While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death
risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.
Not exact matches
New federal statistics show an
epidemic of twins among IVF patients, and two babies come with added
risk during pregnancy.
Obesity is a global
epidemic and the evidence is clear: if a mother is obese or gains too much weight
during pregnancy chances are the child will be at higher
risk of being obese throughout its life.
These statistics point to the importance of investigating sexual behaviors associated with
risk of acquiring HIV infection
during adolescence as well as how best to protect adolescents from these
risk behaviors, especially those groups increasingly affected by the
epidemic.