Adjusted for socioeconomic factors, the excess mortality estimates ranged from 1,736 to 2,889, and discounting the costs of that future mortality for the length of time before occurrence, arrived with a point estimate of the present cost
of this mortality of $ 41.846 billion.
An increase in the frequency of severe heat stress in Britain is expected to enhance the risk
of mortality of pigs and broiler chickens grown in intensive livestock systems (Turnpenny et al., 2001).
Populations of parrotfish are a critical component of that herbivory, particularly since the decline of Diadema sea urchins in the early 1980s; the main causes
of mortality of parrotfish are the use of fishing techniques such as spearfishing and, particularly, the use of fish traps....
Churcher and Lawton (1987) concluded that cats were responsible for 30 %
of the mortality of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) in an English village.
ABC misrepresents both Forys» work and the USFWS plan by transforming those 13 marsh rabbits into «50 percent
of mortality of [this] endangered species.»
One of Marzluff's students did an experiment to examine causes
of mortality of fledgling birds (pages 91 - 93).
Dairy consumption and patterns
of mortality of Australian adults.
An individual living in a higher polluted area in 2001 also had an increased risk
of mortality of 14 per cent compared to someone in a low pollution area.
Drawing on a host of studies, McDowell's team compiled evidence that showed that nearly all of these drivers are increasing with the rising rate
of mortality of trees in the moist tropics.
But looking at Spain now and in 2013, and at Bayern Munich and Barcelona's recent exits from the Champions League, it seems fair to suggest that reports
of the mortality of tiki - taka are entirely accurate.
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.
A 2007 review
of trials
of several types
of antioxidant supplements put it this way: «Treatment with beta carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E may increase
mortality.»
With these numbers, the U.S. is one
of few developed countries where the life expectancy is declining and
mortality increasing.
significant changes in discount rates, rates
of return on pension assets,
mortality tables and other factors could adversely affect our earnings and equity and increase our pension funding requirements;
We examined
mortality figures for children under the age
of 5 in Ethiopia and Guatemala and found that adoptions to the U.S. likely prevented the deaths
of more than 600 children between 2005 and 2011.
«There is robust evidence that social isolation and loneliness significantly increase risk for premature
mortality, and the magnitude
of the risk exceeds that
of many leading health indicators,» Holt - Lunstad said in a statement about the research.
Abortion is the fifth - highest cause
of maternal
mortality.
And finally, a decade - long study
of nearly 720,000 UK women concluded that happiness does «not appear to have any direct effect on
mortality.»
«The way we deal with
mortality is through some strange combination
of acceptance and
mortality,» Thiel told me during a long interview at Founders Fund's offices in San Francisco.
Consider, for example, the other seven MDG objectives, such as a proposed 75 % improvement in maternal health outcomes, to a 66 % decline in
mortality rates for children under the age
of five.
The BRIC's worst economic performer thus far in 2009, Russia is overly reliant on energy, has a declining and aging population with Third World
mortality rates and an authoritarian government too willing to intervene in its economy to the detriment
of investors.
The bill she sponsored — creating a committee for the next five years to study not just maternal
mortality but also life - threatening complications, or severe maternal morbidity — sailed through the legislature, in part because
of a change in governors.
The United States has the highest maternal
mortality rate out
of all affluent countries.
A study published in a medical journal, The Lancet, revealed that drinking 100g
of alcohol a week increases risk
of mortality.
The association between height and
mortality cause has long been established, but the review is one
of the largest conducted on the topic.
In the District
of Columbia, concerns about the high maternal
mortality rate — in 2014, it stood at about 40.7 deaths per 100,000 births, according to the analysis by United Health Foundation, substantially exceeding the U.S. rate and those
of neighboring Virginia and Maryland — have periodically sparked talk
of a review committee, but not enough to push a measure through.
Particularly striking is the
mortality trend line for tuberculosis, which falls precipitously from 1838 onward — decades before the bacterium responsible for the disease was identified (1882), and long before the advent
of the first effective antibiotic therapy, streptomycin.
, 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.
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)
One 20 - year study
of workplace environments found that those cultures that lacked supportive relationships increased the risk
of mortality by 240 percent, which makes sense when you consider that chronic stress is a leading contributor to premature death.
I recalled this decades - old memory when I read an investigation published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled, «Comparison
of Hospital
Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians.»
Today, The New York Times reported that the
mortality rate for Ebola has risen to 70 percent and that the number
of new cases could grow to 10,000 per week by December.
But there was widespread agreement among the working group's on - the - ground experts — including Panjabi; Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, the former Nigerian finance minister who now chairs Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Helle Thorning - Schmidt, CEO
of Save the Children International; and Andrew Youn
of the One Acre Fund — that only a more comprehensive health strategy would make any real dent in childhood
mortality.
He had been self - reliant and fearless, he says, but after coming face to face with his own
mortality, he realized he needed to do a better job
of protecting his money and his family.
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.)
Washing one's hands frequently is the best and simplest way to reduce respiratory infections and diarrhea, the world's two leading causes
of child
mortality, and the consumer - goods giant Unilever is promoting this habit through its Lifebuoy soap brand.
Even this is only 45 percent
of what malaria experts say is needed annually to reach a target
of a 40 percent reduction in malaria incidence and
mortality by 2020.
Other research, like the Copenhagen City Heart Study, looked at healthy joggers and nonjoggers for more than a decade and determined that «the most favorable running regimen for reducing cardiovascular
mortality» was six miles per week, broken down into three running days per week at a pace
of seven miles per hour.
The Wisdom
of Keith Richards (Wall Street Journal) Keith Richards, shrouded in an ever - present cloud
of cigarette smoke, wheezes a laugh when it's pointed out that many observers, based on evidence to date, disagree with his sense
of his own
mortality.
But is it possible to predict whether you're at greater risk
of mortality?
It accomplishes this by building healthy, sustainable communities through local engagement and partnerships and by focusing on the leading causes
of mortality for mothers and children in targeted communities throughout Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
In a study
of flu - related deaths between 1997 and 2007, published by the American Journal
of Epidemiology, a group
of researchers found that
mortality was more common in men than women across multiple age - groups, regardless
of underlying conditions.
In the long term, chronic sleep deprivation may lead to a host
of health problems including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even early
mortality.»
The consequences
of this national travesty are well documented — postpartum depression, higher infant
mortality and illness and persistent educational and economic disadvantages.
The effect
of Vascepa on the risk for pancreatitis and cardiovascular
mortality and morbidity in patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia has not been determined.
In 2014, the Society
of Actuaries released a new
mortality table in which the average lifespan
of a 65 - year - old man jumped from 82 to 85 and that
of a 65 - year - old woman from 85 to 87.
«What we generally see,» says the Canadian - born Katzmarzyk, «is that people who sit more during the day have a higher risk
of dying from any cause, and in particular,
mortality from heart disease.»
As Dan Mangan reports for CNBC, «despite spending well in excess
of the rate
of any other
of those countries in 2013, the United States achieved worse outcomes when it comes to rates
of chronic conditions, obesity and infant
mortality.»
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.