Sentences with phrase «lowest number of deaths»

California was a close second with 3,000, while the District of Columbia reported the lowest number of deaths, with 20.

Each service of the U.S. military posted the lowest number of deaths from motor vehicle accidents in 2012 — although motorcycle - related fatalities continues to be a leading cause of death among service members unrelated to war, according to a new study of a15 - year surveillance period.

Now, a new vaccine under development could deal another blow to the disease, lowering the number of deaths even further by targeting dozens of additional strains of S. pneumoniae, and anticipating future versions of the bacteria responsible for pneumococcal disease, which includes sepsis and meningitis.

Not exact matches

«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

Though Chicago has a higher number of gun deaths than any other major city, the number of deaths per capita is notably lower than in other cities because of Chicago's large population.

Sixty six people who died in the fire have now been formally identified - the total number of estimated deaths is 80, although police have said it may be lower.

Because I see that a birth with a non nurse midwife is way lower then both the cnm and MD. you say that the REAL number of deaths is higher with a DEM but it is shoved into the md category.

Leaving aside for the moment that this is the same group who crowed over a 20 % increase in homebirths from from 0.56 % to 0.67 % of US births, does dismissing the absolute number of death as low fully convey what is at stake in the decision to attempt homebirth?

The Finnish boxes are part of a wider scheme that helped reduce the number of infants deaths from 10 percent to 0.2 per cent — one of the lowest rates in the world.

The problem there is that babies who are transferred too late due to the incompetence of a homebirth midwife or merely being too far away and then die in the hospital (most certainly as a result of the homebirth) are counted as hospital deaths and therefore the number is far too low.

And I agree with you, that it would be completely inappropriate to say that homebirth has lower risk of death if the rate is say, 1 / 100 deaths, but 1/40, 000 in a hospital (obviously those are fictitious numbers used for illustration purposes)... but then you also have to account for the rate among individual OB's if you want a more accurate comparison, since there are multiple OBs typically in a hospital, being compared to only one midwife.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

In October 2015, the Kentucky Department for Public Health launched the Safe Sleep Campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Safe Sleep for babies and lower the number of SIDS - related deaths in Kentucky.

These differences persisted even though the number of deaths for all kids at the hospitals studied was lower than expected.

The number of drink driving deaths on our roads has not reduced since 2010, the government needs to tackle this issue head on and lower the drink driving limit to make our roads safer.»

The number of traffic fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.

When monthly mortality data for 2010/11 were compared with the five - year average of deaths occurring between 2005/06 and 2009/10 in the relevant months (Figure 2), the number of deaths were about the same as, or lower than, average in every month apart from December 2010.

The numbers of deaths are low when compared to the Holocaust or the Rwandan Genocide.

«With a recent government funded study showing low compliance with existing regulations in England on lead shot use, it's not surprising unacceptable numbers of wildfowl are still dying avoidable deaths from lead poisoning,» the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds» director of conservation Martin Harper said.

The number of people executed in the United States this year dropped to the lowest level since 1991, as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases get access to better legal help.

A consultation on aid spending is seeking to establish the most effective ways in which Britain use its aid budget to help lower the number of maternal deaths and newborn deaths caused by a lack of access to basic family planning methods.

The number of pedestrian deaths in the city in 2017 was the lowest on record.

As the update report notes, an increasing number of people now receive anti-HIV drugs: low - and middle - income countries have seen a 10-fold jump in treatment since 2003, which estimates suggest have averted more than 1 million deaths in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

In this cohort born after 2007, the number of children with poor outcome is lower at 34 per cent (11 per cent death and 23 per cent survived with disability).

«The annual number of deaths related to motor vehicle accidents among members of the U.S. Armed Forces declined in 2012 to their lowest level during a 14 - year surveillance period.

While lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women, a low survival rate makes it the number eight cancer site represented among survivors.

«Pneumonia mainly affects people in low to middle income countries and figures also suggest it was a significant secondary complication in a number of influenza deaths.»

HSC death is a particular problem if the number of donor stem cells is low to begin with.

An analysis that included information from more than 57,000 screening colonoscopies suggests that higher adenoma detection rates may be associated with up to 50 percent to 60 percent lower lifetime colorectal cancer incidence and death without higher overall costs, despite a higher number of colonoscopies and potential complications, according to a study in the June 16 issue of JAMA.

Replacing saturated fats, refined carbohydrates (like simple sugars) or trans fats with an equal number of calories (2 percent — 5 percent of the total) from mono - unsaturated fatty acids from plants might lower the risk of heart disease deaths and death from any cause between 10 percent and15 percent.

They found that although the number of bacteria living inside the fish was much lower in vaccinated fish, they showed many more signs of infection and a higher death rate compared with the unvaccinated group upon exposure to the sea lice.

This likely contributed to the lower - than - expected number of deaths on both arms in the trial.

Generally, only a slightly higher number of deaths, however, a minimally lower proportion of deaths attributable to SSBs, was found for diabetes in women compared with men (130).

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

A number of large studies have found that people who eat fish at least once a week have moderately lower risks of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and sudden cardiac death, according to the new report.

A number of studies have suggested a relationship between low cholesterol levels and deaths due to accidents or violence.

As per my p.s. — I suspect the majority of deaths are in the over 65s — where higher protein intake is associated with lower mortality and the smaller number of deaths in the 50 - 65 group may explain some of the large confidence intervals and relative risks.

In any case, no study has ever offered direct proof that soy can prevent heart disease and in most of the major studies in which cholesterol levels were lowered through either diet or drugs, a greater number of deaths occurred in the treatment groups than in controls, deaths from stroke, cancer, intestinal disorders, accidents and suicide.

He might have added that studies in which cholesterol levels were lowered through either diet or drugs have consistently resulted in a greater number of deaths in the treatment groups than in controls - deaths from stroke, cancer, intestinal disorders, accident and suicide.

'' «Withering on the vine» might work in the private sector but it is not an acceptable outcome for children... Struggling schools need rapid help to turn around, not a long drawn - out death of declining resources and numbers, condemning the remaining pupils to lower standards,» he added.

Analysis also indicates that not only are large cities home to the majority of pedestrian deaths, but also the lowest income neighborhoods within large cities have disproportionate number of fatalities.

Education about pets is also needed to lower the number of cats and dogs sent to death row, Fairchild said.

The 2015 Health Profile of India, compiled annually by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence, lists just 104 medically confirmed human rabies deaths in 2014, the lowest number on record; new lows were also achieved in 2011 and 2013.

In 1999, in response to an 85 % death rate at the city shelter, she started EmanciPET, a low cost and free spay / neuter clinic in an effort to decrease the number of homeless animals.

Although the number of shelter dog deaths is much lower than it was 10 years ago, more than two million dog deaths per year still occur because the shelters have no one to adopt them and no place to put them.

Although the number of shelter dog deaths is much lower than it was 10 years ago, more than two million dogs die in shelters each year because there's no one to adopt them and no place to put them.

That means outfitting an entire crowd of soldiers with automatic weapons that certainly weren't available in such numbers, depicting a zeppelin flying low enough to engage ground troops when that would have been a death sentence, and wearing full - body metal plate armor that would have made running and jumping an absolute nightmare.

Influenza alone can not explain the number of winter deaths in the UK, but it would be interesting to see whether it can explain them in those many northern European countries with much lower winter death rates.

There have been an average of six deaths per year over the past decade, a remarkably low number given the billions of human - hours spent in the water annually

But while coral death numbers are far lower to the south, «an average of 35 percent is quite shocking,» Hughes said.