Because infant mortality in rich countries is already low, they argued, further increases in overall life expectancy will require much larger reductions in mortality at older ages.
The overall incidence has been increasing since the mid-1970s [ 42, 43] although the increase has been much larger than for mortality, demonstrating improving prognosis over time [ 42].
The national data used in our analysis necessarily masks differential effects of recession on marginalised groups but it is reasonable to expect that much of this effect would be on the poorest groups for which there would be much larger changes in mortality.
Stillbirth and early neonatal mortality differences (rate ratios) among male vs female births both favored females (Table 3), although the mortality differences were much larger for early neonatal mortality (27%, 95% CI 23 to 31) than for stillbirth (8%, 95% CI 6 to 11).
And although recent efforts have focused on patient safety in an effort to reduce mortality through reductions in medical errors, a much larger cause of preventable mortality is likely the medical community's failure to implement evidence-based practice in the ICU.
A much larger drop in infant mortality meant that Croatia's population continued to increase although at a very low rate until the 1990s, when wartime displacement, emigration, and deaths caused the population to plummet by several hundred thousand.
17 During famine, malnutrition plays a much larger part in child mortality.
Second, smoking duration appeared to have a much larger impact on lung cancer mortality than on CVD mortality.
For example, if the population exposure levelled off in 1978 and then continued indefinitely at this level rather than continuing to decline, as we have assumed, the model predicts a much slower decline in mortality after the peak year, and consequently much larger estimates of the total mortality to year 2050 that exceed those based on our upper prediction interval.
Although severely malnourished children have a higher relative risk of mortality, the much larger numbers of moderately malnourished children leads to a higher population-attributable risk for mortality in this group [3], [4].
