7 Falls associated with unavoidable major events (such as stroke, traffic incident etc) were not considered in the analyses.
In fact, such an assumption generally holds for most cancers causing premature mortality, namely, patients with breast cancer who survive generally share the same likelihood of dying of other common causes (acute myocardial infarction, stroke, traffic injuries, etc). in addition to their breast cancer after the first 1-2 years of life.
The experts behind the new study praise the NHS for some successes, such as cutting the number of people dying from a heart attack, stroke or traffic accident.
The report, World Health Statistics 2008, shows that diseases like diarrhea, AIDS, tuberculosis, neonatal tetanus and malaria will become less important causes of death as heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and traffic accidents claim greater percentages of victims.
For stroke treatment international traffic and multi-centre outcome assessment might be more feasible.
In five studies published to date, four studies showed an independent association between cardiovascular disease or stroke and road traffic noise after adjustment for air pollution [ 9, 10, 13, 14] but one study found the effect of road traffic noise was confounded by air pollution [ 15].
Reductions in the rates of traumatic brain injury - specifically, traffic and stroke fatalities together with advances in emergency and critical care - have reduced the numbers of patients reaching brain death criteria and therefore reduced the number of potential organ donors [ 13, 29- 31].
For those who died of traffic accident, suicide or other non-NPC related disease, such as heart attack, stroke, the direct causes of death were recorded.
There have been more studies reporting on associations between heart disease or stroke and exposure to road traffic noise.
Of note there were no significant time effects or group by time interaction effects for " diabetes", " road traffic accidents" or " stroke or other brain disease".
There was an increase in odds of self-reported 'heart disease and stroke' in relation to road traffic noise that was stable after adjustment for confounders and exposure to night-time aircraft noise (OR: 1.19 (1.41, 1.41)) (Table 2).
