Sentences with phrase «death rates as»

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

In most settings, treatment is effective less than 40 percent of the time, with death rates as high as 80 percent for patients who also have HIV.

Ebola and the closely related Marburg viruses are highly contagious, causing vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding with death rates as high as 90 percent.

Moreover, I learned thatformula - fed babies suffer twice the infant death rate as exclusively breastfed infants.

«All patients suffering from blockage of an artery in the heart or brain should receive 325 mg regular aspirin promptly and daily aspirin thereafter to reduce their death rate as well as subsequent heart attacks and strokes,» said Hennekens.

If they were killed or they displaced other cats who were killed, that puts the overall death rate as high as 99 % for cats.

There are about 2,000 annual avoidable Aboriginal deaths out of a population about 670,000 Indigenous Australians (an avoidable death rate as a percentage of population of 0.4 % pa, similar to that in impoverished South Asia; it was 1.8 % pa in 2000, twice that in sub-Saharan Africa).

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The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

«If hand hygiene compliance rates increased by 8.7 percentage points across the board during a typical work shift, this could potentially eliminate as many as 1.2 million infections per year, save up to $ 25 billion, and prevent up to 70,000 unnecessary deaths in the United States,» reports Knowledge@Wharton.

In the coming decades, as baby - boomers hit old age, the annual death rate will climb from 8.3 per 1,000 people today to 10.2 by 2050 in America, from 10.6 to 13.7 in Italy and from 9.1 to 12.8 in Spain.

Higher rates of death and cardiovascular disease were seen among those with high sodium intake, defined as higher than 6,000 mg a day.

As long as you continue to pay the premium on time, your rate and death benefit are locked in and guaranteed to stay the samAs long as you continue to pay the premium on time, your rate and death benefit are locked in and guaranteed to stay the samas you continue to pay the premium on time, your rate and death benefit are locked in and guaranteed to stay the same.

These changes are not significantly affected by economic developments, with the exception of changes in the interest rate forecast on federal employees» future benefits, such as pensions, death benefits, etc..

At certain points during the term of coverage, such as your birthdays, you can increase the policy's death benefit and premiums will be determined using your initial health rating.

From the ascension of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901, as Prof. Himmelfarb shows, the crime rate, the poverty rate, and the rate of illegitimate births were not just stable, but actually declining.

The New York Times reports that Angus Deaton and Ann Case, two Princeton economists, have identified increases in suicide and drug and alcohol related deaths among high school educated white Americas as the cause for a remarkable spike in the overall death rate for....

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.

Patients displayed considerable heterogeneity in their ratings of health states relative to death... but significant percentages of patients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse than death.

At any rate, it was left to Christian theologians of the last two centuries to expressly try, in one way or another, to «overcome theism,» and only in our own time have there been theologies of «radical demythologizing» and of «the death of God,» as well as various attempts to salvage religious discourse by interpreting it exhaustively in noncognitive terms.

That said, it would be a mistake to ignore the much - greater impact of increased death rates on lower - achieving whites (and the even yet higher, although still decreasing, absolute death rates among African - Americans) as though changing death rates matter all of a sudden because they also affect more highly - educated whites.

If the United States had the same homicide rate as Japan, our l966 death toll from guns would have been 32 instead of 6,855.

The big puzzle left unanswered by Case and Deaton is the «why» question: Why have the rates of these types of death increased for this age group of white Americans, but have continued to decline for Hispanics and African Americans (although the absolute death rate for African Americans remains shockingly high even as overall death rates decline), and have continued to decline for Europeans?

In modern day Sri Lanka, Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among adults, and coconut oil is usually implicated as a reason for this high rate of CVD.

According to the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, babies that sleep on their stomachs suffer far greater rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) otherwise known as «cot death.&rDeath Syndrome (SIDS) otherwise known as «cot death.&rdeath.»

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

Breastfed babies have only ⅕ the rate of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) as babies who are bottle - fed and not given pacifiers for comfort nursing.

The regulars here are pretty up on these things and the most recent studies of homebirth have as far as I know have universally shown the homebirth has at least 3x the perinatal death rate of similar risk hospital birth.

There were 200 times as many hospital births as homebirths, so even if a massive proportion of homebirth attempts ended in a live hospital birth, it would have NO IMPACT on the overall rate of hospital birth death or hospital live birth.

Therefore, as far as I can determine, there were 3 maternal deaths attributable to pregnancy in the entire study, 2 in the homebirth group and one in the hospital group, for a death rate of 2/100, 000 in each group.

In fact, the authors go so far as to deliberately obfuscate the increased neonatal death rate at homebirth.

There was a low rate of caesarean section, postpartum haemorrhage and third degree perinatal tears as well as low rates of stillbirth and early neonatal death in this sample of women and babies.

If Bella Vie has hosted 500 births (roughly the same number as a quiet month in a major OB unit) and had one death, their neonatal death rate is 2 in 1,000.

Amazon seems to have missed the point that Finland's 80 - year - old scheme was designed to reduce cot deaths and infant mortality rates, and tackle poverty and inequality, not act as a free sampling service for the baby feeding and products industries.

As the overall rate of under - five mortality has declined, the proportion of neonatal deaths (during the first month of life) comprises an increasing proportion of all child deaths.

When infants are not optimally breastfed they are at risk for increased illness such as higher rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes and even death.

Also, a study that says, «three times the death rate... but as safe or safer than...» (without putting enough qualifiers there to prevent cognitive dissonance) suggests a bias.

Based on those charts you could hypothesize that a c - section rate between 22 - 30 % is the «sweet spot» as it correlates with the lowest rates of death per 1000 live births.

Still, all first - world countries have a maternal death rate somewhere on the order of one in 10,000 births, so you can use that as a general number.

Many studies have shown that homebirth has as much as 3 times the death rate of hospital births.

As I discussed in yesterday's post (New analysis from Arizona shows — yet again — that homebirth triples the neonatal death rate), the authors of the analysis, after demonstrating that homebirth increases the risk of neonatal death by a factor of three reach a bizarre conclusion:

And also, as far as death rates go, read this article.

In her role as Director of Research of MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America) she heads a vigorous effort to hide the appallingly high death rate of the 24,000 planned homebirths in MANA's own database.

But there were 200 times as many hospital births as homebirths, so even if a massive proportion of homebirth attempts ended in a live hospital birth, it would have NO IMPACT on the overall rate of hospital birth death or hospital live birth.

All three conspired to commit what amounts to fraud: for many years they have been deliberately hiding that homebirth with a homebirth midwife has an appalling neonatal death rate both in Oregon and in the country as a whole.

These studies were from Australasia, 13 14 Europe, 15 — 18 and the United States.19 Australian planned home births had a perinatal death rate about twice as high as these countries (table 5).

It's just stunning that in a world as rich as this one, there are still countries with 100 times the maternal death rate of Western countries.

The three recent papers published in American Journal of ObGyn: Wax metaanalysis (2010), Chervenak (2013), Grunebaum **** (see note at bottom)(Apgar 0, 2013) and the U.K. Birth Place study (2013) report perinatal death rates from homebirth as 3 times or 10 times higher than perinatal death rates in the first week than hospital birth.

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).

A massive death rate in childbirth wouldn't prevent us from surviving as a species, either.