Sentences with phrase «reduce deaths resulting»

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But for a small business, a downward pricing spiral can be a death spiral, so examining other factors contributing to the result (such as below - average product feedback that reduces perceived value) may be a logical, and more valuable, next step.

¹ Access to cash values through borrowing or partial surrenders will reduce the policy's cash value and death benefit, increase the chance the policy will lapse, and may result in a tax liability if the policy terminates before the death of the insured.

The result is millions of preventable deaths from infectious and non-communicable diseases globally, reduced economic growth, and limited human development.

The resulting taxes can significantly reduce the amount of the death proceeds available for your family.

The AAP's 1992 policy statement was followed by the initiation in 1994 of a «Back to Sleep» education campaign, with the result that SIDS deaths were reduced 58 % from 1992 to 2002.

If unsafe sleeping is a major risk, and if it's a result of frequent infant waking, then by improving baby sleep it may be possible to reduce the temptation to bed share and reduce these tragic deaths.

Referrals to craniofacial centers for evaluation of deformational plagiocephaly and brachycephaly are increasing.8 This increase in deformations has been temporally linked to the Back to Sleep program advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992 that advises the avoidance of the prone sleeping position as a method of reducing the rates of sudden infant death syndrome.10,, 12,13 There is a delay in early gross motor milestones in children forced to sleep supine but these delays seem transient and have not been linked as yet to any longer term problems.14 Children who are encouraged to sleep on their backs and develop abnormal head shapes as a result are a different population than children who spontaneously restricted their movement in bed for one reason or another.

Otherwise you wouldn't blithely advocate that obstetricians reduce the C - section rate arbitrarily because that would result in preventable perinatal deaths, right?

According to the report, midwives could reduce maternal and newborn deaths by two thirds and investments in midwifery training at an international level could result in a 1,600 per cent return on investment.

The results were dramatic, reducing the rate of unexpected infant deaths by half.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

Such action could also result in major health benefits in the near term by reducing deaths from air pollution.

Tiny implantable defibrillators drastically reduce sudden death as a result of an out - of - rhythm heart.

The clear result of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular death by practically 25 per cent compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.

Previous results from the KIHD study have shown that frequent sauna bathing also significantly reduces the risk of sudden cardiac death, the risk of death due to coronary artery disease and other cardiac events, as well as overall mortality.

Road - traffic safety aims to reduce the harm (deaths, injuries, and property damage) resulting from crashes of road vehicles traveling on public roads.

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

Widowed older adults can reduce the loneliness that results from the death of a spouse by volunteering 100 hours per year, which is about two hours per week, according to a recent study.

This past summer, he and his colleagues reported their first findings from the trial: Tranexamic acid reduced bleeding deaths among trauma patients by about 15 percent, a result that could translate to 100,000 lives saved per year worldwide.

The hospital's early recognition and treatment of sepsis resulted in a 30 % reduced risk of adverse outcomes for sepsis and severe sepsis patients, such as death or discharge to hospice.

The team's results show that foreign GHG mitigation — i.e. other countries implementing policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (such as the 2015 Paris Agreement)-- contributed 15 per cent of the total PM2.5 - related and 62 per cent of the total O3 - related deaths avoided.

One anticoagulant that Geisbert helped test against the virus was greeted with great enthusiasm when he presented results 7 years ago, because it was the first time a drug had much impact — and yet it only reduced deaths in monkeys by one - third.

While continuing at the current pace would result in 750,000 deaths from HIV / AIDS over 20 years; achieving NHAS would reduce total deaths to 551,000, preventing almost 200,000 deaths.

Previous research has found that inadequate feeding of quality colostrum to newborn calves can result in reduced growth rates, increased risk of disease and death, increased risk of being culled, and decreased milk production in the first and second lactations.

«The results from this international collaboration take us one step closer to achieving the World Health Organization's goal of reducing deaths due to TB by 95 percent by 2050,» said lead author Antonino Catanzaro, MD, Professor Emeritus in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.

As a result, bat deaths were reduced by 44 to 93 percent, with less than 1 percent annual power loss.

