A new study finds that long - term exposure to fine - particle air pollution — formed by the gasses of cars, power plants, and other sources — is associated with much
higher mortality rates from cancers of the breast, upper digestive tract, and other organs.
Letting them run rampant, and accepting the associated
higher mortality rate from preventable illness?
«We thought they'd realize we've found an effective drug for treating an underserved group with
a high mortality rate from heart disease,» Cohn says.
Women respond more slowly Women are more likely than men to delay seeking treatment at the first signs of a heart attack, a behavior pattern that has puzzled cardiologists and contributes to
the higher mortality rate from heart attack among women.
Because prairie dogs are highly social animals living in tightly knit colonies, they suffer particularly
high mortality rates from plague; upwards of 90 percent of a colony can die off during an outbreak.
People aged 30 to 39 had
the highest mortality rate from drug misuse (98.4 deaths per million population), followed by people aged 40 to 49 (95.1 deaths per million).
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (Home Office, 2016 — PDF download) showed that men are more likely to take illicit drugs than women This partly explains
the higher mortality rate from drug misuse in males, but does not explain the sharper rises seen in males in recent years.
Not exact matches
According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the
highest rates of firearm
mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children
from other racial groups.
Figures
from the Reproductive Health in Crisis Consortium show that the 10 countries with the
highest maternal
mortality rates (MMRs) are all undergoing or have recently undergone conflict.
This may in part stem
from misleading reporting of research (21) results but in fact, formula - fed babies experience
higher rates of morbidity and
mortality than their breastfed counterparts, even in industrialized countries.
There are 12
high quality studies since 1995 (1 - 12)
from Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, US, UK, New Zealand and Israel, which all show planned attended homebirth to have either lower or similar
rates of perinatal
mortality and very significantly lower
rates of maternal morbidity, such as cesareans, hemorrhage, and third and fourth degree tears compared to matched groups of low risk women who plan to deliver in hospital.
The following quote
from the article above puzzles me to no end: «The latest CDC figures (publicly available on the CDC Wonder website) show that planned homebirth with a non-nurse midwife has a
mortality rate 600 %
HIGHER than low risk hospital birth.»
As the recently released statistics
from Oregon show, planned homebirth with a licensed homebirth midwife has a
mortality rate 800 %
HIGHER than term hospital birth.
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:
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.
The latest data
from the CDC (available on the CDC) Wonder website shows that homebirth with a non-nurse midwife has a neonatal
mortality rate more than 7 times
HIGHER than low risk hospital birth.
Ohio has one of the
highest infant
mortality rate in the country, and the number of babies dying
from sleep - related causes has actually increased in recent years.
On the other hand, for a first time mother with no complications at the start of labor, the Birthplace Study found a nearly 3 x greater risk of intrapartum / neonatal loss, and the data
from the Netherlands suggests that although the
rates aren't
high enough to affect the overall perinatal
mortality rate, there are greater risks out of hospital if a complication does occur.
A penetrating injury
from shrapnel is a serious obstacle in overcoming battlefield wounds that can ultimately lead to death.Given the
high mortality rates due to hemorrhaging, there is an unmet need to quickly self - administer materials that prevent fatality due to excessive blood loss.
Nipah is another henipavirus, a close cousin to Hendra with a
high mortality rate in bats and humans in a zone stretching
from Australia to Bangladesh.
Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those
from central and eastern Europe where major delays are still observed and where cancer
mortality rates tend to be
higher as a result.»
In addition to having a
higher rate of freedom
from atrial fibrillation, participants who underwent catheter ablation also had lower
rates of hospitalization and
mortality during the two - year follow up.
Wrangham notes that male hunter - gatherers within the same band rarely kill each other; their
high mortality rates result
from conflict between groups.
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.
Analyzing records
from the National Trauma Data Bank, Haider and his colleagues separated 181 trauma centers
from across the nation into three categories — low -
mortality, or hospitals with lower - than - expected death
rates (86 such centers); average (6); and
high -
mortality, or hospitals with
higher - than - expected death
rates (89).
A new study
from the University of Illinois reports that including broccoli in the diet may also protect against liver cancer, as well as aid in countering the development of fatty liver or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which can cause malfunction of the liver and lead to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a liver cancer with a
high mortality rate.
