Sentences with phrase «higher mortality rate when»

For example, melanoma or skin cancer has a high mortality rate when it afflicts a person.

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This isn't hard when the United States has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in the industrialized world (along with one of the highest rates of infant mortality).

The infant mortality rate is considerably higher than average when the mother is a teenager.

Licensed homebirth midwives in Colorado have a perinatal mortality rate that is appallingly high and has risen in every year since 2006 when licensing was enacted.

The article lost me when they claimed that interventions in hospitals are responsible for high maternal mortality rate in the US.

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.

There is a high rate of morbidity and mortality when it comes to an aneurysmal bleed.

«When we look at pandemic strains of influenza that have high mortality rates, one of the best adaptations of those pandemic viruses is their ability to infect these alveolar epithelial cells,» explained researcher Amber Cardani, PhD.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

But the released birds have a high mortality rate: Some die from lead poisoning contracted when they scavenge carcasses contaminated with bullet fragments.

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

The high mortality rate is mainly due to late diagnosis of the disease, when it is already in an advanced stage.

When swine flu emerged in Mexico last April, it was dubbed a «killer virus» because of its apparent high mortality rate.

They also observed a 1.55 percent increase in mortality rate when drought escalated to «high severity worsening» conditions.

When it comes to the health of a pregnant mother or her child, the U.S. has the highest mortality rate among all developed nations.

When we map out liver cancer mortality and animal product consumption only in areas with high rates of hepatitis B infection (18 % and higher), we should see cancer rates rise as animal product consumption increases — at least, according to Campbell.

A study into vitamin D and its effect on mortality rates, found that when you combine high levels of vitamin D and calcium together there is an increased risk of kidney stone formation, the study was performed on elderly women (34).

This suggests that higher rates of mortality in these countries is likely not related to a single variable like food when so many other variables that influence health exist.

All transitions are imbued with risk and possibility, but for transplant recipients transition from pediatric to adult care is a decidedly perilous time when adolescents and young adults have higher mortality rates than their younger cohorts.

When you consider the magnitude of these illnesses — and the higher mortality rates they carry — it's easy to see why insurance companies charge smokers higher premiums.

The end result is that community cats are by far the greatest source of kitten births and of cat admissions to animal shelters, even when the higher mortality rate for community kittens is factored in.

Golden eagle predation, discovered when foxes were radio - collared and monitored, proved to be the cause of the high mortality rates.

Marc Morano: But when you don't need to have as many kids because they don't survive a childhood you tend to have less kids if you're not thinking I need to have X amount because high infant mortality rates, which is what we're seeing around the world which are...

When the temperature exceeds 87.53 ℉ (30.85 ℃), higher temperature leads to higher mortality rate.

A tough choice for the no 1 spot; this candidate ought really to have been born 100 years ago, when infant mortality rates were higher.

Avoiding Tax Trap in the Exchange The very common reason why many policyholders would opt to change their old annuity policy and old life insurance policy in exchange to a new annuity policy and new annuity policy is mainly because a new policy is most likely will perform much better compared to the old policies since nowadays there are already improvements when it comes to mortality which will provide a lower insurance cost, a lesser administration expense on the policy which will provide lower cost, improvements in the said underwriting with lower cost, improvements in the health of the insured which will trigger lower cost, improvements in interest crediting which will perhaps provide higher rates of interest as well as the interest linked in an index and to some cases, a worsened health which may cause higher than the usual annuity payments.

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

In the United Kingdom, IMD incidence and mortality are socially patterned, with IMD incidence in the most deprived quintile being twice that of the most affluent quintile.10 In New Zealand, significantly higher rates of IMD have been reported in Maori (relative risk = 2.2) and Pacific Islander people (relative risk = 3.8) when compared with the European population.11 Aboriginal people are the most disadvantaged group in Australia.12 Two important risk factors associated with increased risk of IMD are more common among Aboriginal people, namely having a smoker among close contacts, including maternal smoking, and sharing a bedroom.13 — 15 It is not possible to explore the causal interaction of these factors from notifiable disease data.