Sentences with phrase «also higher levels of risk»

The study found behavioural differences between males and females, with males showing higher self - efficacy and less worry, but also higher levels of risk - taking behaviour than females.

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Bear in mind also that most people don't have an entrepreneurial mindset, and you may be more comfortable with higher levels of risk than the salaried employees you may know.

With market volatility hitting multi-decade lows, junk bond yields also at record lows, the median price / revenue ratio of S&P 500 constituents at a record high well - beyond 2000 levels, and the most strenuously overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we define, I'm increasingly concerned about the potential for an abrupt «air pocket» in the prices of risky assets that could attend even a modest upward shift in risk premiums.

The crisis, which has affected every level of government in the state, is a cautionary tale for not only public spending run amok but also independent investors taking too large of a risk by seeking high yields.

While the chip industry is attractive, it also carries a reasonably high level of risk; this includes risks associated with concentration of customers, competition, and the possible failure to create a disruptive technology that can be produced in scale.

We are experienced providing duration matching portfolios with high levels of precision, while also determining the appropriate level of credit risk necessary to generate incremental returns relative government bond portfolio alternatives.

Sometimes families can achieve a higher level of functioning while getting through that crisis, but there is also a risk that the family will retreat into more ruleboundedness, or devolve to an even lower level of functioning.

A general thing that people mention as the biggest reason that there is a low carb diet cholesterol risk is that when eating a lot of fat you will also raise your cholesterol levels which leads to a higher risk for heart problems or even a heart attack.

Almonds also contain high levels of healthy unsaturated fatty acids in addition to many bioactive molecules that can help lower cholesterol, reduce the risk of several cancers, and prevent cardiovascular heart diseases.

Hemp seeds also contain high levels of vitamin E, which will decrease inflammation in the body lowering your risk of cancer and heart disease as well as ease pain from arthritis.

In addition, there has been some evidence that folic acid might reduce the risk of other birth defects as well, and that moms with low folic acid might also have a higher risk of miscarriage, placental abruption, and preterm delivery — possibly because of the relationship between low folic acid and homocysteine levels.

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

«Children with low levels of vitamin D were more likely to have high blood pressure and lower levels of high - density lipoprotein, also known as good cholesterol — two factors that are considered major risk factors for heart disease later in life «Children with low vitamin - D levels also had higher levels of parathyroid hormone than their counterparts with adequate vitamin D in their blood.

Studies also suggest that drinking milk during the gestational period can have benefits in adulthood.These children also seem to have higher levels of insulin in their bloodstream by late teens, thereby reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Levels of gang activity in a school are also closely related to its safety, and some schools may be safe for some students and not for others (e.g. a gay student is at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many schools, and black students are at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many rural predominantly white schools).

In neighborhoods where kids have an increased chance of exposure to toxic lead, pigeons also have higher blood lead levels — making the birds potential proxies for risk assessment.

This high level of interaction makes nutrient and waste transfer between mother and fetus more efficient, but it also risks provoking a stronger maternal immune response.

Researchers also found that higher level of physical activity was associated with lower risk.

However, high levels of hCG, a hormone that rises naturally during pregnancy, also leads to high thyroid function but this type of pregnancy - related hyperthyroidism does not have an increased risk of preeclampsia.

Researchers say further study is needed using individual patient - level data among men with high risk prostate cancer to assess the benefit of HRT and whether treatment toxicity, particularly those to the bladder and urinary system are also low with HRT.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

They also had a higher risk of dying if they were under the age of 24 months, if a community well was their primary source of water and if their family compound had high lead levels in the soil.

The study also did not have information on children's exposure to swimming pools, which contain much higher chlorine levels than domestic water and could have an additional detrimental effect on skin barrier function and risk of eczema.

It is also thought that the stress associated with developing schizophrenia, which sees levels of the stress hormone cortisol rise, may also contribute to a higher risk of diabetes.

They also discovered that compared with healthy controls, patients with first episode schizophrenia had higher levels of insulin and increased levels of insulin resistance, again supporting the notion that this group are at higher risk of developing diabetes.

