Sentence examples for half the incidence from inspiring English sources

The use of alcohol and tranquilizers to induce sleep was cut in half, the incidence of policemen falling asleep at work declined by 29percentt and the incidence of on-the-job automobile accidents was 40percentt lower than in previous years.

Overall the contralateral incidence rate is about half the incidence in a monozygotic twin of a breast cancer case in the years after the first twin's diagnosis.

Although the different diseases causing PE are individually rare, their cumulative incidence has been estimated to be 0.5 per 1000 live births [ 4], which is within the same range as other major neurological impairments, such as neural tube defects [ 5] or infantile hydrocephalus [ 6], and approximately half the incidence of cerebral palsy in full term children [ 7].

Patients in whom ERT was initiated within 2 years of diagnosis of GD1 had approximately half the incidence rate of AVN (8·1 per 1000 person-years) compared to patients who started therapy 2 or more years after diagnosis (16·6 per 1000 person-years).

In addition, this trial did not validate the conclusion of a study by Bruyere and colleagues [ 67] that glucosamine sulfate (1,500 mg/day) taken for at least 12 months reduces by half the incidence of total knee replacement, since the decision for surgical intervention is influenced by many factors.

A recent study in Cambodia found that the filters cut in half the incidence of diarrhea, a leading cause of death in the third world, especially among children.

Micafungin was well tolerated in these patients, with one-half the incidence of pyrexia, wound infection, vomiting, and pleural effusion compared with placebo.

The main cause of inferior alveolar nerve damage is mandibular third molar extraction, which accounts for more than half of the incidence [1].

On the basis of this assumption, the contralateral breast cancer incidence after the first breast cancer, given the genotype, is half the breast incidence assumed in the standard model (since only one breast is at risk).

For example, Dr. Gayle said, the agency has issued a draft of its plan that aims to reduce by half the annual incidence of new H.I.V. infections by 2005.

Over the last half-century, the incidence of many infectious diseases has decreased dramatically (e.g., measles, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, and hepatitis A), while that for autoimmune-related disorders has reciprocally increased (e.g., multiple sclerosis, Crohn disease, asthma, and type I diabetes) (Bach 2002).