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  2. Acute respiratory distress syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The role of non-invasive ventilation is limited to the very early period of the disease or to prevent worsening respiratory distress in individuals with atypical pneumonias, lung bruising, or major surgery patients, who are at risk of developing ARDS. Treatment of the underlying cause is crucial.

  3. Infant respiratory distress syndrome - Wikipedia

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    IRDS affects about 1% of newborns and is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants. [5] Data have shown the choice of elective caesarean sections to strikingly increase the incidence of respiratory distress in term infants; dating back to 1995, the UK first documented 2,000 annual caesarean section births requiring ...

  4. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million deaths worldwide, as per WHO report.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Respiratory disease - Wikipedia

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    Respiratory diseases can be classified in many different ways, including by the organ or tissue involved, by the type and pattern of associated signs and symptoms, or by the cause of the disease. The study of respiratory disease is known as pulmonology .

  7. Prevalence - Wikipedia

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    It is derived by comparing the number of people found to have the condition with the total number of people studied and is usually expressed as a fraction, a percentage, or the number of cases per 10,000 or 100,000 people. Prevalence is most often used in questionnaire studies.

  8. Compartmental models in epidemiology - Wikipedia

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    For the full specification of the model, the arrows should be labeled with the transition rates between compartments. Between S and I, the transition rate is assumed to be (/) / = /, where is the total population, is the average number of contacts per person per time, multiplied by the probability of disease transmission in a contact between a susceptible and an infectious subject, and / is ...

  9. Oxygen toxicity - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Navy uses treatment tables based on periods alternating between 100% oxygen and air. For example, USN table 6 requires 75 minutes (three periods of 20 minutes oxygen/5 minutes air) at an ambient pressure of 2.8 standard atmospheres (280 kPa), equivalent to a depth of 18 metres (60 ft).