Medical statistics
Analyses of published aggregate medical data. 64 articles
[M040] The Share of People with Systolic Blood Pressure of 140 or Above Is Nearly Determined by That Year's Mean
This paper checks how the distribution of systolic blood pressure moved over the years — whether only the mean…
[M039] The Share of "People with Hypertension" Moves 2.32-Fold with the Height of the Line and How Medication Is Counted
This paper checks how much the share of people meant by the one phrase "people with hypertension" moves with t…
[M038] Heart Failure Deaths Rose Because of the Age Composition, While Its Share of Heart Disease Rose Because Acute Myocardial Infarction Fell Faster
This paper asks how far the rise of heart failure among heart disease deaths, and the rise of its share, can b…
[M037] The Three Types of Stroke Double with Age at Different Speeds
This paper asks how differently death rates rise with age for the three types of stroke — subarachnoid hemorrh…
[M036] The Year Cerebral Infarction Deaths Overtook Intracerebral Hemorrhage Depends on Whether One Looks at Counts or at Age-Standardized Rates
This paper asks whether the "reversal year," in which cerebral infarction overtook intracerebral hemorrhage am…
[M035] Heart Disease Deaths Fell by More Than a Tenth in Each of Two Years, 1994 and 1995
This paper asks by which types of heart disease and at which ages the sudden fall in heart disease deaths in t…
[M034] For Prostate Cancer, the Number Found and the Number Who Die Moved Separately
This paper asks whether, for prostate cancer, the rate of people newly found (incidence) and the rate of peopl…
[M033] The Peaks of Men's Liver Cancer Death Rates Line Up by Birth Year, While Those of Lung and Colorectal Cancer Line Up by Year
This paper asks whether the rise and fall of cancer death rates moves with people born in the same year or hap…
[M032] The Year Cancer Incidence Jumped, 2016, Is the Year the Registry System Changed
This paper asks how the large rise in cancer incidence in 2016 should be set beside movements in other years.…
[M031] Which Cancer Is "Most Common" Changes with How Sites Are Grouped
This paper asks whether which site is "the most common cancer" changes with how sites are grouped and whether…
[M030] Cancer Incidence Is Higher in Men Overall but Higher in Women at Ages 20–59
This paper asks how the difference in cancer incidence between men and women changes with age, and which sites…
[M029] Women's Cancer Incidence Takes Longer to Double with Age (17.7 Years) Than Men's (7.5 Years) Because Breast, Uterus, Ovary, and Thyroid Do Not Double with Age
This paper asks how cancer incidence rises with age — in particular, which sites follow the shape "doubling at…
[M028] About One in Three Cancers Is Found During Follow-Up of Another Disease
This paper asks by which route cancers are found — cancer screening, health checks, or checkups; during follow…
[M027] The Rise in Stomach Cancer 5-Year Survival Did Not Come from More People Found at Early Stages
This paper asks whether the 5-year survival that rose with year of diagnosis rose because "more people were fo…
[M026] Differences in 5-Year Survival Between Sites Split into Stage Mix and Stage-Specific Survival
This paper asks how differences in 5-year survival between cancer sites split into "at which stage more people…
[M025] The Year's Deaths Divided by Its New Cases (the MI Ratio) Is Not a Share of the Same People
This paper asks what the "mortality-to-incidence ratio" (MI ratio) published by the National Cancer Registry —…
[M024] Cancer Deaths Rose While the Age-Adjusted Rate Fell
This paper asks how, when the number of cancer deaths rose while the age-adjusted death rate fell, the gap bet…
[M023] A Reported 5-Year Survival Figure Describes People Diagnosed About Ten Years Before the Report
This paper asks how many years before the report the people behind a reported "5-year survival" figure were di…
[M022] The Share of Deaths with an Ill-Defined Cause Is 8.19 Times Higher at Home Than in Hospital, and Peaks at Ages 55–59
This paper asks how many deaths in cause-of-death statistics have an ill-defined cause, and how this differs b…
[M021] The Peak in the Number of Deaths Comes in 2040 Only If Age-Specific Rates Are Assumed to Keep Falling
This paper asks what lies inside "age-specific death rates fall, yet the number of deaths rises", and where th…
[M020] In 1950 the Leading Cause of Death Was Tuberculosis, but Adjusted to Today's Age Structure It Is Old Age, and Tuberculosis Is Fifth
This paper asks what carries the changes in the ranking of causes of death, told as "tuberculosis, then cerebr…
[M019] Men's 6.99-Year Doubling Time of the Death Rate Is a Mixture Ranging from Pneumonia at 4.80 Years to Liver Disease at 14.52
This paper asks, when M002's all-cause finding that "adult death rates double about every 7 years with age" is…
[M018] Japanese Women's Longevity Arises at Ages 65 and Over, and Japanese Men's Lead Shrank from 3.20 Years in 1990 to 1.23
This paper asks from which ages the content of "Japan, the country of long life" comes. Using the life tables…
[M017] Never-Married Men's Death Rate Is 0.65 Times the Married Rate Without Age Adjustment and 1.66 Times With It
This paper asks how much death rates differ by marital status (married, never married, widowed, divorced), and…