Sentences with phrase «overall death rates from»

The overall death rate from labor through six weeks was 2.06 per 1000 when higher risk women (i.e., those with breech babies or twins, those attempting VBAC, or those with preeclampsia or gestational diabetes) are included in the sample, and 1.61 per 1000 when only low risk women are included.

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.

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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.

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.

Case and Deaton highlight the finding that overall mortality rates for middle - aged white Americans have increased in recent years due to deaths from self - destructive behavior: suicide, drug and alcohol overdose, and disease resulting from long - term alcohol abuse.

The above article was updated to correct several statistics from the city Department of Health and to clarify that Staten Island recorded the highest rate of drug overdose deaths overall, not just opioid overdose deaths, in 2014.

My estimate of overall membership is based on an assumed attrition rate of ten percent a year from death, defeat or retirement, and includes the 14 from the Class of 2009 who departed with downsizing.

The study by researchers in Italy and Switzerland predicts that although the actual number of deaths from all cancers in the European Union will continue to rise due to growing populations and numbers of elderly people, the rate of cancer deaths will continue to decline overall, with some notable exceptions: lung cancer in women and pancreatic cancer in both sexes.

They discovered that while overall rates of infection remained the same, there was significantly more CD4 T cell death if HIV was spread by infection from other cells than by free - floating virus.

Deaths from heart disease and stroke are declining overall in Europe, but at differing rates, according to research, published online in the European Heart Journal.

The overall rate of death from all causes was 18 percent during the nine years of the study.

An analysis that included information from more than 57,000 screening colonoscopies suggests that higher adenoma detection rates may be associated with up to 50 percent to 60 percent lower lifetime colorectal cancer incidence and death without higher overall costs, despite a higher number of colonoscopies and potential complications, according to a study in the June 16 issue of JAMA.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Health.

``... 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).

While vegan diets have been positively associated with overall health, studies show that individuals who follow any kind of vegetarian eating pattern have a reduced risk of death from all causes as well as lower rates of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

In addition to confirming an overall survival advantage and reduction in cardiovascular - related deaths among persons who participate in regular exercise, we also found a reduced rate of deaths from other causes including malignant neoplasms and neurologic disorders.

It's also profoundly safe, with an overall death rate significantly lower than the average (the lowest in this class of cars, actually), a Top Safety Pick rating from the IIHS, and an overall five - star crash rating from NHTSA.

The study from the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that while car accident fatalities overall have been in a steady decline for years, the death rate for less educated members of our society have gone up.

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.

In New Zealand, recent strengthening of the Māori health workforce has led to a number of successes: interventions led by, focused on, and targeted to Māori; consistent investment in Māori health over a prolonged period; and an emphasis on the development of dual cultural and clinical competencies.14 In the United States, successful Native American health service development in the early 1990s appears to have been shaped by federal government administration, the separation of the Indian Health Service from other Native American affairs, and provision of an integrated health service.15 In both countries, recent reductions in overall death rates for indigenous people have been noted; in the US this relates to injury prevention, whereas in NZ it relates to fewer deaths due to circulatory conditions.16 Although it is not known whether improved health services for indigenous peoples in the US and NZ have a causal relationship with decreased mortality, the two appear to «travel together» well.