Sentences with phrase «estimated number of deaths»

The estimated number of deaths at Sajmiste ranges between 20,000 - 23,000 people.

From life table modelling, the estimated number of deaths prevented is larger than would be expected from reduction of cardiorespiratory deaths after smoking cessation, so most of the mortality gain is likely to be due to reduced cancer progression.

In each analysis, we estimated the number of deaths attributable to smoking for each group we were comparing and then checked how much of the difference in total death rates could be explained by smoking.

The simple fact is that local governments are struggling to keep up with the chaos, and have not had the resources to verify any accurate national estimated number of deaths.

They used the models to estimate the numbers of deaths from melanoma for the period 2014 - 2050 in Australia, the USA and Sweden.

We estimated the risk of death due to cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 - 69 year olds from data from the Office for National Statistics.19 We assumed that this death rate was approximately that of the non-smoking population, because around 12 % of this age group smoke.20 We multiplied this rate by the relative risk of death from cardiorespiratory causes in lifelong smokers to estimate the number of deaths that would be expected over five years from cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 year olds who smoke.

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Usually, an approximation of under - 5 deaths is estimated by multiplying 5q0 by the number of births in the year.

Sixty six people who died in the fire have now been formally identified - the total number of estimated deaths is 80, although police have said it may be lower.

The number of deaths directly due to the accident is still a matter of debate, with estimates varying from around 30 to one hundred thousand.

In any case, the total number of deaths by war and opression in the 20th century can be estimated at 203 million.

The total number of deaths by war and opression in the 20th century can be estimated at 203 million.

It is estimated that by 2015 the number of gun related deaths will exceed the number of traffic fatalities.

I suspect that the number of deaths attributed communist dictators is a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 90 % death rate of indigenous Americans when Christian explorers arrived in the New World.

It was estimated that deaths in hospitals by preventable adverse events exceed the amount attributable to the eight leading cause of death in American (CDC, 1999b) and even exceed the number of deaths cause by automobile accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516)(CDC, 1999a).

If instead of using 0 (which very may well have been the number of IP deaths), we use our estimate of 4 - 12 intrapartum deaths for the 39,984 hospital births, we would get:

Since this data set is for 39,984 births, we can estimate the number of intrapartum deaths to be 4 — 12 intrapartum deaths (if, in fact, it was not 0.

If instead of using 0 (which, again, very may well have been the number of IP deaths), we use our estimate of 4 - 12 intrapartum deaths for the 39,984 hospital births, we would get:

Of note, our point estimate for premature death exceeds the annual number of U.S. deaths from cervical cancer (3,909), asthma (3,361), or influenza (3,055).45 If a randomized control trial were to demonstrate similar effects to those reported in the observational literature, the «number needed to treat» with optimal breastfeeding to prevent a case of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 38Of note, our point estimate for premature death exceeds the annual number of U.S. deaths from cervical cancer (3,909), asthma (3,361), or influenza (3,055).45 If a randomized control trial were to demonstrate similar effects to those reported in the observational literature, the «number needed to treat» with optimal breastfeeding to prevent a case of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 38of U.S. deaths from cervical cancer (3,909), asthma (3,361), or influenza (3,055).45 If a randomized control trial were to demonstrate similar effects to those reported in the observational literature, the «number needed to treat» with optimal breastfeeding to prevent a case of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 38of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 38of breast cancer would be 385.

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.

Based on 2007 - 2009 data, CPSC estimates that the average number of deaths due to playpens is 12 per year.

In the new work, David Lalloo, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, and colleagues from the University of Kelaniya used data from a nation - wide household survey conducted in Sri Lanka in 2013 and 2013 to estimate the number of snake bites and deaths from snake bites annually.

But if a greater number of deaths occurred due to emergency vehicle delays caused by bad winter weather, the present estimates could be a conservative tally.

After standardizing the Nordic Cochrane, USPSTF, and EUROSCREEN reviews to the scenario in the U.K. Independent Breast Screening Review, the magnitude of the difference between studies in the estimated number of women needed to be screened to prevent one breast cancer death dropped dramatically.

Specifically, the Nordic Cochrane review estimate for the number of women who must be screened to prevent one breast cancer death dropped from 2,000 to 257.

As the update report notes, an increasing number of people now receive anti-HIV drugs: low - and middle - income countries have seen a 10-fold jump in treatment since 2003, which estimates suggest have averted more than 1 million deaths in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

They use this information to estimate the number of influenza infections and deaths that might have occurred without vaccination, with the current vaccination program, and if the program were expanded.

