Sentences with phrase «although death rates»

Drowning is still the second leading cause of death in children from 1 to 19 years of age, although death rates from drowning fell between 1985 and 2006, according the the AAP's News Room Highlights.

There are numerous truck - related accidents in the state of Delaware, although the death rate from such accidents seems to be fairly low compared to some other states.

Not exact matches

Non-Hispanic black (NHB) women «continued to have higher breast cancer death rates than [non-Hispanic white] women, with rates 39 % higher in NHB women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»

The death rate for this virus stands at around 55 % and although medics can treat the symptoms, it is incurable.

That said, it would be a mistake to ignore the much - greater impact of increased death rates on lower - achieving whites (and the even yet higher, although still decreasing, absolute death rates among African - Americans) as though changing death rates matter all of a sudden because they also affect more highly - educated whites.

The big puzzle left unanswered by Case and Deaton is the «why» question: Why have the rates of these types of death increased for this age group of white Americans, but have continued to decline for Hispanics and African Americans (although the absolute death rate for African Americans remains shockingly high even as overall death rates decline), and have continued to decline for Europeans?

A study published in the Dec. 2015 issue of Birth showed that, although Home Births After Cesarean (HBAC) have high success rates, when a uterine rupture does occur, perinatal death is more likely.

Conclusions and Implications for Public Health Practice: Although the annual rate is declining, unintentional injury remains the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States, led by motor vehicle traffic — related deaths.

Although home birthed infant deaths are relatively low, death rates among babies that are birthed at home are double or triple that of hospital births.

Despite a 56 % decrease in the national incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) from 1.2 deaths per 1000 live births in 19921 to 0.53 death per 1000 live births in 2003,2 SIDS continues to be the leading cause of postneonatal mortality in the United States.3 The decreased rate of SIDS is largely attributed to the increased use of the supine sleep position after the introduction of the «Back to Sleep» campaign in 1994.4 - 7 More recently, it has been suggested that the decrease in the SIDS rate has leveled off coincident with a plateau in the uptake of the supine sleep position.8 Although caretakers should continue to be encouraged to place infants on their backs to sleep, other potentially modifiable risk factors in the sleep environment should be examined to promote further decline in the rate of SIDS.

Although our perinatal death rate lies well within the rates described in other population - based studies, it deserves ongoing monitoring in view of the small numbers of births it is based on to date.

Although there is no specific evidence for moving an infant to his or her own room before 1 year of age, the first 6 months are particularly critical, because the rates of SIDS and other sleep - related deaths, particularly those occurring in bed - sharing situations, are highest in the first 6 months.

In 1986, 2 years before these data were collected, the United States ranked 16th (3.6 / 1000) in postneonatal death, well below Finland (first; 1.8 / 1000) and Sweden (second; 2.0 / 1000).24 The US breastfeeding prevalence in 1986 was 57 % at birth and 22 % at 6 months, 25 whereas in Finland and Sweden, the prevalence at 6 months then was still ~ 60 % and 50 %, respectively.26 Although the United States still trails the Nordic countries both in breastfeeding and in postneonatal mortality, the US rate of postneonatal death has fallen steadily between the late 1980s and now, and breastfeeding has increased.

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.

The study by researchers in Italy and Switzerland predicts that although the actual number of deaths from all cancers in the European Union will continue to rise due to growing populations and numbers of elderly people, the rate of cancer deaths will continue to decline overall, with some notable exceptions: lung cancer in women and pancreatic cancer in both sexes.

Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.

Professor La Vecchia said: «There is a moderate fall in deaths rates in female lung cancer in the UK, although UK rates are still higher than in other EU countries, except Denmark, as British women started to smoke earlier.

Although pancreatic cancer is relatively rare, accounting for about 3 percent of all the cases of cancer in the United States, it has an extremely high mortality rate so it accounts for about 7 percent of all cancer deaths.

Although rates of child deaths reduced dramatically — from 77 · 4 to 45 · 6 per 1000 livebirths — between 2000 and 2013, the authors» projections show that, if current trends continue, in 2030 4 · 4 million children under five years will still die, and 60 % of these deaths will occur in sub-Saharan Africa.

Although those studies show a correlation over time between the passage of medical marijuana laws and opioid overdose death rates, they do not provide any evidence that the laws caused the reduction in deaths.

Also, septic patients with evidence of cytomegalovirus in plasma, a component of blood, had significantly higher 90 - day death rates than septic patients who tested negative for the virus, although it is not clear whether the cytomegalovirus contributed to the additional deaths.

