Sentences with phrase «death rates associated»

One of the few bright spots has been a decrease in the death rate associated with cancer (more on that later).

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Vegetarian diets have been linked with reductions in risk for several chronic diseases, including hypertension, but a new study has claimed that they are also associated with reduced death rates.

The expectation is that if labour doesn't progress at a certain rate that there are risks (infection, maternal exhaustion, fetal death) associated with further waiting; that the longer labour stalls the less likely it is to start progressing normally (if the baby is too stuck to move after two hours of labour, it's probably too stuck to move after two days of labour) and there are no benefits to a long labour.

The actual rates haven't changed but the associated deaths linked to maternity have expanded.

The authors concluded that the decision to plan a birth attended by a registered midwife at home versus in the hospital was associated with very low and comparable rates of perinatal death.

SUDDEN INFANT death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden death of an infant, unexpected by history and unexplained by a thorough postmortem examination, including a complete autopsy, death scene investigation, andreview of the medical history.1 The decreased risk of SIDS associated with nonprone sleep positions led to the recommendation in 1992 by the American Academy of Pediatrics that infants be placed to sleep on the side or back.2 In 1994, the national public education campaign «Back to Sleep» was launched, and the supine position is now recommended.3 Sudden infant death syndrome rates in the United States have decreased by about 40 % as prone prevalence has decreased from 70 % in 1992 to 17 % in 1998.3,4

Rates of obstetrical intervention are high in U.S. hospitals, and we found large absolute differences in the risks of these interventions between planned out - of - hospital births and in - hospital births.38 In contrast, serious adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes are infrequent in all the birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analyses.

Planned out - of - hospital birth was associated with a higher rate of perinatal death than was planned in - hospital birth (3.9 vs. 1.8 deaths per 1000 deliveries, P = 0.003; odds ratio after adjustment for maternal characteristics and medical conditions, 2.43; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.37 to 4.30; adjusted risk difference, 1.52 deaths per 1000 births; 95 % CI, 0.51 to 2.54).

When deaths associated with congenital anomalies were excluded, the intrapartum and neonatal mortality rate was 0.9 per 1,000; the neonatal mortality was 0.2 per 1,000.

Planned out - of - hospital birth was associated with a higher rate of perinatal death than was planned in - hospital birth (3.9 versus 1.8 deaths per 1,000 deliveries, p = 0.003; OR after adjustment for maternal characteristics and medical conditions, 2.43; 95 % CI: 1.37 to 4.30; adjusted risk difference, 1.52 deaths per 1,000 births; 95 % CI: 0.51 to 2.54).

Compared with intermittent auscultation, continuous cardiotocography showed no significant improvement in overall perinatal death rate (risk ratio (RR) 0.86, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.59 to 1.23, n = 33,513, 11 trials), but was associated with a halving of neonatal seizures (RR 0.50, 95 % CI 0.31 to 0.80, n = 32,386, nine trials).

CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals --- contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.

Breast cancer survival rates have increased, and the number of deaths associated with this disease is steadily declining, largely due to factors such as earlier detection, a new personalized approach to treatment and a better understanding of the disease.

The decision to plan a birth attended by a registered midwife at home versus in hospital was associated with very low and comparable rates of perinatal death.

Our study showed that planned home birth attended by a registered midwife was associated with very low and comparable rates of perinatal death and reduced rates of obstetric interventions and adverse maternal outcomes compared with planned hospital birth attended by a midwife or physician.

Higher rates of prelabor cesarean delivery are associated with lower perinatal death rates and both prelabor cesarean and labor induction are associated with late preterm birth.2 But it made me wonder how the overall changes compared to the United States.

«Pregnancy - associated melanoma is associated with higher death rates: Study sought to investigate histopathology, staging, risk factors, and outcomes of cutaneous melanoma in women younger than 50.»

In other words, generally speaking, performing a higher volume of TAVR procedures was associated with a lower death rate, he said.

«Cold weather, fewer sun hours are associated with increased rates of alcoholic cirrhosis: Alcoholic cirrhosis is a disease which causes nearly half a million deaths every year.»

The authors also found health care reform was associated with a passing increase in the adjusted mortality rate that accounted for as many as 604 excess deaths during four years.

Previously, typhoid fever had killed about 25 out of 100,000 people in the U.S. annually, a death rate close to that now associated with automobile accidents.

They found that both short - and long - term PM2.5 exposure was significantly associated with higher death rates, even when restricted to zip codes and times with annual exposures below EPA standards.

There was no evidence that C. auris was associated with increased rates of death when adjusting for age, sex and the reason the patient had been originally admitted to the ward.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death among homeless people, probably because they have a high rate of traditional risk factors such as smoking or undiagnosed or untreated hypertension, diabetes or high cholesterol, combined with the stress and low socio - economic status associated with homelessness.

