Disease relevance of Vital Statistics

• The incidence rate and the death rate of cystic fibrosis (CF) in Japan were analyzed using Japanese Vital Statistics data for the period 1969-1992 [1].
• We studied mortality from asthma and from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) generally in Alberta between 1927 and 1987 using a data set compiled and recorded from Alberta Vital Statistics to describe birth cohorts' age-specific mortality rates [2].

Psychiatry related information on Vital Statistics

• OBJECTIVE.--To assess the validity of cocaine-related mortality data available from the principal federal sources of information about the frequency of drug abuse deaths in the United States: the national vital statistics system and the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) [3].

High impact information on Vital Statistics

• Other sources of data included the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System for 1994 incidence of nonfatal gun injuries, the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center database for 1988-1992 estimates of lifetime medical costs of gun injuries, and the 1994 Vital Statistics census for incidence of fatal gun injuries [4].
• For individual metropolitan areas, the discrepancy between DAWN and vital statistics counts of cocaine-related deaths was as large as a sixfold difference [3].
• Mortality of epilepsy from national vital statistics and University epilepsy clinic in Taiwan [5].
• METHODS: The number of deaths due to HCC and BCs from 1970 to 1997 were obtained from the Maryland State Department of Health & Hygiene vital statistics database [6].
• Childhood homicide deaths in Ohio from 1974 to 1984 were examined using Ohio Vital Statistics records and US Census Data. Homicide rates varied from 25/100,000 for Black infant males to 0.8/100,000 for White females ages 5-9 [7].

Biological context of Vital Statistics

• METHODS: We analyzed pregnancy-related deaths from 1979-1992 from the National Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Live-birth data used to calculate mortality ratios were obtained from published vital statistics [8].
• Correspondence between Walter Ashby Plecker, Virginia State Registrar of Vital Statistics between 1912 and 1938, and Harry Hamilton Laughlin, Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor between 1910 and 1939, provides evidence of efforts to enforce the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 [9].

Associations of Vital Statistics with chemical compounds

• METHODS: Population-based study of Central West Region of Ontario with approximately 28,000 births annually during the period 1988-1995 using vital statistics records and Census data [10].

Gene context of Vital Statistics

• It is important to document changes in the vital statistics of epilepsy in the general population so that the success or failure of prevention and treatment can be assessed and health provisions planned [11].
• Further checks against 1970-1977 vital statistics information in the Canadian Mortality Data Base will be made [12].
• METHODS: Five-year average annual, gender- and age-specific CHD mortality rates were compared across race groups, based on National Vital Statistics data for state economic areas [13].
• Geographic and temporal analyses and case-control studies, with the use of vital statistics, hospital records, the Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System and chemical databases, revealed no association between pesticides used in forestry and reproductive problems [14].
• There was a clear and sustained increase in mortality from COPD since 1950 after age 40 but no evidence to support the proposition that deaths from asthma were increasing in recent years; more recent data from Alberta Vital Statistics show no sustained increase since 1987, either [2].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Vital Statistics

• Perinatal mortality and morbidity in rural West-Java, Indonesia. Part I: Vital statistics based on cross-sectional surveys [15].

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