Sentences with phrase «alcohol as a risk factor»

Caffeine and alcohol as risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome.

The call to action from ASCO follows a survey the group commissioned, which found that 70 percent of Americans do not recognize drinking alcohol as a risk factor for cancer.

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Parents who choose to co-sleep should educate themselves about http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/01/11/co-sleeping-safety/"rel = «nofollow» > co-sleeping safety, but as long as they do that and as long as there are not other risk factors pregnant (alcohol use, drug use, smoking, etc.), then co-sleeping is just as safe as crib sleeping.

Bedsharing with your infant after several drinks can also be a bad idea, as alcohol has been identified as a risk factor for SIDS.

In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.

The risk of SIDS while bed sharing went down as the infant grew older, but other factors including if the parents were smokers or if the mother drank two or more units of alcohol within 24 hours or used illegal drugs, increased the risk.

Limit excessive fat intake, alcohol consumption and avoid smoking, as they are risk factors for breast cancer.

It is also believed that poor diet, being physically inactive, excessive alcohol consumption, stress and environmental conditions can be risk factors of cancer as well.

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

70 % is extreme — in USA only one state (Alaska) has the majority of bedsharing deaths happening with drugs or alcohol as additional risk factor present (large minority population where that is prevalent too).

All parents should be provided with information regarding a) factors known to increase the risk of SIDS in the bed - sharing environment, including parental smoking (particularly maternal smoking in pregnancy), young maternal age, infant prematurity; and b) aspects of adult beds that should be modified with infant safety in mind: e.g. gaps between bed and wall or other furniture, proximity of baby to pillows, type of bedding used, parental behaviour prior to bed - sharing such as consumption of alcohol, drugs or medication affecting arousal.

The Council Conclusions stress that harmful use of alcohol is recognised as an important risk factor in the need to reduce the burden of alcohol - related avoidable deaths, chronic diseases, injuries, violence, health inequalities and other social consequences to third parties.

These associations were independent of known risk factors for gout, such as age, body mass index, high blood pressure, and alcohol and coffee intake.

Others have experienced environmental risk factors, such as fetal alcohol exposure, that rule out a simple genetic explanation.

Studying adolescents in Southern California, researchers found that the association between sleep and alcohol / marijuana use was consistent even after controlling for other known risk factors, such as depression.

After adjusting for other factors that could affect the risk of dementia, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and alcohol abuse, researchers determined that veterans with TBI were 60 percent more likely to develop dementia than those without TBI.

These associations persisted even after adjusting for factors such as bone mineral density, physical activity, smoking and alcohol use, calcium and vitamin D intake, falls and all other known fracture risk factors.

Several possibilities have been identified; firstly baclofen may reduce craving for alcohol, secondly there are reports that baclofen reduces negative mood states, such as anxiety and depression, which are known risk factors for harmful drinking.

New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) identifies nicotine dependence, obesity, alcohol abuse and depressive disorders as risk factors for low back pain, a common condition causing disability, missed work, high medical costs and diminished life quality.

Additional research is needed to determine how questions about peak alcohol consumption levels can be valuable in screening for alcohol misuse, as well as in assessing gender - specific risk factors and harms for drinking at extreme levels.

«Our results show that vitamin C deficiency should be considered a risk factor for this severe type of stroke, as were high blood pressure, drinking alcohol and being overweight in our study,» said study author Stéphane Vannier, MD, with Pontchaillou University Hospital in Rennes, France.

However, this risk is much lower than that associated with other factors such as obesity, alcohol consumption and later maternal age.

Individuals who have had mild or transient psychotic symptoms (such as unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances) without using substances such as marijuana or alcohol and have a family history of psychosis or other risk factors are considered at clinical high risk for psychotic disorder.

«In addition, primary - care physicians in the community will want to screen regularly for the presence and extent of alcohol drinking, as well as the potential contributing factors of obesity and ethnicity as high risk factors for the development of alcoholic liver disease in their high alcohol - consuming patients.»