«Marijuana use associated with lower death rates in patients with traumatic brain injuries.»

In patients likely to have surgery, close, active monitoring of small renal tumors confined to the kidneys is associated with low rates of tumor growth or death, according to a study by a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published in the September issue of The Journal of Urology.

The study found no real effect of winter weather in recent years on adult survival, however cold and wet autumns were associated with a higher death rate.

Studies associating urban death rates with air pollution have since drawn a tighter and tighter circle around fine particulate matter.

While deaths from infectious diseases have been steadily declining as a result of research and medical intervention, preterm birth has remained a much more difficult problem, say the authors of a recent study that collated child mortality rates and their associated causes between 2000 and 2013.

But while researchers suspect that deaths caused by NTM have also risen, the mortality rate and associated risk factors have remained unknown.

An analysis that included information from more than 57,000 screening colonoscopies suggests that higher adenoma detection rates may be associated with up to 50 percent to 60 percent lower lifetime colorectal cancer incidence and death without higher overall costs, despite a higher number of colonoscopies and potential complications, according to a study in the June 16 issue of JAMA.

Rather, African Americans had higher rates of bleeding and death if they carried either of two other variants: CYP1A2 * 1C or CYP2C19 * 17, the latter of which has been associated with the rapid metabolism of clopidogrel.

Child abuse, parental divorce and parental death, where shown to be associated with higher rates of adult insomnia.

The study results, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, suggest the thicker thread is associated with a three-fold increase in rate of baby death in the womb when compared to the thinner thread, and is associated with an increased rate of premature birth.

However, among African Americans treated with clopidogrel, the CYP2C19 * 2 variant was not associated with a higher rate of death.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Health.

It is an estimation of the current (as of 2000) existing rate of annual deaths reasonably attributable to climate change, albeit from a limited subset of climate - related health impacts: malaria due to an increase in the geographic range of disease - bearing mosquitoes, malnutrition associated with loss of agricultural productivity, water - borne diarrheal diseases, and deaths from flooding, McMichael says.

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).

Researchers are urging surgeons to reconsider using a particular type of thread for a procedure to prevent premature birth, after new research found this thread was associated with an increased rate of premature birth and baby death compared with a thinner thread.

Since it was first discovered in 1976, the virus has mainly affected remote villages in Africa, limiting the number of deaths associated with Ebola virus disease (EVD) despite the 50 % average fatality rate.

Bivalirudin was associated with a significantly lower rate of death, which occurred in 1.7 percent of patients receiving bivalirudin and 2.3 percent of patients in the control group.

The researchers are looking at the growing population of adults with heart defects to determine which defects are associated with the highest rates of infection as well as serious complications or death when an infection occurs.

While the successful public health campaign to improve infant sleep environments has long been associated with declines in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), an analysis of 30 years of data by researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Dana - Farber Cancer Institute suggests that Back - to - Sleep is one of several trends that explain the reduced rates of SIDS.

«We could then look at how exposure to particulates changed from year to year and to see if they were associated with higher death rates.

Overall, there was an estimated 3.2 percent decrease in annual infant mortality rates, or 750 fewer infant deaths per year, associated with the tax increase, the study revealed.

2011 — Collaborators in Kenya investigate impact of initiating ART for patients co-infected with HIV and Tuberculosis — Researchers concluded that while earlier ART did not reduce the rate of new AIDS - defining illness and death, it was associated with a lower rate of new AIDS - defining illnesses and death.

We have shown, in a meta - analysis of the literature, that the very early deaths in dogs from large breeds are to an important extent the result of developmental diseases associated with the extremely high growth rates that have been co-selected with size.

In 1975, Rowland Philips compared Seventh - Day Adventists physicians, who do not eat meat, with non-Seventh Day Adventist physicians, and found that the vegetarian doctors had higher rates of gastrointestinal and colon - rectal cancer deaths.10 National Cancer Institute data show that Argentina, with very high levels of beef consumption, has significantly lower rates of colon cancer than other western countries where beef consumption is considerably lower.11 A 1997 study published in the International Journal of Cancer found that increased risk of colon and rectal cancer was positively associated with consumption of bread, cereal dishes, potatoes, cakes, desserts and refined sugars, but not with eggs or meat.12 And a 1978 study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found no greater risk of colon cancer, regardless of the amounts of beef or other meats ingested.13 The study also found that those who ate plenty of cruciferous vegetables, such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts and broccoli, had lower rates of colon cancer.

While vegan diets have been positively associated with overall health, studies show that individuals who follow any kind of vegetarian eating pattern have a reduced risk of death from all causes as well as lower rates of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

Is whole grain intake associated with reduced total and cause - specific death rates in older women?