Sentences with phrase «percent higher mortality»

Older Americans who have been victims of abuse have a 300 percent higher mortality rate than those who have not.

Then again, a Danish study found that people who do not bike to work suffer a 39 percent higher mortality rate than those who do.

Even adding coal's share of fatalities in the power - generation industry, which brings the rate up to 0.0164, still leaves wind power with a 34 percent higher mortality rate.

This difference in treatment explains a large part of the 15 percent higher mortality experienced by African - American patients than non-Hispanic white patients.

Women with a waist circumference of 37 inches or greater had about an 80 percent higher mortality risk than women with a waist circumference of 27 inches or less, and this translated to about a five - year lower life expectancy after age 40.

Not exact matches

After a few disastrous growing trials, they developed a new system that consistently yields high - quality plants in a fifteen month period, weighing as much as two pounds, and with less than a two percent mortality rate.

Heath campaigners say that for decades, formula has consistently proven to be less healthy than breastfeeding - boosting the risk of diabetes, infections and other medical problems, and, when used exclusively, contributes to 21 percent higher infant mortality.

Around 12 percent of births at home happen because of an unforeseen emergency, and many of them, MacDorman says, have negative outcomes — hence a higher mortality rate, tipping the scales against midwives.

Mortality can be as high as 20 percent.

The team found a 21 percent decrease in all - cause mortality among women in the highest quartile of intake, when compared to those in the lowest quartile.

Yet research has shown that mortality is higher for ED - NOS, at 5.2 percent, compared with 4 percent for anorexia and 3.9 percent for bulimia.

Men had higher one - year mortality rates for almost all fracture types studied (18.7 percent in men versus 12.9 percent in women).

Although pancreatic cancer is relatively rare, accounting for about 3 percent of all the cases of cancer in the United States, it has an extremely high mortality rate so it accounts for about 7 percent of all cancer deaths.

Although it is an infrequent complication, sICH is associated with a high mortality rate near 50 percent.

The mortality rate in those patients is 40 percent or higher.

The high volume medical centers had a 22 percent mortality rate while the lower volume hospitals had a 29 percent mortality rate.

Patients under 65 years old saw no mortality benefit, but had a 6.9 percent higher rate of a favorable discharge.

Most of the trauma centers that serve predominantly minority patients (81.5 percent) were classified as high - mortality.

And 64 percent of black patients in the study group were treated at these high - mortality centers compared to only 41 percent of white patients.

This high mortality is primarily caused by resistance to therapy and the diagnosis of ovarian cancer after it has already metastasized, which occurs in approximately 80 percent of patients.

In the 1980s and 1990s, 42 percent of all deaths of Florida panthers were caused by cars, and a recent study concluded that road mortality is so high that it may threaten the persistence of some turtle populations in the northeastern United States.

Yet mortality from the disease in the east is still 1.5 to 2 percent higher.

Islam and colleagues found that among patients with localized lung cancer, those with one comorbidity had a 30 percent higher risk of mortality compared with those who had no comorbidity.

The disorder has a mortality rate of 8 to 15 percent, the highest of any psychiatric disease.

As detailed in a recent study by Dr. Margulis in The Journal of Urology, «Patients with the disease who undergo surgery have a mortality rate that can be as high as 10 percent, depending on the location of the tumor and its growth into the venous system.

Blacks» mortality from hypertension and strokes is 80 percent higher.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

Further, a 2003 review of more than 500,000 participants found a decreased risk of 25 percent to nearly 50 percent of all - cause mortality for very low meat intake compared with higher meat intake.

The model estimated that lifetime incidence and mortality risks averaged 11 percent to 13 percent lower for every 5 - point higher ADR, which translates to overall differences of 53 percent to 60 percent between the lowest and highest quintiles.

However, such development could raise the risk of adverse health effects and mortality by 39 percent because the clustering of individuals in high PM areas increases exposure.

The adjusted absolute risk of mortality among patients with SAB with high - vancomycin MIC (≥ 1.5 mg / L [less susceptible]; n = 2,740 patients; mortality, 26.8 percent) was not statistically different from patients with SAB with low - vancomycin MIC (< 1.5 mg / L; [more susceptible] n = 5,551 patients; mortality, 25.8 percent).

«Our results show that prostate cancer mortality was 20 percent lower in counties with the highest incidence of prostate cancer, indicating an early and rapid uptake of PSA testing, compared with counties with a slow and late increase in PSA testing,» says Pär Stattin, lead investigator of the study.

High platelet reactivity was also associated with one - year mortality (2.4 percent vs. 1.5 percent).

Now, on Nov. 5, a news story likened those findings to the results of a large trial by the National Cancer Institute, which showed that CT scans reduced mortality rates among the highest - risk lung cancer patients by 20 percent.

Even after adjusting for a variety of variables, including smoking, body mass index and pre-existing health ailments, the «definite evening type» was associated with a 10 percent higher risk of mortality than the «definite morning type.»

They also observed a 1.55 percent increase in mortality rate when drought escalated to «high severity worsening» conditions.

In the Rotterdam Study, subjects consumed nearly ten times more K1 than K2; a high intake of K2 reduced the risk of severe arterial calcification by 52 percent and reduced heart disease mortality by 57 percent, while a high intake of K1 had no effect.21

When we controlled for the effect of plant - based protein, there was no change in the association between protein intake and mortality, indicating that high levels of animal proteins promote mortality and not that plant - based proteins have a protective effect» and for people aged 66 +, all - cause mortality...... «was not affected by percent calories from fat, from carbohydrates, or from animal protein.»

The risk of all - cause mortality among those consuming the USDA «adequate» daily sodium intake of 1.5 grams was approximately 50 percent higher than those consuming the median sodium intake of 3.3 grams.

They discovered that those who consumed the highest amount of whole grains — 1.2 ounces per day, on average — had a 17 percent lower risk of all - cause mortality compared to those with the lowest intakes.

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The negative effect was not terribly alarming, but the mortality in decile 10 was several dozen percent higher than in decile 1.

A March 2006 analysis of the federal NHANES II database in The American Journal of Medicine found a 37 percent higher cardiovascular mortality rate for low - sodium dieters.

The mortality risk of the participants in the tertile with the highest intake was 30 percent lower than that of the participants with the lowest intake.

But black people were 40 percent more likely to develop dementia if they'd been born in a state with high infant mortality.

The H3N2 virus exhibits extremely high mobility and low mortality, and an estimated 3 to 5 percent of dogs infected die.

The EHM strain, however, has a high mortality rate — generally 30 - 50 percent of infected horses will die.

The diseases these vaccines protect against are very serious, with mortality as high as 60 to 80 percent in young animals.

As a matter of fact, the mortality rate of canine distemper can be as high as 100 percent especially in unvaccinated populations.

However, a little reflection on the plight of the migrant farm workers (life expectancy 49, annual income for a family of four $ 2,400, poisoning from pesticide in 15 of every 100 workers, death from T.B. and other infectious diseases 260 percent higher than the national average, infant and maternal mortality 125 percent higher, and not even toilets or drinking water in the fields) makes one reluctant to head for the comfort of the car and home.