Poisoned” khans: the phenomenon of the sudden death of rulers in the mental perception of medieval Mongols by Vorotyntsev L.V., Galimov T.R.

“…Research objectives: To find out the real causes of death of the Mongolian khans Yesugei-baatur, Ogedei, and Guyuk, as well as the circumstances of the emergence of ideas about their poisoning, reflected in a number of narrative sources. …”
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Spacetime modeling of mortality by infectious and parasitic diseases in Brazil: a 20-year ecological and population-based study by Lucas Almeida Andrade, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza, Wandklebson Silva da Paz, Danilo de Gois Souza, José Augusto Passos Góes, Emerson Lucas Silva Camargo, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, Liliane Moretti Carneiro, Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, Karina Machado Araújo, Allan Dantas dos Santos, Márcio Bezerra-Santos

“…Results: Between 2000 and 2019, there were 2,155,513 deaths related to IPDs in Brazil. The leading causes of death included acute respiratory infections ( n  = 1,130,069; 52.49%), septicemia ( n  = 289,817; 13.46%), human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( n  = 232,892; 10.82%), tuberculosis ( n  = 104,121; 4.84%), and neglected tropical diseases such as Chagas disease ( n  = 94,788; 4.40%) and schistosomiasis ( n  = 10,272; 0.48%). …”
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Identifying barriers that prevent US insured adults at-risk for and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes from accessing primary care services: An exploratory study by Tamara Crawford

“…Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is a condition that affects millions of individuals within the United States and it is one of the leading causes of death. Access to quality care is necessary to decrease the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and associated complications. …”
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Evaluating non-utilization of deceased donor kidneys in Korea by Suhyun Oh, Keonhwa Kim, Omi Na, Juhyung Ha, Tai Yeon Koo, Jaeseok Yang

“…The risk factors for kidney non-utilization were old age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, high serum creatinine levels, low hemoglobin levels, and non-cerebrovascular causes of death. KT using contralateral kidney in the discard group showed graft failure and mortality rates comparable to those of KT in the no-discard group. …”
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Features of Medical Care Providing to Patients with Digestive Diseases in the Krasnodar Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic by N. V. Korochanskaya, V. M. Durleshter, S. A. Gabriel, O. V. Kovalevskaya, S. N. Serikova, M. A. Basenko

“…The analysis of the features of the DD course in the Krasnodar Region was carried out according to the data of form C 51 “Distribution of the dead by sex, age groups and causes of death” of the Territorial Federal State Statistics Service in the Krasnodar Region, as well as monitoring the quality of medical care for patients with DD for the period from 2019 to 2021 years.Results. …”
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The In Vitro Antioxidant and Antiadipogenic Properties of Pigmented Flower Extracts of Geraniaceae and Lamiaceae Plant Families by Anton Venter, Hennie Fisher, Gary I. Stafford, June C. Serem, Megan J. Bester, Kwaku G. Duodu

“…Treatment during adipocyte differentiation caused cell death, except for the P. zonale hybrid. In conclusion, related to antioxidant activity, inhibition of AGE formation and lipid accumulation in differentiated adipocytes, P. grandiflorum was the most active, while the P. zonale hybrid was the least. …”
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Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019-2023. by David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Tom Williams, Peter Fleming, Karen Luyt

“…However, for all other causes of death, rates are either static, or increasing. …”
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Ranibizumab for Visual Impairment due to Diabetic Macular Edema: Real-World Evidence in the Italian Population (PRIDE Study) by Ugo Menchini, Francesco Bandello, Vincenzo De Angelis, Federico Ricci, Luigi Bonavia, Francesco Viola, Elisa Muscianisi, Massimo Nicolò

“…Acute renal failure, lung carcinoma, and cardiac arrest were the causes of death in one unilateral and two bilateral patients. …”
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Lactiplantibacillus plantarum AR113 alleviates microbiota dysbiosis of tongue coating and cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury in rat by Zhiqiang Xiong, Gang Liu, Ling Fang, Xiuming Li, Yongjun Xia, Guangqiang Wang, Xin Song, Lianzhong Ai

“…Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. However, information on stroke-related tongue coating microbiome (TCM) is limited, and whether TCM modulation could benefit for stroke prevention and rehabilitation is unknown. …”
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Cardiovascular mortality risk among small bowel adenocarcinoma patients: a population-based study by Yao Zhang, Shicong Zeng, Zongwen Wang, Qiankun Zhu, Jingtao Li, Xiaohang Ren, Shuoheng Ma, Gang Tan, Bo Zhai

