Early and aggressive debridement may reduce mortality.
Beta-blockade, angiotensin inhibition, and calcium channel antagonists may reduce mortality.
A number of reports tend to suggest that regular use of flavonoids consumed in food may reduce mortality from coronary heart disease in elderly men.
Improvements in CRF resulting from exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) may reduce mortality in patients who have low CRF [4 6].
For PVL-secreting MSSA-necrotizing pneumonia, influenza-like prodrome may be associated with fatal outcome, whereas previous SSTI may reduce mortality.
We suggest removal of unnecessary wire fences and replacement by guanaco-friendly fences, like high-tensile electric fences that may reduce mortality and barrier-effect on guanaco populations.
However, several retrospective analyses and meta-analyses have indicated that heparin treatment may reduce mortality in septic shock [40 42] while one retrospective study could not demonstrate an effect of heparins on ARDS [43].
"Recognition and management of depression may reduce mortality for patients with heart failure.
A 2007 systematic review of controlled trials, however, suggested metformin is the only antidiabetic drug not associated with any measurable harm in people with heart failure, and it may reduce mortality in comparison with other antidiabetic agents.
Adjunctive treatments that target underlying pathophysiologic processes in severe malaria may reduce mortality further but none have been shown to be efficacious to date [2], [3].
In terms of experimental supplementation of methionine in wild populations, future studies may wish to include simultaneous food ingestion (with and without methionine) as is done in poultry studies, which may reduce mortality while increasing immunocompetence.
