Sentences with phrase «men are at higher risk»

Men are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease than women.

«By knowing the genetic differences we may be able to identify which men are at higher risk, so we can target treatment to those patients and potentially save thousands from unnecessary therapy.

PHILADELPHIA / USNewswire / — Kidney stones are increasing, particularly among adolescents, females, and African - Americans in the U.S., a striking change from the historic pattern in which middle - aged white men were at highest risk for the painful condition.

While the risk of MCI increases with age overall, younger men were at a higher risk of developing MCI than younger women.

Men who have sex with men are at high risk of HPV - related diseases.

In addition, research continues to uncover new clues to identify which men are at highest risk of aggressive prostate cancer and could most benefit from screening and treatment.

Experienced injury attorneys in Bangor know middle - aged men are at highest risk.

Life Insurance Actuaries who analyze statistics related to insurance have concluded that men are at higher risks for diseases and unsafe behavior like driving recklessly and drug and alcohol abuse.

Not exact matches

Males were nine times more likely than females to be victims of gunshot injuries, and men ages 20 to 24 were at the highest risk, the study found.

Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».

By far the best article I have ever read on this site, there was no bias or empty statements, just cold hard facts, the writer even respected wengers budget but still pointed to where he should've improved, there are no excuses, what you read is literrally all u get with arsene, if you gave him a budget of 9m or 1 billion, he will ALWAYS take the risk cause he doesn't give a fk about the consequences as if he was a teenager raging through puberty, his stubborn is absolutely pathetic, can you believe he turned down signing a keeper when almunia was shocking, can you believe he didn't sign a CB when squillaci was awful, can you believe that he REFUSED to sign a CDM for almost 8 years, CAN you believe on one of the most important transfer windows of arsenals history, arsene decided to go host charity matches in rome, that's right instead of trying hard for the fans that have respected him and pay him one of the highest managerial wages in the world, he decided to do what he pleased as usual, cause he doesn't answer to anyone, nor does he giving a flying fk, gazidis a man i thought was also a crook went and did arsene's job for him and at least got us a striker (which cost us the title in january last season) and arsene foolishly proclaims that «if i was here we wouldn't of signed danny» meaning we wouldn't of had ANY recognised cf till giroud recovered, arsene wenger is a joke of the highest order, lack of respect, lack of shame and lack order, i despise him

We play a high - risk high - reward offensive game, so we need incredibly capable and reliable CBs at the back, for all the the talk about buying a CF or even DM... The main priority for me to compete for the title would be getting a CB, unless Gabriel is going to be that man (that tackle on Lukaku was a great preview of his ability)

Experts are saying older men shouldn't worry about their higher risk of fathering a child with bipolar disorder (men 45 + are 25x more likely than a man in his 20s to father a child with bipolar disorder) because it's such a rare disease but recent studies show it's not rare at all and affects 4 - 5 % of the population.

The latest is Noonan Syndrome which men middle aged and older are at a high risk for fathering a child with because it has no other cause than «old man» sperm.

The second infection that's also been on the rise is Syphilis, particularly amongst populations that are at higher risk to contract Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, such as young men who have sex with men or injection drug using adolescence.

Neal Goldman, Brand Manager for Men's Lacrosse at Brine, talks about ways to reduce the risk of concussion in boy's lacrosse, which, according to a 2011 study1 of U.S. high schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff, has the third highest concussion rate (46.6 per 100,000 athletic exposures (1 AE is one athlete participating in one organized high school athletic practice or competition, regardless of the amount of time played), behind only football (76.8) and boys» ice hockey (61.9).

Lt. Rawlings, who is a former African Union High Representative for Somalia, also called on the United States to help avert famine in Somalia as millions of men, women and children are at risk of starvation due to drought.

For example, researchers could look at how exercise mitigates cardiovascular disease among older Hispanic men, who are at higher risk for heart disease.

«This study's results can have practice changing implications on how future prostate cancer trials are designed in terms of identifying the men for these studies who are at high risk for early death due to ineffective initial treatment for their prostate cancer,» stated Anthony Victor D'Amico, MD, PhD, chief, Genitourinary Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and senior author of the study.

Fred Guterl's eloquent plea for manned exploration of Mars, or at least a return of humans to the moon, is bound to be frustrated by the high cost, the risk, and the lack of interest among the American public.

Because this estrogen - driven pathway would be much weaker in males, the work may both explain the heart disease gender gap and suggest that women who use COX - 2 inhibitors may be at higher risk for atherosclerosis than men, says FitzGerald.

Migrant workers such as this man in Pailin, Cambodia, near the border with Thailand, are at especially high risk of contracting malaria.

