Sentences with phrase «high mortality among»

Just spawn a lot of variations in each generation and, given the high mortality among the young, only those variants better adapted to the current environment will survive long enough to reach reproductive age.

There was high mortality among rescued dogs, primarily due to the barbaric transport process and spread of infectious disease.

The high mortality among bonobos — one of humanity's closest relatives — was particularly concerning, since a virus's virulence is often similar within closely related species.

Wood bamboo leaves age over this season, and their nutrient levels drop, causing high mortality among pandas.

Disease, epidemics, famine and high mortality among children took their toll.

While increased temperatures in warm places and seasons may result in higher mortality among those who are less able to cope with higher temperatures, warmer winters will reduce the number of people who die from cold.

Not exact matches

Secondly, while attention has been understandably focused on the result that the greatest increase in overall mortality occurred among white Americans with a high school degree or less, Case and Deaton's results show that death from suicide and drug poisoning for white Americans with BA degrees or some college also increased for the middle - aged, 45 - 54 category.

(In my personal experience, I would guess that mortality is comparable, but morbidity and transfer rate is much higher among the UC crowd.)

One thing that indicates the skill of American obstetricians is the fact that — despite maternal and infant mortality rates that are high among developed countries — the American neonatal mortality rate is so good.

The high infant mortality rate among black infants is mostly to their being disproportionately born too small, too sick or too soon.

Among the new communication efforts are peer group counseling programs in which successful breastfeeding mothers are enlisted to help others in areas where high infant - mortality rates might be reduced by nutrition from breastfeeding.

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.

[7] Governments in Europe started to worry about the decline of the workforce because of the high mortality rates among newborns.

Dana was more than a student, being among the first scientists to challenge formula companies on the link among formula use and high infant mortality in developing countries.

Yet, the U.S. has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding among industrialized countries and one of the highest rates of infant mortality.

Perinatal loss to the 64 women who booked for hospital delivery but delivered outside and to the 67 women who delivered outside hospital without ever making arrangements to receive professional care during labour accounted for the high perinatal mortality (134 deaths in 3466 deliveries) among all births outside hospital.

After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, formula donations sent to affected areas resulted in immediate decreased rates of breastfeeding and higher rates of diarrhoea and mortality among young children.

The authors found higher rates of mortality among infants never breastfed compared to those exclusively breastfed in the first six months of life and receiving continued breastfeeding beyond.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

To our knowledge, this is the only study in the Netherlands to show a higher risk of delivery related perinatal mortality among women with the intention to deliver in primary care compared with women delivered in secondary care.

The top five reasons a Black Breastfeeding Week is needed are: 1) The high black infant mortality rate; 2) High rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4) Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communithigh black infant mortality rate; 2) High rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4) Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communitHigh rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4) Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communities.

I find it ironic that mainstream medical professionals would spend so much time critiquing and vilifying home birth when the VAST MAJORITY OF BIRTHS IN AMERICA HAPPEN IN AMERICAN HOSPITALS and when AMERICA HAS AMONG THE HIGHEST MATERNAL MORTALITY RATES OF ANY COUNTRY IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD.

This represents a higher annual mortality rate (predominantly among older people) than that for all road traffic accidents in Great Britain.

Mortality rates among adults 18 - 64 have increased every year of Obamacare except 2012 and are now higher than at any time during the 2002 - 2010 period.

Since then, he's signed an executive order to allow parolees to vote, pushed a study about marijuana legalization, announced initiatives to address the high maternity - mortality rate among black women and, after years of criticism, forced an end to a split among state Senate Democrats that kept Republicans in control of the chamber.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a series of initiatives aimed at addressing a disturbingly high rate of maternal mortality among black women.

«Infertility linked to higher risk of death among women: Penn study shows link between fertility and overall mortality; infertility also linked to increased risk of death from breast cancer and diabetes.»

The risk of maternal mortality has remained about three to four times higher among black women than white women during the past six decades.

On the other hand, the continuing increase in lung cancer mortality among European women represents a challenge for cancer control, and the steady increase in pancreatic cancer deserves high priority for research.»

As a result, the mortality rates among mosquitoes were high.»

The team found a 21 percent decrease in all - cause mortality among women in the highest quartile of intake, when compared to those in the lowest quartile.

At this critical time of tax reform, widening gaps between the rich and poor and growing public support for higher taxes and redistribution to combat inequality, policymakers should consider joint federal tax and redistributive policies to reduce the burden of mortality among Americans,» said Professor Kim.

More unexpected, researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison uncovered a link between sleep apnea and cancer mortality: Cancer deaths among patients with severe apnea were five times higher than among those without.

URIs are the most common reason that parents take young children to the doctor and lead to massive direct costs, high indirect costs including work absenteeism among parents, and even mortality, especially in disadvantaged groups, say the authors.

In addition to the connection with weak grip strength, Wu said there was a «very clear» inverse association between high blood pressure and mortality among those who weren't physically able to finish the gait - speed test in the latest study, measured over a 98.5 - inch walk.

A study of nearly 7,500 Americans age 65 or older suggests that elevated blood pressure is not related to high mortality risk among people in that age group with weak grip strength.

Put another way, among those who couldn't walk a little over 8 feet, high blood pressure was associated with less mortality risk.

The psychologists found that mortality salience affected feelings of hope among people with high and low self - esteem in different ways.

In the European Union, children younger than 14 years account for a higher proportion of pedestrian mortalities than any other age group except the elderly; in the U.S., among children killed by cars, nearly a quarter were on foot.

Among Americans 35 and older, Mississippians have the highest mortality from heart disease in the nation, ranging between 450 and 850 deaths per 100,000.

Islam and colleagues found that among patients with localized lung cancer, those with one comorbidity had a 30 percent higher risk of mortality compared with those who had no comorbidity.

The weather at Cap Blanc is notoriously violent and infant mortality among the seals is estimated to be as high as 60 per cent.

In the US, teenage pregnancies are soaring and the mortality rate among babies born to young girls is higher in some cities than in parts of the developing world.

«For example, the majority of excess infant mortality was due to higher mortality rates among non-Hispanic white infants in Kentucky and Oklahoma,» explains Dr. Hirai.

Studies have shown visceral obesity to be a risk factor on its own as well, a strong predictor of, among other things, heart attacks in young men, chronic heart failure in older people, high blood pressure in Japanese Americans, heart attacks in «well functioning» elderly women, and — the clincher, the coup de grease, if you will — of «all - cause mortality» in men.

The adjusted absolute risk of mortality among patients with SAB with high - vancomycin MIC (≥ 1.5 mg / L [less susceptible]; n = 2,740 patients; mortality, 26.8 percent) was not statistically different from patients with SAB with low - vancomycin MIC (< 1.5 mg / L; [more susceptible] n = 5,551 patients; mortality, 25.8 percent).

Further analyses show that graft failure and mortality rates remained higher among minority groups compared to white children after accounting for differences in demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors.

«Our findings support the Million Hearts ® goal of improving hypertension control to reduce CVD morbidity and mortality, especially among states with high hypertension prevalence and a low proportion of antihypertensive medication use among people with hypertension,» says Dr. Bowman.

However, among general surgery and medical service patients those receiving high - ratio transfusions had a higher mortality rate than those receiving low - ratio transfusions, while the opposite was found among vascular surgery patients.

Recent estimates for the prevalence of obesity (defined as a BMI of ≥ 30) among adults are 36 % in the United States, 111 24 % in Canada, 112 and 26 % in England.113 Obesity was associated with significantly higher all - cause mortality relative to the normal weight BMI category with an overall summary HR of 1.18.