Sentences with phrase «percent more deaths»

But «450 percent more deaths» sounds scarier, and cherry - picking the worst outcomes is more likely to make headlines.

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Other reefs have suffered even more severely from the recent bleaching; Some Pacific islands, for example, have reported over 80 percent coral death rates, Eakin said.

The far - reaching consequences of the recent drop in oil prices have been a testimony to just how central crude is in American life: With cheap gasoline bringing more drivers onto the road, traffic deaths were up nearly 10 percent in the first nine months of 2015.

Knocking back three to five cups in a day produced a 15 percent reduced risk of death, although oddly if people drank more than five cups, they reduced their risk by only 12 percent.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».

In Africa, where the vast majority of malaria deaths occur, the malaria death rate has come down by more than 70 percent.

Thanks to national immunization efforts like these, global measles deaths have fallen more than 80 percent since 2000, saving a total of over 20 million lives.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACAD) faded 24 percent Monday after CNN exposed the deaths of more than 700 Nuplazid patients since the drug's June 2016 launch.

Since Romero was murdered in 1980, more than 60,000 other Salvadoran civilians have been killed - about 85 percent of them by the military and the so - called death squads (generally the military in nonmilitary guise) This is not to deny that the leftist insurgents can be ruthless, too, but as a rule they are more discriminate.

The study looked at more than 150 school shootings between 2013 and 2015 and found that 55 percent of the shootings were on non-college campuses, 66 percent were purposeful, 99 percent were males, 36 percent were students and 59 percent of the deaths were students.

A study by JAMA Pediatrics, which focused on children in Denmark and Sweden, found that those who'd experienced the death of a sibling before age 18 were more than 70 percent more likely to die during the course of the nearly four decade study than those who had not lost a sibling.

(For an interesting global perspective on contraception, be sure to check out Rachel Marie Stone's post on the topic, where she cites this powerful statistic from USAID: «Family planning could prevent up to 30 percent of the more than 287,000 maternal deaths that occur every year, by enabling women to delay their first pregnancy and space later pregnancies at the safest intervals.

Between 1950 and 1953 in Communist North Korea, «50 percent of the hierarchy, one - third of the clergy, and at least fifteen thousand lay persons perished»; many more died in the notorious Death March to the Yalu River.

Bro, put even 10 percent of your efforts, and all you other readers as well, just 10 percent of effort towards cutting down death in the media in entertainment form and you will do FAR MORE than by taking away guns from the people.

In the U.S., the «Back to Sleep» public education campaign has been credited with cutting SIDS - also known as «crib death» - by more than 50 percent since 1994.

Tuskey said those programs are part of the reason heroin overdose deaths were down more than 30 percent in 2013, the first time the county saw a drop in overdose deaths since the coroner began tracking them in 1999.

It's been more than 10 years since the Academy of Pediatrics and other health organizations have been recommending this and since that time, they've seen deaths from SIDS decrease by 50 percent.

What may be even more important to acknowledge is that only six percent of those ruptures that do occur result in the mother's death, according to the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program.

As a result, Philip Morris International now derives more revenue from Asia than from the European Union, and nearly 80 percent of tobacco - related deaths occur in the Global South.

Place your baby only on his back for sleep; this position has reduced the risk of SIDS deaths by more than 50 percent since 1991, according to the AAP.

Even more disturbingly, in the hospital there are 34,000 «near misses» a year (severe pregnancy - related events that nearly cause death), up 25 percent from 1998.

Gillibrand says the number of prescription opioid - related deaths rose nationally more than 1,600 percent between 2004 and 2015.

Head injuries are the leading cause of death and permanent disability in bicycle crashes, accounting for more than 60 percent of bike - related deaths.

De Blasio and incoming NYPD commissioner James O'Neill said Tuesday they would examine the city's policy on the matter after POLITICO New York reported that Officer Daniel Pantaleo boosted his salary by more than 20 percent in the two years since he was placed on modified duty following his role in the 2014 death of Eric Garner.

