Sentences with phrase «showed excess mortality»
We found only one other study, conducted in the United States, on mortality associated with breech, twin, and post-term births at home.9 This study showed excess mortality in such home births and voiced concern about the trend to encourage midwives to engage in high risk practice.
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Looking behind the Curtain A recent study of elective induction at term purports to show that it would reduce perinatal mortality without affecting spontaneous birth rates, although it would increase admission to a special neonatal care unit if done before 41 weeks, which contradicts the current belief that elective delivery at 39 weeks poses no excess risk.
However, actual data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register showed that excess mortality was much higher in females, younger than 55 years with advanced renal disease, than in men (324).
«Suicide is, of course, very common in this vulnerable patient group, but a deeper analysis shows that the excess mortality is largely attributable to non-psychiatric diseases,» explains Jussi Jokinen, psychiatrist and professor at Umeå University and researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience.
RECENT STUDY ON ADVERSE EFFECTS OF LOW SODIUM INTAKE About the same time that U.S. health officials announced their new initiative to reduce salt intake, The Lancet published a large population - based study which showed persuasively that the risk of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertension.
In this study, a multi-variate analysis showed that there were several factors associated with this excess mortality.
This is documented in the «Excess Winter Mortality» which shows that the number of deaths in the 4 coldest winter months is much higher than the other 8 months of the year.