Since its widespread introduction five years ago, it has been credited with significantly lowering mortality rates during famines in Africa.
In the United States, about 3,700 women die from it each year; screenings like Pap smears have greatly lowered mortality rates here.
It lowers mortality rates among elderly [ 61, 62].
Those lucky men had a slightly lower mortality rate, but the difference was statistically significant.
"The research clearly demonstrates that after surgery, people who have pets to go home to, recover faster and have a significantly lower mortality rate," Dr. Schwartz said.
Patients who went to high-volume hospitals had a 28percentt lower mortality rate in the hospital, amounting to two fewer deaths for every 100 patients treated.
For example, people living on the NT's Utopia homelands were found to have a 40% lower mortality rate than Aboriginal people in the NT generally, and a 50% lower rate of cardiac disease.
Studies at Dana-Farber found that nonmetastatic colon cancer patients who routinely exercised had a 50percentt lower mortality rate during the study period than their inactive peers, regardless of how active they were before the diagnoses.
Further, recent studies suggest that specialists can often manage common diseases more successfully than generalists: there are fewer complications and a lower mortality rate when cardiologists manage heart attacks, for instance, or neurologists take on strokes.
The tuberculosis patients, some analyses said, had fewer cases of breast cancer than would be expected and the nuclear workers had a lower mortality rate than would be expected.