Residents also experience
high rates of adult and childhood obesity, diabetes, HIV / AIDS, and
mortality from diabetes, coronary disease, and cerebrovascular disease.
But the released birds have a
high mortality rate: Some die
from lead poisoning contracted when they scavenge carcasses contaminated with bullet fragments.
This elevated
mortality lasted over time and was mainly supported by a
high rate of deaths
from acute vascular events.
Anorexia nervosa, in particular, is associated with the
highest mortality and suicide
rates; compared to healthy peers, women with anorexia are up to 12 times more likely to die of any cause, and approximately 57 times more likely to die
from suicide, over the same period of time.
The researchers also found that the age - adjusted NTM
mortality rates were uneven across the U.S. Residents of Hawaii, the state with the
highest rate, were almost nine times more likely to die
from NTM than were residents of Michigan, with the lowest
rate.
The Tsimané's distinctive child - rearing styles may stem
from a sobering reason: a
high infant
mortality rate.
Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a
high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died
from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.
Reducing the
high type 1 diabetes
mortality rates will need additional expenditure on the care of patients with the disorder, many of the benefits
from which might not be seen for up to 20 years.
In particular, the Southern states suffer
from high rates of infant
mortality, along with several other negative population health indicators such as obesity and diabetes.
To better understand the contributing factors that lead to
high rates of infant
mortality in the South, researchers
from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» Maternal and Child Health Bureau analyzed the most recent National Center for Health Statistics Period Linked Birth / Infant Death Data Files
from 2007 - 2009.
Although of course there are a number of caveats since mice can be cured
from cancer at
higher rates, they don't suffer
from some of our diseases, they are sensitive to being handled (if grabbing them can shorten their lifespan through stress, the mouse version of standard human medical care may do the same), so I guess that increases in maximum lifespan are indeed the only reliable indicator that an intervention is impacting age - related
mortality.
The probable benefits of bioflavonoids themselves have also been demonstrated, such as the low
mortality rates from prostate cancer in Asian men compared to Western countries, which may be because of
higher intake of isoflavones.»
Once hospitalized for heart failure,
mortality rates at 30 days, 1 year, and 5 years were as
high as 10 %, 22 %, and 42 % in patients
from four United States communities (1).
ANN ARBOR, Mich. —
Higher taxes and prices for cigarettes are strongly associated with lower infant
mortality rates in the United States, according to a new study
from Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan released Dec. 1 in the journal Pediatrics.
Recently, researchers
from the Copenhagen City Heart Study, which tracked runners of different abilities over 27 years, found that the people who participated in the fastest, longest, and most frequent running had a
higher mortality rate than the moderate group and were no different
from the couch potatoes!
The U.S. also has the third - worst
mortality rate from nutritional deficiencies, and the
highest absolute age - adjusted
mortality rate among all developed nations!
In one well - designed study (the Minnesota Coronary Experiment), participants who ate a «heart healthy diet» low in saturated fat and
higher in unsaturated fats (primarily
from corn oil and vegetable oils) had an increased
mortality rate over those who ate more saturated fat.
One possible explanation for why
mortality rates are
higher for non-drinkers may be that low levels of ethanol (alcohol) in your bloodstream helps prevent the formation of formaldehyde
from dietary methanol.
Sadly, the
mortality rate from a hip fracture is as
high as 50 % in the first six months.
I would value you opinion on this recent article (see link) that equates
higher protein intake with increased
rates of all - cause
mortality (twice the
rate) and also death
from cancer and diabetes (four times the
rate) compared with low protein consumption.
In 1978, Sri Lankan's were consuming coconut oil as their main dietary fat and had the lowest death
rate from ischemic heart disease in the world.26 «All available population studies show that dietary coconut oil does not lead to
high serum cholesterol nor to
high coronary heart disease
mortality or morbidity
rate,» concluded American and Filipino researchers in 1992.27
Similarly, the institute reports that the
rate of
mortality from coronary heart disease in women with the
highest intake of omega - 3 unsaturated fats was significantly less than those with the lowest intake.
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Among various food items, cow's milk and cheese had the
highest correlation with incidence and
mortality rate of these cancers» Children are at
high risk «Among the exposure of humans, especially prepubertal children, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens
from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in children.