2024
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Age-Specific All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Faust J, Renton B, Bongiovanni T, Chen A, Sheares K, Du C, Essien U, Fuentes-Afflick E, Haywood T, Khera R, King T, Li S, Lin Z, Lu Y, Marshall A, Ndumele C, Opara I, Loarte-Rodriguez T, Sawano M, Taparra K, Taylor H, Watson K, Yancy C, Krumholz H. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Age-Specific All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2438918. PMID: 39392630, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.38918.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCOVID-19 public health emergencyNon-HispanicPublic health emergencyOther Pacific IslanderExcess mortalityAlaska NativesUS populationExcess deathsRates of excess mortalityCross-sectional study analyzed dataYears of potential lifeMortality relative riskNon-Hispanic whitesCross-sectional studyPacific IslandersStudy analyzed dataAll-cause mortalityEthnic groupsMortality disparitiesMortality ratioTotal populationDeath certificatesEthnic disparitiesMain OutcomesDecedent age
2016
Validation of the european SCORE risk chart in the healthy middle-aged Japanese
Sawano M, Kohsaka S, Okamura T, Inohara T, Sugiyama D, Watanabe M, Nakamura Y, Higashiyama A, Kadota A, Okud N, Murakami Y, Ohkubo T, Fujiyoshi A, Miura K, Okayama A, Ueshima H, Group F. Validation of the european SCORE risk chart in the healthy middle-aged Japanese. Atherosclerosis 2016, 252: 116-121. PMID: 27521900, DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2016.07.926.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCardiovascular death riskMiddle-aged JapaneseC-statisticDeath riskScore modelEuropean SCORE risk chartsOverall populationHarrel's c-statisticsSCORE risk chartsJapanese general populationHigh-risk populationGeneral Japanese populationCV deathRisk chartsGeneral populationEuropean SocietyJapanese populationDifferent ethnicitiesWomenPoor calibrationReasonable discriminationRiskMenPopulationTen years