Sentences with phrase «death rates fall»

Driver death rates fall as vehicle size increases, up to a point.

A matter of life and death: Stabilising the world's population is at best a bumpy process as developing countries industrialise and death rates fall.

Death rates fell in countries undergoing industrialization and the numbers of people in the world began to soar.

Fortunately, between 1998 and 2008, the stroke death rate fell 34.8 percent due to improved treatments and increased awareness of the signs.

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

The analysis of World Health Organization data found that the ovarian cancer death rate fell 16 percent in the United States and almost 8 percent in Canada between 2002 and 2012.

Population growth rates soared following World War II as health care improved and death rates fell.

Not exact matches

The falling rate of cancer - related deaths is clearly an impressive achievement, and may be partially attributable to drug makers» increased focus on developing novel new therapies to fight cancers.

Second, firearm deaths in states with higher buyback rates per capita fell proportionately more than in states with lower buyback rates.»

Worldwide population growth has been propelled principally by falling death rates, which is to say, by rising expectation of life at birth.

Drowning is still the second leading cause of death in children from 1 to 19 years of age, although death rates from drowning fell between 1985 and 2006, according the the AAP's News Room Highlights.

It's funny watching homebirth advocates fall all over themselves looking for reasons not to accept the results of the Wax homebirth study that showed that homebirth triples the neonatal death rate.

Excluding deaths from congenital anomalies, as MANA did for no particular reason, the rate falls to 0.40

In other studies of planned home birth or birth in a birthing centre, the rate of perinatal death excluding infants with major congenital anomalies ranged from 1.1 per thousand in a British study1 to 10 per 1000 in the Quebec study, 7 with reported rates in the United States, 2 the Netherlands, 3 Switzerland, 4 New Zealand5 and Australia9, 12 falling in between.

In 1986, 2 years before these data were collected, the United States ranked 16th (3.6 / 1000) in postneonatal death, well below Finland (first; 1.8 / 1000) and Sweden (second; 2.0 / 1000).24 The US breastfeeding prevalence in 1986 was 57 % at birth and 22 % at 6 months, 25 whereas in Finland and Sweden, the prevalence at 6 months then was still ~ 60 % and 50 %, respectively.26 Although the United States still trails the Nordic countries both in breastfeeding and in postneonatal mortality, the US rate of postneonatal death has fallen steadily between the late 1980s and now, and breastfeeding has increased.

«The United States incurs $ 13 billion in excess costs annually and suffers 911 preventable deaths per year because our breastfeeding rates fall far below medical recommendations,» the researchers write in the study.

The report claims that if all countries improved their cancer survival rates to match Icelandic standards, deaths from cancer would fall by 12 per cent, equal to 150,000 lives saved across Europe.

In 1964, the last year the death penalty was in force, there were 296 homicides in England and Wales, and the homicide rate had consistently fallen since the end of the Second World War.

As tobacco use continued to cause avoidable misery, addiction, disease and early deaths, the smoking rate among adults and children fell to unprecedented lows.

Among men and women aged 45 - 69 the death rates will fall by 19 %.

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

In women, death rates from breast and colorectal cancer will fall by 8 % and 7 % respectively, but lung and pancreatic cancer rates will rise by 5 % and 4 %; in 2016 the death rates from lung cancer in Europe will be 14.4 per 100,000 women (compared to 13.51 in 2011) and 5.6 per 100,000 for pancreatic cancer (compared to 5.39 in 2011).

Since 2011 there has been a fall in total cancer death rates in the EU of 8 % in men and 3 % in women.

The study shows that falls in leukemia death rates will be greatest among children and young adults of both sexes.

In women, breast and colorectal cancer death rates will fall by 9 % and 7 % respectively, but lung cancer death rates will rise by 8 %.

This represents a fall of 7.5 % and 6 % in men and women respectively since 2009, and an overall fall of 26 % in men and 21 % in women since the peak of cancer death rates in 1988.

In men, death rates from lung, colorectal and prostate cancer are predicted to fall by 11 %, 5 % and 8 % respectively since 2011.

For prostate cancer, the key reason for the fall in death rates is improved management and treatment, with a possible role played by screening and early diagnosis.

In women, breast and colorectal cancer death rates will fall by 10 % and 9 % since 2009.

In women, the predicted age standardised rate of deaths from lung cancer will increase by 9 % from 2009 to 14.24 per 100,000 of the population, while the death rates from breast cancer are predicted to be 14.22 per 100,000, which represents a fall of 10.2 % since 2009.

Between 2009 and 2016 death rates from leukemia among children aged 0 - 14 will fall by 38 % in boys and 20 % in girls, and by 26 % and 22 % in young men and women respectively, aged between 15 - 44.

The age standardised death rate would fall from five to three per 100,000 men in 2050, and from 2.7 to 2.1 per 100,000 women in 2050.

Professor La Vecchia said: «There is a moderate fall in deaths rates in female lung cancer in the UK, although UK rates are still higher than in other EU countries, except Denmark, as British women started to smoke earlier.

The age standardised death rate would fall from four to 1.6 per 100,000 men and from 1.7 to less than one per 100,000 women.

Death rates from leukemia among people of all ages in Europe are falling, according to the latest predictions for European cancer deaths in 2016, published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology today (Wednesday).

In a controversial paper published in the journal Theoretical Population Biology, they wrote that «some, and perhaps many, species show negative senescence» — a situation in which death rates actually fall as the years pass.

Since the international Delta trial began in 1992, the death rate of patients who received «combination therapy» has fallen by 38 per cent compared with patients who were treated with a single drug.

Annual US death rates from AIDS dramatically fall for the first time, due to the introduction of HAART

For spontaneously conceived singletons, the rate of stillbirths remained the same over the whole period at around 0.3 %, while deaths fell from 0.5 % to 0.2 %.

Much has been written about the Death of the West: how declining birth rates, falling populations, and population aging will reduce Europe and end the supremacy of the US while Asian superpowers, such as China and India, see their economies grow to match their huge populations.

In the 12 years covered by the study, death rates among Aboriginal males fell by 15 per cent.

Although the average consent rate within each donor service area, when accounting for the race / ethnicity and other factors among the eligible deaths, was between 75 and 80 percent, the consent rates fell below 70 percent in nearly a quarter of the donor service areas.

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.

When economies were expanding, death rates increased for both middle aged and older people, but they fell when economies were heading for recession.

But death rates are falling, thanks to earlier detection of tumours and improved use of existing treatments — mainly chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Currently, 10 of the 15 countries with the most child pneumonia and diarrhea deaths have exclusive breastfeeding rates that still fall short of the 50 percent GAPPD target.

Cancer death rates in the EU are falling faster for men compared to women per a new study.

In countries where the average years of schooling is rising, maternal death rates are falling, too.

Those who are eager to slam Paramount's new «Baywatch» movie are probably the same kind of haters who let the original SoCal - set television soap opera die an abysmal - ratings death upon its initial release in the fall of 1989, when NBC hastily canceled...

And age - adjusted death rates for heart disease would not have fallen by 60 percent since 1980.