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  • The study examined only differences in the risk for stroke but not other cardiovascular diseases or short-term mortality.

    The Long and Short of Heart-Disease Risk 2010

  • Further, we studied the association of Leo sun sign with long-term mortality.

    Not-quite-so-serious research papers Professor in Training 2008

  • It is said that wisdom begins when you realize that you are "nothing," that is, in the grand scheme of things, nothing in this brief wisp of time we call mortality.

    The Virtue of Humility 2007

  • The prisoner had scarcely noticed Rodriguez or his servant, any more than he noticed his captors; for there come an intensity to those who walk near death that makes them a little alien from other men, life flaring up in them at the last into so grand a flame that the lives of the others seem a little cold and dim where they dwell remote from that sunset that we call mortality.

    Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • This finding contradicts the conclusions of recent studies demonstrating a significant association between AKI and long-term mortality.

    JAMA current issue Bihorac, A., Schold, J. D., Hobson, C. E. 2010

  • This finding contradicts the conclusions of recent studies demonstrating a significant association between AKI and long-term mortality.

    JAMA current issue 2010

  • This finding contradicts the conclusions of recent studies demonstrating a significant association between AKI and long-term mortality.

    JAMA current issue 2010

  • We hypothesized that the degree of HDL-C response to bezafibrate is independently associated with subsequent long-term mortality.

    Archives of Internal Medicine current issue 2009

  • Reduces short - 1 Aspirin w / in 24h: ISIS-2 showed the efficacy of term mortality.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Thus, in those who survive the initial 30 days, the need for a PEG appears to be a better predictor of long-term mortality.

    Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog 2009

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