Extreme emotional stress can cause a medical condition called broken heart syndrome. For decades, doctors thought it should ...

This table includes key figures on mortality in the Dutch population ... who showed no sign of life after birth such as breathing, activity of the heart or muscles. Perinatal mortality (24+), relative ...

The researchers note these mortality figures are "staggeringly high" and ... the leading cause of death in 2019 was ischaemic heart disease, with 8.9 million deaths," the researchers write in ...

The increases were particularly stark among babies born to Native American, Alaska Native and white mothers in 2022. Rates among Black infants remained highest of all. By Roni Caryn Rabin The ...

Dementia and Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of death in England and Wales, according to the latest official figures ...

Earlier findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tallied the rate of heart disease deaths worsening across every demographic group for 2020. "Prior to 2020, death rates ...

Heart disease and cancer remained the first ... of vital statistics at NCHS and a co-author of a viewpoint on the mortality figures published Thursday in JAMA, told STAT the rise in these accident ...

A few hours later, her heart stopped. The official cause of ... so it should provide more accurate mortality figures, said Wellenius. Consider the “heat dome” that settled over the Pacific ...

[1] When we compare the relatively small estimates of heat-related death to the annual figures for heart-disease mortality, the picture becomes clear very quickly. Coronary heart disease killed almost ...

They then ranked the most common causes of mortality based on these figures, excluding deaths abroad ... unintentional injuries, and heart disease. COVID-19, which was the fourth leading cause ...

Main outcome measure Mortality. Data synthesis We combined study level ... resulting in a star shaped evidence network for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (figure 2). Three trials ...

These figures, collated between 2019–2023 using death certificates, present notable changes as a result of the pandemic. More From Newsweek Vault: What Is a Health Savings Account? Heart disease ...