Higher levels of autistic traits were also associated with increased vulnerability to experiencing feelings of depression, feeling they are a burden on others, and do not belong in the world, which may put them at more risk of attempting suicide.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who also have allergic disease have higher levels of respiratory symptoms and are at higher risk for COPD exacerbations, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

But there are also biological mechanisms that help explain the unexpectedly high risk associated with a low level of smoking.»

Girls also were exposed to a greater number of interpersonal dependent stressors during that time, and analyses suggest that it is this exposure to stressors that maintained girls» higher levels of rumination and, thus, their risk for depression over time.

Higher BMI also increased the overall risk of liver (19 % increase), colon (10 %), ovarian (9 %), and breast cancers (5 %), but the effects on these cancers varied by underlying BMI and by individual - level factors such as sex and menopausal status.

People with genetically determined very high cholesterol levels (familial hypercholesterolaemia) seem to be at greater risk of tendon pain, but it's not clear if those with lower, but still high levels, might also be vulnerable to tendon injuries.

A higher level of the hormone increases sex drive and attractiveness of males, leading to more offspring and increased evolutionary fitness; it also weakens the immune system, amplifies stress, and encourages recklessness, increasing the risk of departing the gene pool altogether.

A sufficiently high serum vitamin D level is associated with better bone health and there is some evidence that it may also be associated with a lower risk of many chronic diseases.

Higher levels of educational attainment were also linked to lower risk of tooth loss among women.

In basic analyses reported in the paper, there were several other factors in the study that also predicted a greater likelihood of adopting PrEP: older age, higher perception of HIV risk, sex (either protected or not) with partners outside the main relationship, and having less than a bachelor's degree level of education.

«These results also create an opportunity to learn more about how early interventions with anti-inflammatory medications, may help lessen osteoarthritis risks in ACL patients, especially those patients with high levels of a particular biomarker.»

He continues: «Our results suggest that the health benefits of physical activity are apparent even at levels below the recommended levels, compared to not doing any activity, but also that benefits are greater still for those who exceed the minimum recommendations, such that even when PA was as high as 60 MET hours / week benefits continued to occur, with the risk of developing T2D being more than halved in those individuals.»

Also, women in the same group with the highest levels of a sunscreen chemical, benzophenone, in their urine had a 19 percent higher risk of endometriosis than women with the lowest levels, according to research published in Environmental Science and Technology.

Bovine growth hormone is also known to stimulate the production of insulinlike growth factor 1 (IGF1) by the liver; some studies have shown that high levels of IGF1 in the bloodstream may heighten the risk of prostate and breast cancers as well as a woman's chance of conceiving twins.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

«Our research finds that a set of genetic risks identified from UK patients with a clinical diagnosis of childhood ADHD also predicted higher levels of developmental difficulties in children from a UK population cohort, the ALSPAC,» said Thapar.

African - Americans were also more likely than whites to have traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, with significantly higher levels of diabetes, smoking and hypertension.

4/22/2008 Fat - Cell Hormone Linked to Kidney Disease Reduced levels of a hormone produced by fat cells and linked to the development of insulin resistance may also be related to a higher risk of kidney disease, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of... More...

Our results also support the hypothesis that higher levels of fitness can reduce the risk of premature death12, 33,42,43 and expand the evidence supporting this relationship in obese older persons.

The researchers also factored in other characteristics of the participants that have previously been correlated with dementia risk including physical activity, age, sex, level of education, obesity, low body mass index (BMI), and a history of high blood pressure, stroke, or diabetes.

Those at the highest risk who also had the highest levels of cardiorespiratory fitness — conducted through oxygen and effort measurements on a stationary bicycle — cut their coronary heart disease risk by 49 percent and their AFib risk by 60 percent.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

Researchers first began to suspect that homocysteine plays a role in heart risk when they noticed that children with extremely high levels stemming from a rare genetic disorder also have high rates of heart problems.

People who sleep less may also have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which is a risk factor for heart disease.