noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
infant mortality rate
infant mortality (= the number of infants who die )
▪
The infant mortality rate doubled during the 1990s.
the death/mortality rate
▪
The death rate among the homeless is three times higher than the rest of the population.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
▪
But it is not clear how adult mortality rates could affect the optimal timing of maturity.
▪
Life-history theory could readily explain dwarfing if juvenile, but not adult , male mortality were large.
▪
Early maturity also reduces male juvenile mortality and thus opposes adult mortality.
▪
In spite of this, however, differences in infant and adult mortality rates between social classes have widened.
▪
The most serious gap is for adult mortality .
cardiovascular
▪
The trend in cardiovascular mortality with external conjugate was abolished by allowing for head circumference.
early
▪
Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
▪
The husband's educational level also influences early childhood mortality .
▪
In contrast patients subjected to sclerotherapy showed no early mortality but a steady decline in survival in the first two years.
excess
▪
The results indicated that current smokers showed excess mortality when compared with non-smokers.
▪
The excess mortality was attributed to coal mining and the extensive use of soft coal in the mining areas.
▪
The authors thus concluded that the excess mortality noted for gastric cancer was probably related to socioeconomic class rather than coal mining.
▪
In a study of 23232 miners, excess mortality was noted for benign respiratory conditions, accidents, and gastric cancer.
▪
The average excess mortality for gastric cancer among coal miners was 126 per million, with a range of 65-226 per million.
▪
However, because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio.
fetal
▪
In two developing countries, the lowest frequency of fetal mortality is at births above second but below sixth or seventh order.
▪
Most studies have found no increase in fetal mortality when blood glucose levels are controlled in this way.
high
▪
Conclusions - Children classified as unoccupied are almost certainly living in poverty as well as experiencing relatively high risks of mortality .
▪
Of all groups, single males have the highest mortality rate-and suicide is increasingly the way they die.
▪
Consequently, to combat this high mortality rate large numbers of offspring are necessary.
▪
These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
▪
With high mortality rates even a large family size only just replaces the parents.
▪
The high mortality rates could simply be seen as nature playing its part in curbing hare numbers.
▪
Introduction A recent Medical Research Council trial shows higher cancer mortality in elderly hypertensive men treated with atenolol.
▪
As she more than once said, our letters over the years seemed to reveal a shockingly high mortality among our friends.
increased
▪
The reduction was not associated with increased mortality and was reversible if plants were returned to 20°C.
▪
In large studies there is no evidence of increased mortality when either class of agent was used, but what about morbidity?
▪
Suppose we think of conditions which lead to impaired reproduction or increased likelihood of mortality .
infant
▪
Schooling is the route to lowering infant mortality .
▪
A final factor that affects the number of children desired by developing world couples is infant mortality .
▪
Amongthe poorest 25 % of the rural population, infant mortality is 3.5 times higher than among city dwellers.
▪
Declines in infant mortality may have contributed indirectly to declining fertility, though evidence on the matter is inconclusive.
▪
Anhui officials produced impressive statistics for the decline in infant mortality in the county visited.
▪
The correlation between infant mortality and fertility has not been well documented.
▪
Tampa General Hospital created a subsidiary to combat infant mortality .
▪
In a region where infant mortality is high, the argument struck a responsive chord.
low
▪
For these categories hospital 1 had the lowest perinatal mortality rates among the consultant units after adjustment for risk factors.
▪
Firstly people are living longer, there is low infant mortality , but the average age of the population is rising as well.
▪
Although restorative proctocolectomy is associated with a low mortality the morbidity is considerable.
▪
While inner London has the lowest mortality rate of any region in the country, not all its hospitals are top performers.
▪
Adult females experienced much lower mortality rates whereas adult males searching for females had even higher mortality rates.
▪
If these data were combined with clinical data then large subgroups with low mortality could be identified.
▪
The good news is that people with lower blood pressures have lower mortality rates than those who suffer from hypertension.
male
▪
Life-history theory could readily explain dwarfing if juvenile, but not adult, male mortality were large.
▪
Early maturity also reduces male juvenile mortality and thus opposes adult mortality.
▪
From birth onwards, male mortality rates exceeded those of females.
▪
In Nephila, increased male mortality during the adult search phase is almost exactly counteracted by reduction in juvenile male growth stages.
▪
Excess male mortality appears constant across the four very different countries included in the table.
maternal
▪
The real frequency of worldwide maternal mortality may be as much as three to five times higher than this ratio.
▪
In some places, it meant maternal mortality and female infanticide.
▪
None the less, the London Bills of Mortality suggest that maternal mortality halved from 1700 to 1800.
