Sentences with phrase «including high mortality»

«Emergency department crowding is clearly linked to worse patient care and worse outcomes, including higher mortality rates, higher rates of complications, and errors,» said Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, professor of emergency medicine and health policy at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Not exact matches

Another 5 studies (13 - 17) claim homebirth to have a higher perinatal mortality rate compared to hospital birth but they all include high risk births in the planned homebirth group.

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:

The main issues in Australia regarding homebirth centre around the risks to the baby, with higher perinatal mortality rates reported in some studies of homebirth [14, 15] however these studies have included women with risk factors (e.g., twins, medical complications), so it is difficult to draw conclusions about low - risk women [14, 16].

«Despite the fact that cesarean section rates higher than 10 % are not associated with reductions in maternal and newborn mortality, many countries across the world — including the U.S., Brazil and even parts of India — are seeing rates of cesarean section rise to over 30 %,» Jerker writes.

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.

Some of those factors included a decline in birth rates corresponding with higher infant mortality rates, the discovery of vaccines, and a rise in hospital births.

Additionally, the numbers usually quoted for in hospital mortality rates typically include high risk births.

Safety: The highest rates of bed - sharing worldwide occur alongside the lowest rates of infant mortality, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) rates.

That the highest rates of bedsharing worldwide occur alongside the lowest rates of infant mortality, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) rates, is a point worth returning to.

Including high risk births in the hospital group artificially inflates the mortality rate, giving you in inaccurate impression of actual risks.

Altogether, the midwives» patients suffered nine perinatal deaths, almost double the perinatal mortality rate for the entire state, including high - risk and premature deliveries.

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.»

Ebola virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates with high mortality rates and continues to emerge in new geographic locations, including West Africa, the site of the largest outbreak to date.

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.

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.

Some of the things to look for in a cancer center include a low mortality index, a high ratio of nurses to patients and opportunities to participate in clinical trials.

Possible long - term interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity after high exposures end include disease screening, reducing important co-exposures, treatment and health services resource planning, and increasing public awareness of arsenic health effects.

Other participants read a «high - risk» message that focused instead on the consequences of the disease, including the fact that the mortality rate is as high as 40 % in some age groups.

However, the authors stress that «further clinical investigations will be essential to establish the optimal dose, duration and safety, and whether vitamin D2 or D3 have different effects on mortality risk, since the available trials are based on elderly populations in general (an age group with high competing risk of death often due to multiple co-existing disease conditions) and they do not typically include cause - specific deaths as the primary outcomes.»

Although Ebola outbreaks are quite rare, the gruesome symptoms — including high fevers, bleeding, and vomiting — and the mortality rate of up to 90 % have captured the world's attention and helped propel the virus onto the list of potential bioterror threats.

Untreated hyperthyroidism has severe consequences, including, most importantly, a higher mortality for cardiovascular disease.

They adjusted the data for pre-operative and surgical variables previously shown to be associated with 30 - day mortality, including active cancer, general surgery, urgent / emergent surgery, history of peripheral vascular disease, history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, age, recent high - risk coronary artery disease, history of stroke and neurosurgery.

«Our findings indicate that sexual minorities living in communities with higher levels of prejudice die sooner than sexual minorities living in low - prejudice communities, and that these effects are independent of established risk factors for mortality, including household income, education, gender, ethnicity, and age, as well as the average income and education level of residents in the communities where the respondents lived,» said Dr. Hatzenbuehler.

Dividing patients into three groups — those receiving high, medium and low FFP to RBC ratio transfusions — revealed no difference in 30 - day mortality between groups, including for trauma patients.

Presence of MetS was associated with a 2-fold higher risk of CVD and 1.5-fold increase of mortality, with consistently higher risk for women than men, including all - cause mortality (297).

Prepregnancy care in diabetic women of child - bearing age is still unsatisfying, due to consistently increasing rates of serious perinatal complications, including excess malformation rates and higher mortality (Table 3)(341).

