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The official statistics significantly understate the role of prematurity-related mortality. An alternative etiology-based classification designates prematurity as the underlying cause in approximately one third of all infant deaths. Although no single scheme is suitable for every objective, analysts and ...
Researchers at Iowa State University have identified an RNA structure in humans that could lead to a new treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, the leading genetic cause of death in babies and young children. Ad Ravindra Singh, a professor ofbiomedical sciencesin the ISU College of Veterinary Medi...
National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 55, Number 10, November 20, 2007. Deaths: Leading Causes for 2003Vital statisticsCause of deathMortalityAgeRaceSexHispanic AmericansInfant mortalityNeonatal mortalityStatistical dataThis report presents final 2004 data on the 10 leading causes of death in the ...
Nearly 80 percent of deaths of Americans age 30 and younger result from injury or violence, U.S. health researchers reported Tuesday. More young Americans die from injury than from any other cause, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These fatalities...
experienced pregnancy-associated deaths (death of a woman during pregnancy or within one year from the end of a pregnancy). She found that drug-induced deaths were the leading cause of pregnancy-associated death for women in Utah, with more than three-quarters of the deaths associated with ...
Although it may become the leading cause in the near future, which factor currently ranks second as a cause of preventable deaths in the United States? a. smoking. b. unsafe sexual behavior. c. alcohol abuse. d. being overweight.
Car crashes are the leading cause of injury and death among U.S. children, and though most of us now think of car seats as standard baby equipment, about half of all children under the age of four who died in vehicle accidents last year were not restrained. It is calculated that only ...
1). Given infectious disease DALY burden is predominantly due to years of life lost (YLLs), disease burden estimates will closely reflect deaths due to these diseases. While the burden of each of these three causes has been individually assessed at fine spatial scales in SSA11,12,24, there ...
However, when broadened to include all deaths where alcohol was a factor rather than the cause, there were 4,186 deaths. Australian women recorded the highest level of alcohol-related deaths for 20 years at 7.0 deaths per 100,000. The number of deaths from influenza nearly tripled from 464...