Sentences with phrase «disease and death among»

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«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

The Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids applauded HUD's actions, saying «this bold step» would reduce smoking among groups that suffer the most from tobacco - related death and disease.

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

The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels - and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths... Bureaucratic inertia is not exactly news.

He is coming to dwell among his people who are sinful, broken hearted, subject to disease, cruelty, oppression and death.

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.

Unfortunately, diet - related chronic diseases are currently a major cause of death and disability among Australians.

For instance, cardiovascular disease is responsible for 1 in 3 premature deaths among British men and 1 in 5 among women.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

During emergency situations, disease and death rates among babies and children are higher than for any other age group; and the younger the child, the higher the risk, leaving babies under six months most vulnerable.

It is the leading cause of death among infants under 12 months and the third - leading cause of all infant deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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

During emergency situations, disease and death rates among under - five children are higher than for any other age group; the younger the infant the higher the risk.

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

Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein says vaccines are among the most successful and cost - effective public health tools available for preventing disease and death.

«Vaccines are among the most successful and cost - effective public health tools available for preventing disease and death.

The World Health Organization estimates there are 8 million new TB cases and 3 million deaths each year, making it the biggest killer among infectious diseases.

The interplay between malnutrition and malaria is poorly understood, but the risk of death is certainly higher in children with acute malnutrition, at least among those who make it to a hospital, says Larry Slutsker, who directed the malaria and parasitic diseases program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and now runs the malaria program at PATH in Seattle, Washington.

Age - related diseases include many of the degenerative diseases that affect billions of people around the world and are among the leading causes of death: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and cancer.

Eating too many calories contributes to people becoming overweight and increases the risks of heart disease, diabetes and many cancers, which are among the leading causes of poor health and premature death.

The highest risk of death was seen among patients with multiple system atrophy with parkinsonism, followed by patients with dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson disease dementia and Parkinson disease, according to the results.

In recent years, between 71 percent and 85 percent of flu - related deaths have occurred among people 65 years of age and older, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

According to the Centers for Disease Control, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes about 60,000 hospitalizations of children aged 0 to four, and nearly 200,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths among adults 65 and older.

Researchers from Harvard Chan School and Brigham and Women's Hospital examined the relationship between types of fats in the participants» diets and overall deaths among the group during the study period, as well as deaths due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and respiratory disease.

Between 2003 and 2006, cardiovascular disease death rates were about 1.7 times higher among adults diagnosed with diabetes than those who were not, according to the CDC's 2014 National Diabetes Statistics Report.

[Stephanie Chiuve et al., «Adherence to a Low - Risk, Healthy Lifestyle and Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death Among Women»] These preventive measures might be especially important for women, who are less than half as likely as men to be diagnosed with heart disease or dysfunction before a fatal attack.

Overall, CVD remains the single, greatest cause of death among Europeans than any other disease, and, in many countries causes twice as many deaths as cancer.

The World Health Organization estimates there were more than 200 million cases of the disease in 2016 and more than 400,000 deaths, the majority occurring among children under age five in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts the survey on a nationally representative sample of high schoolers every two years to monitor six types of health - risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disability and social problems among U.S. youths.

Ortiz Genovese listed sickle cell disease, malaria and dengue among the diseases that collectively are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in the developing world.

Repeatedly losing and regaining weight, known as weight cycling or yo - yo dieting, may increase the risk of death from heart disease among postmenopausal women who were of normal weight at the start of the study, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2016.

The process saves lives: among children born in the past two decades, vaccinations will prevent more than 20 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.

It is unclear whether losing and regaining weight in adulthood also increases the risk of death from these heart diseases, so the investigators looked at this relationship among postmenopausal women.

Losing and regaining weight repeatedly, known as weight cycling or yo - yo dieting, may increase the risk of death from heart disease among postmenopausal women.

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.

These showed that in 2012, diseases caused by smoking accounted for 12 % (2.1 million) of all deaths among working age adults aged 30 - 69 — with the highest proportion in Europe and the Americas.

Indeed, studies show that air pollution is more likely to cause respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, as well as premature deaths, among people in lower socioeconomic groups.

«These public health issues are especially alarming in primary prevention, particularly among women, for whom cardiovascular disease also is the leading cause of death, and for whom there is even more underutilization of statins than for men,» said Hennekens.

Among Americans 35 and older, Mississippians have the highest mortality from heart disease in the nation, ranging between 450 and 850 deaths per 100,000.

Among children under the age of 5 — the group at the highest risk of severe disease and death from malaria — there were 16 % fewer cases in the villages that received ivermectin at 3 - week intervals.

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This is because infectious diseases can spread easily among colony members, who live closely together, and may lead to the death of the entire colony if infections are not contained.

«More research is needed to confirm why heart disease deaths among rheumatoid arthritis patients have declined, but potential factors include earlier and more vigilant screening for heart problems, improved treatment for heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and in general, more attention to heart health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis,» says lead author Elena Myasoedova, M.D., Ph.D., a rheumatologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn..

In the study on rheumatoid arthritis and heart disease, researchers looked at heart disease deaths within 10 years of rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis among two groups of people: 315 patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis from 2000 to 2007 and 498 patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in the 1980s and 1990s.

While women in most Asian regions are far less likely to smoke than men, the study also found an increased risk of death from cancer, CVD and respiratory diseases among East Asian women.

The study also analyzed deaths among rheumatoid arthritis patients from a particular type of cardiovascular disease — coronary artery disease — and found those too declined in the 10 years after the patients studied were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

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.

Cardiovascular disease is still the most common cause of death among women, and kills more young women than breast cancer, the figures show.

The most common causes of deaths related to smoking among people in prison were lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and chronic lung disease.

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