Sentences with phrase «percent higher mortality rate»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Because prairie dogs are highly social animals living in tightly knit colonies, they suffer particularly high mortality rates from plague; upwards of 90 percent of a colony can die off during an outbreak.

As the fungal disease spreads south and east, it leaves behind «ghost» forests, Tomback said - stands of dead whitebark pine and mortality rates of 90 percent or higher.

More on greenhouse emissions from meat and dairy: Study Finds Meat and Dairy Create More Emissions Than Miles High Protein, Meat - Based Diets Mean Higher Mortality Rate, Study Says World Dairy Industry Equals 4 Percent of Man - Made Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Shockingly, the mortality rate from cancer is more than 40 percent higher.

The UK firm also details that, «note that about 90 percent of projects developed on Github become idle, and the average lifespan of a project is about one year, with the highest mortality rate occurring within the first six months.»

American Psychiatric Association estimates that mortality rates for anorexia may be as high as 5 to 18 percent.

Newark's rate of infant mortality has consistently remained higher than the state average, with a rate of 7.5 percent compared to 4.8 percent in 2015.