Sentences with phrase «overall death rate»

«Our main finding was that levothyroxine treatment had no effect on overall death rates in subclinical hypothyroidism patients.

Among vehicle categories, 4 - door minicars have the highest overall death rate of 87, while 4 - wheel - drive large luxury SUVs have the lowest with 6.

However, the important falls in overall death rates from this group of diseases are very encouraging and are a testament to the hard work of researchers and clinicians in developing and implementing better diagnosis and treatments.

These women also had a 22 percent higher overall death rate and a 25 percent higher risk of dying from cancer, according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Despite lower overall death rates, the study stressed that Hispanics may face challenges in getting the care needed to protect their health.

The big puzzle left unanswered by Case and Deaton is the «why» question: Why have the rates of these types of death increased for this age group of white Americans, but have continued to decline for Hispanics and African Americans (although the absolute death rate for African Americans remains shockingly high even as overall death rates decline), and have continued to decline for Europeans?

Although the two towns are just a mile apart, they continued to show the same dramatic disparity in congestive heart failure and overall death rates for the next few decades.

Despite the drop in heart disease and cancer deaths, the overall death rate in the U.S. actually rose in in the year ending mid-2017 compared to a comparable period the previous year.

The New York Times reports that Angus Deaton and Ann Case, two Princeton economists, have identified increases in suicide and drug and alcohol related deaths among high school educated white Americas as the cause for a remarkable spike in the overall death rate for....

But if the cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality by six percent, but the increase in death from suicide and drug and alcohol poisoning stays the same, then the overall death rate increases by two percent.

A significant increase in death by self - destruction demands attention whether it affects the overall death rate of a population or not.

To wit, if a new cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality for a group by ten percent, but death from suicide and drug and alcohol abuse increases, say, by eight percent, then the overall death rate for the group goes down by two percent.

This is notable news no matter whether the overall death rate for this age group goes up or down.

Focus on the overall death rate in the article and in media reports, however, blurs the breadth of the bad news reported in the article in at least two ways.

In contrast, overall death rates have continued to decline for middle - aged folk in industrialized Europe, and among African Americans and Hispanics in the U.S.

It states, «After an initial decrease in the 1990s, the overall death rate attributable to sleep - related infant deaths has not declined in more recent years», (AAP, 2016, p 1).

The overall death rate for lung cancer among women is being driven by women in the UK and Poland, with predicted rates of 21 and 17 per 100,000 in the UK and Poland respectively.

Opioid overdoses have already caused the country's overall death rate to increase in 2015, the first time since 1993, when the country was coming to grips with AIDS.

The overall death rate was low (1.4 percent) once patients arrived in the ED, which the authors suggest supports increased use of emergency services for overdoses.

Patients taking the sodium - containing drugs were also seven times more likely to develop high blood pressure and overall death rates were also 28 % higher in this group.

Opioid overdoses have already caused the country's overall death rate to increase in 2015, the first time since 1993, when the country was coming to grips with...

However, studies of children in developing countries, where most cases occur, found that measles vaccination reduces the overall death rate from infections for up to 5 years, suggesting that preventing the disease somehow provides protection against other illnesses.

While improved diagnostic and treatment methods have reduced the overall death rate from breast cancer, the study authors note, that reduction has not been as pronounced among African American patients.

While the overall death rates for cancer in black men and women have fallen by more than 34 and 19 percent, respectively, over the past two decades, they are still higher than the rates for the white population.

Alpa Patel (PhD), an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, showed men who spent six hours or more per day of their leisure time sitting had an overall death rate that was about 20 percent higher than the men who sat for three hours or less.

(The overall death rate in the study was 13 %.)

``... none [salt intake studies] has ever shown, for example, that salt consumption increases overall death rates, or death rates from cardiovascular diseases, or from heart attack or from any other cause.

One study of almost 41,500 Japanese men and women found that, over an 11 year period, death from heart disease was 31 % less, death from stroke was between 35 - 42 % less (in men vs. women), and overall death rates were 12 % lower in men and 23 % lower in women (12).

In an analysis of studies combining data on over 1 million people and overall death rates, the U shaped curve was «sweetest» at «1 to 2 drinks per day for women and 2 to 4 drinks per day for men.»