Sentences with phrase «of mortality compared»

In particular, women with a total cholesterol below 195 mg / dL have a higher risk of mortality compared to women with cholesterol above this cut - off (Petrusson, Sigurdsson, Bengtsson, Nilsen, & Getz, 2012).

Islam and colleagues found that among patients with localized lung cancer, those with one comorbidity had a 30 percent higher risk of mortality compared with those who had no comorbidity.

Patients with AF have three to five times the risk of stroke and double the risk of mortality compared to those without AF.

Not exact matches

Recent research shows that participating in a community — specifically a religious fellowship of any sort — reduces the mortality rate of middle age individuals by half and reduces stress compared to non-adherents.

The ENDEAVOUR Phase 3 study data monitoring committee recommended dosing be suspended after it found «an imbalance of mortality» in patients who used revusiran as compared to placebo.

Earlier this month, social science researchers published an analysis of mortality data from the Puerto Rico Vital Statistics System to compare the historical death averages for September and October to deaths this year.

Average mortality and expense charges on a commission - based VA is 135 basis points compared to a charge of 20 to 30 basis points for a fee - based VA..

No direct inference about international alcoholism rates should be drawn from comparing cirrhosis of the liver mortality rates, however, since the variations in the relationship between these rates and alcoholism rates, from country to country, are not known.

Comparing different policy scenarios to reduce the consumption of ultra-processed foods in UK: impact on cardiovascular disease mortality using a modelling approach

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.

I really do not care if a woman wants to squat out a baby in the comfort of her home — I care that she is doing so as an act of informed free will and that she has been apprised of the risks of doing so (including the risks of 3 times or more the mortality rate for her baby compared to hospital birth and the risks of planned vaginal delivery in general).

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

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.

Main outcome measure A composite primary outcome of perinatal mortality and intrapartum related neonatal morbidities (stillbirth after start of care in labour, early neonatal death, neonatal encephalopathy, meconium aspiration syndrome, brachial plexus injury, fractured humerus, or fractured clavicle) was used to compare outcomes by planned place of birth at the start of care in labour (at home, freestanding midwifery units, alongside midwifery units, and obstetric units).

There was no difference overall between birth settings in the incidence of the primary outcome (composite of perinatal mortality and intrapartum related neonatal morbidities), but there was a significant excess of the primary outcome in births planned at home compared with those planned in obstetric units in the restricted group of women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour.

Two months ago, de Jonge in a paper in the journal Midwifery Perinatal mortality rate in the Netherlands compared to other European countries: A secondary analysis of Euro - PERISTAT data that attempted to absolve Dutch midwives, but actually CONFIRMED their poor mortality statistics.

We estimated the variability of differences in the population prevalence of maternal cancers, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, MI, and premature mortality when women breastfed at current compared with optimal rates and the proportion of current disease burden that this change would reflect.

«Acceptance of the KMC method is increasingly widespread and it is considered equivalent to conventional neonatal care for stable preterm infants and more parent and baby friendly... It is evident that KMC has a substantial mortality effect compared with conventional neonatal care, and it is also evident that this mortality benefit is possible even at large scale....

The authors found higher rates of mortality among infants never breastfed compared to those exclusively breastfed in the first six months of life and receiving continued breastfeeding beyond.

The state of maternity care in the US is pretty shocking (c - section rates, unnecessary inductions, separating mom / baby, maternal mortality stats, etc.) compared to other developed countries and if we can make this a health issue that is discussed far before conception it would be amazing.

An UpToDate review on «Planned home birth» (Declercq and Stotland, 2015) stated that «Large cohort studies using intent - to - treat analysis of midwife - attended, planned, out - of - hospital birth of low - risk women in developed countries have reported reduced rates of cesarean birth, perineal lacerations, and medical interventions, and similar rates of maternal and early perinatal morbidity and mortality compared to planned hospital birth.

Evidence suggests that initiation of breastfeeding in the first day of life is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of neonatal mortality when compared with delaying breastfeeding for more than 24 hours after birth.

Similarly, results of a 2013 systematic review and meta - analysis found that diarrhoea incidence and mortality were lower in infants and children who were breastfed compared to those that were not.

We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases for randomised controlled trials of maintenance tocolysis therapy with nifedipine in preterm labour.We selected trials including pregnant women between 24 and 36 (6/7) weeks of gestation (gestational age, GA) with imminent preterm labour who had not delivered after 48hours of initial tocolysis, and compared maintenance nifedipine tocolysis with placebo / no treatment.The primary outcome was perinatal mortality.

France an the Netherlands have different demographics and comparing neonatal mortality tells you something about maternal health and race, but it doesn't tell you much about the quality of the birth attendant.

