Sentences with phrase «despite high levels of risk»

Benard (1991) Werner (1993) and others have discovered there are «protective factors,» that can help young people develop resilience despite high levels of risk: caring relationships, high expectations and meaningful participation and contribution.

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REDUCE - IT is the first multinational cardiovascular outcomes study evaluating the effect of prescription pure EPA therapy, or any triglyceride - lowering therapy, as an add - on to statins in patients with high cardiovascular risk who, despite stable statin therapy, have elevated triglyceride levels (150 - 499 mg / dL).

Within these vulnerable road user groups Britain has a higher level of deaths per head — at 13 per million people — than Sweden and the Netherlands, despite no evidence of higher activity or exposure to risk.

A new study shows that the drug fenofibrate might reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes who have high levels of triglycerides and low levels of «good» cholesterol, despite being treated with statins.

The authors excluded coffee from the analysis, despite its high antioxidant levels, because the antioxidants in coffee have already been shown to be associated with reduced type 2 diabetes risk, and might therefore mask the effects of antioxidants from other sources.

Though inflammation decreased as blood levels of those fatty acids rose, higher levels of oleic acid or long - chain omega - 3s did not appear to have any relationship to body composition or signs of decreased diabetes risk despite longstanding recommendations that people eat more of these «healthy» fats.

African Americans have higher blood levels of a protein associated with increased heart - disease risk than European Americans, despite higher «good»...

Despite the high levels of 52 % in 2001 and 55 % in 2003, there is a risk these values were underestimated, as owners of dogs in which MMVD already been detected may have been less motivated to participate in the study.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

What Bradbury and his colleague Justin Lavner found surprising was that some couples who were so satisfied at the four - year pass eventually divorced, despite having none of the risk factors identified in previous studies of relationship dissolution — wavering commitment, maladaptive personality traits, high levels of stress.