Sentences with phrase «number of deaths due»

The rapidly increasing number of deaths due to road accidents in India causes a loss of 3 percent to the GDP, on an annual basis.

According to data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the number of deaths due to injury has been rising fairly steadily since 2004, and injury deaths as a percentage of total deaths have been rising generally since 2002.

The impact of global warming on temperature - induced human mortality has long been a concern, where it has been hypothesized that rising temperatures will lead to an increase in the number of deaths due to an increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves.

Corona virus resides in all cats (and most critters for that matter), but I bet you put the number of deaths due to FIP above above that of corn - based litter.

[14] Puppy mills are often unheated and this increases the number of deaths due to cold among the dogs used for breeding.

This is a good move to offer more safe cars considering the rising number of deaths due to road accidents.

There were no changes in the number of deaths due to heart disease or deaths in general.

The good news: Thanks to new treatments, advancements in early detection and screening, and the flurry of anti-smoking campaigns, the number of deaths due to cancer have been declining since they peaked in 1991.

According to a BBC article, over 100,000 people die each year due to ineffective malaria medicines, and overall, Interpol puts the number of deaths due to counterfeit pharmaceuticals at up to a million per year.

Nationwide, the number of deaths due to drugs more than doubled between 2002 to 2015, including a six-fold increase in deaths due to overdose of heroin and illicit opiods.

Although CSs comprise only 2 % -5 % of all uterine malignancies and 1 % -2 % of all ovarian tumors, they are responsible for a disproportionate number of deaths due to their high biologic aggressiveness and resistance to standard treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy.

Data were obtained from the Office of National Statistics on the annual number of deaths due to IPF, mesothelioma and asbestos for the period 1974 - 2012, broken down by age, sex and region.

«Additional research is needed to evaluate if periodontal disease prevention and treatment could help alleviate the incidence of cancer and reduce the number of deaths due to certain types of cancer.»

And certainly the increasing number of deaths due to measles outbreaks in Romania does not help.

Based on 2007 - 2009 data, CPSC estimates that the average number of deaths due to playpens is 12 per year.

Not only are they spending taxpayer money to pay for advertising, consulting, billboards, etc in their attack on cosleeping, effectively shifting the limelight away from the real issue, but they also blamed smoking and maternal obesity for the extreme numbers of deaths due to stillbirth and prematurity.

Opioids may stop the pain, but at a high price: growing numbers of deaths due to opioid overdose and higher rates of addiction and misuse.

Not exact matches

Health secretary has warned of a possible 270 deaths due to an apparent IT error, but experts say the numbers do not stack up

Jeremy Hunt has described the failure of the breast screening programme to invite some older women for a mammogram in apocalyptic terms, warning of a possible 270 deaths and...

The number of deaths directly due to the accident is still a matter of debate, with estimates varying from around 30 to one hundred thousand.

The greater pastoral problem remains the large number of the faithful not requesting the sacrament due to ignorance or the abiding misapprehension that it is only for those in immediate danger of death.

«Slightly,» he said, again with the snort, adding that the number of new ordinations can not keep up with losses due to death or retirement.

This is strange given that heart disease is the number 1 killer of women — 1 in 4 deaths among women is due to cardiovascular disease whereas 1 in 38 deaths are due to breast cancer.

It appears that North Carolina is vying with Oregon, Colorado and Missouri to prove that certified professional midwives (CPMs) the second, inferior class of midwife that exists in no other first world country, should be banned due to the extraordinary number of deaths that have occurred at their hands.

This was done due to the shocking numbers of tragic, senseless deaths of so many babies who had been fed food other than human milk

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.

Breast cancer survival rates have increased, and the number of deaths associated with this disease is steadily declining, largely due to factors such as earlier detection, a new personalized approach to treatment and a better understanding of the disease.

There are pros and cons to everything, and part of the cons of telling exhausted breastfeeding mothers to never co-bed is the number of deaths that have increased due to sleeping together on the couch, in a recliner, or other soft surfaces, all of which are not safe sleep environments.

