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To investigate survival up to early adulthood for children with intellectual disability and compare their risk of mortality with that of children without intellectual disability.
We also compared the predicted mortality with that observed for women in each quartile of predicted risk.
We also conducted analyses to compare their mortality with that of the general population and to identify patient-, disease- and transplant-related factors that were predictive of late outcomes.
Our aim was to assess whether cystatin C estimated GFR would provide additive prognostic information to urine albumin excretion and to compare the strength of the association with mortality with that of creatinine-estimated GFR.
We applied the definitions of the modified Glasgow criteria and compared the discrimination of this score for predicting hospital mortality with that of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score and a number of physiological parameters.
Comparison of overall and cancer mortality with that of the general US population gave similar results (SMR 1.06, 95% CI 0.88 to 1.26; cancer-specific SMR 1.42, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.98).
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We explored three common characterisations of survivorship: constant or fixed lifetimes, exponentially-distributed lifetimes and lifetimes resulting from a Gompertz mortality function (mortality that increases exponentially with age).
Not unexpectedly, estimates of the proportion of smoking-related mortality mediated by each perioperative complications were all numerically larger for 6-month mortality compared with that for 1-year mortality, although this was not tested statistically.
For each household death that occurred, a standard VA questionnaire, called RHIME (Routine, Reliable, Representative and Re-sampled Household Investigation of Mortality with Medical Evaluation), that uses both an open-ended narrative and close-ended structured questions was administered[18].
The secondary aims were to assess the association between mortality and diagnoses and to compare the mortality rate with that of the general population.
Since release time had a significant effect on mortality, with males that were released later in the season surviving for a shorter time, we included release time as a covariate in the model (χ21 = 3.9; P = 0.049).
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