Byline: Greg Tindle Health Correspondent THE high rates of smoking among ethnic communities have been highlighted as cause for special concern in Cardiff.
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Civil War veterans who had been wounded exhibited a high rate of psychological problems but relatively little physical disease, perhaps because only particularly hardy individuals survived battlefield injuries, Silver suggests.
We studied a cohort of patients requiring renal dialysis who had migrated to the United Kingdom from tuberculosis (TB)-endemic countries and found extremely high rates of TB (1,187 cases per 100,000 per year), partly associated with end-stage diabetic renal disease.
on a number of familiar cultural ills--high rates of smoking-related cancers and heart disease, high rates of violence and homicide, and the impact of HIV/AIDS on total life expectancy.
consumer watchdog, says many applicants come away surprised at the high rate of interest they're charged.