Sentences with phrase «cent of deaths caused»

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I will die earlier than my European and American friends and my cause of death is 33per cent more likely to be maternally related.

«Road crashes are the second leading cause of death for young men after HIV / Aids, and in some African countries more than 70 per cent of those killed on the roads are young breadwinners.

This causes the levels of these ions in the frogs» blood to fall by 20 and 50 per cent, respectively, leading to cardiac arrest and death.

He said that would translate into a five to six per cent reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.

The clear result of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular death by practically 25 per cent compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.

Alcohol addiction causes almost 3.8 per cent of deaths worldwide but a study led by QUT researchers offers new hope in the form of a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

According to his analysis, floods killed more people than any other type of disaster — 26 per cent of all deaths — and caused the most damage — 32 per cent of the total bill.

It calculated that if 23 tonnes of DU were inhaled — 8 per cent of the amount actually fired in the Gulf — this could cause «500 000 potential deaths».

Dr Harrison said cachexia, observed in the end stages of cancer, was thought to contribute or directly cause 20 to 30 per cent of all cancer - related deaths.

Schwartz's own analyses of hundreds of these urns and their contents have revealed that approximately 90 per cent of the human individuals represent stillbirths, spontaneous abortions and neonatal victims of natural deaths: in other words, they had died of natural causes before cremation, and were not blood killings.

About 25 per cent of injuries looked «fresh», so occurred near the time of death, hinting blows to the head were the cause (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, doi.org/cb5g).

Professor Peter Johnson, chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, said: «The thing we fear most about cancer is how it can spread around the body — this is what causes 90 per cent of all cancer deaths.

More than 80 per cent of preventable deaths up to the age of 19 are caused by accidents.

When asked what causes stress around 98 per cent of people cite (in no particular order) children, parents, death of a loved one, ill health, traffic, traffic offences, finances, work, targets, distressing news bulletins etc and around two per cent suggest it could be themselves.

Notwithstanding the 2016 Supreme Court ruling (2016 SCC 25), demand for scientific certainty sets a high bar in cases of occupational cancer, the number one cause of workplace death, and other work - related disease — particularly «when only one per cent of the 100,000 chemicals used in the workplace have been thoroughly tested for health risks.»

The report showed a significant improvement was made in closing the gap in the number of child deaths — the Indigenous rate decreased by 35 per cent over five years, however Indigenous Australians are three times more likely to die of an avoidable cause.

This is because CVD is the major cause of death for Aboriginal Australians and contributes 23 per cent of the excess burden.

The Canadian Red Cross says drowning is one of the leading causes of death in Canadian children one to four, and home swimming pools account for 38 per cent of toddler drowning deaths.