The number of false convictions among the death - sentenced has been particularly hard to estimate, Gross says, because many prisoners who are on death row are eventually moved off of it but remain in prison, which often reduces their chances of exoneration.

These studies estimate mammography decreases the number of deaths by anywhere from 35 percent to 0 percent, says Otis Brawley, chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society.

Physical inactivity contributes to an estimated 5.3 million deaths each year, similar to the number of deaths attributed to tobacco use and obesity, said James F. Sallis, PhD, UC San Diego School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health.

Globally, the number of maternal deaths dropped 43 % to an estimated 303,000 this year from about 532,000 in 1990, or to 216 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 385 in 1990, the report said.

The 2013 Global Burden of Disease study estimated there to be 800,000 pneumonia deaths annually worldwide and the disease continues to be the number one infectious killer of children under the age of five, with more deaths than HIV, TB and malaria combined.

Although the number of seabird mortalities from the spill likely centers around 700,000, sources of uncertainty in the estimates indicate the number of deaths could actually lie anywhere between 300,000 and 2 million.

And in 2012, IHME's estimates of adult malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa were dramatically higher than WHO's numbers.

Researchers used the data to calculate the number of years lost due to ill health, disability, or early death — a proxy for estimating total disease burden — and found that 320,000 disability - adjusted life years are lost annually in West Africa as a result of snake bites.

Given the poor prognosis and limited treatment options in pancreatic cancer, new therapies to combat the disease are desperately needed: Earlier this year, the American Cancer Society reported that it is estimated that in 2016, nearly 42,000 people will die from the disease, surpassing the number of deaths from breast cancer by more than 1,000.

Czeisler based his estimate of mistake - related deaths on the number of interns (at least 100,000) now practicing in the U.S. and the assumption that more experienced residents are erring at similar rates.

Cleaveland has developed a now widely used method to estimate the death toll, using the numbers of bites by dogs thought to be rabid, as well as records of postexposure vaccine use.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

The number of Lassa virus infections per year in west Africa is estimated at 100,000 to 300,000, with approximately 5,000 deaths.

«Estimates from this study indicate that reducing indoor tanning would be effective in preventing a substantial number of melanoma cases and deaths, and result in melanoma treatment cost - savings,» the researchers wrote.

Guy and colleagues used a Markov model to estimate the expected number of melanoma cases and deaths averted, life - years saved, and melanoma treatment costs saved by reducing indoor tanning.

Currently, an estimated number of 700,000 patients die from infections with these strains every year — and this death toll might rise.

One possible explanation for any improvements seen in the survival of patients who stop smoking might be a reduction in mortality from cardiorespiratory causes, as the risk of death from these diseases reduces after cessation.9 18 Consequently, we estimated the expected contribution of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases by using life tables as above to find the number of cardiorespiratory deaths prevented by smoking cessation in the general population.

We applied the average risk of death for continued smoking estimated from studies included in this review that reported survival curves to estimate the number of patients surviving after five years.16 17 We estimated five year survival in quitters at diagnosis by applying the death rate of continuing smokers multiplied by the reciprocal of the multivariate hazard ratio for all cause mortality presented in this review.

In January 2016 an estimated number of 2000 Turkish academics from more than 90 Turkish Universities signed a petition criticizing the Turkish military for the operations that resulted in civilian deaths among the Kurdish population in the southeast of the country.

This statistic, from 2014 (the most recent year for which solid data is available), is heartbreaking yet also encouraging: It's about a quarter of the number of people who died of HIV / AIDS in 1995, when mortality reached an all - time high and dramatically less than the 21,601 estimated deaths from HIV / AIDS in 2009.

T [2] symbol for the Dvorak T - number, a subjective estimate of the A five - year - old child was stabbed to death in a domestic violence incident on the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus, officials said.

While the actual number of deaths is undetermined, even the most modest estimate is that over 6 million were deliberately starved to death.

Finally, some good news, bad news: Cars are now so safe, already, that for the past decade deaths from motor vehicle crashes per year have dipped below the number of suicides: 32,675 based on the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), versus an estimated 41,000 suicides last year.

While estimates on the number of casualties during the invasion in Iraq vary widely, the majority of deaths and injuries have occurred after U.S. President Bush declared the end of «major combat operations» on May 1, 2003.