Sentences with phrase «disease and death as»

And they can face disability, disease and death as a result of the pregnancy.

«Obesity may soon cause as much preventable disease and death as cigarette smoking,» says former surgeon general David Satcher, and statistics back him up: About 300,000 deaths a year are associated with excess body fat (as opposed to roughly 400,000 from cigarette smoking).

It has given us power for social, psychic and genetic engineering, to control disease and death as well as birth.

He directs it chiefly at medical specialists who look upon disease and death as enemies to be conquered and who carry attempts to overcome them to the point of giving the patient false hopes of recovery, disregarding his suffering in futile efforts to score a medical triumph.

Not exact matches

Thinking of exercise as normal and its absence contributing to depression, disease, and death motivates me to make exercise a normal part of my life.

Good news: Deaths from cancer and heart disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related to HIV.

Smoking and physical activity rank number one and two in the world as the top risk factors for non-communicable diseases (and inactivity is responsible for 9 % of premature deaths, according to a study published in The Lancet).

As the most common cause of dementia, it's the sixth leading cause of death in the US, behind conditions like heart disease and cancer.

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

Health officials in Texas have already announced the death of a 77 - year - old Harris county resident from Vibrio: She came into contact with flood waters when they ripped into her home, and later died as a result of flesh - eating disease.

Its apologists, such as Browning, respond that it is precisely the perversity» even flirting with disease and death in pursuit of erotic «magic»» that is the charm of the thing.

[25][26] Visceral Leishmaniasis Research The foundation awarded the He - brew University of Jerusalem Ku - vin Center for the Study of Infe - ctious and Tropical Dis - eases a $ 5 million grant in 2009 for research into vis - ceral leishmaniasis, an emerging pa - ra - sitic disease in Ethiopia where it is frequently as - sociated with HI - V / A-IDS, and a leading cause of adult illness and death.

Disease, as in the very few people who have smoking related cancer or death, and the one or two who die from drugs, and the other one from alcohol, they need education.

We will all die, and it is harmful to all of us to try to hide death as if it is a loathsome disease or an unnatural act.

His stirring opening statement invoked a repeating Biblical pattern of creation, death, and resurrection to new creation to suggest that Protestantism is not a diseased form that needs to be restored to its original health, but the historically - necessary senescence of something bound to die and rise again as some new and unforeseen synthesis.

The Van Dusens saw this considered, self - determined act as morally preferable to the customary American way of death, in which disease forces finally overwhelm technical medical management, leaving the dying person and those around him exhausted and resentful — the grace of dying with one's boots on long since gone.

You have people up on this board who are wishing people heart disease and death and when that's reported as abuse, you let it stay.

However, most of the cases of undeserved suffering come mixed, with individual human choices, social forces, and physical factors all combined — as in war, poverty, premature or violent death, disease, mental breakdowns, and the like.

Death's brutality over the greater part of the last two millennia cast a long shadow over everyday life as disease, famine, and infant mortality claimed victim after victim.

God also invented death, disease, famine, plague, war, and everything else bad as well as good.

They treat the cure of disease, the prevention of death and the extension of life as near - absolute values.»

Last week, Pat Robertson told his viewers that he believes Alzheimer's disease to be a «kind of death,» a basis for the un-afflicted spouse to seek divorce and move on with their life — so long as they act mercifully and provide a means for care of that spouse.

Believe in YWHY and YESHUA and what they did for you and seek them then shall you be free The illusion of death and disease and debt are not real and as a nation we deserve everything that comes up on us as you can tell the end has already begun.

Jesus» anointing by the holy Spirit, and his consequent power over the demons, over diseases, and even over death; his ministry of compassion and help; his death at Jerusalem, through the «envy» and hatred of the «rulers,» that is, the Jewish authorities who denounced him before Pilate and so procured his death by crucifixion as an insurrectionist and disturber; his resurrection on the third day, when he became Messiah or Son of God and entered into his glory; (Cf. Rom.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

Since 1990, the world has cut in half maternal and child deaths, infectious diseases, and poverty as well as turned the tide on HIV / AIDS.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

A huge impact could be made right now on the death and disease attributable to the synergism between infection and malnutrition — but not with fancy hospitals, such as those found in capital cities in many developing countries, or with elaborate manufactured foods or expensive infant formulas or over-trained doctors or advanced food technologies.

