Sentences with phrase «for higher morbidity»

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Perinatal mortality rates for hospital births of low risk women are similar to outcomes of planned homebirth in general, but the maternal morbidity at planned hospital births is much higher.

And formula feeding is associated with higher rates of chronic morbidity like obesity, diabetes, allergies, and cancers (if I take their word for it).

The goal of regionalized maternal care is for pregnant women at high risk to receive care in facilities that are prepared to provide the required level of specialized care, thereby reducing maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States.

The extent of medicalisation in Spain is reflected in some of the highest caesarean section rates in Europe (26.4 % in Catalonia with a 40 % increase over five years); obstetricians have been criticised for not allowing women to participate in decisions about their maternity care.11 Long term morbidity after childbirth can be substantial, 12 and this is particularly related to instrumental and caesarean delivery.

Our current maternity care system's disconnected and medical treatment of birth is what's causing the need for more medical and surgical intervention and emergency situations in the first place; it leads into a cascade of further interventions and more serious problems like the high rates of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality that plague the United States.

However, higher rates of a composite outcome of perinatal morbidity and mortality were seen for nulliparous women having homebirths (adjusted odds ratio 1.75; 95 % CI, 1.07 — 2.86), with no differences for multiparous women.

Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.

This coupled with high morbidity and mortality, led to a felt need, in Maharashtra (India), for the identification of an evidence — based, workable method which is easy, replicable and cost effective.

The data also show that early term babies delivered by cesarean section were at a higher risk — by 12.2 percent — for admission to the NICU compared with full - term babies and at 7.5 percent higher risk for morbidity compared with term births.

Given the significant morbidities with multiple cesareans however, including surgical morbidity and abnormal placentation in future pregnancies, it is important to consider the possibility that for women with more than two prior cesareans VBAC may be associated with less morbidity, particularly in women with a high likelihood of success.

In some high - income countries, where maternity care is integrated across birth settings, researchers have concluded that there are no significant differences between birth places in morbidity or mortality for newborns [15, 16, 19] and / or that the absolute risks of mortality are extremely low [13, 14].

Neonates at these critically low birth weights (and gestational ages) are at the absolute highest vulnerability for a host of neonatal morbidities including ROP and bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Today, diabetes is among the leading causes of death and morbidity and this involves a high cost for national health systems worldwide.

«Although all states with high levels of predicted 10 - year CVD risk are in need of interventions, the states with the highest predicted risk need even more interventions to effectively reduce the disparities in CVD morbidity and mortality,» says Barbara A. Bowman, PhD, the director of the CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Atlanta, GA..

Diabetic individuals have a two - to threefold increased risk for CHD and two - to fourfold higher CHD morbidity and mortality rates.

As we find more and more biomarkers that can predict which patients those will be, we can eliminate the unnecessary morbidity caused by treating patients who are well and perhaps increase the intensity of therapy in patients who are at high risk for metastatic disease.»

Preliminary analyses of the results of the first combination trials, which show higher response rates than with either agent alone, offer some optimism that these locoregional therapies will find application — as treatment for patients who can not tolerate systemic immunotherapies, to alleviate locoregional morbidity, and perhaps even to «prime» the immune system.

For example, the pituitary is known to significantly concentrate toxic metals; brain, kidney, liver, lung, thyroid, and thymus tissue tested far higher levels than blood; and the adverse effects may only be revealed by long - term morbidity and mortality studies, such as the one published in Archives of Internal Medicine.

With the information about Stevia, I would expect there might be some evidence, in the populations who have used Stevia as a basic sweetener for many years, of ailments and morbidity rates related to higher levels of Stevia use.

Although osteoporosis does not show as early as with women, or in as high a percentage of the population, the mortality and morbidity rates for male hip fractures are higher for men.

(For a 40 - year - old female, the premiums would be slightly higher, since women have a lower mortality rate on average but a higher chance of sickness (called «morbidity» in the industry).

Be prepared to explain clinic protocols that ensure high standards, and document morbidity (incidence of disease) and mortality statistics for the animals who come through your doors.

Mr. Damon's commitment to raise $ 1 million through that group and the OneXOne Foundation in the next year was one of a bundle of pledges aimed at water and sanitation from individuals, charities and companies totalling about $ 400 million (including a $ 200 million pledge by Napo Pharmaceuticals to «complete the clinical development of crofelemer, a drug that has potential to treat pediatric diarrhea, and provide it at cost to partner organizations for distribution in the areas with the highest mortality and morbidity associated with diarrheal diseases.»)

For example, it said, pneumonia was an important contributor to morbidity, which might in part arise from high incidence of influenza, yet Australia's vaccine schedule does not currently identify Indigenous people aged 5 - 15 as a high - risk group.

Between 31 % and 45 % of people with coronary heart disease suffer from clinically significant depressive symptoms, and 15 % — 20 % of them meet criteria of major depressive disorder which is roughly threefold higher than in the general population.13 It is now well established that depression is related to the incidence of CVD and is also an independent risk factor for cardiac morbidity and mortality.

Durie recently outlined the explanations for these disparities and proposed a broad spectrum of interventions to improve the health of indigenous people.1 Within that spectrum, health professionals can have a major role in contributing to dramatic reductions in mortality and morbidity through high quality primary healthcare services for prevention and early treatment.

The noncommunicable diseases associated with early childhood adversity have garnered a great deal of attention recently, as they are predicted to account for 90 % of the morbidity seen in high - income countries by the year 2030.62 Although this has prompted some to focus on the automatic brain processes that perpetuate the associated unhealthy lifestyles, 63 relatively little attention has been given to preventing or mitigating the toxic stress that allows these automatic processes and unhealthy behaviors to be learned and adopted in the first place.

Improvements in child health: timely medical visits for common childhood morbidity; high levels of compliance to immunization and well - child care checks; reductions in hospital visits for preventable childhood morbidity, including childhood accidents / injuries and accidental poisoning; and improvements in home safety and home environment

Youth with type 1 diabetes are at high risk for psychosocial morbidities.

Women of childbearing age are particularly at risk for depression, and many of them experience high levels of social morbidity and depressive symptoms that are often unrecognized and untreated.