Not exact matches
Similarly, results of a 2013 systematic review and meta - analysis found that diarrhoea incidence and
mortality were lower in infants and
children who were breastfed
compared to those that were not.
Maternal
mortality is increasingly high, Nigeria has one of the poorest maternal and
child health indices in the world with maternal 800-3000 deaths per 100,000 live births, life time risk of dying from pregnancy related complications of 1:8
compared to 1:10 in developing countries (Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2004).
«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased
mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie
Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Those with the most severe acute malnutrition have more than ten times increased
mortality, and those surviving may have impaired development,
compared to
children without malnutrition.
In particular,
child mortality was shown to be lower when the measles vaccine came after the third diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) vaccination, as recommend by the WHO,
compared to before DTP or given together with DTP.
There is no significant increase in the frequency of post-natal
mortality, birth defects and hospitalization rate among the
children of male cancer survivors
compared to the general population.
Further analyses show that graft failure and
mortality rates remained higher among minority groups
compared to white
children after accounting for differences in demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors.
Among these studies are studies on more than 19,000
children representing of 47,000 patient years of growth hormone treatment; a prospective study of 100 adult growth hormone — deficient patients followed for 1 to 4 years, a study of 910
children treated with growth hormone for 11 years, a study of 32 adults and
children followed for up to 40 years treated with growth hormone (average 10.8 years); a study of 180 growth hormone — treated
children followed for over 6 years with reduced cancer recurrence risk (RR 0.6); a prospective analysis of 289 growth hormone — deficient adults who, after 5 years of growth hormone therapy, showed lower risk of malignancy (RR 0.25) and decreased risk of myocardial infarction (RR 0.19) and early
mortality (RR 0.22)
compared with the untreated group.
Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3
mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal
children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that
children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population
compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11
German undergraduates were more likely to say they wanted at least one
child, and were more likely to use offspring - related words after
mortality priming
compared to controls [57].