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  1. Evaluating a primary care pharmacist-led intervention to reduce opioid use for persistent non-cancer pain: the PROMPPT cluster randomised controlled trial protocol 2026-10-29
  2. Heat-related mortality by comorbidity and cause of death: a time-stratified case-crossover study of 3.7 million deaths in Brazil, 2014–2025 2026-10-22
  3. Feature harmonization reveals that apparent cross-cohort differences in tau-positivity prediction reflect variable availability and cohort stage structure 2026-10-21

Studies

109 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1964 to 2026

Top journals

  • PubMed 7
  • medRxiv 6
  • Annals of Internal Medicine 5
  • Lancet (London, England) 5
  • National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System 5

74 journals in all.

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  1. Development of comorbidities in men with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy: an Australian population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases 2018-05-02 Digital health tools

    Men with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy had a higher likelihood of developing new comorbidities than men who did not receive androgen deprivation therapy.

  2. Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2017-09-17 Risk factors

    The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study provides such information but does not routinely aggregate results that are of interest to clinicians specialising in neurological conditions.

  3. Repeat Hospitalizations Predict Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Military medicine 2017-09-01 Digital health tools

    Repeat HF hospitalizations remain a strong predictor of mortality for existing patients with HF.

  4. UK Biobank: opportunities for cardiovascular research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. European Heart Journal 2017-04-24 Genetics

    The need for large sample sizes has led to collaborative efforts, such as the Prospective Studies Collaboration (an individual participant meta-analysis of data from 61 studies and more than a million participants11) that has demonstrated conclusively that a continuous increase in blood pressure corresponds with an increased risk of vascular death across all age groups (see Figure 1 that illustrates the importance of a large sample size (about 500 000 participants) for detecting this association).12 Sample size is also of particular importance in the current era of genome-wide association studies, where many investigations are aiming to detect either small effects from common variants or large effects from rare variants.13 Absolute risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality by usual systolic blood pressure and age at risk in 5000, 50 000, and 500 000 participants.

  5. Increasing comorbidity and health services utilization in older adults with prior stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2016-10-19 Digital health tools

    Our findings demonstrate the importance of community-based patient-centered care strategies for stroke survivors that address their range of health needs and prevent more costly acute care use.

  6. These results informed an in-depth investigation of observed and expected mortality patterns based on sociodemographic measures.

  7. Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy versus open radical retropubic prostatectomy: early outcomes from a randomised controlled phase 3 study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2016-07-26 Clinical trials

    Between Aug 23, 2010, and Nov 25, 2014, 326 men were enrolled, of whom 163 were randomly assigned to radical retropubic prostatectomy and 163 to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy. 18 withdrew (12 assigned to radical retropubic prostatectomy and six assigned to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy); thus, 151 in the radical retropubic prostatectomy group proceeded to surgery and 157 in the robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy group. 121 assigned to radical retropubic prostatectomy completed the 12 week questionnaire versus 131 assigned to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

  8. Combining billing codes, clinical notes, and medications from electronic health records provides superior phenotyping performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2015-09-02 Digital health tools

    Multiple EHR components provide a more consistent and higher performance than a single one for the selected phenotypes.

  9. Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis Have Increased Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Mortality: A Population-Based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2015-09-01 Drug development

    Ankylosing spondylitis is associated with increased risk for vascular mortality.

  10. Time-varying impact of comorbidities on mortality after liver transplantation: a national cohort study using linked clinical and administrative data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. BMJ open 2015-05-14 Digital health tools

    The impact of comorbidities present at the time of transplantation changes with time after transplantation.

  11. We used the results to assess whether there is epidemiological convergence across countries.

  12. Quebec Integrated Chronic Disease Surveillance System (QICDSS), an innovative approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Chronic diseases and injuries in Canada 2014-11-01 Digital health tools

    The QICDSS provides a way of producing population-based data on the chronic disease burden, health services and prescription drug uses.

  13. CDC National Health Report: leading causes of morbidity and mortality and associated behavioral risk and protective factors--United States, 2005-2013

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. MMWR supplements 2014-10-01 Prevention trials

    The findings in this report indicate that progress has been steady but slow for many of the priority health issues in the United States.

  14. Multiple chronic conditions and life expectancy: a life table analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Medical care 2014-08-01 Costs and economics

    Social Security and Medicare actuaries should account for the growing number of beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions when determining population projections and trust fund solvency.

  15. Validating the 8 CPCSSN case definitions for chronic disease surveillance in a primary care database of electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of family medicine 2014-07-01 Digital health tools

    The CPCSSN diagnostic algorithms showed excellent sensitivity and specificity for hypertension, diabetes, epilepsy, and parkinsonism and acceptable values for the other conditions.

  16. The contribution of vaccination to global health: past, present and future

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2014-05-12 Risk factors

    Vaccination has made an enormous contribution to global health.

