Not exact matches
A large 2011 study of close to 39,000 older women
over 25 years found that women who took them in the long term actually had a higher overall
risk of
death than those who did not.
Specifically, the task force says the «harms and costs of false - positive results,
over diagnosis and overtreatment» outweigh any «significant reductions in the relative
risk of
death from breast cancer.»
Overall, participants who maintained healthy eating patterns throughout the study period lowered their
risk of
death between 9 - 14 %, with even those who started out with unhealthy eating patterns seeing a reduced
risk the more healthy food they added
over time.
Cheerleading is one of the highest
risk sporting events for direct catastrophic injuries that can result in permanent brain injury, paralysis or
death, with cheerleading accounting for an astounding 66 percent of all catastrophic injuries in high school female athletes
over the past 25 years.
The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress
over the past two decades in improving many youth
risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of
death in their age group, car crashes.
The consistency
over a 6 year period demonstrates beyond doubt that homebirth increases the
risk of neonatal
death.
When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running
over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased
risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or
death.)
Your «freezer stash» doesn't need to be huge, having just what you need at least lowers the
risk of crying
over milk defrosted due to the freezer becoming unplugged, power outage, or just a tragic freezer
death.
In Oregon, there have been at least 19 newborn
deaths reported to the state
over the past decade for a
death rate more than 4 times higher than low
risk hospital birth.
In addition to presiding
over the preventable
deaths of low
risk mothers, they'd like to try their hands at increasing the rate of preventable
deaths of high
risk mothers.
Studies warn against swaddling due to an increased
risk of SIDS — sudden infant
death syndrome — if babies get overheated or turn
over on their stomachs while swaddled.
In theory, they are supposed to reduce the
risk of Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS) by preventing the baby from rolling
over onto her side or stomach.
Over the following year, I proceeded to analyze the BMJ 2005 study and demonstrate that it actually shows that homebirth with a CPM in 2000 had a
death rate nearly triple that of low
risk hospital birth in the same year.
And so, a recent German Study of about
over 300 infants who had died from Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome, they were compared with 1000 age - matched controls and found that breastfeeding reduced the
risk of SIDS by 50 percent.
During the third month, they can roll
over to a position that increases the
risk of Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Suggestions are being made, and local county policies are being formulated (see Gettler and McKenna 2010) that make the assumption that parents have no rights whatsoever to read infant
death or mortality data differently, and to become informed
over what and where the legitimate disagreements
over the bedsharing issue are, so that they can make up their own minds as to how known bedsharing
risk factors apply to their own circumstances.
Health
risks associated with formula feeding
over the long term include increased incidence of infectious morbidity, childhood obesity, both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia, and sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS).
Over the whole 14 years the
risk of
death during delivery or in the first four weeks of life in a baby of normal birth weight and without a lethal malformation was higher in those born to the small group of women who had booked for home delivery.
It may be required by regulation for prescription drugs, for
over the counter medications, for pesticides, or for household chemicals where there is a significant
risk of
death from ingestion.
The reasons for this disapproval are manifold: that co sleeping increases the
risk of Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS) due to a parent rolling
over on to or otherwise inadvertently smothering the child, that it increases a child's dependence on the parents for falling asleep, that it may interfere with the intimacy of a couple, and that process of separation when the child eventually sleeps apart from the parents may be difficult.
Risky labor inductions for «convenience» and all the complications associated with them — increased
risk of prematurity, C - section, bladder and bowel injury, and maternal
death — are now on the rise all
over the country.
Additionally, in
over half of these cases other major
risk factors, such as smoke exposure or sleeping on soft surfaces, were present at the
death scene.
«Battling
over Birth is a critical and timely resource for understanding black women's birthing experiences in the United States, a country where black women's lives — and the lives they create — are at much greater
risk of
death and injury than those of non-black women... By distilling the common and diverse threads from
over 100 black women, the BWBJ researchers have woven a multi-faceted tapestry that reflects what black women view as important and central to optimal birth experiences.
Over the typical length of a major clinical trial, the overall
risk of
death is low to begin with.
There, she studied the contribution to global
death tolls, and their trajectories
over time, of cardiometabolic
risk factors (including high blood pressure and obesity) and undernutrition.
Over the next few days, the threat of
death ebbed, though the
risk that he would never walk normally remained.
Over a median follow - up of nearly eight years, patients who were current smokers had a 40 % increased
risk of cancer relapse, as well as more than 2 - times increased
risks of cancer spread and cancer - related
death, compared with patients who were never smokers.
Professor Anderson said studies had shown that high intensity exercise
over a sedentary lifestyle significantly reduced the
risk of
death.