▪
It should be noted that, jointly with maternal age, parity is also associated with maternal mortality .
neonatal
▪
As the example of Table 7 shows, both late fetal and early neonatal mortality rise steadily with decreasing birth weight.
▪
New York has substantially worse infant and neonatal mortality than London or Paris and some signs of worse problems of social deprivation.
overall
▪
GISSI-2 found no differences in overall mortality between streptokinase and tPA, although streptokinase was associated with significantly fewer strokes.
▪
Have these overall changes in mortality been reflected equally in the different causes of death?
▪
The overall distribution of mortality rates within the population shows a J-shaped distribution.
▪
The overall in-hospital mortality was 8.5% but with triple vessel disease it was 25%.
▪
Accordingly there are no great differences in cancer related and overall mortality between treatment and surveillance studies.
▪
The overall in-hospital mortality of 15.6% of this cohort was similar to short-term mortality of similar cohorts in previous studies.
perinatal
▪
Thus the perinatal mortality ratio is the sum of the late fetal death ratio and the under-7-day mortality rate.
▪
For these categories hospital 1 had the lowest perinatal mortality rates among the consultant units after adjustment for risk factors.
▪
The problems of interpreting perinatal mortality rates have been described by Campbell and MacDonald Davies and Tew.
▪
As many congenital abnormalities can be prevented, these developmental defects should not be considered an irreducible component of perinatal mortality .
▪
Perhaps not surprisingly, the women transferred to consultant care had the highest perinatal mortality rates.
▪
Main outcome measure - Crude perinatal mortality rates and rates adjusted for case mix.
▪
Conclusion - Perinatal mortality rates should be adjusted for case mix and referral patterns to get a meaningful result.
▪
No estimates of perinatal mortality rates were made for the units where few referrals and subsequent perinatal deaths occurred.
premature
▪
This term relates to the effect upon natural lifespan of a decrease in premature mortality .
▪
As premature mortality decreases, he argues, more people will live to the limits of this natural lifespan.
significant
▪
For these reasons, patients with corrosive strictures often undergo surgery, which carries significant morbidity and mortality .
▪
Nevertheless, though it is a major operation, with a significant complication and mortality rate, hysterectomy grows ever more popular.
▪
Acute pancreatitis is a severe disease with significant morbidity and mortality for which no specific treatment exists.
specific
▪
The evaluation of changes in disease specific mortality rates over time is problematic because of changes in classification procedures and death certification practices.
▪
Figure 3 shows the combined data on cause specific mortality .
standardised
▪
It is therefore crucial to include standardised mortality ratios alongside age weightings to correct for variations in life expectancy.
▪
These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
▪
We also calculated standardised mortality ratios for all hypertensive patients.
▪
The sum of each subject's cumulative hazard of death was compared with observed deaths to find the standardised mortality ratio.
▪
There were no trends in standardised mortality ratios from cardiovascular disease or other causes with the number of previous pregnancies.
▪
Death rates were expressed as standardised mortality ratios, with the national average as 100.
▪
The overall death rate from cardiovascular disease was close to the national average, the standardised mortality ratio being 94.
▪
However, because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio.
total
▪
The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease.
▪
In addition to the incidence of coronary heart disease we also evaluated associations with total mortality .
▪
Main outcome measures - Incidence of mortality or admission to hospital because of coronary heart disease; total mortality.
▪
Both periodontal disease and poor oral hygiene showed stronger associations with total mortality than with coronary heart disease.
■ NOUN
cancer
▪
Results - Cancer mortality was not significantly different in clinic patients as a whole and controls.
▪
I was able to make over thirty predictions on statistically reliable differences in cancer mortality rates in various groups.
▪
Introduction A recent Medical Research Council trial shows higher cancer mortality in elderly hypertensive men treated with atenolol.
▪
In contrast cancer mortality overall has changed little.
child
▪
The new recommendations made no reference to reduction of infant and child mortality as preconditions of fertility reduction.
▪
Askoli suffers a 50 percent child mortality rate, largely as a result of gastro-enteritis.
▪
Although food is more plentiful these days, child mortality remains dangerously high.
▪
Other observations from infant as well as child mortality .
▪
Among middle-income and poor countries progress in reducing child mortality and raising school enrolments was faster before 1980.
▪
Literacy alone carries advantages in so far as child mortality is concerned.
▪
See also infant mortality , toddler mortality, child mortality.
▪
On the whole, the impact of spacing upon child mortality outweighs that of any other factor discussed above.
childhood
▪
Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
▪
And these patterns determine, at least inpart, the viability of the offspring, infant and childhood mortality conditions and maternal health.
▪
The husband's educational level also influences early childhood mortality .
data
▪
As might be expected from the study of mortality data acute health problems are not equally distributed throughout the population.
