Sentences with phrase «while higher mortality rates»

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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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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.