Sentences with phrase «percent chance of death»

Reduce the speed to 20 miles per hour and there is a 10 percent chance of death.

«For example, bone cancer in children and dogs is very similar — it results in about a 90 percent chance of death in a dog, and about 60 percent in children.

People with type 2 diabetes admitted to the hospital for heart failure faced a 24 to 28 percent chance of death during the remainder of the trial, on aloglipin or placebo respectively.

Not exact matches

Better yet, a clinical review of nearly 150 studies found that people with strong social ties had a 50 percent better chance of survival, regardless of age, sex, health status, and cause of death, than those with weaker ties.

A new study shows that jobs that are both high - demanding and give employees less control are associated with a 15.4 percent increased chance of death.

When comparing highly - demanding jobs, those that also gave employees less control were associated with a 15.4 percent increased chance of death.

While we all live with death and loss, many of us may also know tragedy intimately; in the course of a lifetime, there's a 22 percent chance we'll experience a natural disaster, a 69 percent chance we'll experience a traumatic event — a tragic death, an automobile accident, an assault.

A study conducted in 2005 determined that use of a pacifier during naps and nighttime sleep reduces the chances of a baby suffering from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) by 90 percent.

«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

The researchers also note that a 4.1 percent rate of false conviction is conservative, given that separate calculations gauging the accuracy of the assumptions that took an even more conservative stance — assuming that people who were executed had zero chance of false conviction and that the chances of exoneration after retrial would be twice that of people on death row — would still produce a larger figure than their 4.1 percent estimate.

For every minute without CPR, the chance of death increases by 10 percent.

Both ticagrelor doses reduced the chances of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke, the study's primary endpoint, with a 15 percent reduction in the 90 - mg group and a 16 percent reduction in the 60 - mg group compared to the placebo group.

Among study participants who ate spicy foods 3 times a week or more often, the chance of death was 15 percent less.

For every 30 point drop in total cholesterol there was a 22 percent increased chance of death.

The new Utah feels responsible for the death of his friend, who botched a stunt that appeared to have about a 97 percent chance of fatality from the beginning.

But there's more focused reporting under way on a question I explored on Tuesday: why schools were death traps instead of havens — or at least built to allow a chance of survival, something earthquake experts and engineers say requires only a few percent of additional investment.

Nursing home abuse is a serious concern and seniors who have been abused have a 300 percent greater chance of death in the 3 years following the abuse than those who aren't abused.

Seniors who have been abused have a 300 percent greater chance of death in the 3 years following the abuse compared to those who are not abused.

Given that the patient was already likely to die the first time that the doctor saw him (the patient's chances of survival at the very beginning were less than 50 percent), the doctor's malpractice in failing to detect the disease or mistreating it could not be said to have caused the patient's death: the patient was going to die anyway.

That means more premiums paid and, for the 20 percent of joint policies that are made up of term life insurance, a higher chance that the death benefit won't be paid out at all (because the policies will expire before the policyholders do).