  17. Predictors of long-term mortality after severe sepsis in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The American journal of the medical sciences 2014-04-01 Digital health tools

    The authors identified several factors, including receipt of mechanical ventilation, which were significantly associated with increased long-term mortality for survivors of severe sepsis.

  18. Beyond comorbidity: expanding the definition and measurement of complexity among older adults using administrative claims data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Medical care 2014-03-01 Digital health tools

    Claims data studies that include indicators of potentially diminished patient functional status better capture heterogeneity of patients with multiple chronic conditions.

  19. Patient and physician factors associated with pulmonary function testing for COPD: a population study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Chest 2014-02-01 Digital health tools

    Only about one-third of individuals with COPD in Ontario, Canada, received PFT to confirm their diagnosis; age, comorbidity, and physician factors appear to influence its use.

  20. Deaths: leading causes for 2010

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System 2013-12-01 Disparities

    In 2010, the 10 leading causes of death were, in rank order: Diseases of heart; Malignant neoplasms; Chronic lower respiratory diseases; Cerebrovascular diseases; Accidents (unintentional injuries); Alzheimer's disease; Diabetes mellitus; Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis; Influenza and pneumonia; and Intentional self-harm (suicide).

  21. Susceptibility to mortality in weather extremes: effect modification by personal and small-area characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2013-11-01 Costs and economics

    We identified several subgroups of the population who are particularly susceptible to temperature extremes, including persons with atrial fibrillation.

  22. The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA 2013-08-01 Risk factors

    Healthy life expectancy (HALE) was used to summarize overall population health, accounting for both length of life and levels of ill health experienced at different ages.

  23. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2012-12-01 Risk factors

    Ischaemic heart disease and stroke collectively killed 12·9 million people in 2010, or one in four deaths worldwide, compared with one in five in 1990; 1·3 million deaths were due to diabetes, twice as many as in 1990.

  24. Patterns of comorbidity and multimorbidity in the oldest old: the Octabaix study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. European journal of internal medicine 2012-11-24 Risk factors

    The large majority of oldest old subjects had multimorbidity.

  25. Diabetes in Older Adults: A Consensus Report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2012-10-25 Brain scans and imaging

    More than 25% of the U.S. population aged ≥ 65 years has diabetes mellitus (hereafter referred to as diabetes),1 and the aging of the overall population is a significant driver of the diabetes epidemic.

  26. Deaths: preliminary data for 2011

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System 2012-10-01 Disparities

    The age-adjusted death rate decreased from 747.0 deaths per 100,000 population in 2010 to 740.6 deaths per 100,000 population in 2011.

  27. Contribution of individual diseases to death in older adults with multiple diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2012-06-26 Digital health tools

    The use of methods that focus on determining a single underlying cause may lead to underestimation of the extent of the contribution of some diseases such as dementia and respiratory disease to death in older adults and overestimation of the contribution of other diseases.

  28. Patient-related risk factors for periprosthetic joint infection and postoperative mortality following total hip arthroplasty in Medicare patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 2012-05-01 Costs and economics

    The purpose of this study was to identify the specific patient comorbidities that are associated with an increased risk of periprosthetic joint infection and of ninety-day postoperative mortality in U.S. Results Comorbid conditions associated with an increased adjusted risk of periprosthetic joint infection (in decreasing order of significance, p < 0.05 for all comparisons) were rheumatologic disease (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.71), obesity (HR = 1.73), coagulopathy (HR = 1.58), and preoperative anemia (HR = 1.36).

  29. Cohort Profile: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. International Journal of Epidemiology 2011-08-01 Risk factors

    The study has been harmonized with leading international research so as to ensure adoption of best practice and comparability of results.

  30. Comorbidity profiles among patients with bullous pemphigoid: a nationwide population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The British journal of dermatology 2011-07-28 Costs and economics

    Patients with BP are more likely to have various neurological diseases, schizophrenia and psoriasis prior to the diagnosis of BP, supporting associations found in other studies.

  31. Change in comorbidity prevalence with advancing age among persons with heart failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 2011-05-15 Digital health tools

    Among older Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, there is a higher overall burden of comorbidity and greater prevalence of discordant comorbidity among the oldest old.

  32. Deaths: preliminary data for 2009

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System 2011-03-01 Disparities

    The age-adjusted death rate decreased from 758.7 deaths per 100,000 population in 2008 to 741.0 deaths per 100,000 population in 2009.

  33. Risk factors for bullous pemphigoid in the elderly: a prospective case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of investigative dermatology 2010-10-14 Health systems and care delivery

    A rise in the incidence of bullous pemphigoid (BP) was documented recently in Europe, and the main risk factors for BP remain unknown.

  34. Deaths: final data for 2007

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System 2010-05-01 Disparities

    Mortality patterns in 2007, such as the decline in the age-adjusted death rate to a record historical low, were generally consistent with long-term trends.

  35. Assessment and management of pressure ulcers in the elderly: current strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Drugs & aging 2010-04-01 End-of-life care

    If the ulcer has become chronic, the ultimate goal changes from healing the wound to controlling symptoms (such as foul odour, pain, discomfort and infection) and preventing complications, thereby contributing to the patient's overall well-being; providing support for the patient's family is also important.

