Sentences with phrase «percent chance of dying»

According to the Active Transportation Alliance, if a pedestrian is struck at 40 miles per hour, the pedestrian has an 80 percent chance of dying.

For instance, large dogs have about 50 percent chance of dying of cancer, compared to about 10 percent in small dogs.

The tool showed that children who tested positive for high - risk sepsis had a 34 percent chance of not surviving, but those children who tested negative had only a 3 percent chance of dying.

Once symptoms such as lightheadedness and blackouts arise, a person with an untreated faulty aortic valve has a 50 percent chance of dying within six months, says Eugene Grossi, a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at New York University School of Medicine and director of cardiac surgery research.

«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.

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Their findings discovered loneliness increases the risk of your chance of dying by 26 percent by increasing the possibility of disease at a cellular level.

The Devils are given about a 96 percent chance of finishing 5 - 3 or better, which means most dreams of a seven - way 4 - 4 tie die on the vine.

Neither Brazell, nor any other member of El Dorado's football team ended up losing their home, but after the flames died down and after the team's first four games, it can be calculated that there is a 100 - percent chance the Placerville school is going to have a successful season.

Previous research shows that giving an EPA - DHA supplement to patients with cardiovascular disease reduces their chance of dying from the disease by as much as 20 percent, authors note in the study, but supplementing with margarine didn't seem to cut it.

In the name of fairness, some areas» chances would improve, whereas others would fall: a 79 percent chance of receiving a liver before a patient dies in Miami would drop to a 72 percent chance under the new proposal, but in New York City a 56 percent chance would improve to 68 percent.

The study also found, however, that those who ran had a slightly higher chance of being killed in an attack — 28 percent (five) of those who fled died as a result of injuries, compared with 23 percent (eight) of those who remained motionless during big cat attacks.

«We know that giving insecticide - treated bed nets to a household will protect young children, reducing their susceptibility by 50 percent and their overall chances of dying by 16 to 17 percent.

Pascal figured out that your chances of throwing one six in four rolls of a die was slightly more than 50 percent.

Five years ago, the group reported that when they infected human tonsil cells with HIV in culture, 95 percent of the CD4 + T cells that died did so before the virus had a chance to reproduce within them.

The condition, called CHIP (clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential), indicates chances of dying from stroke or heart attack are 40 to 50 percent higher in people who have it.

Those with two out of three more than halved their chances of dying, and those with all three reduced their chances of dying in that time by 82 percent.

Results Study participants who ate spicy foods once or twice a week had 10 percent less chance of dying than study participants who ate spicy foods less frequently.

In other words, every 30 mg you decrease cholesterol, you have a 22 percent higher chance of dying.

Regular physical activity has been shown to decrease the likelihood of developing breast cancer, as well as decreasing your chances of dying from it by 50 percent, once diagnosed.

Using a lap / shoulder belt reduces the chances of dying in a crash by 58 percent for people seated in the center rear seat of cars and 75 percent for people buckled up in minivans, pickups and SUVs, a new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report indicates.

But it also mandates that there is a 95 percent chance that you'll die with lots of money in the bank, perhaps millions.

So if you miss the spot you need to break one too many times it dies before the part breaks, and your chance of the one material you need goes from like 30 percent to 2 percent.

A new study has found that people who adhere closely to the official dietary guidelines of Japan have a 15 percent less chance of dying over a 15 - year period, compared to people who do not follow the guidelines.

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.

Prostate cancer patients had a 28 percent higher relative chance of having a fatal heart attack and a 21 percent increased chance of dying from heart disease.