Sentences with phrase «related mortality»

Second, we question their exclusive focus on cancer - related mortality, when strong cumulative evidence suggests that optimism is related to positive health outcomes for other major diseases, and that psychosocial interventions may improve other important cancer outcomes, such as reduced pain and increased quality of life.

These associations paralleled the demographics over-represented in OST programs, amongst opioid misusers, and increased opioid - related mortality.

Their vision is to reduce cancer related mortality in India by empowering individuals to take control of their health and by helping them make informed decisions for a healthier life.

Our analysis suggests that in the absence of adaptation, the human influence on climate would have been the main contributor to increases in heat - related mortality and decreases in cold - related mortality.

Human disturbances can result in trampling - related mortality says a statement on the FWS Alaska Region website.

Anderson, B. G. & Bell, M. L. Weather - related mortality: How heat, cold, and heat waves affect mortality in the United States.

Knowlton, K., B. Lynn, R.A. Goldberg, C. Rosenzweig, C. Hogrefe, J.K. Rosenthal, and P.L. Kinney, 2007: Projecting heat - related mortality impacts under a changing climate in the New York City region.

Projecting heat - related mortality impacts under a changing climate in the New York City region.

The bicycle - related mortality rate in children 1 to 15 years of age has decreased significantly, which may be attributable in part to helmet legislation.

It provides all of the basic information, such as how many wind turbines and solar panels would be needed to power each state, how much land area would be required, what would be the cost and cost savings, how many jobs would be created, how much pollution - related mortality and global - warming emissions would be avoided.»

She has researched heat - and ozone - related mortality and illnesses; connections between climate change, pollen, allergies and asthma, as well as infectious diseases like dengue fever; the health costs of climate change; and domestic and international climate - health preparedness strategies.

On the other hand, a study in Lancet, «Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study», notes that «most of the temperature - related mortality burden was attributable to the contribution of cold».

When it comes to total weather - related mortality, winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as does summer heat.

Analyzing heat - related mortality based on the above information, one would conclude that moderate warming would likely result in fewer net deaths, and that the trend of technology adaptation plus warming will make the already small issue of weather related deaths even smaller.

Davis, Knappenberger et al found that heat - related mortality has been declining significantly, by a factor of 4 from the 1960s to 1990s: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1241712/ «Heat - related mortality rates declined significantly over time in 19 of the 28 cities.

But you won't find an increase in heat - related mortality.

Changing heat - related mortality in the United States.

Although some try to link storm - related mortality to climate change, there is no evidence of an increasing trend in tropical storms.

She has also studied heat - and ozone - related mortality and illness as well as the connections among climate change, infectious illnesses, flooding, aeroallergens, and respiratory ailments such as allergies and asthma.

Increased risk of heat - related mortality, espec - ially for the elderly, chronically sick, very young and socially - isolated

Over ninety per cent of all pollution - related mortality is seen in low - income and middle - income countries.

The American Climate Prospectus addressed several key climate impacts over the coming century, including increases in heat - related mortality, increases in the amount of coastal property exposed to flooding, declines in labor productivity, increases in energy expenditures, and declines in agricultural...

Further, the extreme heat and crop death that occurs such as in Subs - Saharan Africa due to the growth of fossil - fuel emissions and resulting global warming is enhancing heat - stress mortality and famine - related mortality.

Huang, C., A. Gerard Barnett, X. Wang, P. Vaneckova, G. FitzGerald, and S. Tong, 2011: Projecting future heat - related mortality under climate change scenarios: A systematic review.

Using taxon - specific data from mass bleaching events throughout the tropics from 1982 — 2005 that were previously published in peer - review, gray literature, and electronic databases (Table S3) we compiled 1,412 unique records of bleaching severity and related mortality (Table S2).

Heat, flood and drought - related mortality and morbidity may increase; changes in the distribution of plant species and animals are likely to contribute to changing ranges of infectious diseases and allergic disorders; higher concentrations of ground - level ozone and particulate matter in urban areas may increase the frequency of cardio - respiratory and cardio - vascular diseases.

Respiratory Diseases As was true of cardiovascular - related mortality, deaths due to respiratory diseases are more likely to be associated with cold conditions in cold countries.

