Sentences with phrase «deaths each year worldwide»

Cervical cancer accounts for more than 500,000 new cases of cancer and more than 250,000 deaths each year worldwide.

It is responsible for about 800,000 deaths each year worldwide.

Of 4.3 million deaths each year worldwide from cancer, about 70 per cent are in the developing world.

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He was then quoted as saying, «Indeed, if anyone bothered to do the math (obviously, you did not) they would realize that of the over 1M auto deaths per year worldwide, approximately half a million people would have been saved if the Tesla autopilot was universally available.

The number of cases has been considerably less than that initially feared and much less than the 250,000 to 500,000 deaths that occur worldwide from influenza each year.

Observing that worldwide vehicular deaths number about 1.2 million a year, he remarked, «How many do you read about?

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO) stroke is the number one cause of death worldwide with an estimated 5.5 million deaths per year.

Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800000 child deaths and 20000 deaths from breast cancer every year.

Increasing breastfeeding to near - universal levels for infants and young children could save over 800,000 children's lives a year worldwide, equivalent to 13 % of all deaths in children under two, and prevent an extra 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

This means that by taking an over-the-counter medication, people can ward off a disease that, according to Alzheimer's Disease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 or older.

One has only to look back a few years to the 2003 scare over SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which ended up causing about 774 deaths worldwide, for a recent measure of the potential for global pandemic panic.

More than 520,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year, causing around 266,000 deaths.

Despite the intrigue surrounding Litvinenko's death, the poison that killed him, a rare radioactive isotope called polonium 210, is far more widespread than many of us realize: people worldwide smoke almost six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount of polonium 210 to the lungs.

«If everyone's protein intake were at this level, that would translate to more than 1.4 million fewer deaths from stroke each year worldwide, plus a decreased level of disability from stroke,» said Liu.

There's no doubt air pollution is a killer, causing more than 3 million deaths worldwide each year.

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer - related death worldwide, with almost 300,000 deaths occurring each year.

Leishmaniasis — a disease caused by microscopic parasites, like malaria, and transmitted by sand flies — results in painful skin sores and in its most vicious form causes at least 500,000 deaths worldwide every year.

Preeclampsia is the leading cause of preterm delivery in industrialized nations and accounts for up to 75,000 maternal deaths worldwide each year.

Over 71 million people live with hepatitis C worldwide, a disease which causes 400,000 deaths a year.

Professor Robert F. Storey, corresponding author of the paper, said: «More than 3 million deaths worldwide are caused by air pollution each year.

Forecasting influenza outbreaks before they strike could help officials take early action to reduce related deaths, which total 290,000 to 650,000 worldwide every year.

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women worldwide and the second most frequent cause of cancer - related death worldwide, claiming nearly 300,000 lives every year around the globe.

Such an inexpensive and simple test could help transform the landscape of pancreatic cancer and help prevent many of the estimated 330,000 deaths that it causes worldwide each year.

There is currently no vaccine against RSV, which causes an estimated 66,000 to 199,000 deaths worldwide each year, and annual wintertime epidemics of respiratory illness in U.S. children.

The study, spearheaded by Dagfinn Aune, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Imperial College London, shows that 7.8 million deaths worldwide could be prevented each year if people ate more fruits and vegetables.

«Our study reveals an explanation how nicotine contributes to induction of inflammation and in doing so shows new possibilities for future therapies to treat tobacco - related diseases which each year lead to premature deaths of several million people worldwide,» said Constantin Urban, a researcher involved in the work from the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research in Sweden.

The researchers also calculated how many premature deaths that could be prevented each year worldwide if everyone ate 800 grams of fruit and vegetables every day.

Obesity is responsible for the deaths of over three million people a year worldwide due to its associated diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

«Air pollution responsible for more than 2 million deaths worldwide each year, experts estimate.»

More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found.

Researchers estimate that worldwide, more than two million deaths occur each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution.

Preterm birth, a delivery before 37 weeks of gestation, is one of the most serious obstetric complications affecting around 15 million pregnancies worldwide with more than one million newborn deaths each year due to complications of prematurity.

The fungus in question, Cryptococcus neoformans, infects people with weakened immune systems and is notoriously difficult to treat, causing about 600,000 deaths worldwide every year, including about one - third of AIDS - related deaths.

The fungal infection cryptococcal meningitis is responsible for more than 180,000 deaths per year worldwide, mainly in HIV - infected patients.

This past summer, he and his colleagues reported their first findings from the trial: Tranexamic acid reduced bleeding deaths among trauma patients by about 15 percent, a result that could translate to 100,000 lives saved per year worldwide.

Every year, malaria affects more than 200 million people and contributes to nearly 1 million deaths worldwide.

The over-use of antibiotics is driving the spread of antimicrobial resistance worldwide, a crisis that is expected to cause 10 million deaths a year by 2050.

According to WHO, deaths from heat exposure will be especially pronounced over the coming decades, from 92,000 to as much as 250,000 deaths worldwide per year by midcentury, with the greatest rates of death occurring in the world's poorest regions.

Arsenic is the leading freshwater contaminant on the planet, affecting millions of people worldwide and causing an untold number of deaths every year.

More than 200 million people a year are infected with malaria and the disease caused the deaths of nearly half a million people worldwide in 2015.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States with an estimated 160,000 deaths each year and worldwide there are 1.4 million deaths.

It estimates that 3.3 million premature deaths occur worldwide per year due to polluted air, Hochella said.

The WHO study, one of a collection of articles in a special issue of the journal devoted to women's health beyond reproduction, found that the leading causes of death of women aged 50 years and older worldwide are cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) and cancers, but that in developing countries these deaths occur at earlier ages than in the rich world.

Mtb, which currently infects nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide and causes more than 1 million deaths each year, requires host lipids — cholesterol and fatty acids — to maintain infection.

Numerous studies have shown that air pollution leads to millions of premature deaths worldwide each year (see «Cutting through the smog on air pollution «-RRB-.

Instead, in a chart on page 26 of the report on «expected fatalities per year, worldwide, from a variety of causes,» asteroids are compared with shark attacks (three to seven deaths), firearms accidents (2,500), earthquakes (36,000), malaria (one million), traffic accidents (1.2 million), air pollution (two million), HIV / AIDS (2.1 million) and tobacco (five million).

«About 900,000 people die every year worldwide from cirrhosis,» Artandi said, «and liver cancer is the fifth - leading cause of cancer death in the United States.

Stroke, with 15 million new victims per year worldwide, is the planet's second - largest cause of death, according to Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, professor and chair of neurosurgery and the study's senior author.