Today, as Dr. Latham points out, death and disease in developing countries are often primarily a result of malnutrition.

But as originally written, the bill redefined, as a method of killing, «the use of sedative medications to relieve extreme suffering by making the patient unaware and unconscious, while artificial food and hydration are withheld, during the progression of the disease, leading to the death of the patient.»

Frequent consumption of nuts is associated with a lowered risk of sudden cardiac death and other coronary heart disease, as well as a lower risk of Type II diabetes in women.

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.

This intimate chronicle of his struggle with liver disease and cancer is a series of conversations with Sweetness (as Payton was called), his friends and family, transcribed by Yaeger, an associate editor for SI, around the time of Payton's death last November at age 45.

When infants are not optimally breastfed they are at risk for increased illness such as higher rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes and even death.

While that probably IS a large part of it, I also think it's rooted in the surge of hero worship for doctors that began in the early 1900's as science progressed so rapidly and things like vaccinations saved millions of children from suffering miserable deaths and life crippling diseases (polio, anyone?)

They are also at greater risk for rare but serious conditions such as severe lower respiratory infections, leukemia, necrotizing enterocolitis, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).5 Breastfeeding is also good for moms, lowering the risk for breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.6, 7

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

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.

Studies have shown that a protein in human milk aids in brain development, and breast - fed babies are less likely to get gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, respiratory and ear infections or more serious diseases such as pneumonia, and there is a lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Buffalo School Board member Carl P. Paladino's latest inflammatory comments to a weekly Buffalo paper saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Obama, referred to the first lady as a man and said he'd like her to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» prompted calls for his removal from the board and sparked outrage from Buffalo to the state capital.

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

As the death toll from Legionnaires» disease has risen to include a twelfth victim, the political sniping between Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio sank to a new low.

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

The Council Conclusions stress that harmful use of alcohol is recognised as an important risk factor in the need to reduce the burden of alcohol - related avoidable deaths, chronic diseases, injuries, violence, health inequalities and other social consequences to third parties.

According to the OECD, the UK rates as follows in 2005 (only data I have access to), I've included data from the US since you've used them in your post and Germany and France as a comparison with two randomly picked (read: I saw them in the list) European countries: Death from heart disease per 100,000 population (23 listed): 13th 49.3; France 2nd 22.5, Germany 12th 48.3; US 7th 40.3; Japan 1st 18.4; Hungary 23rd 71.7 Death from cancer per 100,000 population (24 listed): 18th 175.6; France 15th 166.2; Germany 11th 161.2; US 10th 159.8; Mexico 1st 96.8; Hungary 24th 242.0 Data from the ONS for 2005 (most recent report I could find) shows: Death from cancer per 100,000 population (19 listed): 8th 216.9; Germany 4th 215.3; Cyprus 1st 149.6; Hungary 19th 330.8 Death from heart disease per 100,000 population (19 listed): 10th 141.5; Germany 8th 150.4; Portugal 1st 71.9; Lithuania 19th 490.6

«Every year in the United States, seven out of 10 deaths are due to preventable chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.

Even as he faced the heart disease and cancer that caused his death, «he was an optimist, he was in it for the fight,» Thomas DiNapoli said of his father.

One 2012 study found that from 1999 to 2003, only 23 death certificates listed Lyme disease as the underlying cause (and perhaps only one of those people actually had the disease).

«Our study results are the first to argue that we may be able to treat inflammatory bowel disease and protect against transplant rejection not only by blocking TNF alpha as is done currently, but also by stimulating ATG16L1 to prevent early death of cells lining the gut,» says study senior investigator Ken Cadwell, PhD, an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine.

It's not 100 percent, but it would certainly dampen any impact a new pandemic strain would have in terms of morbidity and mortality — meaning disease as well as death.