single cause of death

The largest single cause of death was stumbling; when objects fell at three times their accustomed rate, there could be no such thing as a minor accident.

It is the biggest single cause of deaths of British troops in Helmand and has proven impossible to completely counter.

According to a report investigating the Post election violence, gunshot wounds most likely from police guns were the biggest single cause of death amongst the fatalities.

Despite huge advances in care, RDS remains the most common single cause of death in the first month of life of the developed world.

But it is still the largest single cause of death in babies aged over one week, according to the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.

The World Health Organization says in its annual report, due next week, that AIDS was the leading single cause of death worldwide for people ages 15 to 59.

He spent more than a month in the hospital recently after several minor falls followed by infections and minor strokes, said his wife, Louise, but she could not point to a single cause of death.

The center maintains that smart guns are unlikely to reduce suicides, the largest single cause of death from guns, and that the second-highest category, homicides, are most often committed among acquaintances.

Examined in very broad terms for both men and women the two largest single causes of death are circulatory diseases (e.g. heart disease, stroke, etc.) and cancers of all sites (see Table 3.4).

Its prey was dumber and slower than it was-so it always had plenty to eat-and its biggest single cause of death was strangulation on food particles when it threw up what it had eaten too much of.