Sentences with phrase «disease and death rates»

Dentists, farmer, and cosmetologists have the highest disease and death rates, of all North American professions, and the one thing they have in common is high chemical exposure.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«The [death] rate increased 0.9 % for heart disease, 2.7 % for chronic lower respiratory diseases, 6.7 % for unintentional injuries, 3.0 % for stroke, 15.7 % for Alzheimer's disease, 1.9 % for diabetes, 1.5 % for kidney disease, and 2.3 % for suicide.

The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 2015.

, the British medical historian Thomas McKeown carefully chronicles the decline in mortality in England and Wales over much of the 19th and 20th centuries — charting death rates for infectious diseases ranging from diphtheria to pneumonia.

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.

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

Apparently your God liked more babies dying but science had a heart and now birth mortality rates are higher than they have ever been in human history with fewer diseases and complications causing baby deaths.

Now, maybe it isn't God's will for Christians to have lower disease rates, lower death rates, lower accident rates, lower food poisoning rates, lower child injury rates, and higher job promotion rates.

Case and Deaton highlight the finding that overall mortality rates for middle - aged white Americans have increased in recent years due to deaths from self - destructive behavior: suicide, drug and alcohol overdose, and disease resulting from long - term alcohol abuse.

Its concentration of the monounsaturated fat, oleic acid, is linked to a reduction in cardiovascular disease including related stroke and death rates (14).

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.

Babies who are breastfed have lower rates of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), diabetes, and other serious health conditions, while breastfeeding mothers have lower rates of postpartum depression, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and hypertension.

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.

It's hard being a parent and having to watch what your child has to go thru to develop a strong, healthy immune system... Again research has shown that the death rate of animals infected with disease is higher when their body temperature is lowered.

Breastfeeding has a major impact on rates of disease and death, particularly in developing countries.

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.

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.

Sir Roger said Mr Lansley only visited him for the first time two weeks ago, despite a slashing of the death rate for heart disease by 50 % and reduced waiting times with a minimum of private sector involvement.

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

That death rate increased 435 % on Staten Island between 2000 and 2011, according to city statistics in a Centers for Disease Control report.

«The Community Health Status Report shows Dutchess County making continued improvement in driving down the rates of death and hospitalization from chronic diseases, including heart disease, the nation's number one killer,» said DBCH Commissioner Henry M. Kurban, MD, MBA, MPH, FACPM.

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

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.

Sir Roger says Mr Lansley had never bothered to visit him until a fortnight ago, despite his success in halving heart - disease death rates and slashing waiting times in the past decade, with minimal involvement by the private sector.

That has helped to boost rates of cardiovascular disease and other health effects of such air pollution, a problem that combined with the health effects of air pollution from industrial coal burning that costs China roughly $ 66 billion dollars per year and causes 760,000 premature deaths, according to a World Bank report.

Starved and water - stressed trees are more susceptible to disease and insect activity and have a higher rate of death, said Marvin Brown, a former state forester of Oregon and Missouri who was not involved in the assessment.

This represents a small but steady increase since the beginning of this century; between 2000 - 2004 death rates from the disease were 7.6 per 100,000 men and 5.0 per 100,000 women.

In addition, some patient groups and members of Congress have recently asked why AIDS receives disproportionately far more than diseases with higher death rates, such as heart disease and Alzheimer's.

Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.

The death rate from tuberculosis, malaria, and other non-HIV infectious diseases will also decline.

Fewer Hispanics than whites die from the 10 leading causes of death, but Hispanics had higher death rates than whites from diabetes and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.

Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer death and can be considered a global lethal disease because incidence and mortality rates are nearly identical.

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.

Deaths from heart disease and stroke are declining overall in Europe, but at differing rates, according to research, published online in the European Heart Journal.

Researchers warn that hospital admissions and deaths caused by liver disease are likely to rise if cases of type 2 diabetes continue to increase at current rates.

Tuberculosis reached epidemic proportions, and infant mortality rates quadrupled, with acute respiratory diseases accounting for 50 percent of the deaths.

For some eastern European countries, including Russia and Ukraine, the death rate from coronary heart disease for 55 - 60 year olds is greater than the equivalent rate in France for people 20 years older.

The research, which provides an update for 2014 on the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Europe, shows that death rates from CVD (diseases of the heart and blood vessels) vary enormously.

The panel was charged with guiding the optimal treatment of blood cholesterol to address the rising rate of cardiovascular disease, currently the leading cause of death and disability in the U.S.

The rate of death over 10 years was 29 percent for people with delayed orthostatic hypotension, 64 percent for those with orthostatic hypotension (the more serious form of the disease) and 9 percent in people without either condition.

Official rates won't be available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) until later this year, but data compiled by the New York Times suggests overdose deaths in the US probably exceeded 59,000 in 2016.

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.

The authors assumed that death rates from cardiovascular disease would be constant over time, he says, even though populations in countries like China and India are steadily aging — potentially boosting such death rates.

Given the symptoms of the disease and the rate of death, «C. novyi makes perfect sense» as the cause for the Glasgow outbreak, says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

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Individuals with high levels of these inflammatory molecules are more likely to be frail, hospitalized, and less independent; are more susceptible to certain types of infections; and have a variety of chronic, late - life diseases such as dementia and cardiovascular disease, as well as higher death rates.