Sentences with phrase «terms of mortality»

After you apply you'll have to take a medical exam, where the insurer will use your health data to classify you (in terms of mortality risk) and set your rates.

In terms of mortality, tax law permits the utilization on the reasonable mortality in calculating these restrictions and points out the upper limit of the reasonable mortality.

New evidence however is showing that not only is there not a risk, but that soy is actually beneficial in terms of mortality and reducing the recurrence of breast cancer cells.

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

In her own research on hip fracture, which was cited in Guyatt's study, she found that the time a patient had to wait before surgery — which was significantly longer in Canada than the U.S. because of a shortage of operating rooms — made only a 1 percent difference in terms of mortality.

Not exact matches

In the long term, chronic sleep deprivation may lead to a host of health problems including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even early mortality.»

In the cost - effectiveness analysis (GiveWell estimate of Living Goods cost effectiveness (November 2014)-RRB-, in all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability of a child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5q0.

Factors predictive of long - term coronary heart disease mortality among 10,059 male Israeli civil servants and municipal employees.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

The second and certainly more important element in what I have termed the «re-evaluation of the secular» is the manifestation of the precariousness in future history, if not the imminent mortality, of that secular culture.

So the love which was worked out in human terms in the life of the Man of Nazareth was a love which knew mortality in its fullness, of body and of soul.

Some rejected all forms of life after death, including the possibility of resurrection; some recognized man's mortality but looked for a physical resurrection as man's only hope, and then only for some; for some the resurrection hope was to be understood more universally and in varying spiritual forms; some thought in terms of the immortality of the soul and then could dispense with resurrection talk altogether.

For example, apart altogether from the more obvious meaning and purpose of the myths we have been looking at, the annual lamentation for Tammuz, Adonis, Osiris, etc., provided an annual outlet for man, however unconsciously it was used, to express grief for his own mortality and to that extent to come to terms with it.

He is a creature who, like all others, is mortal but who is unique because he knows that he is mortal; man is the animal who is aware of death and therefore is able to «prepare» for it by living in terms which allow for a recognition of mortality.

There is no convincing evidence that a creator has favored any particular population, Christian or otherwise, over others during human history in terms of the natural levels of mortality.

It's extremely low risk in terms of absolute mortality and low risk for morbidity.

This study, a cohort study of severe morbidity and mortality of term fetuses or neonates, called ATNICID (Admission of Term Neonates to Intensive Care or Intrauterine Death), was begun in 2007 with the express intent of examining the relationship between the organization of the Dutch maternity care system and the high rate of perinatal mortalterm fetuses or neonates, called ATNICID (Admission of Term Neonates to Intensive Care or Intrauterine Death), was begun in 2007 with the express intent of examining the relationship between the organization of the Dutch maternity care system and the high rate of perinatal mortalTerm Neonates to Intensive Care or Intrauterine Death), was begun in 2007 with the express intent of examining the relationship between the organization of the Dutch maternity care system and the high rate of perinatal mortality.

It's conclusions about safety of cytotec use for induction of full - term labor: «There was no difference in serious neonatal or maternal mortality between women receiving misoprostol and women who received prostaglandin E2 or oxytocin; however, most studies were underpowered for this assessment.»

The new study, Perinatal mortality and severe morbidity in low and high risk term pregnancies in the Netherlands: prospective cohort study, appears in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal.

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.

Breast milk is a critical source of energy and nutrients during illness and reduces mortality among children who are malnourished.3 It reduces the risk of a number of acute and chronic diseases in early childhood and has long - term benefits for cardio - vascular health.4 In the context of HIV, early cessation of breastfeeding after six months is associated with increased serious morbidity, growth faltering, and increased mortality.5

Maternal mortality rates have doubled since 1987, and the United States ranks 37th in the world in terms of maternal mortality (Amnesty International, 2010).

Common practices do not make common sense and contribute to poor outcomes - the US ranks near the bottom as compared to other modernized countries in terms of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, despite high rates of medical and surgical interventions.

After restricting the analysis to term births, de Jonge found that the Netherlands has one of the worst perinatal mortality rates in Western Europe, although now they have the sixth worst rate, instead of the third worst rate.

It may also help explain why the US does comparatively well for perinatal outcomes but very badly in terms of infant mortality, if massive, high tech, emergency, intervention, which is readily available, has kicked the can down the road, past the neonatal period, but the baby dies at some later date (and it will be higher risk for the rest of infancy, at least, due to prematurity).

