Vitamin D has been convincingly correlated with all-cause mortality, with certain cancers, and with multiple sclerosis.
Men and women with high (7, 8) versus low (0-2) scores had a 42 percent reduction in all-cause mortality.
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Using all-cause mortality tells us nothing about how long people may have lived with debilitating chronic conditions associated with excess body weight.
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The study said being "overweight was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality".
Finally, and most important, recent studies have shown convincing evidence that cardio-respiratory fitness is a much stronger predictor of longevity and reduced risk of cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality than BMI.
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"Collisions with ships are the number one cause of mortality, and entanglement in fishing gear is the number two cause, " Lecky said.
This parasite is not, however, as deadly as Plasmodium falciparum, the main cause of malarial mortality.
What one would really like to know is: how do cause-specific mortality and morbidity differ according to BMI level, or, rather, with adiposity, for which BMI serves as a proxy?
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Obesity is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is associated with high medical expenditures.
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Agree or disagree with the FDA decision, it did not and does not cause or hasten any morbidity or mortality associated with obesity.
In the wake of the Mid-Staffs scandal, 14 English Trusts are under investigation after their mortality rates showed a major cause for concern.
At medical meetings and in the journals Circulation and The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein of North Shore University Hospital and Keith Aaronson of the University of Michigan fretted that Natrecor might cause kidney problems or even an increase in mortality.
Even in developed countries, the mortality rate is 1 in 1000, and can also lead to measles encephalitis, which can cause comas, brain damage or death.
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