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Mortality
Mortality is a quantification of death, often referring to deaths attributing to a specific cause such as a disease or illness. Epidemiological studies often report mortality rates which are calculated by dividing the number of deaths due to a disease by the total population.
APR 28, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: April 28, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) The varied clinical manifestations and outcomes in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections implicate a role of host-genetics in the predisp...
APR 21, 2021 | 12:00 AM
According to the American Cancer Society, in there were an estimated 110,070 new cases diagnosed and approximately 32,120 deaths from gynecologic cancers in the U.S. in 2018. Of the five mos...
MAR 09, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: March 09, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Lung cancer is one of the three most common types of cancer. Representing 85% of all lung cancers...
FEB 09, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: February 9, 2020 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) 90% of breast cancer mortality is caused by distant metastasis, a process that involves both dissemination of cancer cells to distant...
NOV 12, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Patient laboratory test results are significantly over-represented in electronic medical records, but significantly under-utilized in research. An important application of laboratory data is...
NOV 09, 2020 | 10:00 AM
Date: November 9th, 2020 Time: 10:00am PDT SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread rapidly with critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), where the mortality rate is reported...
NOV 05, 2020 | 12:00 AM
As one of the few evidence-based treatments shown to decrease mortality, buprenorphine use has grown in the United States and abroad. Buprenorphine is a first line option for opioid use diso...
OCT 08, 2020 | 7:30 AM
Individuals of under-represented minority ancestry are at disproportional risk for higher incidence and mortality rates for particular cancers. The unequal burden of cancer in certain racial...
OCT 08, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Cancer disparities among persons of African descent are driven by both biological and nonbiological factors. There is evidence in breast cancer that psychosocial factors (environment, socioe...
OCT 08, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the evolving epidemiology of prostate cancer in the the US and globally, and the excess burden of disease borne by men of African ancestry 2. Describe the...
SEP 16, 2020 | 10:00 AM
Date: September 16, 2020 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Learning Objectives Compare and contrast viral sepsis with focus on sepsis symptoms caused by SARS-CoV- The role of rapid testing f...
SEP 10, 2020 | 7:30 AM
The selective pressure placed on the resident microbiota by local changes in the host environment – DNA damage, chronic inflammation, metabolic shifts, barrier damage, reduced immunosu...
