Background Since December 2019, when coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) emerged in
Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China, data have been needed on the clinical …

… Special thanks are given to the statistical team members Zheng Chen, Dong Han, Li, Zheng
Chen, Zhi-ying Zhan, Jin-jian Chen, Li-jun Xu and Xiao-han Xu (State Key Laboratory of …

All statistics are for the most recent year available. Prevalence, mortality and hospitalizations
are computed for 2003 unless otherwise noted. Mortality as an underlying or contributing …

Background Since December 2019, acute respiratory disease (ARD) due to 2019 novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China. We …

Background— The global burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) is unknown. Methods and Results—
We systematically reviewed population-based studies of AF published from 1980 to 2010 …

Background Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major clinical and public health problem.
Methods and Results United States (US) vital statistics mortality data from 1989 to 1998 were …

Background Measurement of the global burden of disease with disability-adjusted life-years
(DALYs) requires disability weights that quantify health losses for all non-fatal …

Flexible, highly sensitive, and low-cost pressure sensors are highly desirable in future
generations of portable and foldable devices. For example, flexible pressure sensors integrated …

In lower eukaryotes, Sir2 serves as a histone deacetylase and is implicated in chromatin
silencing, longevity, and genome stability. Here we mutated the Sirt1 gene, a homolog of yeast …

INTRODUCTION Protein-protein interactions play critical roles in biology, but the structures
of many eukaryotic protein complexes are unknown, and there are likely many interactions …