Sentences with phrase «infection rates»

Studies also show significant reductions in newborn infection rates in term infants when exclusive human milk feeding is available.

That makes the exposure and infection rates of dogs and cats about the same.

Current infection rates for cats vary from state to state but are generally lower in cats than in dogs.

The higher infection rate percentages in women over men likely reflects an increased susceptibility for this type of infection in all women.

Those that have already done so must continue to reduce infection rates.

This is because of lower infection rates and the relative inconsistency of the test results (for reasons mentioned above).

When infection rates dropped, measures of gender equality — including female wages and political representation — improved by a proportional amount between 15 and 25 years later.

Proof of this is the heartworm infection rate in indoor cats, which is estimated to be as high as 25 % in some areas.

Overall infection rates range from 1 % — 8 % in healthy cats, up to 21 % in sick cats.

Someone or some group has to fund carefully planned vector control programs in the poor nations where infection rates are highest.

Due to health concerns about infection rates and adverse events, we are updating our medical protocol for medication abortion.

The proof of this is in the 13 percent of reporting hospitals in the country that have zero central line infection rates.

Childhood infection rates are 10 % in light green areas and more than 50 % in dark green.

Therefore, actual infection rates are estimated to be higher than the reported data.

A new study is the first to look at infection rates within schools and propose solutions targeting children.

But experts have warned against linking infection rates to rates of abuse.

We have a large surgical suite with positive pressure ventilation, which helps to reduce infection rates.

But only one published clinical trial has shown that copper lowers infection rates — by as much as 58 % — in hospitals.

Many of us had no information of infection rates in our hospitals or choice of where to be treated.

The highest infection rate, and the most danger, is in kittens.

Several treatments have undergone clinical trials, but the only one that's been even slightly successful, a 2009 study in Thailand, lowered HIV infection rates by only 30 percent.

The research shows that reducing sexual violence could reduce HIV infection rates by around a fifth, in both high - and low - income settings, and improving access to ART could prevent around a third of HIV infections in low - income settings.

With infection rates rising, unfortunately it seems this will continue to be the case for many years to come, a malignant presence which remains a constant part of the gay sexual health discussion.

There's no way to tie the 50 % drop in the HIV infection rate among South African teens from 2005 to»08 directly to Grassroot Soccer, but foundations are showing their confidence in the program with more grant money.

Another study of 201 transgender black and Latina women — a population that has one of the highest new infection rates in the country — in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, found that 86 % knew about PrEP.

America is one of the most religious industrialized countries yet we are a very violent nation and have one of the highest teen pregnancy and STD infection rates among industrialized nations.

In South Africa, HIV infection rates rose from less than 1 percent of all adults in 1990 to almost 25 percent in 2000.

There wasn't any difference found in infection rate between women with schizophrenia (31.3 percent) and controls (29.4 percent).

So public health officials were surprised when a nationwide survey revealed in June that infection rates from cancer - causing HPV strains have sharply declined since the vaccine was introduced in 2006.

Infection rates fell by 39 per cent overall in the 445 women in South Africa who received the gel, compared with rates in the 444 women given a placebo gel.

A study published in 2011 suggested that eating dates 4 weeks prior to giving birth had the following benefits: significantly higher cervical dilation; reduced need for induction and reduced infection rate as a result of a higher rate of intact membranes on admission to hospital.

Actively involved, in identifying the need to study on infection rate of venous access devices used on AIDS patient, presently working on collection of on the following.

Bacterial samples both before and after birth were analyzed and neonatal infection rates compared to land births.

C. Virginia Fields of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, and Manhattan State Sen. Brad Hoylman, talk to In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the HIV / AIDS infection rates for young people.

Vaccinating pregnant mothers year - round against flu in the resource - challenged region of subtropical Nepal reduced infant flu virus infection rates by an average of 30 percent, increased birth weights by 15 percent and resulted in babies having less influenza, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

It's been shown that FeLV and FIV infection rates among TNR colony cats are no different than rates for pet cats.

In the locations where Xenex's robots have been deployed in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, hospitals have seen infection rates drop by as much as 50 to 80 percent, according to Miller.

Men with bipolar disorder had clear increases in Candida as well, with a 26.4 percent infection rate, compared to only 14 percent in male controls.

Due to the many factors involved in disease incidence & the transient decline in infection rates after development of the first vaccines, Leptospirosis is often under - emphasized in evaluation of disease & in preventive medicine program development.

Although infection rates dropped dramatically with the vaccine, pertussis has recently returned with dangerous fervor: 2012 was the country's worst year for pertussis since 1959, with more than 38,000 cases reported nationally, 16 deaths of infants and children, and large spikes in every state except California.

And, with a gonorrhea infection rate second only to San Antonio, we can surmise that heartbreak here sometimes leaves a mark.

The TAVR procedures can be done through very small openings that leave all the chest bones in place or via a catheter in the femoral (leg) artery, so recovery is generally much faster with infection rates also improved.