News tagged with mortality risk
How safe is mist netting? First large-scale study into bird capture technique evaluates the risks
Capturing birds using mist nets to study behaviour, movement or the demographics of a species is one of the most common research techniques in ornithology, yet until now there have been no large scale studies ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Risk of hospital patient mortality increases with nurse staffing shortfalls, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nurses are the front-line caregivers to hospital patients, coordinating and providing direct care and delivering it safely and reliably. The goal for any hospital is to ensure that each of its patient-care ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Trauma patients have higher rate of death for several years following injury
In a study that included more than 120,000 adults who were treated for trauma, 16 percent of these patients died within 3 years of their injury, compared to an expected population mortality rate of about 6 percent, according ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Overweight adults may have the lowest mortality: Do they have the best health?
While overweight adults die at lower rates than other weight categories, a new study shows that higher body weight was consistently associated with worse health risk profiles.
Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity
Mar 08, 2011 |
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After cutting value of life, EPA ditching the term
(AP) -- Bureaucrats are struggling with an age-old question: What is the value of our lives?
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Spanish heart risk study challenges image of healthy Mediterranean diet and lifestyle
A Spanish study has challenged the long-held belief that people in the Mediterranean all enjoy more healthy diets and lifestyles, after discovering alarmingly high cardiovascular risk factors similar to those found in the ...
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Women with both diabetes and depression at higher risk of dying from heart disease, other causes
Depression and diabetes appear to be associated with a significantly increased risk of death from heart disease and risk of death from all causes over a six-year period for women, according to a report in the January issue ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Modify hospice eligibility for dementia patients, says Institute for Aging Research study
The system for hospice admissions for patients with advanced dementia, which is a terminal illness, should be guided by patient and family preference for comfort, not estimated life expectancy, says a new study published ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Risk model based on Get with the Guidelines analysis can help
Using data from more than 270,000 hospital stroke admissions, scientists have identified how to predict which patients are at greatest risk of dying in the hospital after stroke. Before their study, well validated models ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Use of medication for insomnia or anxiety increases mortality risk by 36 percent
Taking medications to treat insomnia and anxiety increases mortality risk by 36%, according to a study conducted by Genevičve Belleville, a professor at Universite Laval's School of Psychology. The details of this study ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Regional protocols improve quality of care for aortic dissection patients
Using a standardized protocol within a regional health network, a multidisciplinary acute aortic dissection (AAD) program resulted in a 43 percent reduction in time to diagnosis for all AAD patients over the course of five ...
Aug 10, 2010 |
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Excess weight linked to increased risk of dying from cancer in populations of Asia-Pacific
Overweight and obese individuals from the Asia-Pacific region are significantly more likely to die from cancer compared with individuals in the normal weight range. New strategies are urgently needed to tackle the obesity ...
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Deadly effect of arsenic in drinking water measured in massive study
More than 20 percent of deaths in a study of 12,000 Bangladeshis were attributable to arsenic exposure from contaminated drinking water, new research reports.
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Long-term study links chronic insomnia to increased risk of death
Individuals with chronic insomnia have an elevated risk of death, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday, June 7, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Kidney function and damage markers predict mortality risk
Common tests of kidney function and damage predict the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases and all causes, according to a paper from the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium, established last year by Kidney ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 17, 2010 |
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