Sentences with phrase «high mortality problems»

Now even the spy in the sky can help, with the first study of a whale species that has been having high mortality problems with its calves.

Not exact matches

Disordered eating results in serious health problems, some of which are potentially fatal (the mortality rate in severe cases can be as high as 10 to 15 % from heart failure, hormonal imbalances or suicide), including:

Bialik mentions high maternal - infant mortality rates and increasing social and psychiatric problems in children.

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.

Heath campaigners say that for decades, formula has consistently proven to be less healthy than breastfeeding - boosting the risk of diabetes, infections and other medical problems, and, when used exclusively, contributes to 21 percent higher infant mortality.

We also know these families are at higher risk of mortality, are more likely to be admitted to hospital and have higher incidences of mental health problems.

Doctors have long known that loneliness is associated with cardiovascular problems, viral infections, and higher mortality.

MDR and XDR - TB are associated with high mortality, are a threat to health - care workers, prohibitively expensive to treat, and are therefore a serious public health problem.

The condor's main survival problem is high mortality due to lead poisoning.

Major problems in high TB disease burden countries are human and environmental factors that contribute to a weakened immune system and can increase susceptibility to Mtb infection, recurrence of latent infection and high morbidity and mortality.

Problem Hawaii has the highest number of endangered birds in the US due in part to avian malaria, a parasite introduced into Hawaii that is causing disproportionate mortality in native forest birds, particularly honeycreepers.

Why are they supposedly a big problem especially when we know «that higher whole grain consumption is associated with lower total and CVD mortality in US men and women, independent of other dietary and lifestyle factors.»

So they looked at people who'd been born in states with high infant mortality rates — an indicator of social problems like poverty and limited access to medical care.

· Shortage of men.In many countries, such as Russia, there are simply more women then men due to many factors including wars and high male mortality rates Problems finding men who are interested in serious relationships.

This was done in the case of hospitals with high heart - patient mortality rates that «fixed» the problem by simply no longer taking such cases.

Mortality reductions also were substantial when the striking vehicles were pickups or SUVs, suggesting that head - protecting side airbags are addressing some of the problems of incompatibility when passenger cars are struck in the side by vehicles with higher ride heights.

Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities in the way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.

In one study, producers identified respiratory problems as the cause of more than half of all nursery pig deaths.1 Along with high mortality rates, complex SRD also can hurt production because of lower feed efficiency, higher cull rates and higher treatment costs.

Concentrating on the brachycephalic syndrome also ignores other serious problems in the breed, such as inability to breed and deliver normally, poor mothering, high puppy mortality, the accumulation of simple recessive deleterious traits, a number of orthopedic problems, certain cancers, allergies, immunodeficiency, and autoimmune disorders.

They appear to have had some of the problems shared by Mayas and other pre-industrial societies such as high infant mortality.

In a 2013 paper in Science, Brian Tucker, the founder of GeoHazards International, illustrated the problem by noting that the mortality rate of Haitians in areas severely shaken by the 2010 Port - au - Prince earthquake was 100 times higher than the rate in areas experiencing similar shaking in Chile's great earthquake the same year.

This program reduced the high mortality rate of inner - city infants from summer diarrhea when previous efforts of private agencies had failed.5 In the late 20th century, as funding for public health nurses has declined relative to the need, home - visitation programs have focused on families with special problems such as premature or low - birth - weight infants, children with developmental delay, teenage parents, and families at risk for child abuse or neglect.6

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

In addition, girls with depressive disorder associated with behavioral problems (including aggression) appear to present poorer outcomes compared to boys, with a higher mortality rate [15], poorer health [15], more frequent comorbid psychiatric disorders [16] and a higher suicide rate [4].

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study1 has attracted considerable scientific and policy attention in recent years, in part because it suggests that potentially preventable childhood experiences, particularly physical and sexual abuse and neglect, may increase a person's risk for serious health problems and higher mortality rates much later in life.