Besides these living trends, there are what we might call the "dying trends": that is to say, America's health and mortality patterns.

Rather," they added, "it is as though deprived people have the same mortality pattern as affluent people who are seven years older.

Distinctive breast cancer incidence and mortality patterns in well-defined populations may therefore inform etiologic understanding.

During 1966 Caughley presented methods by which to determine mortality patterns in mammals.

Primary concentrations include cross-national studies of mortality patterns with special emphasis on influenza-associated disease and vector-borne and vaccine-preventable diseases.

If Iraq were to drop to Somalia's mortality patterns, an extra 78,000 children under the age of 5 would die every year, and that's in addition to adults who would be killed in fighting.

If they had followed the usual multiplication so characteristic of colonies, the population should now be close to the five-hundred-thousand mark, even allowing for natural disasters and those mortality patterns normal for a primitive economy.

By dating mortality patterns in coral reefs affected by fault motions and tsunamis, Dr. Sieh determined that large earthquakes occur regionally, in pairs, every 230 years or so.

No plausible predictions of fertility behaviour,...a stable mortality pattern slightly below present levels".

When compared with 1940 or even 1970, Mexico in the 1990s exhibited mortality patterns that more closely approximated those found in developed societies.