According to the CDC, a Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) have an infant mortality rate of about 3.5 / 1,000 births in a hospital when compared to a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) and Other Midwife outside of a hosptial with a rate of 1.5 / 1,000!

To determine whether a completely human milk based diet during the first 10 days of life reduces the combined incidence of serious infection, NEC, and mortality as compared to formula feeding and 2.

A study of infants in England indicated that supine sleeping is not associated with an increase in significant morbidity outcomes, and the risk of respiratory problems was reduced compared with that of prone sleepers.17 In Asian countries, aspiration is not a problem despite the traditional practice of placing newborns to sleep in the supine position.18 The review by Malloy19 of US vital statistics mortality files for the years 1991 to 1996 showed no significant increase in the proportion of postneonatal mortality rate associated with aspiration, asphyxia, or respiratory failure.

Infections and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), major causes of mortality and morbidity in preterm infants, are reduced in infants fed own mother's milk when compared to formula.

A six - year study done by the Texas Department of Health for the years 1983 - 1989 revealed that the infant mortality rate for non-nurse midwives attending homebirths was 1.9 per 1,000 compared with the doctors» rate of 5.7 per 1,000.

Danielle, thanks for laying it all out there, but can you explain why you compared the intrapartum fetal mortality rate for the Birth Center study, which had no twins, a handful of surprise breeches (most of which were probably transported to the hospital as soon as they were discovered) and another handful of VBACs because all of these are disallowed in accredited birth centers per AABC's & CABC's rules (I read the study)... and compared it to MANA's intrapartum rate for the group that contained a load of VBACs, breeches and twins that comprised nearly 10 % of the total sample?

To our knowledge, this is the only study in the Netherlands to show a higher risk of delivery related perinatal mortality among women with the intention to deliver in primary care compared with women delivered in secondary care.

Comparing intended home and hospital births in a cohort of 529688 low risk pregnancies in primary care in the Netherlands, de Jonge et al recently found low rates of perinatal mortality (intrapartum and neonatal death before 7 days) and admission to the NICU.11 They concluded that an intended home birth does not increase risks compared with an intended hospital birth in this population.

Those countries have infant mortality rates half of that in the U.S. Likewise, postpartum depression rates in America are doubled compared to these other countries.

If he had compared homebirth in 2000 to low risk hospital birth in 2000, it would have shown that homebirth had nearly triple the rate of neonatal mortality.

Mrs Alarbi stated that the latest report of the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), showed that the under - five mortality rate had gone up compared to the last ten years of the promotion of the breast feeding policy.

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.

Maternal mortality is increasingly high, Nigeria has one of the poorest maternal and child health indices in the world with maternal 800-3000 deaths per 100,000 live births, life time risk of dying from pregnancy related complications of 1:8 compared to 1:10 in developing countries (Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2004).

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

A standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated based on the actual death rate of the cyclists compared to the death rate in the age - matched French population according to the Human Mortality mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated based on the actual death rate of the cyclists compared to the death rate in the age - matched French population according to the Human Mortality Mortality Database.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture are at substantially higher risk of mortality and medical complications compared with patients undergoing an elective total hip replacement (THR).

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.

Compared with other leading causes of death, research into gun violence is among the least funded, an analysis of U.S. mortality data and federal funding from 2004 to 2015 reveals.

The team found a 21 percent decrease in all - cause mortality among women in the highest quartile of intake, when compared to those in the lowest quartile.

Boersma and Rebstock looked at the cause of every recorded chick mortality in an Argentinian colony of Magellanic penguins, over a nearly 30 - year period, and compared these with changes in temperature and precipitation over the same time.

They compared the in - hospital mortality of 5,122 patients, who lived in ZIP codes where their drive time to that nearest trauma center increased as the result of a nearby closure, to 228,236 patients whose drive time did not change, and 37,787 patients whose travel time decreased as the result of a trauma center opening.

Analysis of the data indicated that compared to no screening, flexible sigmoidoscopy screening reduced colorectal cancer incidence by 20 percent (absolute difference, 28.4 cases / 100, 000 person years) and colorectal cancer mortality by 27 percent (absolute difference, 11.7 deaths / 100, 000 person years).

Last year, Devereaux and his colleagues at McMaster, the University of Toronto, and the University at Buffalo published pioneering systematic reviews and meta - analyses of studies comparing the mortality rates of private for - profit hospitals and those of private not - for - profit hospitals (more commonly, although somewhat inaccurately, referred to as «public hospitals» in Canada).

When compared with the same number of calories from carbohydrate, every 5 % increase in saturated fat intake was associated with an 8 % higher risk of overall mortality.

In a large study population followed for more than three decades, researchers found that higher consumption of saturated and trans fats was linked with higher mortality compared with the same number of calories from carbohydrates.