We chose these categories based on two major factors: one, they make up the majority of mortality in the respective age groups, and two, they are specific enough to be of great utility for informed public health decision making.
As the majority of mortality benefit of exercise is at the highest level of cognition, and declines as cognition declines, the net effect of exercise should be to improve cognition at the population level, even with more people living longer.
In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) infectious diseases still cause the majority of mortality (69% of deaths).
Cardiovascular disease accounts for the majority of mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes.
SSA is the most current and captures the large majority of mortality cases in the U.S.
However, as previously shown, the majority of mortality in patients with diabetes is cardiovascular related (11, 21).
NCT00379769 Cardiovascular disease accounts for the majority of mortality and morbidity associated with type 2 diabetes [ 1- 3].
The majority of mortality and severe mortality in patients with CAP is in elderly patients, many of them have chronic hematologic and inflammatory co-morbidities.
In our patients, the majority of mortality was not associated with evolution of disease, but with the cytopenias associated with infections, anemia, and hemorragie.
The majority of mortality in the Hedlund study was reportedly due to prostate cancer; there was no evidence of any difference between treatment groups in the occurrence of cancer deaths (RR=0.95, 95% CI: 0.84, 1.07; P=0.39) (Hedlund et al, 2002).
