The heart disease death rate has gradually gone down since the 1960s, but much of that progress has been in keeping patients alive once they had heart attacks, not from preventing the initial episode.
However, none of the six groupings - which included acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, brain tumours and Hodgkin's disease - showed an increasing trend between levels of radiation and rate of disease.
He speculates that it could also cut the disease's rate of progression in half, extending life by as much as a decade and being a necessary treatment for anyone at risk for the disease.
The reported death toll gives the Middle East-based disease a case fatality rate of about 60%, similar to that of the feared H5N1 avian flu.
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Breast cancer screening is in fact based on a radiation benefit ratio, not cost, but suppose that anaysis were to show that the screening should be different for black women, either earlier because of age as above, or avoided completely because of the lower rate of disease and higher radiation sensitivity in youger women making it more likely to kill than cure.
If one in 1, 000 people have a disease and the false-positive rate for a test is 5%, then the probability that a person testing positive has the disease is at most 2%.
Did you know that people with sitting jobs have twice the rate of cardiovascular disease as those with standing jobs?
The death rate from heart disease was triple what it is today.
Unchecked sewage and filthy water have compounded the cholera problem, and Zimbabwe's death rate from the disease is 10 times greater than rates in areas where treatment is available, Carter said.
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The death rate from heart disease, although falling, remains higher in Wales than in England, although lower than in the north west and north east of England, areas with similar social-economic issues.
Psilakis cites studies showing that the people of Crete have the lowest death rate from heart disease and cancer in the world, and he credits the lifestyle and traditional diet that of the poor Cretan farmer.
For example, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a community dealing with an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes that has the highest rate of cardiovascular disease deaths in the nation, the award will help 1, 600 physicians and other providers participate in a new community-wide health information system that will help them better monitor and improve care transitions as patients move from one care setting to another.
The rate of coronary heart disease among this community - particularly in young men - is up to twice as high as that in whites.
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with a five-year survival rate of 5.5%.
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It doesn't seem to be affected all that much by climate, soil conditions, geographical location, growth rate, tree size or disease.
Thanks to snus, moist smokeless tobacco in small pouches, Swedish men have the lowest smoking rate and the lowest rate of smoking-related disease and death in Europe.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the estimated rate of U.S. high schoolers admitting past or present use of steroids has grown from 1 in 45 in 1993 to 1 in 16 in 2005, and there are no indications the rate is not continuing to increase.
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The national poll also found that 37% named cancer as their most feared disease, despite the fact that the survival rate for heart failure is worse than that of breast and prostate cancer.
Annwen Jones, of Target Ovarian Cancer, said despite improvements, the UK still lagged behind other European countries in terms of cancer survival and that the remaining high death rate among older women with the disease was of particular concern.
The researchers from McGill University in Montreal noted a convergence in the rate of deaths from HIV and heart disease as contributing to the narrowing of the life expectancy gap.
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Four times as many were perishing from infection and disease as were dying in battle, and the death rate in Nightingale's hospital was higher than in others until the Sanitary Commission arrived and flushed out the sewers upon which the hospital was built.
The five-year survival rate for those diagnosed at a local stage of disease is 91 percent.
Mississippi has the nation's highest rate of obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While it would be a formidable task to check every study Wagenaar et al. subsumed in their meta-analysis, a quick check to find out whether they included a study with a known systematic bias reveals the study included Chesson et al., a study by the Centers for Disease Control which claimed that increased beer taxes could reduce the rate of gonorrhea.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says West Virginia has the second-highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the nation.
Because the drug may increase heart rate, its use in people with recent unstable heart disease or stroke is not recommended.
In fact, because older adults with heart disease often are less able to exercise and have a higher disability rate, they may benefit the most from a cardiac rehabilitation program.
Yet, despite this fantastic success rate, kids are now in danger of facing this disease without this life saving drug all because manufacturing the medicine is no longer as profitable for the pharmaceutical companies as it once was.
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