Sentences with phrase «morbidity as»

Psychiatric and psychological morbidity as a function of adaptive disability in preschool children with aggressive and hyperactive impulsive inattentive behavior

Her interest in embroidery, Stielau suggests, is centered on both its morbidity as well as its sense of «homeliness»; the sense of both creation and healing; as well as it sense of memorializing.

In addition, this new program focuses more on morbidity as a measure of surgical outcomes, rather than mortality, which Dr. Moss said better encompasses the specific nature of pediatric surgery.

We aimed to document the association of duration of predominant feeding and duration of any breast feeding with respiratory illness and infection morbidity as measured by doctor, hospital, or clinic visits and hospital admissions in the first year of life.

Aim: To examine the relation between the duration of breast feeding and morbidity as a result of respiratory illness and infection in the first year of life.

For data analysis purposes, they define severe acute maternal morbidity as: ICU admission, transfusion of 4 or more packed cells, PPH, and manual removal of the placenta.

So really, the safest place to birth is at home, when you consider morbidity as well as mortality.

Not exact matches

A 2010 meta - analysis found that quality interpersonal connections not only influenced mental health but morbidity and mortality as well.

Demographers call this reduction in the typical span of age - related illness «the compression of morbidity» and attribute it primarily to improvements in the treatment of common ailments such as heart disease.

I'm not sure that there is a «growing morbidity» in America's imagination, as Goldman says, or that, if this is occurring, it is because America is watching too many horror movies.

It must be further pointed out that De Rougemont takes the most elaborately dramatized and perverse examples of romanticism such as the Tristan legend with its turgid morbidities, its pathos, and its obsession with adultery, and treats this as the essence of romantic love.

Not to be forgotten here are the movements that protest all talk of suffering / sin / death and wish for us self - esteem, «new age» pieties and creation - oriented spiritualities as medicine for our morbidities.

Possessing accurate data could help the United States to take its place as a leading nation on the World Health Organization's list of countries with a low incidence of perinatal morbidity and mortality.

Contemporary uneasiness about talk of death and the frequent refusal to reckon with it can be interpreted as a welcome, perhaps a necessary, reaction from the morbidity of an earlier age.

There are mainly 3 things that may however incite a sports org to invest more seriously in testing: 1) Pressure from the fans, 2) Pressure from athletes themselves, 3) Risks of being eventually recognized as facilitating or being complicit with doping, especially if athletes are at greater risk of morbidity either during their careers, or even after.

Just as we shouldn't condemn all hospitals or all drs for single (or in most cases multiple) mistakes or otherwise that lead to the maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, we should not hold up a single death in the UC community and use it to condemn a way of thinking.

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.

Homebirth and midwifery advocates point with pride to a recent study that showed that homebirth with a midwife in the Netherlands is as safe as hospital birth with a midwife (Perinatal mortality and morbidity in a nationwide cohort of 529 688 low - risk planned home and hospital births).

Includes «morbidity and mortality» (as a condition — I kid you not!)

They included them as severe maternal morbidity and neglected to mention that they resulted in death.

I heard this year from the president of the March of Dimes that pre-term birth has surpassed birth defects as the most common cause of infant mortality and morbidity in the western world.

Comparing rates of severe morbidity is typically used as a marker instead, it isn't something uncommon or underhanded at all.

Common practices do not make common sense and contribute to poor outcomes - the US ranks near the bottom as compared to other modernized countries in terms of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, despite high rates of medical and surgical interventions.

She thought that she had succeeded in Perinatal mortality and morbidity in a nationwide cohort of 529 688 low - risk planned home and hospital births (2009) which appeared to show that homebirth with a midwife in the Netherlands is as safe as hospital birth with a midwife.

In the US, even as prenatal care continues to increase in frequency and technology, our prematurity, mortality, and morbidity rates continue to rise.

Since ERCSs have significantly higher rates of maternal morbidity and mortality, this essentially treats the mother and her health as unimportant.

We considered the cost of hypertension alone plus the cost of hypertension as a risk factor for other cardiovascular disease, 41 subtracting out that portion resulting from coronary heart disease.42, 43 We used a direct annual cost of $ 998 and indirect annual morbidity cost of $ 98.

The combination of breastfeeding support and donor milk banking is based on the notion of human milk as a functional food that is important for decreasing neonatal morbidity.

