Sentences with phrase «cumulative risk exposure»

Multiple studies have examined longitudinal relations between duration of poverty exposure since birth, cumulative risk exposure, and cognitive performance.

One measure of cumulative risk exposure is basal blood pressure and overnight cortisol levels.

Not exact matches

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

In a large population - based study of randomly selected participants in Germany, researchers found that mild cognitive impairment (MCI) occurred significantly more often in individuals diagnosed with a lower ankle brachial index (ABI), which is a marker of generalized atherosclerosis and thus cumulative exposure to cardiovascular risk factors during lifetime.

They also tracked Apolipoprotein E (APOE 4), a well - known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's, as well as lifetime cumulative exposure to unhealthy levels of PM2.5 — particles which are at least 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair and frequently cause the haze over urban areas.

Survey data suggest reported cumulative pesticide exposure was associated with increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.

Any increased exposure to radiation contributes to a cumulative theoretical lifetime risk, including flying on a plane, but the risk from a single x-ray is miniscule.

For a medically indicated xray, the diagnostic benefit outweighs the minimal risk, so although it is always prudent to be aware of cumulative xray exposure, worrying excessively about X-rays could lead to imprudent and dangerous health care decisions.

«The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure [per mammogram] increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening.»

In this episode, I discuss the strengths and limitations of using Hba1c to measure our cumulative recent exposure to blood glucose and diabetes risk.

I mean, I have one uh — journal article, basically talking about the cumulative antibiotic exposure is the biggest risk factor for Clostridium difficile infection, CDI.

We don't just rely on one antibiotic, because we do know that one of the biggest riks — risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection is cumulative antibiotic exposure according to literature, right?

The study, Cancer and non-cancer health effects from food contaminant exposures for children and adults in California: a risk assessment also discussed in this article, Kids may risk cancer from toxins in food looked at cumulative toxin load in children for 11 food based toxins in 44 foods and found that all of the 364 children exceeded cancer benchmark levels for arsenic, dieldrin, DDE (a DDT metabolite), and dioxins.

«The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening...»

An ongoing epidemiological study found that Actos patients with the longest exposure and highest cumulative dose had a greater risk for developing this type of cancer.

The findings suggest a significant role of cumulative risk experiences depending on the duration of exposure to poverty, as well as sensitive periods during early life.10, 12 The effect of poverty appears to be slightly stronger on verbal than on non-verbal skills, confirming previous findings.50, 51

Cumulative or chronic exposure to violence was most clearly associated with asthma risk, consistent with the notion that stress beginning in infancy may sensitize children to later stress and more adverse consequences.

Finally, for children growing up with family conflict, exposure to community violence may have a cumulative impact on distress symptoms and thereby influence both physiological and behavioral coping strategies that elevate risk for early obesity.

I guess children who have a number of risk factors, and particularly if those are either severe or sustained over time, are much more at risk of poor developmental outcomes than those children who might have exposure to one or two risks, which are either short or intermittent, but there's not that sense of cumulative risk.

These results are consistent with the conclusion that reckless driving in movies directly impacted adolescent future reckless driving practices, whereas frequent overall screen exposure may have stimulated reckless driving through exposure to a variety of other risk - taking behaviors such as excessive drinking, movie violence and their cumulative impact on sensation seeking tendencies [35], [62] Previous research indicates that adolescents who frequently watch R - rated movies, rated such for portraying higher levels of risk taking behavior and violence [35] show increases in sensation seeking over time [63].

In many LMICs, faecal contamination of home environments is nearly universal and, as Ngure et al10 note, such exposure may contribute to a constant and cumulative health risk precisely when children should be experiencing their greatest growth.

Within these trajectories, certain subgroups of children are more at risk due to exposure to multiple, cumulative, and prolonged environmental or genetic risk factors, such as poor attachment, maternal depression, and poverty.