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  2. Bradycardia - Wikipedia

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    In clinical practice, elderly people over age 65 and young athletes of both sexes may have sinus bradycardia. [1] The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2011 that 15.2% of adult males and 6.9% of adult females had clinically defined bradycardia (a resting pulse rate below 60 BPM).

  3. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    The rate drops to 40-75% if treated African trypanosomiasis: Parasitic Untreated >99% Without treatment this disease is nearly invariably fatal due to its parasitic and extremely debilitating nature [8] [9] Visceral leishmaniasis: Parasitic (protozoan) Untreated >99% [10] Naegleriasis: Amoebic Untreated ≈98.5%

  4. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    Rate of death by cause. Percent of all deaths Category Cause Percent Percent I. Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional disorders: Respiratory infections and tuberculosis: 6.85: 19.49%: Enteric infections: 3.31 Sexually transmitted infections: 1.88 Tropical diseases and malaria: 1.37 Other infectious diseases: 1.57 Maternal and ...

  5. Sinus node dysfunction - Wikipedia

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    Often sinus node dysfunction produces no symptoms, especially early in the disease course. Signs and symptoms usually appear in more advanced disease and more than 50% of patients will present with syncope or transient near-fainting spells as well as bradycardias that are accompanied by rapid heart rhythms, referred to as tachycardia-bradycardia syndrome [4] [5] Other presenting signs or ...

  6. Case fatality rate - Wikipedia

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    A CFR, in contrast, is the number of deaths among the number of diagnosed cases only, regardless of time or total population. [ 3 ] From a mathematical point of view, by taking values between 0 and 1 or 0% and 100%, CFRs are actually a measure of risk ( case fatality risk ) – that is, they are a proportion of incidence , although they do not ...

  7. These accidents are increasingly fatal for older Americans ...

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    Federal data shows that the age-adjusted fall death rate jumped by 41% between 2012 and 2021.

  8. Cardiovascular disease in women - Wikipedia

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    In Europe, over half of the deaths in women are attributed to CVD. [102] The death rate in some Eastern European countries is high, with over 500 deaths per 100,000 population attributed to CVD. Studies predict that in certain developing countries in Asia and Africa, women will account for a greater percentage of deaths related to CVD by 2040. [97]

  9. Heart rate - Wikipedia

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    Higher heart rate is thought to be correlated with an increase in heart attack and about a 46 percent increase in hospitalizations for non-fatal or fatal heart attack. [ 73 ] Other studies have shown that a high resting heart rate is associated with an increase in cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in the general population and in patients ...