Sentences with phrase «of mortality data»

Measles is known to cause transient immunosuppression, but close inspection of the mortality data suggests that it disables immune memory for 2 to 3 years.

RGA has been in this business for over three decades and has collected a vast amount of mortality data, which has led to consistently good underwriting results.

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.

Not exact matches

Life expectancy at birth Infant mortality rate (figures for Korea and New Zealand were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of population over age 15 considered obese and overweight Prison population rate Motor vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities per million people Road fatalities per million vehicles (figures for Mexico taken from the North American Transportation Statistics Database)

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.

(Mortality data from prior years suggests these rankings are relatively consistent, with the exception of skyrocketing accidental poisonings due to the opioid epidemic.)

Similarly, a study using data from 219 countries found that, for every additional year of education for women, the child mortality rate decreased by 9.5 percent.

Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

Researchers in parallel studies in Australia, New Zealand, and England looked at the same pooled data and recommended strongly to avoid the low oxygen levels because of this increased mortality.

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.

Peter Clifton, professor of nutrition at the University of South Australia, puts it this way: «All data says processed meat is bad: more diabetes, higher mortality, more cardiovascular disease.»

«The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, from where the quoted study has obtained their data, suggests that in Australia the biggest causes of mortality or poor health include factors such as obesity, smoking, poor diet and low physical activity.

Data from a total of 62,779 participants and 23,949 all - cause mortality cases were analyzed in 8 observational prospective cohort studies, with milk as the main exposure.

With a mortality rate of almost 5x higher than hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.

CDC data shows that neonatal mortality is about half as high with CNM and «other» midwives (there's no direct entry of homebirth category) as it is for MDs for all births, as well as by weeks gestation.

As I said above, I don't know if Hannah Dahlen and Australian midwives are trying to trick the Australian public into believing that homebirth is safe when it clearly is not, or whether they are so ignorant of basic science, statistics, and mortality data that they don't realize that have shown that homebirth is dangerous.

That book is full of misinformation, for example he cites the Johnson & Daviss study saying «any remaing doubts about the safety of home birth were conclusively erased» by said study — which isn't even remotely true (the home birth data from that study actually shows that neonatal mortality is 3 TIMES higher at home):

However, homebirths should only be recommended to women who are classified as low - risk, as this data demonstrates an increased risk of neonatal mortality among homebirths

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.

Death certificates are useful for monitoring trends in SIDS mortality, but the circumstances and events that lead to death are not captured in vital statistics data.16 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently began to pilot a SUID case registry that will provide supplemental surveillance information about the sleep environment at the time of death, infant health history, and the comprehensiveness of the death scene investigation and autopsy.

Physician - and midwife - attended home births: effects of breech, twin, and post-dates outcome data on mortality rates.

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.

To address this issue WHO is today launching two new tools to help countries improve their data on stillbirths and neonatal deaths as well as a report on the global status of implementation of maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR), a key strategy for reducing preventable maternal mortality.

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

When that data is pooled with the data from Ontario (also 4 yr midwifery degree, hospital priv for RMs and smooth transfer) perinatal mortality with planned homebirth was 2 - 3x that of planned hospital birth.

Whilst these data do show a large relative difference in the mortality rates, the absolute risk of home birth is very low and it is therefore reasonable to call it safe,

Whilst these data do show a large relative difference in the mortality rates, the absolute risk of home birth is very low and it is therefore reasonable to call it safe, particularly in the case of ultrasound - confirmed uncomplicated pregnancies.

On the other hand, for a first time mother with no complications at the start of labor, the Birthplace Study found a nearly 3 x greater risk of intrapartum / neonatal loss, and the data from the Netherlands suggests that although the rates aren't high enough to affect the overall perinatal mortality rate, there are greater risks out of hospital if a complication does occur.

You're arguing with established standards of collecting data to study infant mortality rates.

A careful review of the data suggests that changes in the way that maternal mortality is assessed may be leading to a spurious «increase» in maternal mortality.

