Sentences with phrase «death analysis group»

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«Among both groups, patients taking Entresto had a 20 % or greater reduction in cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalization compared to those taking enalapril,» Novartis said in a statement, citing conclusions based on analysis of data from the PARADIGM - HF study.

Sarah Palin and others have started rumors of an Obama «death panel» in which the elderly and mentally handicapped will be sentenced to death as a result of a public option, rumors that every reputable news organization and independent analysis group has denounced as ridiculous.

In this analysis, they found that there were no differences in neonatal deaths between the home birth and hospital birth groups.

One of the studies in the 2005 meta - analysis, conducted with high - risk women delivering at a hospital in India, was stopped early because of 4 fetal deaths: 3 in the nipple stimulation group, and 1 in the oxytocin induction group.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

In each analysis, we estimated the number of deaths attributable to smoking for each group we were comparing and then checked how much of the difference in total death rates could be explained by smoking.

According to a 2008 analysis by a separate Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health group, 21 percent of deaths in children younger than five are attributable to malnutrition worldwide.

While advantages in PFS and OS emerged in an overall meta - analysis of the entire group, the survival benefit associated with obesity was restricted to men treated with targeted or immunotherapies, where obese men had a 47 percent decreased risk of death compared to men with normal BMI.

Their statistical analysis of the results implied a 24 % reduction in the rate of coronary heart disease in the group taking the drug compared with the placebo group; however, nonheart disease deaths in the drug group increased — deaths from cancer, stroke, violence and suicide.7 Even the conclusion that lowering cholesterol reduces heart disease is suspect.

A new meta - analysis study from scientist at John's Hopkins and the Midwest Biomedical Research group revealed an 8 % reduction of cardiac death in omega - 3 fish oil users.

Determining a physician's solo practice loss of earnings following his wrongful death required analysis of both personal and corporate tax returns and various sources for physician income growth projections, including Medical Group Management statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI growth, and Bureau of Labor Statistics change in median weekly physician wage.

A good needs analysis also considers how much the death benefit from the life insurance policy is likely to earn if it's invested, says Larry Ginsburg of Ginsburg Financial Advisors in Oakland, Calif., and former longtime board member of the United Policyholders consumer advocacy group.

Due to the small numbers of deaths among Torres Strait Islander people in NSW, deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were considered as a group for the purpose of the analysis.

Douglas was only rated as weak on controlling for confounds as the study reported that the index group in this study were significantly more likely to be younger, live in a more deprived area and have experienced parental separation, divorce or death than the control group, yet these variables were not discussed in the method or controlled for in the analyses.