Sentences with word «deciliter»

Four years ago, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention lowered the threshold that requires medical care for children testing positive for lead in their blood from 10 to 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood.

The current NCEP guidelines, published in 2001 and revised in 2004, recommend statins for heart disease patients with LDL («bad») cholesterol levels greater than 70 milligrams per deciliter of blood and for people who have a moderately elevated risk of heart disease as well as LDL levels above 100 mg / dL.

Blood lead levels have sharply declined among U.S. children ages 1 to 5, from nearly 90 percent having blood lead levels above 10 micrograms per deciliter in 1976 to 8 percent in 2010 according to the 2013 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

«For every 10 points above 10 micrograms per deciliter -LSB-(the U.S. Centers for Disease Control standard for treatment)-RSB- that your blood level goes up, your IQ drops.»

I have a recipe for saffron cake that calls for putting 1 deciliter grated almond paste between two layers of batter (raisins too, if you like!).

in the recipe is deciliters so you may need some help converting that to your units.

Ask for the number of micrograms per deciliter found in your child's blood.

A blood lead level of 12 is more than twice the five micrograms per deciliter level that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers problematic, and two points above what's widely considered poisoned.

The new law would lower the blood lead level needed for health and educational intervention from 10 micrograms / deciliter down to 5 micrograms / dl.

They found that the DASH diet led to a modest 0.35 milligrams per deciliter decrease in uric acid concentrations overall.

«One should remember that you typically eat only 1/2 -1 deciliter of sauce.

The investigators found that people with only one working copy of the gene had LDL cholesterol levels an average of 12 milligrams per deciliter lower than the wider population of people with two working copies of the gene.

The pigs that ate the venison containing lead fragments reached a lead level of 3.8 micrograms per deciliter after only two days — more than three times higher than the highest level in the control group of pigs, according to the study, which was sponsored by The Peregrine Fund, a group that advocates for the removal of lead shot to protect condors.

Recycling lead - containing electronics — whether old car batteries or cathode - ray tubes — has led to children in the vicinity of such operations, from China to Kenya, with lead levels as much as 10 times higher than the 10 micrograms per deciliter deemed safe by the World Health Organization.

Each 10 - microgram - per - deciliter rise in lead lowers intelligence levels by four to seven points on IQ tests, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Most importantly, they lowered their glucose levels below the threshold of 100 milligrams per deciliter when blood vessels start to become unhealthy.»

«This is a big deal because we know that with each 5 milligrams per deciliter drop in blood glucose, there is a significant reduction in cardiovascular risk,» Kashani said.

Plasma cholesterol in the 90 - 170 milligrams per deciliter range is positively associated with most cancer mortality rates.

I drink half deciliter with a lot of water daily, mainly before going to bed.

People taking the drug did see a drop in their triglyceride levels, by 14.5 milligrams per deciliter on average, compared with participants taking the placebo.

For each increase in hemoglobin of 1 gram above 7 grams per deciliter of blood, the likelihood of a good outcome increased by 33 percent.

Canine globulin levels normally fall between 2 and 3.8 grams per deciliter in the blood.

Normal testosterone levels in men change with age, but an acceptable reading is considered to be between 300 and 1,000 nanograms per deciliter.

However I live in Scandinavia and am used to weigh in gram / kilo and measure in liter / deciliter.

In Norway we use kilo og liters, deciliter and centilitres.

But levels of just 7 parts per billion are believed to be capable of increasing a person's blood level over 5 micrograms per deciliter - the current level of concern for health.

The baby receives about a deciliter of extra blood, which corresponds to two liters in an adult.

The benchmark is 10 micrograms lead per deciliter blood, but it is fairly well established that there is no safe level for lead, and health effects have been demonstrated at blood lead levels of 2.5 micrograms per deciliter blood.

A normal level is less than 2 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dL).

The child's blood lead level was 48 micrograms per deciliter, a level high enough to cause immediate health problems like anemia, fatigue, headaches, and severe abdominal pain.

Ryan is proposing it level be raised from 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood to five.

«Back in 1992, New York State set a blood level at 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood as the action level — child tested at 10, the public health people would spring into action to ensure they were fully evaluated,» remarked Ryan.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2012 adopted a stricter threshold for case management of 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood, which is equivalent to one grain of sugar dropped in 3.3 gallons of liquid.

But Tika Bhattarai's family did not because her son tested for a blood lead level of 7.5 micrograms per deciliter of blood.

«We are in full support of their work and County Executive Poloncarz's proposal to expand their impact by providing services for children who have between blood lead levels of 5 - 9 micrograms per deciliter.»

Those figures are based on the state's threshold of 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood.

The city now sets the limit at 15 micrograms per deciliter, but the bill would lower it to 5 - the level counted by the federal Centers for Disease control.

Federal guidelines now require action when a child's blood - lead level tests at least 5 micrograms per deciliter.

For those with the highest baseline uric acid levels — more than 7 milligrams per deciliter — for example, the decrease was as high as 1.3 milligrams per deciliter.

Gout - treating medications, such as allopurinol, often reduce patients» blood uric acid concentrations about 2 milligrams per deciliter.

In 1991, the Centers for Disease Control set a federal standard of 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood.

The analysis found that statins were more likely to reduce the risk of death when LDL cholesterol levels were 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dl) or greater, whether or not they were used with other LDL - lowering drugs.

Our lowest dose is near the current U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's blood lead action level of 5 micrograms per deciliter, while the higher dose mirrors exposure levels during the 1960s and 70s,» said Dana Dolinoy, U-M associate professor of environmental health sciences and of nutrition sciences.

In the 1970s, about 88 percent of kids 5 years old or younger had excessive blood lead levels (greater than 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood), according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

This dramatic decrease is in spite of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cutting its lead guideline in half, to 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood, last October in response to mounting scientific evidence that low levels can harm children's developing brains.

The men with the lowest level of urate had levels of less than 4.9 milligrams per deciliter.

Those who ate wild game meat had average lead levels of 1.27 micrograms per deciliter, compared with 0.84 for those who ate no game.

At 654 milligrams per deciliter, the blood sugar was elevated to some seven times its normal value, and a moderate degree of acidosis was present.