This could offer a technique to help in the prognosis of metastases, the spreading of cancer cells to other regions of the body, responsible for 90
per cent of deaths from cancer.
The lack of or inadequate breastfeeding practices alone result in almost 12
per cent of all deaths among children under age 5.1
Oyeyemi said the FRSC had declared war on reckless drivers because such drivers were responsible for about 40
per cent of deaths of officials of the FRSC in active duty.
Suicide is a big problem among inmates in the US, accounting for 35
per cent of deaths in local jails and 5.5
per cent of deaths in state - run facilities in 2011.
According to the World Health Organization, older adults who live at home face disproportionally high fatality rates during natural disasters as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina where 71
per cent of the deaths resulting from that disaster involved people over 60 years of age.
According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, in 1990 — the last year for which reliable figures are available — AIDS was responsible for 17
per cent of all deaths in men aged between 25 and 44, compared with 11.5 per cent in 1988, when it ranked as the number three killer after heart disease and «unintentional deaths», from accidents such as car crashes for example.
Alcohol addiction causes almost 3.8
per cent of deaths worldwide but a study led by QUT researchers offers new hope in the form of a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
According to his analysis, floods killed more people than any other type of disaster — 26
per cent of all deaths — and caused the most damage — 32 per cent of the total bill.
According to Richard Peto of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford, by next year 41
per cent of deaths among Eastern European men aged between 35 and 69 will be attributable to smoking.
In England, donuts are the danger, obesity accounting for 6
per cent of deaths compared with 1 per cent for road accidents.
Careless or reckless driving, or driving when in a hurry, also contributed to 15
per cent of deaths.
This compares to only 3.5
per cent of deaths of non-Indigenous people in the same age group.
Of note, 80
per cent of deaths were considered avoidable in the current health system.
Mortality for Indigenous adolescents was more than twice that of non-Indigenous adolescents, with about 60
per cent of deaths due to intentional self - harm and road traffic injury.
In 1997, 15.3
per cent of all deaths of Indigenous people occurred in the 15 - 34 age group.
The report also shows that from 2008 until 2012 chronic disease accounted for 70
per cent of the deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Not exact matches
Seventy
per cent of treatment delays and «sentinel events,» or unexpected situations resulting in
death or serious injury, are the result
of communication breakdowns.
He believes that the automated vehicles could reduce «80
per cent of collisions,
deaths and injuries.»
Yet the basic social and cultural patterns that today condemn men and women to
death, in accordance with the wishes
of 65
per cent of the American public, remain in some ways remarkably unchanged from ancient times.
At the first arrival
of the Black
Death, forty
per cent of the population died.
Demand for all kinds
of melon has fallen 90
per cent since a listeria outbreak from a single rockmelon grower led to four
deaths.
After controlling for age, sex, education, exercise, smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diabetes and cancer, a two - point increase in the Mediterranean diet score was linked with a 21
per cent reduced risk
of death.
The Finnish boxes are part
of a wider scheme that helped reduce the number
of infants
deaths from 10 percent to 0.2
per cent — one
of the lowest rates in the world.
The Lullaby Trust «s Judith Howard has been advising and helping parents who have lost children to sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS) for several years and has said: «Ninety
per cent of sudden infant
deaths happen in the first six months and we're now finding that when you get a
death in the first month
of life, it's nearly always because the baby has been co-sleeping or bed - sharing with a parent.
Scientific evidence has shown that breastfeeding could lead to a 13
per cent reduction in
deaths of children under five if infants were exclusively breastfed for 6 months and continued to be breastfed up to two years.
Studies from various developing countries have shown that between three and 20
per cent of episodes
of acute diarrhoea become persistent, and up to one half
of all diarrhoea - associated
deaths occur during episodes
of persistent diarrhoea.
Just over half
of Tory party members support the
death penalty compared to under ten
per cent of Labour and Lib Dem members and a fifth
of SNP members.
Pancreatic cancer, for instance, kills 97.5
per cent of those it affects, while testicular cancer has a
death rate
of only 5
per cent.
Conservative plans to scrap the Winter Fuel Allowance for 90
per cent of pensioners could lead to 3,850 more
deaths this coming winter, new analysis released today by the Labour Party reveals.
According to experts, malnutrition is responsible for the
death of 50
per cent of children under five years old in the state.
Conservative plans to scrap the Winter Fuel Allowance for 90
per cent of pensioners could lead to 3,850 more
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In Baptist High School, Iwo, for example, where the hijab crisis was planted and nurtured to
death, well over 60
per cent of the student population is Muslim.
Now referred to as a «Teflon» politician - the
death of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, failed to stick to her, and her time in office is viewed positively by over 60
per cent of Americans — Clinton's record
Now referred to as a «Teflon» politician - the
death of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, failed to stick to her, and her time in office is viewed positively by over 60
per cent of Americans — Clinton's past record is well - regarded.
«Road crashes are the second leading cause
of death for young men after HIV / Aids, and in some African countries more than 70
per cent of those killed on the roads are young breadwinners.
In 2015, GTI reported that the number
of people killed by Fulani herdsmen decreased by 50
per cent, amounting to over 630 fewer
deaths.
Prostate cancer is the most common form
of cancer in males with over 40,000 cases reported every year in the UK with 25
per cent of cases resulting in
death.
This causes the levels
of these ions in the frogs» blood to fall by 20 and 50
per cent, respectively, leading to cardiac arrest and
death.
He said that would translate into a five to six
per cent reduction in the risk
of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause
of death in the United States.
In another marriage with a coefficient matching Charles Darwin's (between Josiah Wedgwood III and Caroline Darwin) the children's
death rate was 25
per cent, and in a union with a coefficient twice that
of Darwin's (between Henry and Jessie Wedgwood), 17
per cent of their children died.
The clear result
of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular
death by practically 25
per cent compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.
At present, the estimate
of the
death rate in the UK and the US is 0.5
per cent, meaning that about five people die for every 1000 people infected.
Only 4
per cent of applicants have weighted premiums: they include some heavy smokers and some people with a family history
of early
death, from heart disease for example.
It calculated that if 23 tonnes
of DU were inhaled — 8
per cent of the amount actually fired in the Gulf — this could cause «500 000 potential
deaths».
In this cohort born after 2007, the number
of children with poor outcome is lower at 34
per cent (11
per cent death and 23
per cent survived with disability).
Their rate
of sudden
death declined by 89
per cent in athletes between 1979 and 2004 compared with no change in the general population.
A homeless person with mental illness has a 24.5
per cent chance
of having a heart attack, a fatal or non-fatal stroke or sudden cardiac
death over 30 years, said Dr. Agnes Gozdzik, a research associate in the Center for Research in Inner City Health
of St. Michael's Hospital.
If the number
of partial replacements were to increase from 8 to 20
per cent, the NHS could potentially prevent 170
deaths, at the cost
of 400 additional revisions.
Since the international Delta trial began in 1992, the
death rate
of patients who received «combination therapy» has fallen by 38
per cent compared with patients who were treated with a single drug.
As in the Netherlands, only about 40
per cent of the «extra»
deaths during heat waves in the US were inevitable but heat - hastened
deaths.