“…To evaluate the cumulative mortality (CM) rate for all causes of death (COD), cumulative hazard curves were constructed. …”
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PET-Assessed Metabolic Tumor Volume Across the Spectrum of Solid-Organ Malignancies: A Review of the Literature by Anusha Agarwal, Chase J. Wehrle, Sangeeta Satish, Paresh Mahajan, Suneel Kamath, Shlomo Koyfman, Wen Wee Ma, Maureen Linganna, Jamak Modaresi Esfeh, Charles Miller, David C. H. Kwon, Andrea Schlegel, Federico Aucejo

“…Solid-organ malignancies represent a significant disease burden and remain one of the leading causes of death globally. In the past few decades, the rapid evolution of imaging modalities has shifted the paradigm towards image-based precision medicine, especially in the care of patients with solid-organ malignancies. …”
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The Serum High-Sensitive C Reactive Protein and Homocysteine Levels to Evaluate the Prognosis of Acute Ischemic Stroke by Tahir Yoldas, Murat Gonen, Ahmet Godekmerdan, Fulya Ilhan, Ednan Bayram

“…Ischemic stroke is one of the most common causes of death worldwide and is most often caused by thrombotic processes. …”
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Maternal Deaths due to Obstetric Haemorrhage in Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Tanzania by Mzee M. Nassoro, Enid Chiwanga, Athanase Lilungulu, Deogratius Bintabara

“…This study was carried out to analyse the circumstances that had caused these deaths. Methods. A retrospective review of all files of women who had died of obstetric haemorrhage from January 2018 to December 2019 was made. …”
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Computational analysis of congenital heart disease associated SNPs: unveiling their impact on the gene regulatory system by Shikha Vashisht, Costantino Parisi, Cecilia L. Winata

“…Abstract Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a prevalent condition characterized by defective heart development, causing premature death and stillbirths among infants. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have provided insights into the role of genetic variants in CHD pathogenesis through the identification of a comprehensive set of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). …”
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Pediatric and adolescent cancer disparities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: incidence, mortality, and survival across socioeconomic strata by Ankita Shukla, Rouba Karen Zeidan, Basema Saddik

“…Abstract Background Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in children and adolescents, with a significant concentration in low and middle-income countries. …”
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Development of a Mobile Application Platform for Self-Management of Obesity Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques by Sylvester M. Sefa-Yeboah, Kwabena Osei Annor, Valencia J. Koomson, Firibu K. Saalia, Matilda Steiner-Asiedu, Godfrey A. Mills

“…Obesity is a major global health challenge and a risk factor for the leading causes of death, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and several types of cancer. …”
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Chemical Changes Under Heat Stress and Identification of Dendrillolactone, a New Diterpene Derivative with a Rare Rearranged Spongiane Skeleton from the Antarctic Marine Sponge <i>... by Andrea Prófumo, Conxita Avila, Adele Cutignano

“…However, temperatures above 4 °C severely affected sponge metabolism, causing its death much earlier than expected. Further research on the roles of these natural products in <i>D. antarctica</i> and their relationship to the sponge’s resilience to environmental changes should help to better understand the defensive mechanisms of Antarctic marine benthos in the context of global change.…”
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Real-world treatment patterns and survival outcomes in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in Finland: a national, population-based cohort study by Antti Rannikko, Olivia Hölsä, Trude Ågesen, Mattias Ekman, Riikka Mattila

“…Methods: Incident patients with mCRPC diagnosed during 2013–2021 were identified from data lakes in two large and representative, Finnish hospital districts, and linked to data on drug purchases and causes of death from national registries. Results: Of a total of 31,307 patients with prostate cancer, 2,475 progressed to mCRPC during 2013–2021. …”
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Evaluation of 30-day mortality in patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy in a tertiary hospital: a 3-year retrospective survey by Philippe Bichard, Jean-Louis Frossard, Laurent Spahr, Nicolas Goossens, Olivier Chatelanat, Laurent Bochatay, Caroline Bastid

“…Most frequent indications were suspected GI bleeding (162/345; 46.96%) and suspected cancer or tumourous staging (50/345; 14.49%). Major causes of death were oncological progression (72/251; 28.68%), cardiopulmonary failure or cardiac arrest of unkown origin (62/251; 24,7%) and liver failure (20/251; 7.96%). …”
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Diversity and functions of fungal VOCs with special reference to the multiple bioactivities of the mushroom alcohol by Guohua Yin, Geromy G. Moore, Joan Wennstrom Bennett

“…The use of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) as a model for testing the toxicity of fungal VOCs showed that some VOCs delayed metamorphosis and/or caused fly death at certain concentrations. When Drosophila was cultivated in an atmosphere shared with VOC mixtures released from growing cultures of several medically important fungi, including Aspergillus fumigatus, toxicity was observed. …”
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