Sentences with phrase «pattern of mortality»

Therefore, the pattern of mortality from drug misuse closely matches the overall trend seen for all drug - related deaths.

And later, he analyzed patterns of mortality and reproduction in natural populations of lions and baboons (see «Just Like the Joneses») by working with other scientists who had already been collecting field data from the mammals.

Increased mortality, although may be driven by indirect effects; patterns of mortality will be dependent on initial stand and local site conditions, but more arid regions more susceptible

Dairy consumption and patterns of mortality of Australian adults.

Patterns of mortality for northern sea otters from Alaska.

I downloaded data for the following parameters in the attached spreadsheet (Tab reference lists descriptive data from the downloads): • Life 2009 — Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth (2009) were to stay the same throughout its life.

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While Kass touches on the most common anxieties about a greatly extended average life expectancy — its potentially dire impact on work patterns, parenthood, the social security system, and species renewal, for instance — his main approach is to ponder the value of mortality and the finitude of life.

We observed a dose dependent higher rate of both mortality and fracture in women and a higher rate of mortality in men with milk intake, a pattern not discerned with other dairy products.

A study in Nigeria «The pattern of infant feeding and attitudes of the mothers towards breast feeding, morbidity and mortality of a sample of the Nigerian Igbo tribe was studied.

Marcia Castro's research focuses on infectious diseases (particularly mosquito borne), environmental change and health, environmental management for vector control, spatial patterns of disease transmission, and infant & child mortality.

Any massive, long - term changes in their numbers could alter fish migration patterns, growth rates, and mortality, as well as change the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The question of binge drinking patterns and mortality is far from solved, and there may be genetic differences or other covariates not yet discovered, which play a role and could explain the different empirical findings.»

Recently a pattern has emerged: mortality drops in proportion to the years of schooling that women attain.

Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.

Compared to the two leading causes of death for all Americans, heart disease and cancer, a pattern of questionable decision - making in dire situations comes to light in teen mortality.

Human beings — who, like hamsters, are also mammals and vertebrates — are remarkably seasonal, Prendergast added, citing a long, astonishing list of universal human experiences that have a seasonal component, including birth, death, suicide, viral infections, mortality from bacterial infections, sleep patterns and sudden infant death syndrome, even though industrial societies buffer humans from contributory factors.

The paper, «Meta - analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought - induced tree mortality across the globe,» was published online in - advance - of - print the week of April 18 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

Wikipedia: John Harvey Kellogg Kumari M, Shipley M, Stafford M, Kivimaki M. Association of diurnal patterns in salivary cortisol with all - cause and cardiovascular mortality: findings from the Whitehall II study.

The outcomes of this research indicate that individuals who adhere to a dietary pattern in line with current guidelines to eat relatively high quantities of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, low - fat dairy products, fish and poultry, could have a lower mortality risk.

Women respond more slowly Women are more likely than men to delay seeking treatment at the first signs of a heart attack, a behavior pattern that has puzzled cardiologists and contributes to the higher mortality rate from heart attack among women.

The four - point urine test allows physicians to diagnose whether there is a flat diurnal pattern, which is considered worse than smoking according to the Whitehall Study, [1] and may be a marker of greater mortality in those with breast cancer.

«Records indicate that the earliest observations of patterns of disease occurred in the 17th century, as elders gathered death information for publication in London's weekly Bill of Mortality.

Results The researchers discovered that the pattern of exercise after diagnosis had an influence on the mortality rate.

An ≈ 40 % reduction in risk for total mortality was associated with the package of whole - grain consumption, higher consumption of other plant foods and lower consumption of meats, nonsmoking, increased physical activity, better education, and reduced body fatness, compared with those who rarely consumed whole grain and otherwise had a less favorable dietary and lifestyle pattern.

The lifestyle analysis suggests food synergy, namely, that various aspects of a whole - grain - containing dietary pattern work together to reduce mortality risk.

The study discussion states: «Food groups such as whole grains, nuts, fish, fruit, and vegetables and prudent dietary patterns rich in these foods were inversely associated with several age - related diseases and total rate of mortality (14 — 19, 21 — 29, 46).»

To minimize the confounding effect and test for potential modification by an overall lifestyle pattern, we further performed a stratified analysis according to a priori — defined healthy lifestyle pattern, as characterized by never smoking or ever smoking for fewer than 5 pack - years, never or moderate alcohol intake (< 14 g / d in women and < 28 g / d in men), body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of at least 18.5 and less than 25.0, and physical activity of at least 150 min / wk at a moderate level or at least 75 min / wk at a vigorous level (equivalent to ≥ 7.5 metabolic equivalent h / wk) as recommended.18 Likewise, given the previous report that protein intake was associated with a higher risk for diabetes - related mortality, 8 we examined the protein - mortality association according to the history of diabetes.