▪
Regional health authorities will from time to time produce mortality data at ward level.
▪
For example, by relying exclusively on mortality data the ineffectiveness of medical science is overstated.
▪
Consequently inferences made about the main sources of morbidity in later life drawn from mortality data will be misleading.
▪
And for both, morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data .
▪
There are practical problems with the use of mortality data .
rate
▪
The main reason was that mortality rates dropped very sharply.
▪
Unsuccessfully treated severe depression is a disease with a mortality rate similar to that of cancer.
▪
The impact of social class has, however, been the same on the mortality rates of both sexes.
▪
That was a mortality rate of one afflicted child in four.
▪
The whole mortality rate of the present series was 68%.
▪
Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.
▪
The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question.
▪
Nevertheless, though it is a major operation, with a significant complication and mortality rate , hysterectomy grows ever more popular.
ratio
▪
It is therefore crucial to include standardised mortality ratios alongside age weightings to correct for variations in life expectancy.
▪
Thus the perinatal mortality ratio is the sum of the late fetal death ratio and the under-7-day mortality rate.
▪
These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
▪
We also calculated standardised mortality ratios for all hypertensive patients.
▪
The sum of each subject's cumulative hazard of death was compared with observed deaths to find the standardised mortality ratio .
▪
There were no trends in standardised mortality ratios from cardiovascular disease or other causes with the number of previous pregnancies.
▪
Death rates were expressed as standardised mortality ratios , with the national average as 100.
▪
The overall death rate from cardiovascular disease was close to the national average, the standardised mortality ratio being 94.
risk
▪
For coronary heart disease, estrogen users had a 60 % reduction in mortality risk .
statistics
▪
It should be noted that morbidity statistics are generally of less reliable quality than mortality statistics.
▪
This ranking order is based on the latest available mortality statistics , ranging from 1977 to 1979.
■ VERB
associate
▪
The induction of ventricular arrhythmias was associated with a 21% mortality against 4% in the negative group.
▪
Although restorative proctocolectomy is associated with a low mortality the morbidity is considerable.
▪
The reduction was not associated with increased mortality and was reversible if plants were returned to 20°C.
▪
The data indicate that dimorphism in adult size may be associated with mortality bias differences brought about by dissimilar adult life styles.
cause
▪
Arguments about what caused the decline in mortality shift between eighteenth- and later nineteenth-century changes.
decrease
▪
Deaths from paracetamol overdose are unnecessary, and efforts should be made to decrease this mortality .
increase
▪
They described, once again, how most people regain the weight on diets and how weight cycling leads to increased mortality .
indicate
▪
Epidemiological studies indicate similar mortality rates for cancer of the oesophagus in smokers of cigars, pipes and cigarettes.
▪
This indicates an annual mortality from asthma of just over 1/100000.
reduce
▪
Apart from reconditioning of patients, does cardiac rehabilitation reduce mortality and morbidity?
▪
The combined effect was to reduce mortality rates.
▪
Early maturity also reduces male juvenile mortality and thus opposes adult mortality.
▪
For example, improved pregnancy outcome that reduces infant mortality will increase productivity in the labor force in 16 to 25 years.
▪
Repeated doses of oral activated charcoal have not yet been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality .
▪
Among middle-income and poor countries progress in reducing child mortality and raising school enrolments was faster before 1980.
▪
An incompletely resolved puzzle is the mechanism by which vitamin A reduces mortality .
show
▪
Early detection regimens should not be applied unless benefit is shown in terms of reduced mortality from cancer in randomised prospective trials.
▪
It focused on the fact that none of the trials showed a decrease in mortality within seven years of follow-up.
▪
The results indicated that current smokers showed excess mortality when compared with non-smokers.
▪
These showed an average annual mortality of four deaths per year for the 10 years as a whole.
▪
Introduction A recent Medical Research Council trial shows higher cancer mortality in elderly hypertensive men treated with atenolol.
▪
Our analysis showed a reduction in mortality during the first 6 months with polychemotherapy.
▪
In contrast patients subjected to sclerotherapy showed no early mortality but a steady decline in survival in the first two years.
▪
The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Cancer mortality among older people is high.
▪
Doctors are reminded of their mortality every day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
And we are also experiencing mortality . in some areas very rapid mortality.
▪
Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
▪
In the high grade group, none of the variables or different modes of treatment influenced mortality .
▪
Nevertheless, the reasons for the striking decline in infant mortality in this period remain rather mysterious.
▪
Of all groups, single males have the highest mortality rate-and suicide is increasingly the way they die.
▪
Total mortality and each of the outcomes of coronary heart disease increased as severity of periodontal disease increased.
▪
Whatever way they sliced the statistics, the mortality of the red spruce was dramatic and frightening.