Sentences with phrase «particularly high mortality rates»

Because prairie dogs are highly social animals living in tightly knit colonies, they suffer particularly high mortality rates from plague; upwards of 90 percent of a colony can die off during an outbreak.

On one hand, the Ebola virus has a particularly high mortality rate.

May 22, 2018 • The disease, first seen in 1998 in Malaysia, has a particularly high mortality rate.

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It is also possible that the unique health care system found in the United States — and particularly the lack of integration across birth settings, combined with elevated rates of obstetric intervention — contributes to intrapartum mortality due to delays in timely transfer related to fear of reprisal and / or because some women with higher - risk pregnancies still choose home birth because there are fewer options that support normal physiologic birth available in their local hospitals.

We've had these insane statistics since back then — particularly the ridiculous c - section rate, but also the higher mortality rates.

NEC is a serious disease that is particularly prevalent in preterm babies and has high morbidity and mortality rates.

Among various food items, cow's milk and cheese had the highest correlation with incidence and mortality rate of these cancers» Children are at high risk «Among the exposure of humans, especially prepubertal children, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in children.

A number of key presentations at the conference will look at research behind those figures, particularly why, despite a similar overall incidence of cancers, Indigenous people have higher mortality rates than other Australians.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study1 has attracted considerable scientific and policy attention in recent years, in part because it suggests that potentially preventable childhood experiences, particularly physical and sexual abuse and neglect, may increase a person's risk for serious health problems and higher mortality rates much later in life.