Patrycja Kolpak
University of Toronto
3 Papers
Patrycja Kolpak is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mortality rate & Verbal autopsy. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications.
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Divergent trends in ischaemic heart disease and stroke mortality in India from 2000 to 2015: a nationally representative mortality study
Calvin Ke,Rajeev Gupta,Denis Xavier,Dorairaj Prabhakaran,Prashant Mathur,Yogeshwar Kalkonde,Patrycja Kolpak,Wilson Suraweera,Prabhat Jha,Shazia Allarakha,Dharmappa Basavarajappa,Vikas Dhimar,Harsh Jaiswal,Shrikant Kalaska,Geetha Memon,Saritha Nair,Vishnu Vardhan Rao,Reeta Rasaily,Damodar Sahu,Shweta Sharma,Deepak Kumar Shukla,Jitenkumar Singh,Lucky Singh,Anju Sinha,Shally Awasthi,Jayant K. Banthia,Rajesh Dikshit,Rajesh Kumar,JS Thakur,Faujdar Ram,Usha Ram,Jay K Sheth,George D'Souza,Rehana Begum,Hellen Gelband +34 more
TL;DR: The increased mortality rates of ischaemic heart disease nationally and stroke in the northeastern states were higher in the cohorts of adults born in the 1970s onwards, than in earlier decades, and secondary prevention with effective and inexpensive long-term treatment and adult smoking cessation could prevent substantial numbers of premature deaths.
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Geospatial, racial, and educational variation in firearm mortality in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, 1990-2015: a comparative analysis of vital statistics data.
Anna J Dare,Hyacinth Irving,Carlos Manuel Guerrero-López,Leah K. Watson,Patrycja Kolpak,Luz Myriam Reynales Shigematsu,Marcos Sanches,David Gomez,Hellen Gelband,Prabhat Jha +9 more
TL;DR: Firearm mortality in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia is highest among young adult men, and is strongly associated with race and ethnicity, and low education levels, and countries could achieve the same firearm mortality rates nationally as in their lowest-burden states.
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Automated versus physician assignment of cause of death for verbal autopsies: randomized trial of 9374 deaths in 117 villages in India
Prabhat Jha,Dinesh Kumar,Rajesh Dikshit,Atul Budukh,Rehana Begum,Prabha Sati,Patrycja Kolpak,Richard Wen,Shyamsundar Raithatha,Utkarsh Shah,Zehang Richard Li,Lukasz Aleksandrowicz,Prakash Shah,Kapila Piyasena,Tyler H. McCormick,Hellen Gelband,Samuel J. Clark,Samuel J. Clark +17 more
TL;DR: Lay reporting of deaths paired with physician COD assignment of verbal autopsies, despite some limitations, remains a practicable method to document the patterns of mortality reliably for unattended deaths.