Sentences with phrase «per cent of deaths»

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.

In 1997, 15.3 per cent of all deaths of Indigenous people occurred in the 15 - 34 age group.

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.

Of note, 80 per cent of deaths were considered avoidable in the current health system.

This compares to only 3.5 per cent of deaths of non-Indigenous people in the same age group.

Careless or reckless driving, or driving when in a hurry, also contributed to 15 per cent of deaths.

In England, donuts are the danger, obesity accounting for 6 per cent of deaths compared with 1 per cent for road accidents.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The lack of or inadequate breastfeeding practices alone result in almost 12 per cent of all deaths among children under age 5.1

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.

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 deaths this coming winter, new analysis released today by the Labour... Read more

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.