Sentences with phrase «average death rate»

Pinker calculated an annual average death rate from warfare in 27 recent nonstate societies as 524 per 100,000, about half of 1 percent.

They calculated the number of deaths from the flu in each country by subtracting the average death rate during the pandemic years from those of the years before and after.

The average death rate following the procedure, adjusted to take account of varying patient risk levels, was 4.03 percent, Carroll said.

An additional 2,000 deaths more than average were expected due to cold conditions between March 23 and 31, this winter's average death rates show.

Not exact matches

In Buffalo, New York, they found that cleaning the air to the level of the cleanest area would lower the average bronchitis death rate by 50 percent.

After a median four years of post-study follow - up, those in the least sedentary quartile (sitting a mean 649 minutes a day in typically 6.5 - minute bouts) had a dramatically lower rate of death from all causes than those in the most sedentary group (835 minutes at rest, in periods of relative motionless averaging just under 20 minutes each).

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Boxing and MMA can both be differentiated from other dangerous sports, such as ice hockey, motor racing, American football and rugby (which all have, on average, higher death rates) by the fact that, within the rules, inflicting physical violence on your opponent is the primary goal.

Death rates: The average life span of Christians is no better than that of non-Christians, including atheists.

Given that the average IMR for all of Oregon is 5.3 (and 6.5 MMR) there is no way that this is an accurate presentation of death rates.

Or is it that Oregon has a significantly lower fetal death rate than the US average?

Thirdly, the intrapartum death rate among normally formed infants weighing 1000 g was three times higher than the national average.

The perinatal death rate in infants weighing more than 2500 g was higher than the national average (5.7 versus 3.6 per 1000: relative risk 1.6; 1.1 to 2.4) as were intrapartum deaths not due to malformations or immaturity (2.7 versus 0.9 per 1000: 3.0; 1.9 to 4.8).

Wow, substantially worse than average for neonatal death rates, and extremely bad for maternal death rate.

SIDS deaths have historically been observed more frequently in the colder months, and the fewest SIDS deaths occurred in the warmest months.23 In 1992, SIDS rates had an average seasonal change of 16.3 %, compared with only 7.6 % in 1999,24 which is consistent with reports from other countries.25

«Even though Erie County jails have a suicide rate of five times the national average of all local jails, many of the 22 deaths under Tim Howard were not suicides, tragic as suicide may be, and preventable as it may be in many cases.»

After seeing a temporary decline in the death rate, the county is now averaging roughly 10 overdose - related deaths a week, he said.

7 The motor vehicle fatality rate in the United States — the average number of deaths per passenger - mile of driving — has dropped by roughly 80 percent in the past half century.

The combination of unprecedented heat, dryness, and suffocating haze doubled death rates to an average of 700 people a day.

Death rates from natural disasters rose over that period, reaching an average of more than 99,700 deaths per year, the study found.

Analyzing records from the National Trauma Data Bank, Haider and his colleagues separated 181 trauma centers from across the nation into three categories — low - mortality, or hospitals with lower - than - expected death rates (86 such centers); average (6); and high - mortality, or hospitals with higher - than - expected death rates (89).

It was estimated that, on average, these hospitals reduced their rate of death by 0.8 percent per year; reduced their rate of complications by 3.1 percent per year; and reduced their rate of surgical site infection by 2.6 percent per year (with respect to the prior year's rates).

Data on daily average temperature, death rates, and confounding variables (eg, humidity and air pollution) were used to calculate the temperature of minimum mortality (the optimal temperature), and to quantify total deaths due to non-optimal ambient temperature in each location.

On average, states allowing the medical use of marijuana have lower rates of deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses than states without such laws.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

Raging wildfires in western Russia have reportedly doubled average daily death rates in Moscow.

Many veterans die by suicide, often as a result of untreated PTSD, at a rate of 20 deaths each day on average.

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.

The mortality rates of these patients climbed at roughly the same rate, on average, with a steeper rise in deaths of patients admitted to the ICU for overdose after 2012.

Analysis showed the average county - level age - adjusted drug - related mortality rate was 16.6 deaths per 100,000 population, but there were substantial geographic differences with drug - related deaths reaching over 100 per 100,000 in some counties.

In addition, rates of patient death and cancer relapse among the study participants were similar to historical averages.

Across Europe as a whole, child mortality rates are substantially worse in Central Europe (average mortality rate 6.7 deaths per 1000 births) and Eastern Europe (average mortality rate 9.7 deaths per 1000 births); the UK's under - 5 mortality rate is comparable to that of Serbia and Poland.

Since it was first discovered in 1976, the virus has mainly affected remote villages in Africa, limiting the number of deaths associated with Ebola virus disease (EVD) despite the 50 % average fatality rate.

Average annual death rates as a percentage of the total population were calculated for societies in each war.

For instance, a nearly 1 percent average annual death rate for the Soviet Union during World War II versus near zero for India had more to do with India lying thousands of miles away from major theaters of war than population sizes, he argues.

We applied the average risk of death for continued smoking estimated from studies included in this review that reported survival curves to estimate the number of patients surviving after five years.16 17 We estimated five year survival in quitters at diagnosis by applying the death rate of continuing smokers multiplied by the reciprocal of the multivariate hazard ratio for all cause mortality presented in this review.

What they found was startling: those who ate the mostly plant - based foods (on average over a pound a day) had death rates 15 % lower than those eating fewer plants (less than half pound a day).

In countries where the average years of schooling is rising, maternal death rates are falling, too.

They do not have a higher number than average of centenarians (if any) and do not apparently have higher than (even post 50 year old to account for high infant death rate) average lifespans.

They do not have a higher number than average of centenarians (if any) and do not have higher than (even post 50 year old to account for high infant death rate) average lifespans.

Operating under new management in 2013 after the death of co-founder (and Beastie Boys member) Adam Yauch, Oscilloscope couldn't match is 67 % success rate of 2012, but still earned a fairly strong average Metascore.

Death rates from homicide are double the city average.

The IIHS also found 2005 - 08 model year Cobalts had the highest fatality rate in the small 4 door car class, with 117 deaths per million registered years compared to its class average of 71.

We're looking for cars that have a death rate significantly lower than the 28 deaths per million average.

In general, vehicles in this class typically have a lower overall death rate than the average, and the Santa Fe is no exception.

However, its overall death rate when it was last reported was a low eight per million miles traveled, which may say more about the average CC driver than its ability to withstand a crash.

It's also profoundly safe, with an overall death rate significantly lower than the average (the lowest in this class of cars, actually), a Top Safety Pick rating from the IIHS, and an overall five - star crash rating from NHTSA.

In the latest batch of data — which covers cars built between 2011 and 2014 — the average is 30, so we've focused on cars from the 2014 model year whose death rates are at least double that figure.

The average driver death rate for 1999 - 2002 models was 87 per million registered vehicle years.

Huge, 4 × 4 SUVs have a lower death rate than average.