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  2. Prisoner of war - Wikipedia

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    Of these 131,134 POWs, 35,756 died while detained, the death rate of Western prisoners was thus 27.1 per cent, seven times that of Western POWs under the Germans and Italians. [61] The death rate of Chinese was much higher.

  3. Rape - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, in 1970, there was a 33% rate of conviction, while by 1985 there was a 24% conviction rate for rape trials in the UK; by 2004, the conviction rate reached 5%. [160] At that time the government report has expressed documented the year-on-year increase in attrition of reported rape cases, and pledged to address this ...

  4. Standardized mortality ratio - Wikipedia

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    Standardized mortality rate tells how many persons, per thousand of the population, will die in a given year and what the causes of death will be. Such statistics have many uses: [citation needed] Life insurance companies periodically update their premiums based on the mortality rate, adjusted for age.

  5. Anaphylaxis - Wikipedia

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    Another estimate from the United States puts the death rate at 0.7 per million. [57] Mortality rates have decreased between the 1970s and 2000s. [58] In Australia, death from food-induced anaphylaxis occur primarily in women while deaths due to insect bites primarily occur in males. [10] Death from anaphylaxis is most commonly triggered by ...

  6. Iatrogenesis - Wikipedia

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    For example, a ruptured aortic aneurysm is fatal in most cases; the survival rate for treatment of a ruptured aortic aneurysm is under 25%. Patients who die during or after an operation will still be considered iatrogenic deaths, but the procedure itself remains a better bet than the probability of death if left untreated.

  7. Population pyramid - Wikipedia

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    In a stationary population, the numbers of births and death roughly balance one another. "Expansive" pyramid or Expanding population pyramid A population pyramid that is very wide at the younger ages, characteristic of countries with a high birth rate and perhaps low life expectancy therefore leading to high death rate. [6]

  8. Clinical death - Wikipedia

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    Reduced body temperature, or therapeutic hypothermia, during clinical death slows the rate of injury accumulation, and extends the time period during which clinical death can be survived. The decrease in the rate of injury can be approximated by the Q 10 rule, which states that the rate of biochemical reactions decreases by a factor of two for ...

  9. Case fatality rate - Wikipedia

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    In epidemiology, case fatality rate (CFR) – or sometimes more accurately case-fatality risk – is the proportion of people who have been diagnosed with a certain disease and end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the CFR does not take into account the time period between disease onset and death. A CFR is generally expressed ...