Sentences with phrase «rates of birth»

* Doula support has been shown to contribute to lower intervention rates, lower rates of surgical births, shorter labors, babies with higher APGAR scores and higher rates of birth satisfaction.

This is apparent in the rates of birth control use (click on figure to make it larger).

Table 2 shows rates of birth weight ≥ 90th percentile and, in 2 year olds, rates of overweight (BMI Z score ≥ 85th percentile) and obesity (BMI Z score ≥ 95th percentile) according to the six categories of maternal OGTT glucose concentrations and area under the curve for glucose during pregnancy.

She voiced her disgust with the industry's response to the study — that it was flawed because inbreeding was not considered as a factor that could cause higher rates of birth defects.

In a 2011 study, Dr. Melissa Ahern (health economist at Washington State University), Dr. Michael Hendryx, (epidemiologist at West Virginia University) and their colleagues found «significantly higher» rates of birth defects in communities near MTR operations.

Japan has low rates of birth control use, the researchers said.

Researchers found similar rates of birth defects — about 25 infants out of 1,000 — among women who never used birth control pills and those who took them before pregnancy or took them before realizing they were pregnant.

To his colleagues» consternation, the formula seems to work: for trees, bees, bats, birds, fish, frogs and others — accounting for observed patterns of diversity with just a few parameters, such as rates of birth and migration.

«The results suggest that the environment is a stronger contributor to adverse birth outcomes than genes, since there are differences in rates of birth outcomes across states» Thayer said.

«Not surprisingly,» the report says, «the populations in the areas surveyed have high rates of birth defects, rapidly rising cancer rates, neurological damage, chaotic menstrual cycles and mental illness.»

«There have been enough studies on farm families to show that babies conceived in the spring, when runoff is highest, have far higher rates of birth defects than babies conceived at other times.»

He also hopes it will shed light on why rates of birth defects, childhood cancers, asthma, obesity, violence, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other learning disabilities are skyrocketing.

The jury is out as to why this is, but probable causes include insufficient (or nonexistent) maternity leave, poverty and its accompanying stress and pour nourishment, lack of education about and exposure to breastfeeding, infant care practices that keep mother and baby separate, scheduled feeding, high rates of birth interventions, the aggressive marketing of infant formula, exposure to pesticides and endocrine disruptors, and cultural beliefs that tell mothers they can't do it.

Rates of birth weight that was less than 2500 g (0.8 %) in our home birth group did not differ from the midwife comparison group (0.7 %) and were somewhat lower than the rate of 2 % among women attended by midwives in the Quebec study.

The study reviewed the births of nearly 17,000 women and found that, among low - risk women, planned home births result in low rates of birth interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and newborns.

We have soaring rates of birth trauma for both mother and baby, which significantly impacts their lives in the short and long term.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

Water births show a higher rate of births «without injuries», first and second - degree perineal lacerations, vaginal and labial tears.

When scientists were able to prevent the excessive neurogenesis which occurs within days of the injury with a drug similar to one under trial for chemotherapy treatments, the rate of birth of new brain cells went back to normal levels and risk for seizures was reduced.

The best odds are that the child will be born in India, which has the highest rate of births per minute in the world.

Medical side effects: Toxic Shock Syndrome has been associated with the spermicide sponge.20 One researcher has noted that couples who have used certain spermicides within a month of conception have experienced a doubling in the rate of birth defects, as well as a doubling of the rate of miscarriage.21

State health officials concluded, in their investigation into probable causes of a high rate of birth defects and miscarriages among teachers and staff members, that at least some of the health complaints at the school were related to an insufficient flow of fresh air, according to Robert G. Dickie, the principal.

Additionally, the declining rates of births have also led to increased spending on children and on their educational cost.

Amongst animals seen at the Center, California sea lions (more than 10,000 have been admitted to the Center since 1975) have a lower rate of birth defects, at 0.09 %, while Pacific harbor seals (the Center has admitted more than 2,200 since 1975) are at 0.4 %.

Other research showed the rate of birth defects was increasing dramatically in regions where mountaintop removal mining was becoming more prevalent.

It's not surprising that coal - rich Shanxi province, a center of pollutant emissions from large - scale coal and chemical industries, has recorded the highest rate of birth defects.

(CDC), the rate of birth defect in the United States is one out of every 33 babies born, or about three percent of all live births in the country.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the rate of birth defect in the United States is one out of every 33 babies born, or about three percent of all live births in the country.

The rate of birth injuries is higher among baby boys (about 6.6 per every 1,000 infants born) than for baby girls (about 5.1 per every 1,000).

The rate of births to adolescent parents has declined steadily since 1991, yet the United States continues to have the highest adolescent birth rate in the industrialized world (Ventura, Matthews, & Curtin, 1999).

Not exact matches

A common retort by the industry is that rates of the health outcome studied - whether it's asthma or preterm birth - are lower in fracking areas than in areas without fracking, or that the rate of the outcome is decreasing over time.

Additionally, several large studies have linked folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy with decreased rates of neural - tube defects, serious and life - threatening birth defects of the baby's brain, spine, or spinal cord.

The significance of low birth rates, of course, is that there are fewer persons in the workforce to support the growing ranks of retirees.

A much higher birth rate of 2.1 births is needed just to keep the population from declining.

Canada has one of the youngest populations in the G7, even as it rapidly ages as more people hit retirement age with fewer replacement workers available as a result of low birth rates.

If the present birth rate of 1.37 births for women of childbearing age continues, Japan could lose one - third of its population by the middle of this century.

In the District of Columbia, concerns about the high maternal mortality rate — in 2014, it stood at about 40.7 deaths per 100,000 births, according to the analysis by United Health Foundation, substantially exceeding the U.S. rate and those of neighboring Virginia and Maryland — have periodically sparked talk of a review committee, but not enough to push a measure through.

But they are going to have to dismantle some of their welfare state, create labour market flexibility, stop being terrorized by organized labour and the farmers, accept real austerity in the offender countries, abandon this imbecility about leading the world, raise the birth rate and develop less meddlesome and authoritarian institutions.

Life expectancy at birth Infant mortality rate (figures for Korea and New Zealand were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of population over age 15 considered obese and overweight Prison population rate Motor vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities per million people Road fatalities per million vehicles (figures for Mexico taken from the North American Transportation Statistics Database)

Japan watchers have made a perennial sport out of opining on the causes of Japan's low marriage and birth rates, even though they're common to most advanced economies.

Millions ended up suffering from starvation, the birth rate dropped as men and women were separated, and tens of thousands were shot in failed rebellions.

What makes this federal blockage all the more pressing for the Canadian economy is that the demographic crunch of low birth rates and an aging population is not unique to our country.

Since 1950, life expectancies at birth have ticked upward at a rate of roughly two years per decade, from an average 68.2 for a newborn in 1950 to 76.8 for one in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

The «birth» of the stock exchange is said to have happened in 1585 when fair merchants decided to establish fixed currency exchange rates.

The rate of twin births in the United States has increased nearly 80 % since 1980, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«The rate of new business births rose by 13 percent among households that qualified for SCHIP.

Research suggests that the high rate of multiple births in the US is due to more women waiting to have children and using fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF) when they do.

But the further facts are, first, that that increase is attributable to a temporary unbalance between Jewish birth rate and Jewish death rate in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century, second, that that unbalance has largely corrected itself, and, third, that the gates of immigration into the United States are now closed.

Also, though fertility generally decreases as women age, the rate of multiple births is higher for older women.

The rate of triplets and higher order multiple births (like quintuplets), while rarer overall, has also increased dramatically since 1980 — it's more than quadrupled.