The lower rates of hospital deaths were associated with higher rates of institutional hospice deaths in one study [ 21] and higher rates of home deaths in the other [ 8].
Recognising illness and making a decision to seek care was identified as the main avoidable factor in 50% of newborn deaths in one study in eastern Uganda (8).
The WHO systematic review of causes of maternal deaths included one study from Egypt, but all of the other included studies were conducted in countries south of the Sahara.
Nonetheless, no study has examined the combined risk of type 2 diabetes, numerous cardiovascular outcomes and premature death in one study, thereby assessing the complete cardiometabolic risks associated with young adulthood obesity.
16 For six studies contributing trial level data, all data on cardiovascular events were supplied by the lead authors and were obtained from physician reported cause of death in one study 27 and a combination of self reports and hospital discharge data in five studies.
The IOM, based on one study, estimated deaths because of medical errors as high as 98,000 a year.
In the last 20 years, two breeds -- pit bulls and Rottweilers -- were responsible for 44percentt of human deaths by dogs, one study found.
The analyses in Harris and Barraclough's review were based on 10 papers with a follow-up period ranging from 1 to 28 years, and the SMRs for natural causes of death were based on only one study.
Similarly, it is difficult to separate the possible effects of the drug from the underlying maternal disease in attributing the increased risk for fetal death noted in one study in association with maternal azathioprine treatment for systemic lupus erthythematosus [ 71].
However, such schedules showed grade 3 4 haematological toxicity ranging from 12 to 48% (Smith et al, 1999, 2003; Segawa et al, 2005) with febrile neutropaenia in 15% of patients and one toxic death reported in one study (Colleoni et al, 1997).
