Future studies might pay more attention to the beliefs and behaviour of patients, doctors, and nurses as these probably strongly affect morbidity and mortality in diabetes.
These cellular level effects can adversely affect mortality and reproduction.
Depression waxes and wanes over time; the researchers are analyzing new data to see if later changes in the patients' mental state affected their health or mortality.
The likely explanation here is that the higher altitude of Colorado affects birth weight, but not mortality.
The analysis took into account other factors that can affect mortality, including age, other medical conditions, marital status, body mass index, and smoking.
When administered within the first three hours thrombolysis improves functional outcome without affecting mortality.
The low-fat diet did not affect all-cancer mortality, overall mortality, or cardiovascular disease.
However, neither of these interventions clearly affected mortality.
We have seen how animal cycles are often associated with plant ones and how the activity of animals affects gap formation and mortality of plants.
It is likely that hypertension adversely affects overall morbidity and mortality in diabetes and has deleterious effects on the more specific diabetic complications.