  36. How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2009-07-20 Drug development

    Citation is both an impartial scholarly method and a powerful form of social communication.

  37. Effect of statins on a wide range of health outcomes: a cohort study validated by comparison with randomized trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. British journal of clinical pharmacology 2008-11-05 Brain scans and imaging

    We found little evidence to support wide-ranging effects of statins on health outcomes beyond their established beneficial effect on vascular disease.

  38. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – Issue 4 2008

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 2008-11-01 Risk factors

    More than 3500 Cochrane Reviews are now available in full, including information on the methods, eligible studies, analyses, results, and conclusions.

  39. Assessment of pain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. British journal of anaesthesia 2008-05-16 Risk factors

    Valid and reliable assessment of pain is essential for both clinical trials and effective pain management.

  40. Adjusted-Dose Warfarin versus Aspirin for Preventing Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Annals of Internal Medicine 2007-10-16 Costs and economics

    Letters16 October 2007Adjusted-Dose Warfarin versus Aspirin for Preventing Stroke in Patients with Atrial FibrillationRobert G. The study's important results indicate that the relative efficacy and safety of warfarin for stroke prevention can be extended to very elderly patients who are managed by nonspecialists.

  41. Deaths: final data for 2004

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. PubMed 2007-08-21 Disparities

    In 2004, a total of 2,397,615 deaths were reported in the United States.

  42. A prognostic model for 1-year mortality in older adults after hospital discharge

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The American journal of medicine 2007-05-01 Digital health tools

    Reasonable prognostic information for 1-year mortality in older patients discharged from general medicine services can be derived from administrative data to identify high-risk groups of persons.

  43. The effect of emergency department crowding on the management of pain in older adults with hip fracture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2006-02-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Older adults with hip fracture are at risk for underassessment of pain, considerable delays in analgesic administration after pain is identified, and treatment with inappropriate analgesics (e.g., meperidine) in the ED.

  44. National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Management of Menopause-Related Symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Annals of Internal Medicine 2005-06-21 Disparities

    NIH Conferences21 June 2005National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Management of Menopause-Related SymptomsFREENIH State-of-the-Science Panel*NIH State-of-the-Science Panel*Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-142-12_Part_1-200506210-00117 SectionsAboutVisual AbstractPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus and state-of-the-science statements are prepared by independent panels of health professionals and public representatives on the basis of 1) the results of a systematic literature review prepared under contract with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 2) presentations by investigators working in areas relevant to the conference questions during a 2-day public session, 3) questions and statements from conference attendees during open discussion periods that are part of the public session, and 4) closed deliberations by the panel during the remainder of the second day and the morning of the third.

  45. Deaths: leading causes for 2002

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. PubMed 2005-03-07 Disparities

    In 2002, the 10 leading causes of death were (in rank order) Diseases of heart; Malignant neoplasms; Cerebrovascular diseases; Chronic lower respiratory diseases; Accidents (unintentional injuries); Diabetes mellitus; Influenza and pneumonia; Alzheimer's disease; Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis; and Septicemia and accounted for about 79 percent of all deaths occurring in the United States.

  46. Deaths: preliminary data for 2003

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. PubMed 2005-02-28 Risk factors

    The age-adjusted death rate for the United States decreased from 845.3 deaths per 100,000 population in 2002 to 831.2 deaths per 100,000 population in 2003.

  47. Deaths: preliminary data for 2002

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. PubMed 2004-02-11 Risk factors

    The age-adjusted death rate in 2002 for the United States decreased from 854.5 deaths per 100,000 population in 2001 to 846.8 in 2002.

  48. Deaths: leading causes for 2001

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. PubMed 2003-11-07 Disparities

    In 2001, the 10 leading causes of death were (in rank order) Diseases of heart; Malignant neoplasms; Cerebrovascular diseases; Chronic lower respiratory diseases; Accidents (unintentional injuries); Diabetes mellitus; Influenza and pneumonia; Alzheimer's disease; Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis; and Septicemia and accounted for nearly 80 percent of all deaths occurring in the United States.

  49. Community-acquired pneumonia in very elderly patients: causative organisms, clinical characteristics, and outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Medicine 2003-05-01 Health systems and care delivery

    We performed an observational analysis of prospectively collected data on 1,474 adult patients who were hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia; 1,169 patients were under 80 years of age and 305 (21%) patients were over 80 years ("very elderly").

  50. Deaths: leading causes for 2000

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. PubMed 2002-09-16 Disparities

    In 2000 the 10 leading causes of death were (in rank order) Diseases of heart; Malignant neoplasms; Cerebrovascular diseases; Chronic lower respiratory diseases; Accidents (unintentional injuries); Diabetes mellitus; Influenza and pneumonia; Alzheimer's disease; Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis; and Septicemia and accounted for nearly 80 percent of all deaths occurring in the United States.

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