Background Cigarette smoking is associated with adverse health outcomes in people with and without disabilities. However, ...

Videos available at [ Key points A 94-year-old man with parkinsonism, followed in our geriatric medicine clinic, presented for routine follow-up, during which his wife reported that he had a ...

Background The WHO recommends ≥150 min/week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for older adults, while the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare suggests ≥6000 steps/day.

A hearing was held Friday to determine whether the brothers' resentencing case should include information from the California Board of Parole's newly completed risk assessment, which was conducted ...

Such events are termed competing risk events. Survival data are often summarised using the cumulative incidence function for an event. The goal of this paper is to illustrate to the clinical ...

Objective A growing body of evidence points to a role for herpesviruses in the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and a reduced risk of AD among patients receiving antiherpetic medications. We ...

The censoring of competing events is common in medical studies but leads to biased cumulative incidence estimators. Competing risks methods, such as the non-parametric Aalen-Johansen method or the ...

Competing risk models were conducted to identify the risk factors ... The sub-distribution hazard model also called as the cumulative risk model, uses the CIF to estimate the cumulative incidence of ...

We used the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2016 estimates of stroke incidence and the competing risks of death from any cause other than stroke to calculate the cumulative lifetime risks of ...

We aimed to demonstrate the impact of considering competing risks when estimating the cumulative incidence and risk of stroke among elderly atrial fibrillation patients. The complement of the ...

with the use of the nonparametric cumulative incidence function of Fine and Gray, 24 in which death from nonsudden causes was treated as a competing risk (i.e., dependent censoring). The hazard ...