He was eager to use our pasteurised milk as he believed it could make a difference to the unacceptably high mortality and morbidity rates of the micro-premature babies in his unit.

Cost effectiveness was expressed as incremental cost per adverse perinatal outcome avoided, per maternal morbidity avoided, and per additional «normal birth.»

In addition, much of the data compiled on vaginal delivery looks at «positive outcomes» alone (i.e. a planned vaginal delivery that ends up as a vaginal delivery) rather than «all planned vaginal delivery outcomes» (including those that result in emergency cesareans) and their subsequent mortalities or morbidities.

Adverse maternal morbidity: defined as at least one of: general anaesthetic; instrumental birth; caesarean section; third or fourth degree perineal trauma; blood transfusion; admission to an intensive treatment unit, high dependency unit, or specialist unit; or maternal death (within 42 days after giving birth)

Previous studies of the effect of breastfeeding on morbidity among full - term infants have not always accounted for selection bias that may result if infants who are breastfed are inherently healthier than bottle - fed infants.22 In the current study, the VLBW infants» ability to breastfeed did not reflect better health status as both human milk and infant formula were provided via gavage feeding especially during early enteral feedings.

However, this conclusion must be tempered by the lack of data on rare serious outcomes, such as severe morbidity and mortality.

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.

Interventions such as exclusive breastfeeding (which prevents diarrhea), continuation of breastfeeding until 24 months of age, and improved complementary feeding (by way of improved nutrition), along with improved sanitation, are expected to affect mortality and morbidity simultaneously.

«Health outcomes differ substantially for mothers and infants who formula feed compared to those that breastfeed... For infants, not being breastfed [and being formula fed instead,] is associated with an increased incidence of infectious morbidity, including otitis media [ear infections], gastroenteritis, and pneumonia, as well as elevated risks of childhood obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).»

So a team of Dutch researchers decided to test whether low risk women at the onset of labour with planned home birth have a higher rate of rare but severe outcomes (known as severe acute maternal morbidity or SAMM) than those with planned hospital births.

A large population - based study from Canada found that the risk of severe maternal morbidities ---- defined as hemorrhage that requires hysterectomy or transfusion, uterine rupture, anesthetic complications, shock, cardiac arrest, acute renal failure, assisted ventilation, venous thromboembolism, major infection, or in - hospital wound disruption or hematoma ---- was increased threefold for cesarean delivery as compared with vaginal delivery (2.7 % versus 0.9 %, respectively)(7).

* Overall severe morbidity and mortality defined as one or more of the following: death, postpartum bleeding, genital tract injury; wound disruption, wound infection, or both; systemic infection.

Costs associated with a moderately morbid neonatal outcome, as well as the probabilities of infant morbidity occurring, heavily impacted our results.The cost - effectiveness of VBAC depends on the likelihood of successful trial of labor.

Recommendations made by the ACIP are reviewed by the CDC Director and, if adopted, are published as official CDC / HHS recommendations in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

We interpret the pattern of reduced hospital admissions as evidence that breast feeding reduces the severity of respiratory morbidity.

«Elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks definitely have some increased morbidity,» says Abdulla Al - Khan, MD, the director and chief of maternal and fetal medicine and surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey Other factors such as type of delivery and reason for early term delivery also affect these risks, he says.

They state that VBACs lower the maternal morbidity rate and risk of complications in future pregnancies and that as a whole they lower the cesarean rate.

Today is is about the same on mortality rates, and morbidity is far lower at home, simply because women are NOT messed with as much during their labors, allowing for a safer passage of the baby.

Hospital, doctor, or clinic visits or hospital admissions as a result of any respiratory infection or illness were combined as composite variables reflecting any respiratory morbidity, and the protective effect of breast feeding persisted in all models (p < 0.01).

They do also point out that there are certain factors that make a TOLAC less likely to succeed, and that when they do «fail» you are more likely to have morbidity (which makes sense, as a major surgery is considered a morbidity to begin with).

Any operative procedure increased the maternal mortality and morbidity index (defined as blood transfusion, hysterectomy, internal iliac artery ligation, or death or ICU admission) to a greater extent than spontaneous delivery...

Methods: We systematically reviewed all literature published from 1980 to 2009 assessing levels of suboptimal breastfeeding as a risk factor for selected diarrhea morbidity and mortality outcomes.