Background Reliable and timely information on the leading causes of death in populations,
and how these are changing, is a crucial input into health policy debates. In the Global …

Background Non-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial consideration
in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The Global Burden of …

Background Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite metric
that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health. The …

Importance Understanding the major health problems in the United States and how they are
changing over time is critical for informing national health policy. Objectives To measure the …

▪ Objective: To describe the relative risk for serious gastrointestinal complications due to
nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) exposure among NSAID users as well …

Objective A high frequency of infections complicating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been
described in reports of case series. This retrospective longitudinal cohort study was undertaken …

Objective To determine whether systemic inflammation confers any additional risk for
cardiovascular death among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), after adjusting for traditional …

Objective To examine the risk of clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with age‐ and sex‐matched non‐RA subjects, and to …

Objective To examine trends in the incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
from 1995 to 2007. Methods To augment our preexisting inception cohort of patients with RA (…

Objective Interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been recognized as an important comorbidity in
rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We undertook the current study to assess incidence, predictors, …