Sentences with phrase «of death from the disease»

The CDC, which has a program to assist low - income people, argues that if the guidelines were followed, up to 60 percent of deaths from the disease could be prevented.

With such a limited breeding population, even a small number of deaths from disease can be the difference between the survival of a population or extinction.»

A spokesman for Boehringer Ingelheim, the makers of fenoterol, said that in the past year understanding of the need for preventive treatment had improved asthma care, reducing the likelihood of deaths from the disease.

One possible explanation for any improvements seen in the survival of patients who stop smoking might be a reduction in mortality from cardiorespiratory causes, as the risk of death from these diseases reduces after cessation.9 18 Consequently, we estimated the expected contribution of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases by using life tables as above to find the number of cardiorespiratory deaths prevented by smoking cessation in the general population.

Not only is smoking the leading cause of lung cancer — about 80 % to 90 % of deaths from this disease are linked to smoking, according to the American Lung Association — but it's also linked to cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach, and more.

«The task force found that screening women without signs or symptoms for ovarian cancer does not decrease the number of deaths from the disease, and may lead to unnecessary surgeries,» Dr. Maureen Phipps said in a news release from the USPSTF.

The threat of death from disease remains a significant issue for Hume.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the county veterinarian or his / her designee may euthanize an impounded cat if such animal is in imminent danger of death from disease or trauma or is determined to be feral.

If you're young and healthy your risk of death from disease may be low, but you can't control accidents, and this rider increases your coverage if you die as a result of an accident.

The average age of death from the disease in Aboriginal people is 40.

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.

Specifically, they had a «reduced risk of death from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, neurological diseases and suicide, although not from cancer.»

The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 2015.

Good news: Deaths from cancer and heart disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related to HIV.

, the British medical historian Thomas McKeown carefully chronicles the decline in mortality in England and Wales over much of the 19th and 20th centuries — charting death rates for infectious diseases ranging from diphtheria to pneumonia.

Similarly, early action to reduce exposure to fine particle pollution helped avoid thousands of premature deaths from heart and lung disease.

Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University of Canberra and the University of Queensland, states that «the potential human health consequences of discouraging the use of pyriproxyfen in drinking water storage and other mosquito - reduction programs is catastrophic with potential deaths and serious disease from otherwise avoidable malaria, dengue and other mosquito - borne diseases numbered in at least the hundreds of thousands.»

«A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that from 1998 to 2008, leafy greens were associated with more incidents of food poisoning than any other single food category (though contaminated poultry led to more deaths),» Harrington reports.

It found that the more time they spent sitting, the greater their risk of death from heart disease — regardless of age, sex, smoking status, alcohol consumption and how much the subjects exercised.

European researchers found that people who work 11 hours or more every day have 60 % greater risk of heart attack, angina and death from cardiovascular disease than those who just work 7 or 8 hours, according to Bloomberg.

As many as 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, US health officials said in December, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease's death toll.

The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

Health officials in Texas have already announced the death of a 77 - year - old Harris county resident from Vibrio: She came into contact with flood waters when they ripped into her home, and later died as a result of flesh - eating disease.

The result is millions of preventable deaths from infectious and non-communicable diseases globally, reduced economic growth, and limited human development.

Here is true and lasting horror: a subverted sexual revolution, an intimacy disconnected from innate moral order, a terrifying emptiness of disposability, disease, and death.

Death from some preventable or curable disease from a lack of health care?

Number of god's creations who died horrible deaths from the following diseases: (or were they victims of their experimentation or surprise?)

My 20 yrs in Africa has revealed Americans who claim they care about 20,000 children dying every day from hunger and disease are guilty of the same useless rhetoric they criticize in politicians who are at least trying to stop unnecessary daily deaths in this country, by getting elected and passing moral laws.

These three interventions could potentially ameliorate at least 20 % of annual global deaths from treatable disease (unfortunately we haven't yet figured out cardiovascular disease): Lower respiratory infection (list item # 3); Diarrhoeal disease (list item # 1); HIV / AIDS (list item # 2).

Let us look at Webster's definition of euthanasia: «An act of putting to death persons suffering from incurable and distressing disease.»

Towards the conclusion of his landmark book After Virtue, the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre observes that the death rattle of the Roman Empire began when men and women of good will «turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium» which had become socially decadent and culturally diseased.

Many of the people from these same institutions advocate against abortion, but pretend not to understand the realistic benefit of the morning after pill or even basic contraception; their unrealistic wishful thinking is causing the death of many at the hands of disease.

Number of god's creations who died horrible deaths from the following diseases: (or did they all die as martyrs?)

Faith - based organizations are a vital and growing part of our global effort to end childhood deaths from preventable diseases.

Ditto for the billions who have died horrible deaths from the ravages of diseases and wars.

Only a few examples can be given to illustrate the complex interweaving of consequences generated by new technologies.25 World War II was the first war in which there were more deaths from battle than from disease.

The war that took place in Congo spread to several other countries and was responsible for the deaths of 5 million people, many from starvation and disease...

Millions of people could have been saved from death if he'd only explained the germ theory of disease two thousand years before it was discovered by scientists.

Their loneliness, drunkenness, disease, the early deaths of or abandonment by their fathers, the tauntings and beatings they took from their schoolmates: These and other blows became the fundamental truths about the world and the stuff of their poetry.

In a world in which we inevitably suffer from illness and disease, in which many fear that they will also suffer from the technological expertise of their caregivers, and in which some therefore seek death on their own terms and at a time of their own choosing, it is good to be reminded that affliction by itself does not necessarily produce good character.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Kevorkian either didn't know or didn't care that ALS patients do not suffocate or choke to death when they receive proper medical care from doctors who know how to ameliorate the symptoms of the disease.

If you happen to have good luck, escape death from a horrible disease, etc., DO NOT CLAIM IT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF A MIRACLE OR BECAUSE YOU PRAYED, OR BECAUSE YOU FASTED.

Eating red meat is associated with a dramatically increased risk of death from cancer and heart disease, and the more you eat, the greater the risk.

In fact legumes are associated with a whopping 82 % reduction in risk of death from heart disease.

In a study that examined food intake patterns and risk of death from coronary heart disease, researchers followed more than 16,000 middle - aged men in the U.S., Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Greece and Japan for 25 years.

February is American Heart Month and with that I'm happy to share that the Hass Avocado Board and the American Heart Association (AHA) have joined efforts in encouraging Americans to eat the daily recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables to prevent and limit deaths from cardiovascular diseases, strokes and diabetes.

A diet high in wholegrains and cereal fibre can reduce the risk of premature death from chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

It also impairs immune system function and increases the risk of death from certain childhood diseases.

In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day for cancer.