The Green Party says fuel poverty is causing a high number of winter deaths due to people living in the cold.

McQuillen said as horrific as the Las Vegas deaths are, the total is still less than the average number of 90 Americans killed each day due to gun violence including suicides and domestic violence.

• The State Emergency Operations Center has received reports that several farms were impacted by the flood waters causing a large number of dead livestock and potential hazardous waste material due to those deaths.

In her speech to donors, the First lady said that considering the current situation at KATH where disturbing number of avoidable deaths of mothers and babies are recorded partly due to inadequate facilities to cater for them, a modern facility to cater for five times the current number will be a major life saving measure to «bring hope not only to families in Ashanti, but also those in the Bono - Ahafo, the three Northern Regions and parts of the Central and Western Regions, who are served by Komfo Anokye Hospital.»

Like a number of other lawmakers, Lanza fears that faded memories and the death of witnesses could impact the due process rights of those being sued.

After determining the proper dosage of tamoxifen — an early trial resulted in a number of mouse deaths due to overactivation of Mecp2 — researchers settled on a four - week regimen of ramping up the gene's function.

A worrisome trend, undetected Still, even if the newer death toll numbers are just more accurately representing the number of women who die due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth, it's a large number that demands explanation.

Further caution is required due to the fact that the absolute numbers of deaths in 2015 remains higher for breast than for lung.

The study by researchers in Italy and Switzerland predicts that although the actual number of deaths from all cancers in the European Union will continue to rise due to growing populations and numbers of elderly people, the rate of cancer deaths will continue to decline overall, with some notable exceptions: lung cancer in women and pancreatic cancer in both sexes.

Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.

The increase is likely due to rising numbers of overdose deaths from opioids (SN: 6/10/17, p. 22), says Christine Durand, a transplant infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

But if a greater number of deaths occurred due to emergency vehicle delays caused by bad winter weather, the present estimates could be a conservative tally.

It is certain that from the day that D. Hernando Cortés, the Marquis del Valle, entered this land, in the seven years, more or less, that he conquered and governed it, the natives suffered many deaths, and many terrible dealings, robberies and oppressions were inflicted on them, taking advantage of their persons and their lands, without order, weight nor measure;... the people diminished in great number, as much due to excessive taxes and mistreatment, as to illness and smallpox, such that now a very great and notable fraction of the people are gone...

And as opioid overdose deaths are mostly due to respiratory suppression, safer prescription opioids could ultimately decrease the number of deaths caused by abusing prescription opioids.

«Number of deaths from meningitis due to plummet after new medical advice.»

The effectiveness of current approaches can also be examined, for example increases in Florida manatee deaths due to collisions with watercraft are shown not to be an inevitable outcome from the increasing numbers of boats found on waterways, since the charts indicate that mortality levels can be significantly stabilised with sensible waterway traffic measures.

As opioid overdose deaths are mostly due to respiratory suppression, safer prescription opioids, such as those being developed by Dr. Bohn, could also ultimately decrease the number of deaths caused by abusing prescription opioids.

Researchers used the data to calculate the number of years lost due to ill health, disability, or early death — a proxy for estimating total disease burden — and found that 320,000 disability - adjusted life years are lost annually in West Africa as a result of snake bites.

In the 2020s for instance, numbers produced from the various scenarios worked out to a mean increase of about 20 percent in deaths due to heat, set against a mean decrease of about 12 percent in deaths due to cold.

For the same year, they calculated the number of disability - adjusted life years (DALYs)-- a measure of productive life lost due to premature death or disability.

By pooling such data, scientists conclude that the number of violent deaths due to armed conflicts has dropped in the 50 years since the Korean war.

The team focused on World Health Organization data from the 13 countries in which people reported the highest number of sibling deaths due to war.

From life table modelling, the estimated number of deaths prevented is larger than would be expected from reduction of cardiorespiratory deaths after smoking cessation, so most of the mortality gain is likely to be due to reduced cancer progression.