91.   Heart bypass patients could find facilities that perform the most surgeries and have the lowest mortality rates.

92.   Heat mortality rates are highest among the elderly, the very young and the sick.

93.   Heidi J. Larson of UNICEF says that if all goes well, child and maternal mortality rates will drop in half in Afghanistan over the next five years.

94.   Hong Kong residents also enjoy low tax rates, low infant mortality rates and expanding educational opportunities, according to Patten.

95.   His work prompted the U.S. Public Health Service to send him to Tennessee, which had a disproportionately high mortality rate among black women and infants.

96.   In coming years, the researchers say, the child mortality rate will surge.

97.   In contrast, states such as New Hampshire, Vermont, Wisconsin and Utah that had the least income disparities had the lowest mortality rates.

98.   In a study released in March, Garfield concluded that mortality rates for children under five years of age are double what they were before the sanctions.

99.   Infant mortality rates deteriorated in large swaths of Africa.

100.   Infant mortality rates in Japan and Sweden are just half the rates in the United States.