When examining reproductive cancers, the authors noted that while patients with infertility were 44 percent more likely to die of breast cancer, infertility was not associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer or death from ovarian or endometrial cancers.

In fact, WHO estimates that 50 percent more people will die from illnesses due to tobacco use than from AIDS that year, although tobacco itself is not listed as a cause of death.

About 30 percent say they think there will be many more «deaths and injuries» from floods and hurricanes over the next 20 years if nothing is done to address climate change.

One of the obvious consequences of increased development will be more deaths and injuries from traffic accidents, and tobacco - related deaths are also expected to surge, accounting for 10 percent of all fatalities by 2015.

When asked to attribute a cause of subdural hematoma, severe retinal hemorrhage, coma or death in a child less than 3 years of age, more than 80 percent of physicians responded that shaking with or without impact was likely or highly likely to produce subdural hematoma, 90 percent reported that it was likely or highly likely to lead to severe retinal hemorrhage, and 78 percent felt that it was likely or highly likely to result in a coma or death.

Because of increased prosperity and better medical care, the risk of death for children younger than 5 is projected to decrease by more than 40 percent by 2030.

Giving the mice antibiotics helped gemcitabine kill tumor cells, increasing the number of tumor cells going through a type of cell death called apoptosis from about 15 percent to 60 percent or more.

The vast majority of those deaths — more than 80 percent — occur in low - and middle - income countries.

More than 80 percent of these deaths occur in developing nations.

Those who ate nuts less than once a week had a seven percent reduction in mortality; once a week, 11 percent reduction; two to four times per week, 13 percent reduction; five to six times per week, 15 percent reduction, and seven or more times a week, a 20 percent reduction in death rate.

During the 2012 - 2013 season, when H3N2 viruses were dominant, the high - dose flu vaccine was 36 percent more effective at preventing deaths in the Medicare beneficiaries studied, compared to the standard - dose vaccine.

Newly published data point to seven causes that accounted for more than 40 percent of years of life lost to premature death in the United States in 2010.

Many hospitals in the country now have AI units to stanch the tide, and with good reason: Of the 141 human bird flu cases in Indonesia reported to the WHO, 115 people have died, a death rate of more than 80 percent.

The long, slow death of the baiji was caused by overfishing, construction of the Three Gorges Dam and other changes in the vicinity of the Yangtze River (where more than 10 percent of humanity makes its home), rather than hunting or other direct human impacts.

If untreated, acute liver failure results in coma and death in more than 80 percent of cases.

Disruptions and declines in animal pollinators could increase global mortality by 2.7 percent, leading to 1.4 million more deaths annually.

Of the more than 270,000 deaths attributed to cervical cancer annually, around 85 percent are in developing countries, according to the World Health Organization.

«Deaths related to opioid overdose increased by more than 200 percent over the past 15 years, and the epidemic has disproportionately impacted the Medicaid population.»

Infants younger than 6 months are at greatest risk of disease, hospitalization, and death and account for more than 90 percent of all pertussis - associated deaths in the United States.

In other words, the probability of death from cancer among astronauts should be no more than 3 percent above the average probability of death from cancer among the general population in the United States.

Thanks largely to the advent of Pap smear screening, U.S. cervical cancer deaths decreased dramatically, by more than 60 percent, between 1955 and 1992.

In 2010, 41 percent of breast cancer deaths occurred in the more than 19 million women who are between the ages of 65 to 84 years.

The rate of death over 10 years was 29 percent for people with delayed orthostatic hypotension, 64 percent for those with orthostatic hypotension (the more serious form of the disease) and 9 percent in people without either condition.

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.

While country - specific effects would be varied, IMF projects that eliminating post-tax subsidies for the most - polluting energy fuels, such as coal and gasoline, could raise government revenue by $ 2.9 trillion, while also slashing premature deaths from pollution - related diseases by more than 50 percent.