Estimating Overall and Cause-Specific Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Methodological Approaches Compared.

Int J Environ Res Public Health · 2023 · PMC10252246 · PMID 37297545

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On the other hand, mortality due to neurologic and mental disorders (mainly accounted in Italy by dementia and neurodegenerative diseases) showed an increasing trend.

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Table 2 shows the results of the GEE models applied to the pre-pandemic time-series data of monthly age-standardized mortality rates: a decreasing trend for all-cause, circulatory, and cancer mortality and an increasing trend for neurological and mental disorders could be confirmed.

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