longitudinal country-level study have shown that controlling for numerous other potential determinants of mortality does not reduce, and may even increase, the estimated effect of pharmaceutical innovation.
The main determinants of mortality are the size of the needle used for cecal puncture; the number of punctures, generally between 1 and 4; and the use of antibiotics and/or fluid resuscitation [10, 11].
Kaplan-Meier and Cox-regression models were used to estimate survival and explore determinants of mortality.
Studies have also been published that investigated determinants of mortality in HFOV treated patients [ 14, 15].
Trends in determinants of mortality (including health care delivery) were compared with trends in mortality.
