Sentences with phrase «death rates drop»

Thus, the US maternal death rate dropped from 1000 in 100,000 to 10 in 100,000 deliveries in less than 90 years.

But according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, accidental death rates dropped among all age groups in 2009, the latest year for which data is available — except among babies younger than 1 year.

A new report released by the American Cancer Society has some good news for women everywhere: Between 1989 and 2015, the breast cancer death rate dropped nearly 40 percent, preventing 322,600 deaths.

If a participant had eight sexual episodes monthly, the death rate was reduced by 36 percent, but the more sex participants had, the more the death rate dropped.

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In England they found that «cleaning the air to the level of cleanliness enjoyed by the area with the best air [in the UK] would mean a 40 percent drop in the bronchitis death rate among males.»

The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

Had pre-Roe abortions been so very dangerous, we would have expected a sharp drop - off in the death rate among women after Roe.

I suspect that the number of deaths attributed communist dictators is a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 90 % death rate of indigenous Americans when Christian explorers arrived in the New World.

The rate of deaths from SIDS has dropped dramatically since 1992, when the AAP began recommending that infants be placed on their backs for sleep.

My country has over the last five years seen c - section rate rise steadily to over 30 %, and maternal mortality rate drop significantly from 21 to 14 deaths per 100 000 births.

Since the campaign began, SIDS death rates have dropped by 50 % (see figure).

While the rate of death in kids from unintentional injuries has dropped, deaths from suffocation and poisoning has risen.

Between 1997 and 2009, the rate of deaths dropped 45 % for children under the age of 16 but it is still the leading cause of death in children over the age of 4.

After the AAP first published guidelines on safe infant sleep habits in 1992, the SIDS rate dropped over 50 percent from 1.2 deaths per 1,000 live births that year to 0.57 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2001, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While the rate of deaths in motor vehicle crashes in children under age 16 has decreased substantially — dropping 45 percent between 1997 and 2009 — it is still the leading cause of death for children ages 4 and older.

While this has helped the rate of deaths from SIDS drop by close to forty percent, it has also caused a rise in cranial asymmetry — or in plain English — misshapen heads.

The death rate in the overall population started dropping at the end of the 1800s, and it dropped most dramatically during the first few decades of the 20th century.

Smoking rates have dropped in recent years, but cigarettes remain the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S., and electronic cigarettes pose a new danger, says Dr. Leslie Kohman, professor of surgery and director of outreach for the Upstate Cancer Center.

7 The motor vehicle fatality rate in the United States — the average number of deaths per passenger - mile of driving — has dropped by roughly 80 percent in the past half century.

Semmelweis concocted a solution for cleansing hands after autopsies; the puerperal fever death rate then dropped dramatically.

Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.

In recent years, HIV / AIDS has been imposing a lower burden as death rates have dropped and treatments have improved.

In fact the death rate among drivers over 80 has dropped in Florida since the state passed a law requiring vision tests for drivers over 80.

That increase came even as rates of colon and rectal tumors and deaths dropped in people 50 and older, researchers report online March 1 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

According to the National Cancer Institute, since mammography screening became widespread in the mid-1980s, the U.S. breast cancer death rate, unchanged for the previous 50 years, has dropped 36 percent.

For one thing, tornado death rates have dropped dramatically in the past century, thanks to radar and other warning technologies.

Although the overall mortality rate of HIV has dropped significantly since the introduction of antiretroviral therapies in the 1990s, there were 2.1 million new HIV infections and 1.2 million HIV - related deaths in 2015.

Although infection rates dropped dramatically with the vaccine, pertussis has recently returned with dangerous fervor: 2012 was the country's worst year for pertussis since 1959, with more than 38,000 cases reported nationally, 16 deaths of infants and children, and large spikes in every state except California.

According to National Cancer Institute data, since mammography screening became widespread in the mid-1980s, the U.S. breast cancer death rate has dropped 35 percent.

Although heart disease and stroke death rates among men have dropped steadily over the last 25 years, women's rates have fallen at a much slower rate.

«Although this does not sound like a big drop in the death rate, the impact of it is revealed when we compared low -, moderate - and high - fit individuals to the least fit, who achieved less or equal to four METs,» Kokkinos said.

The researchers said other factors, in addition to better air quality, could also contribute to the drops in death rates from respiratory diseases — a limitation of any retrospective analysis of health - environmental associations in ecological studies.

Death rates in Philadelphia and around the country dropped in general because of better health care.

And while decreasing lung cancer death rates are encouraging, many countries have yet to implement the kinds of comprehensive tobacco control measures that have led to drops in other countries.»

Chapman's team also found that the rate of gun deaths dropped rapidly after 1996.

Death rates for each major category of childhood cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third of 1 percent of cancer deaths occur in children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination of childhood cancer deaths would have little impact on overall cancer mortality.

Death rates have dropped in recent decades; the chance is now 1 in 37 that a woman will die from breast cancer.

However, cancer death rates are dropping overall, driven largely by a reduction in the number smokers in the US.

In fact, the death rate for women and older people dropped slightly.

While the death rate has been dropping in recent decades, it remains one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in the U.S.

In the European Union, the ovarian cancer death rate fell 10 percent, though some countries saw far more significant drops.

Denmark and Sweden each saw a drop of 24 percent in their death rate from ovarian cancer, the researchers said.

Thanks to prevention, early detection, and a drop in smoking rates, overall cancer deaths have dropped 1.5 percent every year since 2003, the CDC reports.

Almost 1,700 people were murdered in New York City the year Death Wish came out, and the rate didn't start to drop until halfway through the Clinton administration.

The Condemned (Lionsgate, April 27) Starring: Stone Cold Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones Director: Scott Wiper Rating: NR The Pitch: Joe Conrad (Austin), a death row inmate in a Central American prison, has his freedom purchased by a television producer, who then drops Conrad on a remote island where he is forced to fight nine other killers to the death.

For example, the driver death rate of the mid-size Nissan Maxima was 49 per million registered vehicle years in 1997, but had dropped to just 28 by 2009.

In Bangladesh, dog vaccination programs implemented since 2011 have dropped the rate of human death from rabies by 50 %.

From human studies, however, we know that the death rates of measles, whooping cough, and polio had fallen significantly prior to the introduction of vaccination; in the case of measles it had dropped 95 percent.

Couple that with the fact that in busy scenes, the frame rate can drop, and you will find yourself ungraciously jumping off a massive height to your death.