Sentences with phrase «accounted for risk factors»

The researchers also accounted for risk factors that could increase the odds of a birth defect.

The effect appeared to hold even after researchers accounted for risk factors such as greater gun ownership and lower population density.

In order to encourage lenders to loosen credit score requirements, some would like to see the Neighborhood Watch program altered so that default rates are not compared to the general FHA default rate, but are adjusted to account for risk factors such as lower credit scores.

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Even though a clear majority of marijuana companies mentioned Trump's name, they account for only 4 % of filings where the president's name gets mentioned in a discussion of risk factors, according to Sentieo.

Ideally, investors want to take three factors into account in portfolio construction: the expected return for each asset, the expected risk (normally expressed as the standard deviations of return) and the co-movement of each asset.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

It clearly lays out the risks for SIDS for babies who share a bed with parents, and it purports to adequately take other risk factors into account in its analysis.

And it falls short — for the very same reasons that I've seen previous studies on SIDS risk and bedsharing fall short: it doesn't take into account enough of the other possible risk factors for SIDS during bedsharing.

The last study is a British one, which accounted for socioeconomic factors, age, parity, smoking and BMI and still found an elevated risk of adverse maternal outcome for African and Carribean women.

Attempts to explain the increase in PPH rates by taking into account changes in the observed risk factors for PPH over time can not explain the rise in rates [5, 6].

Key Points to this study: When you take into account relationship status AND quality, then it is the quality that comes out as a more important risk factor for postpartum depression, not solely relationship status.

· Supports a move towards a risk - assessed approach to building control and consistency on the typical risk factors that need to be taken into account, and agrees there is no need for anything too prescriptive.

«What's really interesting is that we show that an increase in the amount of stomach fat and a lower density fat is associated with worse heart disease risk factors — even after accounting for how much weight was gained,» said Caroline Fox, M.D., M.P.H., former senior investigator for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the study's senior researcher.

Similarly, social isolation was initially associated with a 39 percent heightened risk of a first time stroke, but the other conventional risk factors accounted for 83 percent of this risk.

Similarly, social isolation was associated with a 32 percent heightened risk of death even after all the other conventional factors had been accounted for.

After adjusting to account for other CRC risk factors, including other dietary components, the researchers narrowed in on high fish and fruit and low soft drinks as the best combo for reduced odds of advanced colorectal polyps.

The results accounted for other factors that could affect the risk of stroke, such as smoking and high cholesterol.

«While our study did not find additive benefits of calorie restriction and exercise on traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, much of the actual risk of developing cardiovascular disease can not be accounted for by traditional risk factors.

Using a United Kingdom database, they surveyed general practitioners about BSA affected by psoriasis and looked at data on 8,124 adults with psoriasis and 76,599 adults without psoriasis over the course of four years, and they adjusted the samples to account for any differences in age, sex, and body mass index and other diabetes risk factors.

If a small hippocampus is indeed a risk factor for PTSD, neuroanatomy should be taken into account when we decide whom to ship off to battle, the same way we'd consider the presence of a heart murmur.

After accounting for age, coronary calcium score and cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, women using hormone replacement therapy were overall 30 percent less likely to die than those not on hormone therapy.

«The risk calculator does not take into account treatment or other potentially supportive environmental factors that may reduce risk; this is a direction for future research,» Seidman said, adding that the power of the calculator lies in putting symptoms in perspective for patients and their families.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

Relatively few risk factors account for a large proportion of the global burden of disease.

After accounting for all other known risk factors, «you see a progressive increase in cancer rates for each unit increase in BMI above 21,» he told Science News Online.

And the biggest risk factor for this disease is obesity, which accounts for 40 % of all cases in the United States and 30 % in Europe.

In their analysis, the investigators took into account known risk factors for physical decline, such as older age, smoking and obesity.

After they statistically accounted for smoking, family history, and other factors known to increase high blood pressure risk, the researchers found that women who adhered to a healthy diet were 20 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who did not.

A statistical analysis showed that environmental factors accounted for more than half of autism risk.

Jha said the researchers sought to control for a variety of factors, including risk adjusting for the demographics of patients and accounting for differences in the size and types of hospitals where the physicians worked.

Individuals in the lowest of the 6 poverty - income ratio categories had more than a 2-fold increased odds of PAD compared with those in the highest poverty - income ratio category, an association that was still significant after accounting for other risk factors.

He explains, «Our study shows, for the first time, that we can classify an individual's risk of breaking a bone much more reliably when we take genetic factors into account alongside clinical factors.

The researchers found that the association between DDT and high blood pressure held after accounting for some factors known to raise the risk of hypertension, including age, race, body mass and diabetes status.

In the study, the risks were adjusted to account for several known factors that could influence the risk of death, including ethnicity; smoking status; intake of alcohol, fruits and vegetables and total calories; family history of chronic diseases; physical activity; body mass index; and heart disease risk factors when participants enrolled.

Also, few study participants reported heavy drinking, and the study did not account for some potential risk factors of melanoma, such as sun - protection behaviors.

And as a linked editorial by Dr Marie Pedersen, of the Centre for Epidemiology and Screening, University of Copenhagen, highlights, most of these previous studies were unable to take account of potentially influential factors, such as obesity, infections, alcohol, and occupation and stress, all of which have been associated with an increased risk of stillbirth.

The difference remained significant even after accounting for a wide range of other factors, including meeting criteria for Gulf War illness, the presence of an Alzheimer's disease risk gene (ApoE4), brain injury, or depression.

Previous studies have shown family history of suicide to be a risk factor for suicide attempt, so risk assessments in hospitals, prisons and social care settings are designed to take this into account.

After accounting for these factors, the study found that in some women, labor pain was still a significant risk factor for postpartum depression symptoms.

After accounting for these factors, the study showed an elevated risk only for mothers ages 20 - 34.

Employing a meta - analysis of country - level data that accounted for confounding factors like age, education, and household wealth, they found a 58 % increased risk for smoking among the women who experienced IPV.

The results in both groups held true even after accounting for traditional risk factors.

After accounting for differences in age, pre-pregnancy body size, and other risk factors, the researchers estimated that women who exclusively breastfed or mostly breastfed were about half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as those who didn't breastfeed.

When the researchers accounted for other risk factors for Alzheimer's, such as risk genes, diabetes, heart disease, cholesterol levels and weight, this significant association was lost suggesting that these drinks are not the whole story.

Once we do, we may well bring together genetic risk factors accounting for a sufficient proportion of risk of osteporosis to develop a clinically useful DNA - based risk assessment test.

Factors already known at the start of pregnancy accounted for only a small proportion of the overall risk of stillbirth.

The researchers reviewed the history of approximately 2.8 million cases in Denmark and found that the overall risk of dementia for those with a history of dementia was 24 percent higher than those without a history of brain injuries, after accounting for other risk factors for the disease.

This new study suggests that the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is somewhat higher than previously estimated — however the study was not specifically designed to address this issue, and it relies on modelling to take into account confounding factors underlying the reasons for prescribing statins.

17 / Jun / 2013 Although a family history of Alzheimer's disease is a primary risk factor for the devastating neurological disorder, mutations in only three genes — the amyloid precursor protein and presenilins 1 and 2 — have been established as causative for inherited, early - onset Alzheimer's, accounting for about half of such cases.

After accounting for work - related noise exposure and other hearing loss risk factors, the investigators found that smokers were 1.2 to 1.6 times more likely to suffer hearing loss than people who never smoked.