Sentences with phrase «are more vulnerable»

People with asthma are more vulnerable to complications stemming from the flu — such as pneumonia — and are more likely to be hospitalized, which is why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all people with asthma over six months old get the seasonal and swine flu shot.

But to find out about the risk stemming from your father's side of the family, you need to look primarily at the women; while men do get breast cancer, women are more vulnerable to it.

Partly, it is because women are more vulnerable to infection than men.

Thus, teenagers are more vulnerable to addictive behaviors, and the impact of drug use on their brains is greater than for older adults.

While everyone should be concerned about exposure to phthalates, some of us are more vulnerable to adverse health outcomes than others.

Some towns and cities in Cascadia are more vulnerable to earthquakes and hazards than others.

Human males and females born in times of low nutritional resources (famines) are more vulnerable regarding diabetes risk in adulthood with greater risk seen in men.

Corn and soybeans, however, are more vulnerable to high heats.

One possibility is those fish are more vulnerable to birds like terns and cormorants, since steelhead swim closer to the surface than Chinook salmon.

That's the message of a new study that shows that shellfisheries across the U.S. are more vulnerable to climate change's less considered counterpart than previously thought

Large trees are more vulnerable, in part, due to their physiology: it's harder for them to transport the water and nutrients they need to their leaves and evaporative demands are higher.

(WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017)-- Researchers have developed a two - pronged approach to blood cancer treatment: 1) attacking cancer cells directly and / or 2) driving them from the nurturing bone marrow environment into the peripheral blood streams, where they are more vulnerable (for example, to chemotherapy).

And that means higher risk for long bridges and skyscrapers, which are more vulnerable to the long - period seismic waves released by very large quakes, Field says.

White mothers are more vulnerable to acquiring sexually transmitted disease during pregnancy when living in racially segregated neighborhoods.

Another explanation is that the CNVs are just «markers of a less stable genome,» suggesting that these men are more vulnerable to DNA damage generally.

Mice that are more vulnerable to developing depression - like symptoms show different networks of electrical brain activity than more resilient mice.

McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who are on all other measures sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is a trait called absorption: «They score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.

«Male and female veterans who report MST are more vulnerable to homelessness both in the short - and long - term following their discharge from the military, with males at differentially greater risk,» Brignone says.

Wounded corals are more vulnerable to disease.

The relative stability of their environment means they are more vulnerable to extreme temperatures and storms, researchers found.

A vaccine would be especially effective in people who have never been exposed to the disease before, or who lost their childhood immunity by leaving malaria - stricken areas, Lanar says, because these groups are more vulnerable to very severe forms of the illness than those who are partially immune.

Humans can overrule their body clocks, but at a price: People whose circadian rhythms are regularly disrupted — by frequent jet lag or shift work, for example — are more vulnerable to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

Most marine fish go through a larval development stage in the open ocean when they are more vulnerable to predators.

Antibody PF - 06747143 both attacks AML tumor cells and moves them from the nurturing bone marrow environment into the peripheral blood streams, where they are more vulnerable.

The results also indicate that aggregations of smaller - ranged species are more vulnerable to environmental change than previously thought.

Some craft are more vulnerable to debris than others, says Lewis, who has developed software to model how space junk spreads and evolves over time.

«Aging of the population is probably the most important trend, since older adults are more vulnerable to heat - related health effects,» said co-author Patrick Kinney, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, in an email.

«This suggests that the harmful effects of chlorpyrifos are stronger among boys, which indicates that perhaps boys are more vulnerable to this type of exposure,» said Virginia Rauh, a perinatal epidemiologist at Columbia University and co-author of the study published in July.

«Those effects are not universal, and not enough emphasis is placed on children, who are more vulnerable.»

A basic minimum income could be an investment to stem higher costs down the road, she said, because children who carry sensitive genotypes and are from low - income families are more vulnerable to ending up in poverty as adults, with all of its associated costs to society.

These organisms appear to be particularly vulnerable to ocean acidification because their shells and skeletons are more vulnerable to dissolution than pure calcite and aragonite.

Additionally, the brain structure abnormalities identified in this study reflect those found in children with depression or at high risk for developing the disorder, suggesting that these alterations may be why children of mothers with perinatal depression are more vulnerable to depression later in life.

The East Coast and Gulf Coast would feel the largest impacts from depleted ecosystems, because they have denser populations and are more vulnerable to sea - level rise and storm surge.

Because the flashy dominant males are more vulnerable to predation, whenever a boss fish disappears, a major battle ensues as non-dominant males fight to take over the vacant territory.

In fact, that stress hormone profile might make them more susceptible to PTSD (below, yellow); previous studies have indeed suggested that the offspring of Holocaust survivors are more vulnerable to the effects of stress and are more likely to experience symptoms of PTSD.

Smaller populations fluctuate more widely in number than larger ones do and are more vulnerable to interbreeding.

Second, older cells are more vulnerable to this damage — or less able to repair themselves.

Yet as our dependence on the internet grows, we are more vulnerable to those who seek to disrupt — whether they are hackers exposing the internet's weaknesses, governments intent on keeping their citizens under control, or corporations driven by profits.

In fact, additional analysis by WCS and international colleagues has shown that smaller populations of Amur tigers are more vulnerable than larger populations to extinction from distemper.

No one denies that some groups are more vulnerable than others to certain disorders, such as sickle - cell anemia, and thus knowing someone's race or ethnicity can be as pertinent to diagnosis as knowing their sex.

Another prediction of the behavioral immune system hypothesis is that we are more vigilant against getting sick when we are more vulnerable to disease.

«On islands like Abaco that have always been dominated by reptiles, the flora and fauna are more vulnerable because they have evolved to lead a more laid back, island existence,» Steadman said.

«Despite the presence of a universal health insurance system in Ontario, our research highlights the persistence of significant health disparities in breast cancer screening, particularly for women who are more vulnerable due to severe disability, multiple chronic conditions, low income and lower education,» said Dr. Guilcher, who has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

The study also found increased blood flow in limbic areas of the brains of women, which may also partially explain why women are more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, insomnia, and eating disorders.

Bigger trees are more vulnerable to lightning strikes and damage from high winds, and they must consume more water than their smaller counterparts.

Small ecosystems are more vulnerable to extinctions; their member species are fewer in number and have limited refuge, and so are at statistically greater risk of being eliminated by a single event, whether a hurricane or the introduction of a predatory snake.

The problem, however, is that if they hatch early the tadpoles are less well developed, and are more vulnerable to attack from shrimps and fish.

More serious for the rest of the world is the possibility that gas hydrates in permafrost are more vulnerable to thawing than was thought.

The results also raise the question of whether children with ADHD are more vulnerable to maltreatment due to family stress.

McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who by all other measures are sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is that «they score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.