Background: Prior research has documented a correlation between the imposition of sanctions and worsening health conditions in target countries. However, the direction of causality in this ...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) mortality rates in the US have declined significantly since 2004, but major sex and racial disparities persist.

A. Trends in US mortality rates, mortality rates of other HICs, and average mortality rates in other HICs standardized to the US age distribution in each year (1980-2023). B. Age-specific mortality ...

Young adults in the United States are dying at significantly higher rates than their counterparts in other wealthy nations, according to a sweeping new analysis published in JAMA Health Forum and ...

There were over 1.5 million "missing Americans" in 2022 and 2023, deaths that would have been averted if US mortality rates matched those of peer countries. Excess US deaths have been increasing for ...

This section provides an overview of the projections. Detailed results for 2002, 2015, and 2030 are presented in Dataset S1 https://medicine.plosjournals.org/archive ...

Recent global crises have exposed the limits of a universal mortality threshold for declaring famine-an approach that can obscure how famine actually unfolds across different populations. In a paper ...