Published in Injury Epidemiology
ObjectiveTo investigate national trends of SBS diagnosis codes and how trends varied among patient and hospital characteristics.MethodsWe examined possible SBS, confirmed SBS, and non-SBS abuse diagnosis codes among children age three and younger who were hospitalized for abuse between 1998 and 2014 using a secondary analysis of the National Inpati...
Published in BMC Oral Health
BackgroundStudies exclusively focusing on trends in socioeconomic inequality of oral health status in industrialized countries are relatively sparse. This study aimed to assess possible differences in oral hygiene and periodontal status among people of different socioeconomic status (SES) in the Netherlands over two decades.MethodsA repeated cross-...
Published in Heart, lung & circulation
Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is a major source of disease burden worldwide. Recent trends show incidence is declining but it is unclear whether the trends are similar in urban and rural populations. This study examines the trends of IHD events (i.e. hospitalisations and deaths) in New South Wales, Australia by rurality. This was a retrospective an...
Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose Anxiety disorders are common. Between 1998 and 2008, in the UK, GP recording of anxiety symptoms increased, but the recording of anxiety disorders decreased. We do not know whether such trends have continued. This study examined recent trends in the recording of anxiety and explored factors that may influence GPs’ coding of anxiety. Methods...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
The paper evaluates long-term (2007–2018) temporal and spatial variations in aerosol optical depth (AOD) over four major cities of India, i.e., Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Jaipur, by using Collection 6, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra and Aqua Level-3, 1°×1° gridded dataset. Annual analysis reveals a significant increas...
Published in BMC Nephrology
BackgroundContrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) is a common complication with poor prognosis after coronary angiography (CAG). With the prevention methods widely being implemented, the temporal trends of incidence and mortality of CA-AKI are still unknown over the last five years. The study aims to determine the incidence and prognosis o...
Published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundIn recent years, births to older mothers and multiparous mothers have increased rapidly with the change of birth policy in China. And mothers of advanced age are more likely to have maternal complications and poor birth outcomes. We aimed to estimate the recent trends and underlying risk factors of maternal mortality.MethodsIn this system...
Published in BMC Cancer
ObjectiveTo analyze trends in cancer incidence and mortality (France, 1990–2018), with a focus on men-women disparities.MethodsIncidence data stemmed from cancer registries (FRANCIM) and mortality data from national statistics (CépiDc). Incidence and mortality rates were modelled using bidimensional penalized splines of age and year (at diagnosis a...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
The aim of the current study is to monitor and analyze the rainfall variability and to predict the aridity in northern Egypt. To implement that, parametric and non-parametric statistical methods were used for the rainfall data at 13 meteorological stations scattered along the study area from 1947 to 2010. Standard normal homogeneity test, linear re...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Rainfall and air temperature are significant parameters to establish the climatic condition of a region and their patterns of variations are, nowadays, key elements to judge the issue of climate change. The present study affords an analysis of long-term rainfall and air temperature records to establish their trends of variations in Alexandria and t...