(2) In terms of infant mortality rate, the U.S. is also problematic.

Before a vaginal breech delivery is planned, women should be informed that the risk of perinatal or neonatal mortality or short - term serious neonatal morbidity may be higher than if a cesarean delivery is planned, and the patient's informed consent should be documented.

Combining the short term morbidity with the mortality rate may have overstated the risks of vaginal breech delivery.

The Euro Peristat report says that later term abortions, of which there are a high number, are counted in the fetal mortality rates in France.

Interventions to improve the feeding of LBW infants are likely to improve the immediate and longer - term health and well - being of the individual infant and have a significant impact on neonatal and infant mortality levels in the population.

Therefore, it is possible to look specifically at neonatal mortality (death within 1 hour to within 28 days of age) for babies of white women (almost all homebirths are to white women) ages 20 - 44, singleton pregnancies, at term (37 + weeks), not suffering from intrauterine growth restriction (2500 + gm).

Research shows that continuous fetal monitoring can help reduce the already low chance of newborn seizures, but it doesn't significantly reduce the risk of mortality or long - term health problems.

Full term births make up nearly 90 % of all births and antepartum stillbirth makes up 80 % -90 % of perinatal mortality.

The paper reports an impossibly low Perinatal Mortality Rate of about 0.16 / 1000 (1.6 / 10,000 births) for full term birth in hospital 2007 - 2010: The article claims that at hospital births there was only 1.6 stillbirths per 10,000 full term births after 37 weeks.

The goals: a healthy full term pregnancy; elimination of infant mortality, and prevention of child abuse.

«State - by - state causes of infant mortality in the US: State - by - state analysis links sudden unexpected deaths of infants (SUDI) to high proportion of full - term infant mortality in the U.S..»

Although breastfeeding has modest effects on blood pressure (51) and adiposity (52, 53) in later life, it has numerous other health benefits, including protection against infectious disease morbidity (54) and mortality (55) in infancy and a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (56) and improved neural and psychosocial development in the longer term (57, 58).

Research released today reveals that the UK has the sixth - worst long - term rate of excess winter mortality out of 30 European countries

There is no American Sepsis Society — no society that is trying to raise money to fund these diseases despite the fact that they rank right up there in terms of sources of mortality.

«Though we can't yet explain the association between infertility and mortality, it is possible that the condition may be an early indicator of either endocrine or inflammatory disruption that over time, leads to long term health issues such as malignancy or diabetes.»

It's not 100 percent, but it would certainly dampen any impact a new pandemic strain would have in terms of morbidity and mortality — meaning disease as well as death.

Taken together, the research data provides a picture, from the leaf scale to the global scale, suggesting that droughts in the Amazon basin are affecting levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere globally, both on a short - term basis though decreasing photosynthesis and on a longer term basis, by increasing tree mortality.

«This «cryptic» nature of infectious disease witnessed amongst Darwin's frogs in Chile could potentially be causing similar «slow - burn» declines among wildlife species elsewhere — contributing to longer - term population declines and extinctions despite the lack of obvious mass - mortalities.»

Within this framework, birthweight becomes a useful metric to track because of its link to short - term outcomes, such as one - year mortality rates, as well as long - term outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings, McCoy said.

Also, in terms of impact on reducing child mortality, DTP no longer provides an accurate picture.

«However, unlike smoking, which substantially increases the likelihood of premature death (for example, mortality from lung cancer), obesity and associated Type 2 diabetes primarily lead to long - term disability, so that from a lifetime perspective, obesity could tax the health care system even more than smoking.»

Any massive, long - term changes in their numbers could alter fish migration patterns, growth rates, and mortality, as well as change the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

This is the first study to quantify the possible long - term effects of nutrition deprivation at different stages of pregnancy and long - term mortality from causes of death coded by the current International Statistical Classification of Diseases.

And they go on to say: «These findings suggest that in patients with stable [coronary heart disease], long term mortality risk is related to the cumulative burden of psychological distress.»

In the largest study of its kind, using Centers for Disease Control data on nearly 14 million linked infant birth and neonatal death data, term singleton U.S. births, researchers at New York - Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center found the absolute risk of neonatal mortality was 3.2 / 10,000 births in midwife hospital births, and 12.6 / 10,000 births in midwife home births, and it further increased in first - time mothers to 21.9 / 10,000 births in midwife home deliveries.