Sentences with phrase «including higher mortality rates»

«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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

· 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.

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.

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.

As a consequence, late diagnosis of cancer is far more common among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander than other Australians, with this leading to poor cancer outcomes, including higher rates of mortality.

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.

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

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].