In conclusion, in this prospective study of adults 60 years or older, low fitness predicted higher risk of all - cause mortality after adjustment for potential confounding factors, including adiposity.

Even after adjusting for a variety of variables, including smoking, body mass index and pre-existing health ailments, the «definite evening type» was associated with a 10 percent higher risk of mortality than the «definite morning type.»

Whitehead Institute scientists report that patients whose estrogen receptor (ER)- positive breast cancers have high levels of an ancient cellular survival factor experience poor outcomes — including increased mortality.

The students are employing that technology — which includes CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) systems, DNA microarrays, real - time polymerase chain reactions, RNA sequencing and western blotting — to study acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which affects both children and adults and comes with a high mortality rate for older patients.

Most of the ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa with the highest mortality rates have seen recent complex emergencies including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and others.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mortality associated with chronic liver disease ranks as the 12th most common cause of death in the U.S., but may be as high as 8th if obesity - related fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, and liver cancer are included in the equation.

IPCC [26] projects the following trends, if global warming continue to increase, where only trends assigned very high confidence or high confidence are included: (i) increased malnutrition and consequent disorders, including those related to child growth and development, (ii) increased death, disease and injuries from heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts, (iii) increased cardio - respiratory morbidity and mortality associated with ground - level ozone.

The 3-fold higher risk of inflammatory mortality among women considerably exceeds risk increases so far reported for other diseases linked to GI, including type 2 diabetes and CVD (1, 19).

I'm wondering if you, or anyone else, has an explanation as to why the study showed that higher protein intake (presumably, including animal protein) was associated with lower rates of cancer mortality in people over 65.

We recently published an article documenting the grim long - term effects of low - carbohydrate diets, in which we explain the evidence - based research showing that low - carbohydrate diets high in fat and protein including meat, dairy products, eggs, fish, and oil actually worsen diabetes health, increase cancer risk, increase cholesterol, increase atherosclerosis, harden blood vessels, and increase all - cause mortality.

, in which we explain the evidence - based research showing that low - carbohydrate diets high in fat and protein including meat, dairy products, eggs, fish, and oil actually worsen diabetes health, increase cancer risk, increase cholesterol, increase atherosclerosis, harden blood vessels, and increase all - cause mortality.

The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) looked at the effect of high sodium intake on the risks of cardiovascular disease mortality; including hypertension risk.

2) They don't consider the fact that many of the study participants who ate a high carbohydrate diet were also living in poverty and therefore had higher mortality risk from a number of other factors including lack of access to medical care, and malnutrition.

· 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.

The landlocked nation faces extreme development challenges, including an adult HIV prevalence rate of 10 per cent, and very high levels of infant and child mortality.

«We have euthanized roughly, including sick cats and kittens that have a high mortality rate, 80 (dogs and cats) to her more than 2,000 over the past 10 years,» he said.

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.»)

Positive effects will include modest improvements in cold - related mortality and morbidity in some areas due to fewer cold extremes, shifts in food production, and reduced capacity of disease - carrying vectors (medium confidence), but globally, positive inlpacts will be outweighed by the magnitude and severity of negative impacts (high confidence).

Miyamoto is a structural engineer from California (and a member of that state's Seismic Safety Commission), who has been in Katmandu since Tuesday and is helping «red tag» dangerous structures around the city — including a high - rise housing complex that was badly damaged but did not collapse, avoiding mass mortality.

IPCC [26] projects the following trends, if global warming continue to increase, where only trends assigned very high confidence or high confidence are included: (i) increased malnutrition and consequent disorders, including those related to child growth and development, (ii) increased death, disease and injuries from heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts, (iii) increased cardio - respiratory morbidity and mortality associated with ground - level ozone.

Other serious side effects that have been linked to Depo - Provera include severe allergic reactions to the drug, a greater risk of premature births, and possibly even higher neonatal and infant mortality death rates.

Insurance21 Replied: 26-01-2017 17:50:24 If pension is main objective then it is not good to invest in insurance plans as insurance premium includes mortality charges which will be high in your cases.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.