The intersection between the nonprofit donor milk movement and this year's themes for World Breastfeeding Week, National Breastfeeding Month, and Black Breastfeeding Week centers around equity while clearly touching on other themes, such as ecology, economy, data collection, improving infant mortality rates in communities of color, and more.

al. «Estimates of maternal mortality worldwide between 1990 and 2005: an assessment of available data,» The Lancet, (August 13, 2007) 370, 1311 - 1319.

Sir Hans Sloan mentioned the data about mortality rates of breast fed babies being only 19 % and for dry nursed was a huge percentage of 54 %.

In 1986, 2 years before these data were collected, the United States ranked 16th (3.6 / 1000) in postneonatal death, well below Finland (first; 1.8 / 1000) and Sweden (second; 2.0 / 1000).24 The US breastfeeding prevalence in 1986 was 57 % at birth and 22 % at 6 months, 25 whereas in Finland and Sweden, the prevalence at 6 months then was still ~ 60 % and 50 %, respectively.26 Although the United States still trails the Nordic countries both in breastfeeding and in postneonatal mortality, the US rate of postneonatal death has fallen steadily between the late 1980s and now, and breastfeeding has increased.

The authors used other birth - certificate data on maternal coexisting conditions to adjust for high - risk conditions and performed a propensity - score analysis to account for the perinatal mortality associated with planned out - of - hospital birth versus hospital birth.

For many years, perinatal mortality rates were used for this purpose, often with little regard for the value and validity of such data.11 Now, with rates well below 10 per 1000 births, they have lost virtually all of their utility for measuring quality of care in the Western world.

Effect of early infant feeding practices on infection - specific neonatal mortality: an investigation of the causal links with observational data from rural Ghana Karen M Edmond, Betty R Kirkwood, Seeba Amenga - Etego, Seth Owusu - Agyei, and Lisa S Hurt Beginning Breastfeeding From First Day of Life Reduces Infection Related Deaths in Newborns by 2.6 times.

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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 power of Mukerjee's telling of this man - made famine that killed — following Amartya Sen's analysis of famine mortality — around 3 million people, lies in the formidable marshalling of a wide range of data, from cabinet meeting records and papers of powerful politicians and officials to interviews in Bengal villages with survivors of the famine and militant rebels against the Raj.

For their analyses, the researchers used combined data from the 1991 - 2015 waves of the federal «Youth Risk Behavior Surveys,» a school - based cross-sectional survey designed to capture the prevalence of health - risk behaviors for the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality across time and racial / ethnic populations.

Using data collected in that study, the Penn team examined the effect of self - reported infertility (inability to conceive for one year or greater) on all causes of mortality and primary cause of death.

Researchers are therefore hoping that minimally invasive autopsies (MIAs)-- which take fluids and bits of tissue from a half - dozen organs and examine them in the lab — can substitute for full autopsies and provide critical mortality data.

Inadequate postnatal care may be another driver of mortality in women — one that that doesn't show up in the official U.S. data analysis by the National Center for Health Statistics because the deaths tend to occur more than 43 days after pregnancy ends.

Taken together, the research data provides a picture, from the leaf scale to the global scale, suggesting that droughts in the Amazon basin are affecting levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere globally, both on a short - term basis though decreasing photosynthesis and on a longer term basis, by increasing tree mortality.

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.

Using health insurance data on 293,658 veterans who had served in the U.S. military between 1917 and 1940, Kahn found the kinds of associations between smoking and mortality that had already become well known.

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 harmful effects of being overweight have been underestimated, according to a new study that analysed body mass index (BMI), health and mortality data in around 60,000 parents and their children, to establish how obesity actually influences risk of death.

An epidemiological analysis of data from more than 6,000 American and Canadian women with breast cancer finds that post-diagnosis consumption of foods containing isoflavones — estrogen - like compounds primarily found in soy food — is associated with a 21 percent decrease in all - cause mortality.