Sentences with phrase «disease deaths every year»

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Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S. Every year over 700,000 Americans have a heart attack and half of those are fatal.

Xenex goes after some of the hardest - to - kill pathogens, including C. difficile, which is linked to 14,000 American deaths each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, antibiotic - resistant bacteria cause more than two million illnesses in the U.S. every year and 23,000 deaths.

«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.

Considering that nearly one in four American deaths per year are attributable to heart disease... What gives?

Every six seconds someone develops Alzheimer's disease — that's 5.4 million new cases a year — making it the third leading cause of death in the U.S.. That's according to Elli Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of Neurotrack, a two year - old Palo Alto, California - based startup.

As many as 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, US health officials said in December, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease's death toll.

With 1,500 cervical cancer diagnoses and 380 deaths from the disease each year in Canada alone, there's no doubt easier screening could have a huge impact on women's health care.

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.

The 22 - year - old's death is particularly concerning to officials, because it appears that locals did not observe protocols put in place to stop the disease from spreading.

Oh but alcohol is fine and yet the use of it results in disease and numerous deaths each year whereas use of marijuana has been attributed to no death or disease.

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.

Millions of people could have been saved from death if he'd only explained the germ theory of disease two thousand years before it was discovered by scientists.

All human beings face death as an inevitable destiny, but those of us who are crippled by heart disease or cerebral injury or other illness are more conscious of this destiny, particularly as we advance in years.

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.

Death by suicide, drug and alcohol poisoning, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis roughly doubled in the fifteen - year period between 2000 and 2015 for 30 - 34 year olds and 50 - 54 year olds.

In a study that examined food intake patterns and risk of death from coronary heart disease, researchers followed more than 16,000 middle - aged men in the U.S., Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Greece and Japan for 25 years.

It is a disease of poverty and poor diet, responsible for 1.9 to 2.8 million preventable deaths annually, mostly of children under 5 years old and women.

«According to former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop, of the 2.4 million deaths that occur in the United States each year, 75 % are the result of avoidable nutritional factor diseases.»

If hunger (responsible for more deaths every year than war or disease and the loss of more lives than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined) is not attributable solely to inadequate production of food, but rather insufficient availability of food, why isn't more being done to reduce the shameful levels of food loss occurring in developing countries?

According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the second - leading cause of accidental death in children - over 1,000 deaths per year and many more trips to the hospital.

According to the Centers For Disease Control & Prevention, there are an average of 430 deaths per year due to carbon monoxide in the United States alone, and that's not even counting the cases of poisoning that didn't result in death.

• Heart disease causes one in three women's deaths each year, killing one woman approximately every minute.

having other family members with a «history of premature death (sudden or otherwise), or significant disability from cardiovascular disease in close relative (s) younger than 50 years old or specific knowledge of the occurrence of certain conditions (eg, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, Marfan syndrome, or clinically important arrhythmias)».

If you need some convincing about how important this is, consider that in car seat use reduces the risk of death for infants in an automobile accident by 71 % and to toddlers aged 1 - 4 years by 54 %, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And if you look at cause - of - death data from 100 years ago vs today, why yes, we are dying of non-communicable diseases.

The disease runs a long, progressive course lasting about 20 years between diagnosis and death.

«Baby bottle disease» is responsible for the deaths of one and a half million babies per year.

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.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that there are 3,500 infant deaths each year.

It is possible that everyone has heard of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and amazingly, the amount of children suffering from this disease has decreased gradually over the past 10 years.

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

But according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, accidental death rates dropped among all age groups in 2009, the latest year for which data is available — except among babies younger than 1 year.

Breastfeeding and human milk lower the risk of the disease that plagues nearly 300,000 women in the U.S. every year and is responsible for approximately 40,000 cancer - related deaths.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

«For every million smokers who switched to an e-cigarette we could expect a reduction of more than 6,000 premature deaths in the UK each year, even in the event that e-cigarette use carries a significant risk of fatal diseases, and users were to continue to use them indefinitely.»

Authorities of the Ghana Health Service in the Eastern Region, have confirmed to Citi News the death of a 17 - year - old boy, killed by the fast spreading the Pneumococcal meningitis disease.

In Nigeria, the disease is responsible for 60 % outpatient visits to health facilities, 30 % childhood death, 25 % of death in children under one year and 11 % maternal death.

Maybe New York can learn from the anti-poverty group One.org's new report «The One Trillion Dollar Scandal» which calculates the cost of corruption to the developing world at a trillion dollars a year, and 3.6 million deaths due to disease and poverty.

By the time Artvoice published last week the comments Paladino made in a year end survey — saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Barack Obama and wanted First Lady Michelle Obama to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» — the developer was already on a national stage poised for scrutiny from some of the country's largest media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN.

«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.»

A 21 percent rise in drug overdose deaths last year made unintentional injuries the third - leading cause of death in the country, according to data set for release by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.

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

And tobacco use, the number one preventable cause of death in the United States, claims more than 400,000 lives and $ 50 billion in direct medical costs each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It is estimated to cause one million foodborne illnesses in the United States every year, with 19,000 hospitalizations and 380 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.

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.

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 ordisease 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 orDisease 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.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported late last year that 2014 saw a record 28,647 overdose deaths due to the misuse of prescription opioids and heroin.