从疾病预防控制中心 (CDC) WONDER-Insights为研究人员提供死亡的潜在原因和贡献原因
Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas1,2, Laurence S Sperling3, Sadeer Al-Kindi4
1Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America.
American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice
|February 3, 2025
概括
仅依靠潜在的死亡原因可能会低估死亡率数据. 利用潜在原因和有助于导致的原因,可以更完整地了解疾病控制和预防中心 (CDC WONDER) 流行病学研究广泛在线数据的死亡率统计数据.
科学领域:
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
背景情况:
- 疾病控制和预防中心的流行病学研究广泛在线数据 (CDC WONDER) 提供多种死亡原因 (MCD) 文件.
- 这些档案包括死亡的潜在原因和导致死亡的原因.
- 目前的研究往往只关注死亡的根本原因.
研究的目的:
- 评估死亡报告中的差异,只使用潜在原因,而不是潜在原因和有助于导致的原因.
- 评估报告方法对特定疾病的感知负担的影响.
主要方法:
- 从CDC WONDER (2011-2019) 中提取了所有原因和前5个潜在的死亡原因 (≥25年).
- 提取了前5个潜在原因的死亡人数,分为仅潜在的和潜在的或有助于的.
- 计算了根据每个方法报告的死亡百分比,以便进行比较.
主要成果:
- 在2011-2019年间,主要的潜在原因包括心脏病,恶性瘤,慢性下呼吸道疾病,脑血管疾病和事故.
- 报告的百分比 (潜在的/潜在的或有助于) 是:心脏病 (53%),恶性瘤 (91%),慢性下呼吸道疾病 (50%),脑血管疾病 (59%) 和事故 (79%).
结论:
- 仅仅依赖CDC WONDER MCD文件中的潜在死亡原因可能导致低估死亡率.
- 考虑有助于死亡的原因可以更全面地了解死亡率数据.
- 结果可以为未来的研究提供信息,并改善使用MCD数据的已发表研究的解释.
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