Sentences with phrase «cent of the deaths resulting»

According to the World Health Organization, older adults who live at home face disproportionally high fatality rates during natural disasters as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina where 71 per cent of the deaths resulting from that disaster involved people over 60 years of age.

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Seventy per cent of treatment delays and «sentinel events,» or unexpected situations resulting in death or serious injury, are the result of communication breakdowns.

The lack of or inadequate breastfeeding practices alone result in almost 12 per cent of all deaths among children under age 5.1

Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in males with over 40,000 cases reported every year in the UK with 25 per cent of cases resulting in death.

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.

The team's results show that foreign GHG mitigation — i.e. other countries implementing policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (such as the 2015 Paris Agreement)-- contributed 15 per cent of the total PM2.5 - related and 62 per cent of the total O3 - related deaths avoided.

The results revealed the thicker thread was associated with increased rate of intrauterine death compared to the thinner thread (15 per cent compared to 5 per cent).

More than 11,000 deaths occurred as a result of that outbreak, with a high mortality rate of the disease estimated at around 60 per cent.

«Increased ITN coverage in Kenya has resulted in 44 per cent fewer deaths in children, and increases in the birth weight of babies, according to preliminary data from the Malaria Control Department of the Kenyan Ministry of Health, announced at a meeting in Nairobi last week (16 August).»