This study is the first to determine whether solitary drinking during teenage years impacted the development of alcohol use disorders as young adults, after controlling for other known risk factors.

«This research highlights the potential role of individual differences in verbal abilities during childhood as a risk factor for the subsequent development of alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood,» said Michael Windle, professor and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

«The really surprising thing that we found is that amino acid intake has as much of an effect on blood pressure as established lifestyle risk factors such as salt intake, physical activity and alcohol consumption.

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.

Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging risk.

These include a history of depression, alcohol, education, diet, and a cluster called vascular risk factors because they affect the blood supply in the brain, such as stroke, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and obesity.

Most studies assessing the prevalence of alcohol abuse as a risk factor for alcoholic cirrhosis focus on total annual amount drunk per person.

Men showed higher prevalence of smoking and use of alcohol than women, but more women had unhealthy BMIs (underweight or obese) than men, highlighting the greater impact of female BMI as a risk factor.

To determine risk factors for being diagnosed as osteoporotic, the research team analysed a wide range of factors such as BMI, kidney function, physical activity, servings of milk or cheese, and calcium or vitamin D supplements as well as traditional risk factors for bone health (e.g. smoking, inactivity, alcohol etc.).

The researchers concluded their study by noting that estimated fitness level — in consideration with other risk factors such as smoking status, alcohol consumption, and other health conditions — could have a major impact on identifying people at risk for future cardiovascular disease.

Moreover, according to the results, the effect that amino acids have on our blood pressure are comparable to the effects of risk factors such as increased physical activity, salt or alcohol intake.

The study of 42,883 men revealed that the increased risk persisted even after other risk factors such as alcohol use, physical inactivity, smoking, and a family history of heart disease were taken into account.

TIA can be a sign that something bigger is coming (about a third of people who experience a warning stroke will go on to have an acute stroke), so doctors will recommend lifestyle changes, such as a healthier diet, exercise, and cutting out alcohol and cigarettes in addition to treating risk factors like high blood pressure in an effort to prevent a more serious stroke.

Stomach cancer is also declining in both males and females, thought to be due to improvements in diet, reduced tobacco and alcohol use, and recognition of H. pylori as a risk factor.

In fact, when these variables are taken into account, the paper in JAMA suggests as much, stating that «these associations were confined to participants with at least 1 unhealthy lifestyle factor based on smoking, heavy alcohol intake, overweight or obesity, and physical inactivity, but not evident among those without any of these risk factors.»

Skipping breakfast, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity as risk factors for overweight and obesity in adolescents: results of the E-MOVO project

This significant association persisted even after controlling for other factors that could increase the risk, such as smoking, physical activity levels, alcohol consumption, diabetes, heart disease, dietary factors and more.

Nor is a correlation of +18 for fat calories grounds for indicting fat as a breast cancer risk factor, when alcohol, processed sugar, and starch correlate even more strongly.

Other factors affecting your disease risk include your family and medical history, and lifestyle factors such as whether you smoke or drink too much alcohol.

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[xi] Effraimidis G, Tijssen JGP, Wiersinga WM. Alcohol Consumption as a Risk Factor for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease: A Prospective Study.

Interestingly, those who ate mostly meat and fried foods and drank alcohol did not have a higher risk of death than those who ate healthy food after the researchers took into account other factors that could affect the results, such as age, gender, race, education, physical activity and total calorie intake.

This effect was independent of other risk factors, such as age, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, smoking history and alcohol use.

Extensive adjustment was made in these studies for demographics, cardiac risk factors, physical activity, income, and education as well as factors that may differ between LDSs and other populations such as smoking, social support, frequency of church attendance, and use of alcohol, tea, and coffee.

A study from the University of Miami found that those who had a daily diet soda habit had a 61 percent increased risk of «cardiovascular event,» including heart attack and stroke, than those who drank no soda — even when factors such as smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption and diet were controlled.

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