Although the rate, according to the latest U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, is relatively low — about 17.8 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2011 — it has steadily crept up from 10.0 per 100,000 live births in 1990.

Although the overall mortality rate of HIV has dropped significantly since the introduction of antiretroviral therapies in the 1990s, there were 2.1 million new HIV infections and 1.2 million HIV - related deaths in 2015.

Although infection rates dropped dramatically with the vaccine, pertussis has recently returned with dangerous fervor: 2012 was the country's worst year for pertussis since 1959, with more than 38,000 cases reported nationally, 16 deaths of infants and children, and large spikes in every state except California.

Although the average consent rate within each donor service area, when accounting for the race / ethnicity and other factors among the eligible deaths, was between 75 and 80 percent, the consent rates fell below 70 percent in nearly a quarter of the donor service areas.

Although heart disease and stroke death rates among men have dropped steadily over the last 25 years, women's rates have fallen at a much slower rate.

«Although this does not sound like a big drop in the death rate, the impact of it is revealed when we compared low -, moderate - and high - fit individuals to the least fit, who achieved less or equal to four METs,» Kokkinos said.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Health.

Also, although long - term studies of living kidney donors have reported low rates of premature death and kidney failure, personalized estimates based on donor characteristics have not previously been available.

In the UK, although the rate of child deaths per 1000 births declined overall between 1990 and 2013, but the rate of decline has slowed, and in 2000 - 2013 was half that seen in the previous decade (1990 - 2000).

Although, by international standards, the UK has very low rates of deaths in children, the figures show that within western Europe, the UK has a higher rate of deaths in children than nearly every other country in the region.

They found that although the number of bacteria living inside the fish was much lower in vaccinated fish, they showed many more signs of infection and a higher death rate compared with the unvaccinated group upon exposure to the sea lice.

Although incidence and death rates are now low, stomach cancer remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in black,...

Although the number of deaths from prostate cancer continues to decline among all men, the death rate remains more than twice as high in black men than any other group.

Although the two towns are just a mile apart, they continued to show the same dramatic disparity in congestive heart failure and overall death rates for the next few decades.

A new report finds that although maternal death rates across the globe...

The cardiovascular death rate, meanwhile, was more than twice as high among the men in the first month after diagnosis than it was among cancer - free men, although it was just 9 % higher over the course of the whole year.

Although the 9.7 percent death rate attributed to the flu is above the CDC's epidemic threshold, it has not reached the peaks seen in 2012 - 2013 and 2014 - 2015, the agency said.

Although the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest cigarette smokers and although their consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedAlthough the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest cigarette smokers and although their consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedalthough their consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedalthough they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9447397

These delights contain theobromine which, although harmless to humans, can be lethal to your dog, resulting in increased heart rate, shaking, seizure, and death.

Although treatment to break down or remove the clot is available, the high treatment costs of the procedure, death during administration of the drugs and high recurrence rate of thromboembolism dissuades most from attempting this type of therapy.

Although the chart shows that deaths due to heroin are likely to occur three times more amongst men than women, the rate at which women are dying is rising much faster.

While a 2011 US Department of Justice study found that although Taser use reduced rates of injury the use of Tasers was still associated injury and death.

Although many modern vehicles come equipped with side impact airbags, this safety precaution may do little to prevent serious injury or death depending on either vehicle's rate of speed at the time of impact, the size of each car, and if the impact occurred in the car's «crumple zones.»

Although we have authority to deflect cases to the Court of Appeals, which relieves much of the load, the more difficult and complex cases, plus all cases involving constitutional questions, death penalty, first impressions, newly developing law and a whole litany of special subjects (election contests, utility rates, annexations, bar and judicial discipline matters, etc.) are assigned to our Court.

New Jersey is among the best states in the country as far as life expectancy is concerned, and, although cancer is a leading cause of death in Union county, this county has some of the lowest cancer rates in the state.

If you're shopping for life insurance after age 70, you may still be able to obtain life insurance without a medical exam, although your death benefit will likely be capped at $ 25,000, and your rates will be higher.

Although the interest rate on annuities will move in tandem with the declining interest rate scenario, annuities that don't have a death benefit have the highest payout.

Avoidable death rates among the Maori, for example, are estimated to be almost double those of Europeans or other New Zealanders.3 Many indigenous people have one or more of a complex set of interlocking chronic diseases from a comparatively early age.9 Although these diseases are diagnosable and treatable, at least some of this avoidable mortality remains underdiagnosed and undertreated.