Either way, says Scardino, the study needs to be followed up with others that evaluate the drug's effect in, say, men at higher risk of prostate cancer.

Women are more likely to report sexual harassment than men, according to the article, but «studies indicate that men may be at a higher risk of mental health issues and depression.»

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

Women also tend to be at higher risk than men.

The trial enrolled 398 men with cancer that had not spread outside the prostate gland who were judged to be at high risk of treatment failure, based on standard tests for a number of features of the cancer.

On the contrary, men who were underweight in childhood had a higher risk of asthma admission in early adulthood compared to men with normal BMI, with the strongest link seen with the BMI measurements taken at the age of 12.

For example, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at most risk for HIV infection in the United States, yet within that subgroup, HIV seroprevalence is four times higher among black MSM than among white MSM, and virologic suppression is 50 percent lower, according to the authors.

«Men and women have very different cardiovascular risk and diabetes risk, and male mice are most often studied because their risk for developing these diseases is higher,» says lead author Kanakadurga Singer, M.D., assistant professor in pediatrics at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

HIV is spreading through American Indian communities «on the scale of some small African countries,» she says, and men who have sex with other men are at particularly high risk.

The team also looked at other lifestyle factors and found that men who consumed a high intake of anthocyanins and flavanones and who were also physically active had the lowest risk of erectile dysfunction.

Although heterosexual men seem to be at higher risk for HPV - positive oropharyngeal cancers (likely, researchers posit, because the virus tends to infect — and persist in — the genital area of female partners), men who have sex with men face an increased risk for HPV anal cancer.

Amid all the findings of concern, including the overall trend and disparities of income, education, insurance and ethnicity, the researchers did find one bright spot: Black men, who are known to be at higher risk for prostate cancer incidence and death, were more likely to report having discussed advantages and disadvantages than men on average.

Men with infertility are known to be at higher risk for certain cancers including testicular and prostate cancers.

Dr Thekla Morgenroth, post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, and lead author of the paper said: «When people imagine a risk - taker, they might picture someone risking their fortune at a high - stakes poker game, an ambitious CEO, or someone crossing the Grand Canyon on a tightrope — but chances are that the person they picture will be a man.

«Study proves pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is effective at preventing HIV in high - risk gay men: Results from PROUD study.»

But transgender people were at even greater risk: They had nearly 300 percent higher odds of being sexually assaulted than non-transgender men.

The Lancet has published the results of the PROUD study, which shows giving daily HIV medication to gay men who are HIV negative yet at high risk of becoming HIV positive is highly effective at preventing new infections.

But for the most part, Beyrer says, the failure to get PrEP to the people who need it most — those who are HIV negative and are at high risk of infection — and the backsliding in terms of civil liberties for the gay community in nations such as Russia, Nigeria and Uganda have contributed to the continued high HIV rates among gay men.

Research published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that for Danish men who survived skull fractures during this time period, the risk of dying at any given moment was 6.2 times higher than for their uninjured counterparts.

The study also found that only a subgroup of men was at increased risk of prostate cancer from taking vitamin E. Among men with low selenium status at baseline, vitamin E supplementation increased their total risk of prostate cancer by 63 percent and increased the risk of high - grade cancer by 111 percent.

In contrast to the new study, past research on civilians has found that women are at higher risk than men for PTSD.

The IPERGAY researchers found that men who have sex with men and transgender women at high risk for HIV infection who took PrEP around the time of sexual activity were 86 percent less likely to acquire HIV than similar individuals who took a placebo.

In Golomb's opinion, the potential benefits of statins may not outweigh their risks except among middle - aged men who have heart disease — or who are at high risk for it.

Abramson, who with a colleague published his findings in the British medical journal The Lancet, says that even when statins are used for men at the highest risk, «you have to treat about 238 men for one year to prevent one heart attack.»

A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has determined that in the first year after a heart attack women are subject to a significantly higher mortality risk than men with similar case histories.

Previously, preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, was reserved only for those deemed at high risk, such as couples in which one partner is infected, or men who have sex with men.

The effect of glucocorticoid treatment is most prominent on trabecular bone and is therefore likely to be larger on vertebral bone than on hip bone.3 Glucocorticoids are associated with an increased rate of fracture, and higher doses and longer use of glucocorticoids are associated with higher risks of fracture.4 Compared with patients not taking glucocorticoids, the risk of hip and vertebral fracture among patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and women.4

Although being at a significantly higher risk for the disease, only 33 percent of black men over the age of 50 reported having a prostate - specific antigen (PSA) screening.