Sentences with phrase «with excess mortality»

High temperature has been associated with excess mortality during the 2003 heatwave in Europe.

In this study, a multi-variate analysis showed that there were several factors associated with this excess mortality.

Not exact matches

Paternal absence widens the black - white gap in infant mortality almost four-fold; 65 - 75 % of excess infant mortality could be prevented with increased paternal involvement (Alio et al, 2011).

There was no difference overall between birth settings in the incidence of the primary outcome (composite of perinatal mortality and intrapartum related neonatal morbidities), but there was a significant excess of the primary outcome in births planned at home compared with those planned in obstetric units in the restricted group of women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour.

The two largest contributors to the excess mortality were underestimation of the risks associated with post-term birth, twin pregnancy and breech presentation, and a lack of response to fetal distress.

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.

It's now more than clear — the HB setting is associated not only with a measurable excess mortality, but a significant risk of brain injury.

The excess total neonatal mortality for mid-wife home births compared with mid-wife hospital births was 9.32 per 10,000 births, and the excess early neonatal mortality was 7.89 per 10,000 births.

The authors also found health care reform was associated with a passing increase in the adjusted mortality rate that accounted for as many as 604 excess deaths during four years.

«If we can find interventions that slow down early - stage disability, we might be able to help people live healthier and ultimately longer because decreased physical functioning is associated with excess risk of mortality,» Kail said.

Smoking contributes to substantial excess mortality in prisons, and prison tobacco control policies are associated with reduced mortality, through reductions in smoking and exposure to second - hand smoke, say the authors.

«To reduce excess Southern infant mortality, comprehensive strategies addressing SUID and preterm birth for both non-Hispanic black and white births are needed, with state - level findings used to tailor state - specific efforts,» concludes Dr. Hirai.

The «ATS and Marron Institute Report: Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Air Pollution above ATS - Recommended Standards, 2013 - 2015» is published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

We did not find significant excess mortality associated with grade 1 obesity, suggesting that the main contribution to excess mortality in obesity comes from higher levels of BMI.

A national study on conditional survival, excess mortality and second cancer after high dose therapy with autologous stem cell transplantation for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Conditional survival and excess mortality after high - dose therapy with autologous stem cell transplantation for adult refractory or relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma in Norway.

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).

Higher inflammation and greater oxidative stress in diabetic women with end - stage renal disease, as well as modifiable gender differences in access to and modalities of treatment involved, were identified in some of these studies partly explaining excess mortality in diabetic women (319 — 322).

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.

A lot of the mortality there is linked with smoking and excess salt, leading to hemhorragic stroke, as you can see.

Osteoporotic hip fractures are associated with a 20 % excess mortality in the year after fracture (17).

Expanding upon his interest in the cultural construction of landscape, Doyle says, «The project is a meditation on the moment when the innocence and «can - do» ambition of the American Dream becomes inextricably twisted together with an end - of - empire excess and fears of our own mortality as a species.»

It pretty much demolishes the idea that excess winter mortality is linked to people living in countries with particularly low temperatures, or to a wide annual temperature range.

The frequency of major heat waves in the Midwest has increased over the last six decades.59 For the United States, mortality increases 4 % during heat waves compared with non-heat wave days.60 During July 2011, 132 million people across the U.S. were under a heat alert — and on July 20 of that year, the majority of the Midwest experienced temperatures in excess of 100 °F.

Heat stress is projected to increase as a result of both increased summer temperatures and humidity.55, 61 One study projected an increase of between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year from heat wave - related mortality in Chicago alone by 2081 - 2100.62 The lower number assumes a climate scenario with significant reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (B1), while the upper number assumes a scenario under which emissions continue to increase (A2).

We analyzed whether and to what extent cold temperatures are associated with excess winter mortality across multiple cities and over multiple years within individual cities, using daily temperature and mortality data from 36 US cities (1985 — 2006) and 3 French cities (1971 — 2007).

«Although the effects of other unmeasured risk factors can not be excluded with certainty, these results suggest that fine - particulate air pollution, or a more complex pollution mixture associated with fine particulate matter, contributes to excess mortality in certain US cities.»

Evidence also exists of associations with low birth weight, increased infant and perinatal mortality, pulmonary tuberculosis, nasopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer, cataract, and, specifically in respect of the use of coal, with lung cancer... Exposure to indoor air pollution may be responsible for nearly 2 million excess deaths in developing countries and for some 4 % of the global burden of disease.

Adjusted for socioeconomic factors, the excess mortality estimates ranged from 1,736 to 2,889, and discounting the costs of that future mortality for the length of time before occurrence, arrived with a point estimate of the present cost of this mortality of $ 41.846 billion.

Poor nutrition is a major determinant of excess morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 1 contributing to over 16 % of the burden of disease.2 In this issue of the Journal (page 549), consistent with the «economics of food choice» theory, 3 Brimblecombe and O'Dea report that the diet of a remote Aboriginal community was high in energy - dense, nutrient - poor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be directed?