Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group_NEJM


	Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group_NEJM

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1-9-2008 11:07 PM

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Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/61260d43-5216-4263-bf2c-79c280a2a5b7/9461D87F-44BB-4810-BDD9-0E7545394AC2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0707782" href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0707782" style="font-size: 11px;">content.nejm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0707782"><I>Background</I> Estimates of the death toll in Iraq from the time<SUP> </SUP>of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 until June 2006 have<SUP> </SUP>ranged from 47,668</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0707782">to 601,027</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0707782"><P>
<FONT face="arial, helvetica"><I>Results</I> Interviewers visited 89.4% of 1086 household clusters<SUP> </SUP>during the study period; the household response rate was 96.2%.<SUP> </SUP>From January 2002 through June 2006, there were 1325 reported<SUP> </SUP>deaths. After adjustment for missing clusters, the overall rate<SUP> </SUP>of death per 1000 person-years was 5.31 (95% confidence interval<SUP> </SUP>[CI], 4.89 to 5.77); the estimated rate of violence-related<SUP> </SUP>death was 1.09 (95% CI, 0.81 to 1.50). When underreporting was<SUP> </SUP>taken into account, the rate of violence-related death was estimated<SUP> </SUP>to be 1.67 (95% uncertainty range, 1.24 to 2.30). This rate<SUP> </SUP>translates into an estimated number of violent deaths of 151,000<SUP> </SUP>(95% uncertainty range, 104,000 to 223,000) from March 2003<SUP> </SUP>through June 2006.<SUP> </SUP></FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9461D87F-44BB-4810-BDD9-0E7545394AC2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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