Sentences with phrase «control known risk factors»

«In a league where hundreds of millions of dollars are lost in a year to injury, every effort should be made to control known risk factors related to injury.

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That fact can be startling, but when you know the facts about heart disease and which factors are within your control, you'll be empowered to take proactive steps and decrease your risk of heart disease.

The researchers carefully controlled for several known risk factors for stillbirth: obesity, smoking, low socioeconomic status, maternal age, and number of prior children.

SMMIS allowed us to control for nearly all of the known risk factors for PPH, many of which were also associated with intended place of birth and would therefore almost certainly have caused problems of confounding had they not been included as model covariates.

She and her colleagues knew that chromatin regulators — which control how genetic material gains access to a cell's transcriptional machinery — were key to treating the social deficits in ASD, but the challenge was to know how to affect key risk factors at once.

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.

The size of increased relative risk ranged from 5 % to 50 %, after controlling for known CV risk factors.

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.

«The higher risk of tumor recurrence that we observed among African American women was reduced when controlling for those factors, suggesting that these genomic differences contribute, at least partly, to the known racial disparity in the survival of African American and Caucasian breast cancer patients.»

«These differences remained statistically significant and robust even when we controlled for multiple known risk factors for initiating cigarette smoking, such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sensation seeking, parental smoking and friend smoking,» Dr. Primack said.

The researchers controlled for factors already known to increase the risk for postpartum depression, including pre-existing depression and anxiety, as well as post-delivery pain caused by tissue trauma during childbirth.

We then tested whether known risk factors for T2D, including obesity and hyperglycemia, affect DNA methylation of the 15,627 CpG sites differentially methylated in case - control cohort 2, already in nondiabetic subjects.

The authors» «research methods» were virtually non-existent and they didn't control for any factors other than hours spent wearing a bra — an obvious one being obesity, which is a well - known risk factor for breast cancer.

While complex statistical methods are often used to «control» or «account» for students» levels of risk or risk factors, much debate exists about the extent to which such statistical controls, no matter how sophisticated, indeed work (e.g., to partly / wholly eliminate «bias»).

Such instruction may include, but is not limited to, the known modes of transmission, signs and symptoms, risk factors associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and means used to control the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Compared with control children, they had more difficulties with friendships, 29 poorer theory of mind, 16 difficulties labelling and understanding the causes of common emotions, 16 increased fantasy proneness and difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality, 31 increased negative attributional style, dysfunctional attitudes, rumination and self - criticism.32 They also experience difficulties in the mother — child relationship, with four studies reporting high levels of disrupted attachment styles, 21, 29, 31, 32 and in role - play scenarios elevated levels of role - reversal with parents, fear of abandonment, and negative expectations of parents.31 These factors are known to put children at risk of poor mental health outcomes, and indeed, this appears to be the case.

To our knowledge, this is the first study to uncover the association between maternal — infant relationship qualities (sensitivity, control, unresponsiveness) and childhood AD after accounting for risk (maternal depression, anxiety and stress) and protective (social support) factors and well - known covariates.

Based on these mixed results and limitations in generalizability, more studies are needed with (a) adequate controls for key socioeconomic and family composition factors known to be associated with behavior problems in children, (b) early assessment of temperament, (c) samples that include higher risk children (e.g., low - income families, children with health problems, etc.), and (d) controls for behavior problems that predate the exposure to recent family conflict.