«Persistent mental distress linked to higher
risk of
death in heart patients: But no such association found for mild or occasional distress
over the long term.»
The study finds that overwhelmingly the greatest
risk of canine rabies is in the poorest countries; the
death rate (
deaths / 100,000 people) is highest in countries in sub-Saharan Africa, while India has the highest number of fatalities, with
over 20,000 human
deaths annually.
The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and
over and also those in high
risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated
deaths in these groups
over the past 14 years.
Cases of pertussis (whooping cough) have increased dramatically
over the past five years, putting infants at
risk of serious illness or
death.
In a new study, a hospital surveillance program focusing on reducing the
risks of sepsis, known as the two - stage Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system, was found to reduce the
risk of adverse outcomes, such as
death and hospice discharge for sepsis patients, by 30 %
over the course of one year.
And, Shah says, a comprehensive package of interventions that coupled targeted screening of high -
risk groups, improved linkage to care, and enhanced retention and re-engagement in care was projected to have the greatest benefit, averting a projected 752,000 new HIV infections and 276,000 AIDS
deaths at a cost of $ 96 billion
over 20 years, or $ 45,300 per QALY gained.
Patients already in hospital
over the weekend do not have an increased
risk of
death.
Soldiers at highest
risk also had significantly elevated
risks of unintentional injury
deaths, suicide attempts and rehospitalizations
over the follow - up period.
Some of the — a publication actually that'll be coming out in the New England Journal today that myself with many other collaborators worked on, we showed that in Guinea it was actually an older group of people,
over 40 or 45 I think it was who were the ones most at
risk of
death.
The authors noted the findings may play a role in the ongoing debate
over pre-participation ECG screenings for preventing sudden
death in athletes by offering a new perspective on the greatest health
risk for runners.
Over the period studied, Scott Lear at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and his colleagues found that 150 minutes of activity per week reduced the
risk of early
death by 28 per cent and rates of heart disease by a fifth.
H: In men with normal cholesterol levels, the
risk of
death for those between ages 45 and 65
over the course of the next five years is only a fraction of 1 percent lower than it is for men with high serum cholesterol in the same category.
Heart disease
deaths have almost halved
over the past 40 - 50 years, particularly in high income countries, thanks largely to the identification of the common
risk factors involved and national public health initiatives, say the authors.
Furthermore, in a separate group of 220 CKD patients, high levels of TMAO in the bloodstream were linked with an increased
risk of atherosclerosis and
death over a 4 - year period.
Using this method, the researchers revealed that the
death risk of the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic in the Republic of Korea for patients with an illness prior to MERS infection was as high as 48.2 % for those
over 60 years while it was below 15 % for younger patients.
US researchers have found a link between middle - aged and older adults in the US losing their wealth
over two years and an increased
risk of
death.
We estimated the
risk of
death due to cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 - 69 year olds from data from the Office for National Statistics.19 We assumed that this
death rate was approximately that of the non-smoking population, because around 12 % of this age group smoke.20 We multiplied this rate by the relative
risk of
death from cardiorespiratory causes in lifelong smokers to estimate the number of
deaths that would be expected
over five years from cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 year olds who smoke.
The
risk of cardiovascular related illness and
death is known to decrease after smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease, 40 reducing dramatically
over the first three years, 41 but reducing the
risk of developing lung cancer after smoking cessation generally takes longer.9 41 This review has found evidence that after lung cancer has been diagnosed, reductions in
risk of developing a second primary or recurrence were associated with quitting within seven years, suggesting that, even at this stage, the prognostic outlook can be improved by smoking cessation.
Myelosuppression is a well - established side effect of current AML therapies, with prolonged events leading to an increased
risk of infections and
death.44 Consequently, therapies that preferentially kill leukemic cells
over normal bone marrow cells are urgently required, and the overexpression of CD123 on AML leukemic stem cells and blasts compared with normal hematopoietic cells contributes to its attractiveness as a therapeutic target in this disease.6, 45 However, severe myelosuppression and myeloablation have emerged for some investigational CD123 - targeted treatment modalities.
Researchers followed 136,000 people in the U.S. and Japan for seven years and learned that those who reported feeling a strong sense of meaning in life had a roughly 20 percent lower
risk of
death over the course of the study than those who didn't.
For example, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that
over a nine - year period, consuming more dietary fiber lowered the
risk of
death from any cause.
In
over 34,000 post-menopausal women, intake of flavonoid - rich foods such as bran, apples, pears, grapefruit, strawberries, red wine and chocolate was associated with a lower
risk of heart disease and all - cause
deaths.