Sentences with phrase «at highest risk of dying»

The nasal vaccine, he notes, still must be tested in the elderly, who are at the highest risk of dying from flu.

Ms Alice Koechlin, from the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France, told the meeting that people who were at highest risk of dying from melanoma were those born between 1900 and 1960 when not only were the dangerous effects of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight largely unknown, but also health professionals believed that sunshine was positively beneficial.

I am at a higher risk of dying during or after birth.

Young infants are at a higher risk of dying from this infection than any other age group.

One of the big reasons is that it goes along with a failing placenta that puts a baby at a high risk of dying of stillbirth before labor even begins.

Maybe we shouldn't put our babies in cars since they are at a high risk of dying each time.

But patients with the antibodies in their blood are at high risk of dying while waiting for a perfect match, said Brian Feingold, M.D., M.S., study lead author and medical director of Pediatric Heart and Heart - Lung Transplantation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and associate professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

«Now we have evidence that psychosocial treatment — which provides support, not medication — is able to prevent suicide in a group at high risk of dying by suicide.»

In 2012 he recieved an NIH Director's Early Independence Award to examine why some people die unexpectedly after being seen and discharged from emergency rooms, so doctors can identify patients that are at high risk of dying after being discharged.

Preschoolers are at a higher risk of dying from homicide than at any other time in the past 40 years, according to a report out this month from the Washington - based Population Reference Bureau.

Dogs and cats that show these signs are usually in a critical condition and are at a high risk of dying.

If you're considered unhealthy, you're at a higher risk of dying early, meaning that the company will have to shell out money to cover you before you've paid into your insurance enough to cover much of the cost.

Not exact matches

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».

For however bravely we may have looked at the possibilities (if we had any warning at all, however calmly we may have talked about them with the one who was about to die (and I had a chance to talk about the high risks with my first husband, and about the human hopelessness of his situation with my second), we are caught short.

In Oregon, babies die at the hands of CPMs at a much higher rate than they do in hospital, comparing low - risk women.

«Often the babies who died have overheated, because at that high risk age their thermal regulation system hasn't fully developed and the baby can't cool down, and they have either been between two adults or even on the end of the bed with the mother's arm around them.»

But they have higher risk of dying at home.

Well, the vast majority of women give birth in the hospital, especially those at the highest risk for complications, so of course there is a larger absolute number dying in the hospital.

It may also help explain why the US does comparatively well for perinatal outcomes but very badly in terms of infant mortality, if massive, high tech, emergency, intervention, which is readily available, has kicked the can down the road, past the neonatal period, but the baby dies at some later date (and it will be higher risk for the rest of infancy, at least, due to prematurity).

The probability of a baby dying from a home birth is approximately twice the probability of a child dying in a car accident at any point from birth to age 25, and ten times as high as the risk of dying in a car accident between birth and age 10.

The 0.5 % death rate of a higher - risk home birth is the same as the probability of a child dying between the ages of 1 and 18 from any cause at all.

«We do know that there are demographic and environmental risks,» Dr. Moon says, noting that African - American and Native American babies die of SIDS at two to three times the national average, for example, and babies who are born to women who smoked during pregnancy or to very young women are at a higher risk.

Women with the variant were at much higher risk for cancer, had more recurrences, were often hit with multiple cancers and were more likely to die from aggressive forms of these diseases.

In one study that examined data from over 38 million inpatients in North America, Devereaux and his colleagues determined that patients treated at investor - owned, private for - profit hospitals had a significantly higher risk of dying.

«When we looked at patients of European descent who died, they all carried at least one copy of the high - risk variant,» Thomas said.

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«Women with type 1 diabetes at significantly higher risk of dying early compared with men.»

Dr Rebecca Ghosh, co-author of the study from the School of Public Health at Imperial, said «Putting this in context, an individual who lived in a higher polluted area in 1971 had a 14 per cent higher risk of dying in 2002 to 2009 than someone who had lived in a lower polluted area.

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.

A pro-vegetarian diet — one that has a higher proportion of plant - based foods compared to animal - based foods is linked to lower risks of dying from heart disease and stroke, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association EPI / Lifestyle 2015 meeting.

In a research article, Flett and his co-authors Professor Paul Hewitt of the University of British Columbia and Professor Marnin Heisel of Western University note that physicians, lawyers and architects, whose occupations emphasize on precision, and also those in leadership roles are at higher risk for perfectionism - related suicide, citing the recent cases of prominent perfectionists who died by suicide.

We know that babies of low birth - weight are at a greater risk of developing diabetes and high blood pressure in later life, and have a greater chance of dying early from a heart attack or stroke as a consequence.

The new analysis, conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital, found that people who ate a lot of animal protein had a higher - than - average risk of dying over the next few decades, especially if they favored processed red meat over fish or poultry.

The researchers found that those with a higher body mass index (BMI) were at a greater risk of dying during the 10 - year study than normal - weight people.

A European study suggests that people with belly fat — even if they're at a healthy weight — have a higher risk of dying during a 10 - year period than their same - weight peers without a spare tire.

In the large Rotterdam study looking at dietary data from 4,000 adults over a period of 7 - 10 years, researchers found that those with the highest intakes of vitamin K2 had a 52 % reduced risk of severe arterial calcification and a 57 % lower risk of dying from heart disease (27).

That you're not gonna die of cardiovascular disease, or at least you're not showing one of the biggest risk factors for cardiovascular disease which should be low HDL and high triglycerides.

Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes were at almost double the risk of dying before 55, and those with high blood pressure were at some increased risk.

The problem is getting a handle on what exactly this means, particularly when these same changes seem to have no effect on lipid levels, and the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease is at best weakly associated with high salt consumption (15 % increase in risk).

If you have diabetes, fatigue may be a sign that your medication dosages may bee too high and you are at risk of dying from fatal arrhythmia.

My question for you is; since my mother died of breast cancer at age of 48, is there a higher risk for me being on the progesterone?

If you have high blood pressure, you are at increased risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke.

Take a hard look at your health: Because heart problems can sneak up on women (64 % of women die suddenly during their first heart attack without any warning signs at all, and 90 % of those women had at least one risk factor that could have been addressed), it's important to get an annual checkup and be aware of CVD risk factors: high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, tobacco use or second - hand exposure, obesity, and being overweight.

«We found that people who do not own cats have a 40 % higher risk of dying from a myocardial infarction (MI) than people who do keep cats as pets,» said Adnan Qureshi, M.D., of the Minnesota Stroke Institute in Minneapolis, told attendees at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference.

So it may be because the risk of cancer increases so much, and because large dogs are at such a higher risk of dying of cancer (roughly 50 % chance), that large dogs generally have shorter lives than small dogs (roughly 10 % chance of dying of cancer).

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

«Doctors or other healthcare professionals can measure grip strength to identify patients with major illnesses such as heart failure or stroke who are at particularly high risk of dying from their illness.»

In the event that you engage in high risk activities like Scuba Diving, Piloting a personal plane, Skydiving, Mountain Climbing, Auto / Motorcycle racing or any other activity which places you at risk of suddenly dying, you may want to consider acquiring further Life Insurance coverage.

You have a higher risk of dying because you are older, but they also have a lower amount at risk, so the two should even out.

That's because you may have a higher risk of dying at an earlier age than the average person.