Comparison of Baseline Characteristics and Dietary Pattern of Participants by First - Day Percentage of Calories From Added Sugar — NHANES III Linked Mortality Files, 1988 - 2006

When an individual retires under a DB plan, she is entitled to a stream of payments that has a lump - sum value that we calculate using standard actuarial methods (which take into account expected mortality patterns and adjust the sum of payments to reflect the fact that they are received over many years rather than at a single point in time).

Some artists work may be a more literal representation of this subject, suggestive of such things as mathematics, space, time, technology, abstraction, pattern, or repetition, while others have chosen to address the opposite or «finite», such as fragility, mortality, the temporary, and even doomsday scenarios.

The 1970s were marked by «crosshatchings», an abstract pattern which dominated the paintings, while it was the variety of images that engaged with the ambiguities of perception and themes of memory, sexuality and contemplation of mortality which were introduced in the 1980s.

Combining patterns, shapes, and figurative elements, Pittman's paintings reflect on conceptions of time, mortality, beauty, and suffering.

His works typically begin with found footage, layering «viscerally distressed found film strips with provocative images, anarchic visual patterns, dirt, mold and other detritus in a sensuous, even ecstatic, vision of entropy and mortality — inscribed directly onto the film medium.»

I've seen fascinating efforts lately to use new software and graphics tools to visualize sets of data ranging from flights over the United States in a 24 - hour period to patterns of obesity onset and weight loss in the Framingham heart study to work charting relationships between child mortality, income and fertility rates.

In conclusion, «Our findings, together with previous reports, suggest that a dietary pattern of high intake of vegetables and fruits and adequate intake of fish and meat can significantly decrease the risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease in East Asian populations, particularly from cerebrovascular disease.»

The pattern of high thermal stress followed by subsequent mortality across much of the Caribbean was consistent with the pattern seen since the 1980s and 1990s in the Florida Keys, where outbreaks of other diseases have frequently been seen in years that followed thermal stress and bleaching [12].

Pattern Energy's use of radar, on their Kenedy ranch wind project in Texas, is a failure: thousands of birds and bats have been reported killed in the short history of this wind farm and thousands more remain unreported due to flawed mortality studies.

Now scientist Jeffrey Chambers and colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have devised an analytical method that combines satellite images, simulation modeling and painstaking fieldwork to help researchers detect forest mortality patterns and trends.

A mortality map of the Amazon near Manaus, Brazil based on Landsat satellite images shows the spatial pattern of tree mortality.

Other measures are aimed at the mitigation of «heat islands» through urban planning, the adaptation of housing design to local climate and expanding air conditioning, shifts in work patterns and mortality monitoring (Keatinge et al., 2000; Ballester et al., 2003; Johnson et al., 2005; Marttila et al., 2005; Penning - Rowsell et al., 2005).

«I hesitate to make too much of the U.N. numbers because they are not sufficiently standardized such that appropriate comparisons can be made over time — changing population size, changing population age structure, changing wealth patterns, etc., have a very large impact on the economics of — including the mortality from — environmental disasters,» Knappenberger said.

The positive effects of climate change — such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes — may be offset by negative factors such as changes in established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships.

Baguskas, S. A., et al. (2014), Evaluating spatial patterns of drought - induced tree mortality in a coastal California pine forest, For.

The similar responses in echinoplutei across regions, including smaller arms, changes in morphometry and increased abnormality and mortality are likely owing to the interactive effects of this metabolic stressor (hypercapnia) and the toxic effects of acidification on regulation of development and body patterning.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].

Researchers examined data regarding the associations of dietary patterns with mortality through analysis of the eating patterns of over 2500 adults between the ages of 70 and 79 over a ten - year period.

Reporting of deaths was enhanced from linked records using two methods, and effects on patterns of demographic characteristics and mortality indicators were examined.

In the United Kingdom, IMD incidence and mortality are socially patterned, with IMD incidence in the most deprived quintile being twice that of the most affluent quintile.10 In New Zealand, significantly higher rates of IMD have been reported in Maori (relative risk = 2.2) and Pacific Islander people (relative risk = 3.8) when compared with the European population.11 Aboriginal people are the most disadvantaged group in Australia.12 Two important risk factors associated with increased risk of IMD are more common among Aboriginal people, namely having a smoker among close contacts, including maternal smoking, and sharing a bedroom.13 — 15 It is not possible to explore the causal interaction of these factors from notifiable disease data.

Poor nutrition is a major determinant of excess morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 1 contributing to over 16 % of the burden of disease.2 In this issue of the Journal (page 549), consistent with the «economics of food choice» theory, 3 Brimblecombe and O'Dea report that the diet of a remote Aboriginal community was high in energy - dense, nutrient - poor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be directed?