W. R. Keating et al., «Heat Related Mortality in Warm and Cold Regions of Europe: Observational Study,» British Medical Journal, v. 321, Sep. 16, 2000, pp. 670 - 673 20.

Although the heatwave prediction for India is based on a statistical model, the model itself is based on half a century of carefully - measured temperature, heatwave and heat - related mortality data.

Laaidi M, Laaidi K, Besancenot JP: Temperature - related mortality in France, a comparison between regions with different climates from the perspective of global warming.

Of course the IPCC knows that warm weather is bad for you and thus boldly states: «However, there has been increased heat - related mortality and decreased cold - related mortality in some regions as a result of warming (medium confidence).»

Rey G, Fouillet A, Bessemoulin P, Frayssinet P, Dufour A, Jougla E, Hémon D: Heat exposure and socio - economic vulnerability as synergistic factors in heat - wave - related mortality.

Vaneckova P, Hart MA, Beggs PJ, De Dear RJ: Synoptic analysis of heat - related mortality in Sydney, Australia, 1993 — 2001.

Disparities by race in heat - related mortality in four US cities: The role of air conditioning prevalence

O'Neill, M. S., A. Zanobetti, and J. Schwartz, 2005: Disparities by race in heat - related mortality in four US cities: The role of air conditioning prevalence.

Anderson, B. G., and M. L. Bell, 2009: Weather - related mortality: How heat, cold, and heat waves affect mortality in the United States.

Heat stress is projected to increase as a result of both increased summer temperatures and humidity.55, 61 One study projected an increase of between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year from heat wave - related mortality in Chicago alone by 2081 - 2100.62 The lower number assumes a climate scenario with significant reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (B1), while the upper number assumes a scenario under which emissions continue to increase (A2).

A recent study, for example, showed that climate change increased the risk of heat - related mortality in Paris, one of the worst affected cities in the 2003 extreme heat, by about 70 %.

Cold - and heat - related mortality: a cautionary note on current damage functions with net benefits from climate change

Despite the ongoing increase in air's CO2 content, various measures of public health and welfare — life - expectancy, heat - related mortality, weather - related mortality, air quality, agricultural productivity — continue to improve.

We have used only the older age group included in the Eurowinter study because the younger (50 to 59 year) age group in that study showed too little heat related mortality to analyse.

Research published last year, for instance, shows that climate change is adding to the death toll in India by making heat waves worse and «will lead to substantial increases in heat - related mortality» in the coming century.

We analysed age specific heat related mortality in the regions of west Europe covered in the Eurowinter survey of cold related mortalities, 1 omitting Palermo for which matching population data were not available.

However, there has been increased heat - related mortality and decreased cold - related mortality in some regions as a result of warming (medium confidence).

There was considerable hurricane - related mortality in the Caribbean.

Positive effects will include modest improvements in cold - related mortality and morbidity in some areas due to fewer cold extremes, shifts in food production, and reduced capacity of disease - carrying vectors (medium confidence), but globally, positive inlpacts will be outweighed by the magnitude and severity of negative impacts (high confidence).

Dogs that were classified as having tumor - related mortality had a shorter postoperative survival compared to dogs that died of other causes (14 months versus 23 months; P =.03).

The authors say cats may be the single greatest cause of human - related mortality in wild bird populations.

To minimize the confounding effect and test for potential modification by an overall lifestyle pattern, we further performed a stratified analysis according to a priori — defined healthy lifestyle pattern, as characterized by never smoking or ever smoking for fewer than 5 pack - years, never or moderate alcohol intake (< 14 g / d in women and < 28 g / d in men), body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of at least 18.5 and less than 25.0, and physical activity of at least 150 min / wk at a moderate level or at least 75 min / wk at a vigorous level (equivalent to ≥ 7.5 metabolic equivalent h / wk) as recommended.18 Likewise, given the previous report that protein intake was associated with a higher risk for diabetes - related mortality, 8 we examined the protein - mortality association according to the history of diabetes.

This is a direct quotation from the article (my emphasis): «Using Cox Proportional Hazard models, we found that high and moderate protein consumption were positively associated with diabetes - related mortality, but not associated with all - cause, CVD [cardiovascular], or cancer mortality when subjects at all the ages above 50 were considered.»