This reduced ER function results in ER stress and contributes to the death of beta cells and the insulin insufficiency that is characteristic of T1D.

Ferdinand says these results could aid policymakers interested in improving roadway safety in that they indicate the types of laws that are most effective in reducing deaths among various age groups, as well as those in states with secondarily enforced texting bans advocating for stricter, primarily enforced texting bans.

The study results add to a body of knowledge that will help improve food safety and reduce or eliminate cases of food poisoning and related deaths.

Results of one of the largest studies of heart failure to date show that warfarin is no better than aspirin in reducing the combined risks of brain hemorrhage, stroke and death in most heart failure patients.

«Estimates from this study indicate that reducing indoor tanning would be effective in preventing a substantial number of melanoma cases and deaths, and result in melanoma treatment cost - savings,» the researchers wrote.

In countries with limited resources, Pui said the findings suggest that results of MRD on day 19 can be used to reduce treatment - related deaths by identifying patients who will likely be cured with low - intensity chemotherapy.

Genotype - guided warfarin dosing for patients undergoing elective hip or knee arthroplasty resulted in a reduced risk of the composite of major bleeding, elevated international normalized ratio (INR), venous thromboembolism (VTE), or death compared with clinically guided dosing, according to results of the Genetic Informatics Trial (GIFT) published in JAMA.

Research shows the test doesn't reduce rates of death from ovarian cancer and can result in unnecessary and sometimes dangerous procedures, including surgery.

Their statistical analysis of the results implied a 24 % reduction in the rate of coronary heart disease in the group taking the drug compared with the placebo group; however, nonheart disease deaths in the drug group increased — deaths from cancer, stroke, violence and suicide.7 Even the conclusion that lowering cholesterol reduces heart disease is suspect.

Despite initial encouraging results, in more recent studies, fish and fish oil consumption have not only failed to reduce sudden cardiac death with omega - 3s, but actually increased mortality in cardiac patients.

Researchers say ibuprofen can reduce blood flow to the cochlea, the auditory portion of the inner ear, which could result in cellular damage and cell death.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes.

ESC is meant to reduce the number of deaths and injuries resulting from crashes in which the driver loses directional control of the vehicle, including those resulting in vehicle rollover.

This reduces the amount of premiums it pays to retrocessionaires, but increases the maximum effect a single death claim can have on its results, and therefore may result in additional volatility to its results.

1 Such loans increase the chance a policy will lapse, reduce the ultimate death benefit, and could result in a tax liability if the insured dies before the loan is repaid.

But keep in mind that loans from a life insurance policy will reduce the policy's cash value and death benefit, could increase the chance that the policy will lapse, and might result in a tax liability if the policy terminates before the death of the insured.

Reduced perfusion can result in organ death.

Veterinarian Kate Hurley had a story rattling around in her brain: She had read about a campaign to reduce mistakes resulting in death and harm, not in veterinary hospitals, but in human hospitals.

The dangerous dogs act was a law passed in the United Kingdom in 1991 aimed to try to reduce the number of dog attacks by specific breeds.Parliament stepped in to create this Act after a slew of incidences where serious injury or death resulted from dog attacks of a particularly aggressive breed that were uncontrolled.

Examples include greater likelihood of injury, disease, and death due to more intense heat waves and fires; increased likelihood of under - nutrition resulting from diminished food production in poor regions; risks from lost work capacity and reduced labor productivity in vulnerable populations; and increased risks from food - and water - borne diseases.

Milder winters resulting from a warming climate can reduce illness, injuries, and deaths associated with cold and snow.

The goal laid out in Adaptation for a High - Energy Planet is simple and can be supported regardless of views about global climate risk: reduce the number of deaths caused as a result of extreme weather and disasters every year, while still accelerating modernization and low - carbon growth on an increasingly high - energy planet.

The EPA estimates that the Clean Power Plan will result in climate and health benefits worth $ 55 billion to $ 93 billion in 2030 by reducing asthma attacks and preventing premature deaths.

In the immediate term, floodwater deaths and injuries, infectious diseases, power outages and reduced access to medicines are only a fraction of potential health threats resulting from major natural disasters.