Sentences with phrase «while higher mortality»

Disease rates are higher among some population groups, such as African - Americans.3 These higher disease rates have been attributed to other risk factors such as poverty and overcrowding, while higher mortality rates have been linked to limited access to health care services.3, 4 Living conditions, such as overcrowding, can result in a higher exposure to potential carriers of Neisseria meningitidis.4

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Secondly, while attention has been understandably focused on the result that the greatest increase in overall mortality occurred among white Americans with a high school degree or less, Case and Deaton's results show that death from suicide and drug poisoning for white Americans with BA degrees or some college also increased for the middle - aged, 45 - 54 category.

Her current research project, again in Malawi, explores explanations for maternal death in a context in which mortality rates are very high while the uncertainties surrounding any given death are substantial.

Personally, I think it's curious how many physicians and mothers - to - be place such a high emphasis on the 0.11 % risk reduction of neonatal mortality from hospital births, while thinking nothing of engaging other common practices (i.e. poor dietary habits, overuse of antibiotics, participation in contact sports) that certainly increase their child's lifetime risk of chronic disease, injury, or even death.

«Business of Being Born»: «While the United States has perhaps the most advanced health care system in the world, it also has the second - highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized nation.»

You can be infected for a while before anything happens but Ebola has a shorter incubation period and the mortality rate is higher.

While the overall rate of these infections in children is still low, ESBL - producing bacteria can spread rapidly and have been linked to longer hospital stays, higher health care costs, and increased mortality, the study authors noted.

While the effects of human activity on the seal population can be detrimental — for example through a high rate of fishing bycatch mortality as observed on Lake Saimaa — a novel conservation method can help the seal population to cope with climate change.

The high volume medical centers had a 22 percent mortality rate while the lower volume hospitals had a 29 percent mortality rate.

Also, the new mortality estimates, while dramatically higher than the approximately 150,000 annual deaths attributed to climate change stress in WHO's last assessment in 2004, are not directly comparable to earlier studies, which relied on different models and different underlying scenarios.

And while human populations are largely adapted to local climates, researchers point to «an increase in mortality risk observed at both high and low temperatures in populations in temperate and cold climates... and tropical and subtropical areas.»

While obesity increases the risk of many types of cancer, it has been suggested that higher BMI decreases mortality risk in cancer patients, a phenomenon called the «obesity paradox.»

However, among general surgery and medical service patients those receiving high - ratio transfusions had a higher mortality rate than those receiving low - ratio transfusions, while the opposite was found among vascular surgery patients.

A research team led by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of California, Davis, reveals that childhood gunshot injuries, while uncommon, are more severe, require more major surgery, have greater mortality and higher per - patient costs than any other mechanism for childhood injury — particularly among adolescent males.

There is evidence that visceral fat and high - fat diets can increase cancer risk; and while current cancer treatments have helped to lower cancer mortality, the number of obesity - associated cancers continues to climb.»

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

In the meanwhile, a big number of studies have shown that consuming a moderate amount of full - fat diary products instead their low - fat versions can reduce the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, while in healthy people over 60 years of age, a higher cholesterol has been associated with a lower risk of mortality.

The scientists emphasize that while they don't know the reason for the higher mortality, they believe that the study results could be used to question the wisdom of those who maintain that you can't ever get too much vitamin D.

In the Rotterdam Study, subjects consumed nearly ten times more K1 than K2; a high intake of K2 reduced the risk of severe arterial calcification by 52 percent and reduced heart disease mortality by 57 percent, while a high intake of K1 had no effect.21

And while researchers again found that excessive salt intake was associated with an increase in systolic high blood pressure, they found that a low - sodium diet was significantly associated with higher mortality from cardiovascular causes:

While extolling their health, he ignored their short life expectancy and high rates of infant mortality, endemic diseases, and malnutrition.

Never studies, one from Harvard and the other from Europe, both found no health risks related to eating unprocessed red meat, while processed meat was connected to a higher mortality rate.

Other newer studies have pointed in the same direction — red unprocessed meat isn't associated with diabetes type two, higher mortality, or heart disease, while red processed meat usually is.

Appreciation of these important differences between neonatal pups and puppies only 3 to 4 weeks old helps to explain why certain management practices lead to higher death rates while others greatly reduce mortality.

Female dogs do not go through menopause like women dog; instead their fertility sharply decreases and each litter becomes smaller while holding a higher mortality risk for the newborns.

The disease has a high mortality rate in raccoons, and while it poses no threat to humans, it can infect companion dogs and cats through bodily secretions or waste.

While all dogs had decreased mortality, the percentage decrease was highest in young dogs, with the effect diminishing over time.

While 2005 was a record hurricane season, none passed near the Lesser Antilles where some of the highest bleaching and mortality were observed.

Research conducted by Green et al. (1994) in Israel revealed that between 1976 and 1985, mortality from cardiovascular disease was 50 percent higher in mid-winter than in mid-summer, both in men and women and in different age groups, in spite of the fact that summer temperatures in the Negev, where much of the work was conducted, often exceed 30 °C, while winter temperatures typically do not drop below 10 °C.

• While the complex biological relationships among fisheries and other aquatic biota and physiological responses to environmental change are not well understood, positive effects such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes may be offset by negative factors such as a changing climate that alters established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships (High Confidence).

While increased temperatures in warm places and seasons may result in higher mortality among those who are less able to cope with higher temperatures, warmer winters will reduce the number of people who die from cold.

While auto insurers look at your driving record, life insurance underwriters look for factors that suggest a potential policyholder has a high mortality risk.

Because premiums remain level while mortality costs increase at later ages, the insurer must set premiums in the early years high enough to pre-fund the excess of mortality costs over premiums in the later years.

While researchers have long suspected poor screening rates for Indigenous women — sadly because the mortality rates are so high — they haven't had concrete evidence because pathology report forms, the main data source for the Pap smear register, do not identify if women are Indigenous.

While Australia's overall low maternal death rate has fallen, the mortality rate among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is still unacceptably high.