31.   Although obesity is the greater concern numerically, anorexia is the psychiatric illness with the highest mortality rate, psychologists say.

32.   AMC could easily have bandied about statistics that point to a disturbing film mortality rate.

33.   Although black women have a lower incidence of breast cancer, they continue to have the highest breast cancer mortality rates of any ethnic group.

34.   Although breast cancer incidence has been rising, the breast cancer mortality rate has been dropping in the United States in recent years, at least among white women.

35.   And a correlation between income inequality and high mortality rates does not mean there is a cause-and-effect relationship, they said.

36.   And blacks still have two times the infant mortality rate of whites, a gap that has not changed in at least a decade.

37.   And the mortality rates of both groups were lower than corresponding rates for the general population, the researchers said.

38.   And their mortality rate after four months was somewhat higher.

39.   And when women of all ages are counted, the state infant mortality rate is half the national average.

40.   And the infant mortality rate is still nearly three times the United States average.