Sentences with phrase «on death rates»

I've emailed Dr Longo to ask for the raw data on death rates to see what the absolute risk is.

It examined the effect of hospital admission day on death rates across NHS England hospitals for 2013 - 2014.

Many studies have looked at the immediate effect on death rates in the days following a heat wave.

«Thyroid medication has no effect on death rates in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism.»

The goal of this second study was to examine the effect of drug compliance on death rates in patients who had had heart attacks.

Research based on the death rates of mothers and babies during labour and death or poor outcomes for babies in the first month after birth, and how those rates have changed over the last 200 years, since 1) Hospitals, 2) milk substitutes

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

The article focuses on the death rate for Americans under 50, and reports that car accidents, gun violence and drug overdoses were the top three contributors.

I found an interesting presentation on the influence of seasons and temperature on death rate in Finland

Not exact matches

One of the few bright spots has been a decrease in the death rate associated with cancer (more on that later).

Some good news in the war on breast cancer: «From 1989 to 2015, breast cancer death rates decreased by 39 %, which translates to 322,600 averted breast cancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer Society.

The falling rate of cancer - related deaths is clearly an impressive achievement, and may be partially attributable to drug makers» increased focus on developing novel new therapies to fight cancers.

The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

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.

Lastly, Goal no. 16 on peace and justice urges us to «significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere.»

The problem with a title like «Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women,» which ran on CTV's news website, is that the study's authors did not reach that conclusion; the headline writer did.

«Certainly the death rate now is much less, but the impact on total federal spending may wind up being very similar.»

In the cost - effectiveness analysis (GiveWell estimate of Living Goods cost effectiveness (November 2014)-RRB-, in all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability of a child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5q0.

As long as you continue to pay the premium on time, your rate and death benefit are locked in and guaranteed to stay the same.

Aetna (AET.N) CEO Mark Bertolini on Wednesday said during a Wall Street Journal forum that the Obamacare exchanges had entered a «death spiral» in which rising premiums pushed out the healthiest customers, which in turn raises rates.

These changes are not significantly affected by economic developments, with the exception of changes in the interest rate forecast on federal employees» future benefits, such as pensions, death benefits, etc..

Horgan and MLAs Carole James (Victoria - Beacon Hill), Rob Fleming (Victoria - Swan Lake) and Selina Robinson (Coquitlam - Maillardville) met with families and advocacy organizations on Vancouver Island, which has suffered the worst per - capita overdose death rate in the province.

Nav.com is on a mission to materially decrease the small business death rate.

At the rate we are using up the resources on this planet it's very apparent it will not sustain us all, which is why thousands of people and animals are starving to death every day.

His death rated a segment on the PBS News Hour, during which the inconvenient fact that Seeger had been a member of the U.S. Communist Party for years was finessed by the expedient of noting that he had eventually left the Party.

Boxing and MMA can both be differentiated from other dangerous sports, such as ice hockey, motor racing, American football and rugby (which all have, on average, higher death rates) by the fact that, within the rules, inflicting physical violence on your opponent is the primary goal.

The authors asked hospitalized patients to rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse than death, neither better nor worse than death, a little better than death, somewhat better than death, or much better than death.»

To take one more of many possible examples, the possibilities for supporting life on the earth are limited, and our successes in reducing death rates are contributing to the specter raised by what is generally called the «population explosion.»

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

If prayer worked, everyone would do it, because prayerful people would experience better health, less divorce, fewer children on drugs, greater success, lower death rates, less obesity... there would be no war or starvation or murdered babies.

In a study by Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe of the University of Washington medical school, surveying the opinions of 394 individuals on the amount of readjustment required to meet life events, the death of a spouse had been given the highest rating.

She hardly understands the connection between racism, infant death rates and exploitation, on the one hand, and profit, the low price of gold and the export of nuclear technology (in which her husband is involved), on the other hand.

That said, it would be a mistake to ignore the much - greater impact of increased death rates on lower - achieving whites (and the even yet higher, although still decreasing, absolute death rates among African - Americans) as though changing death rates matter all of a sudden because they also affect more highly - educated whites.

The story of Jesus» death is a cut - rate version of the sacrifice of the corn king, flattened into something that belongs on a police blotter and not in high spiritual culture.

The focus on the increase in death rates for white Americans between ages 45 - 54 in the media obscures equally troubling results in Anne Case and Angus Deaton's recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, «Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century.»

The focus on the increase in death rates for white Americans between ages 45 - 54 in the media obscures equally troubling results in Anne Case and Angus Deaton's recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, «Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife....

According to the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, babies that sleep on their stomachs suffer far greater rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) otherwise known as «cot death.&rDeath Syndrome (SIDS) otherwise known as «cot death.&rdeath.»

The rate of deaths from SIDS has dropped dramatically since 1992, when the AAP began recommending that infants be placed on their backs for sleep.

The regulars here are pretty up on these things and the most recent studies of homebirth have as far as I know have universally shown the homebirth has at least 3x the perinatal death rate of similar risk hospital birth.

There were 200 times as many hospital births as homebirths, so even if a massive proportion of homebirth attempts ended in a live hospital birth, it would have NO IMPACT on the overall rate of hospital birth death or hospital live birth.

But, the new practice of talking or texting on their cell phones is adding to the youth death rate.

Oregon has received complaints on 19 deaths, nearly 4 times the rate expected in the years the data was collected.

In a country where we spend the most on maternity care, how is it that we have the worst maternal and infant death rates of the industrialized nations?

There is no comprehensive maternal mortality rate in the U.S. due to varying state regs on reporting deaths etc..

I see it a bit differently — I can't see how a paper that didn't look at causes of death, or comment on the neonatal death rate in comparison to low - risk hospital birth, made it to publication.

Based on those charts you could hypothesize that a c - section rate between 22 - 30 % is the «sweet spot» as it correlates with the lowest rates of death per 1000 live births.

Still, all first - world countries have a maternal death rate somewhere on the order of one in 10,000 births, so you can use that as a general number.

Why didn't they insist on a discussion of the very high death rate?

And the rate of deaths from suffocating on vomit has NOT increased!

According to this article (http://goo.gl/iHpW7A), the overall death rate (over 86 years) for climbers on Mt. Everest is 1.3 %.