excess mortality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexcessandmortality
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excess
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈek.ses/us/ˈek.ses/
extra:
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mortality
noun[U]
uk/mɔːˈtæl.ə.ti/us/mɔːrˈtæl.ə.t̬i/
the way that people do not live ...
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(Definition ofexcessandmortalityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As already noted, early levels ofexcessmortalitytended to be found in the 1 to 4 years age group.
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This suggestsexcessmortalityfrom rheumatic heart disease.
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Specifically, we examine the effect of assumptions about intervention price, unit treatment costs, andexcessmortalityrisk two or more years following hip fractures.
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The figures already published showed that theexcessmortalityof widowed over married people was greatest for younger people below the age of 34.
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Earlyexcessmortalityis due to failure to induce remission, later due to increased susceptibility to infection.
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An analysis of their effect on the breast cancer relatedexcessmortality.
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After the first year, there was no significantexcessmortalityin dialysis patients.
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Theexcessmortalityin their depressed subjects was almost entirely by natural causes, mainly cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease and pneumonia.
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It follows that the great bulk ofexcessmortalityin individuals with mental disorders is determined by natural death causes.
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Some readers will recognize immediately the similarity between this notion and that ofexcessmortalityas used by historians of subsistence crises.
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This suggests a parasite loss of more than 80 % during the extrinsic incubation period as a consequence of 13 %excessmortalityamong infected vectors.
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Observations onexcessmortalityassociated with epidemic influenza.
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The highest levels ofexcessmortality(over five times greater than for the comparison group) were for women with ante-partum bleeding.
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It has already been noted that older men in industrial centres paid the penalty ofexcessmortalityfor the strenuous activity of their youth.
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Excessmortalitywould be a precise, if cruelly revealing, indicator but such information does not exist at a parish level.%!
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The conclusion was that theexcessmortalityin the first 6 months was almost certainly real.
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But such information as there was did not suggest this could possibly explain more than a very small part of the 40 %excessmortality.
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What seems not to have been examined is the possibility that the lower socio-economic status of single men contributes to theirexcessmortality.
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