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The association of smoking and mortality was mediated by smoking-related complications with varying effects.

To assess the possibility that the association between NSAIDs and mortality was mediated by confounding, we explored baseline covariates associated with use of NSAIDs during the study.

In this case, cause specific analysis also showed that increased mortality was mediated through a prolonged length of stay in the intensive care unit rather than by a direct effect on the daily risk of death.

Since smoking was weakly associated with neonatal mortality, we examined if the effect of smoking on mortality was mediated through either standardized birth weight or gestational age (or both).

A substantial part of the effect of IQ on men's mortality was mediated through their educational attainment, but a clear and significant effect of IQ persisted even once the estimates were adjusted for this variable (HR for one standard deviation increase in IQ 0.85 (95% CI 0.75 to 0.96) and for one standard deviation decrease in IQ 1.18 (95% CI 1.04 to 1.33)).

Our results show that Stx2-induced placental toxicity and fetus mortality is mediated by an increase in NO production.

Our results reveal that Stx2-induced placental damage and fetus mortality is mediated by an increase in NO production and that AG is able to completely reverse the Stx2 damages in placental tissues, but not to prevent premature delivery, thus suggesting other mechanisms not yet determined could be involved.

We aimed to examine whether smoking-associated postoperative mortality is mediated through smoking-associated postoperative complications in patients who were current smokers at the time of their surgery.

12 To our knowledge, no previous studies have assessed to what degree the increased smoking-associated postoperative mortality is mediated by specific complications associated with smoking.

While smoking is the main cause of lung cancer, some of the smoking related mortality is mediated through IHD and some, like COPD was in the current study classified to mortality amenable through health care.

Our findings tend to favor an explanation that, at least in the early period after bereavement, the increase in mortality is mediated through acute or short-term events, with all older people being vulnerable, irrespective of pre-existing comorbid conditions.