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Although oxygen stored in the blood and lungs can keep a person alive for several minutes after breathing stops, [1] choking often leads to death. Around 4,500 to 5,000 choking-related deaths occur in the United States every year. [2] [3] Deaths from choking most often occur in the very young (children under three years old) and in the elderly ...
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This is a list of notable people who have died by choking. 405 BC: Sophocles (91), Diodorus Siculus claims Sophocles choked on a grape-seed in a cup of wine. [1] circa 200: Lucius Fabius Cilo, Pliny the Elder claims "Chilo" perished from choking on a single hair in a draught of milk. [2] 453: Attila the Hun (47), although cause of death is ...
The standardized mortality ratio is the ratio of observed deaths in the study group to expected deaths in the general population. [2] This ratio can be expressed as a percentage simply by multiplying by 100. [citation needed] The SMR may be quoted as either a ratio or a percentage. If the SMR is quoted as a ratio and is equal to 1.0, then this ...
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 ...
The problem with measuring overall survival by using the Kaplan-Meier or actuarial survival methods is that the estimates include two causes of death: deaths from the disease of interest and deaths from all other causes, which includes old age, other cancers, trauma and any other possible cause of death. In general, survival analysis is ...
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