Sentences with phrase «effects of smoking such»

If you experience the side - effects of smoking such as COPD or emphysema, then this changes a little as you may have to choose the guaranteed acceptance insurance which is priced higher than the permanent life insurance.

Not exact matches

Meat processing methods such as curing, smoking or cooking can result in the formation of potentially cancer - causing (carcinogenic) chemicals that can have a negative effect on an individual's health, according to Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

To separate the effects of poor sleep from other factors that also contribute to a risk of preterm birth, the researchers used a case - control design: 2,265 women with a sleep disorder diagnosis during pregnancy were matched to controls who did not have such a diagnosis, but had identical maternal risk factors for preterm birth, such as a previous preterm birth, smoking during pregnancy, or hypertension.

«It is a limitation of observational studies, such as the smoking and depression example, that scientists can only find links and correlations between actions and effects,» Wiedermann said.

However, scientists suspect these studies do not reflect the true effect of BMI on health, because early stages of illness, health - damaging behaviours, such as cigarette smoking, and other factors can lead to both lower BMI and increased risk of death.

But in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Elizabeth Barrett - Connor and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, describe how they found that the effect of drinking coffee on bone density in women was independent of other factors such as smoking and exercise.

The effects of PTSD on heart disease remained strong even after researchers accounted for lifestyle factors such as smoking, physical activity level, and drinking; and major depression and other psychiatric diagnoses.

«Because of the direct link between nicotine itself and inflammation, this study has important implications including that alternative forms of nicotine inhalation, such as vaping that lacks other chemicals from cigarette smoke, may nonetheless still have detrimental immunological effects.»

Another area where visual effects could be improved, according to Benza, is the simulation of natural phenomena such as smoke, fire and water.

The effect of parental smoking and dependence persisted after controlling for factors such as adolescent use of alcohol and other drugs.

Factors such as gender, smoking, asbestos exposure and disease stage did not have an effect on whether patient's disease was positive for PD - L1 expression, but researchers did find that expression of the protein was more common in non-epithelial tumours compared to epithelial tumours.

Also, countries with higher male smoking rates such as India or Bangladesh could effect on higher asthma and wheezing rates as a result of more exposure to second - hand smoke.

Both cigarette smoke and nicotine have been shown to inhibit pulmonary T cell responses, including secretion of IFNγ, and enhance susceptibility to virus infection [31, 33], which suggests that exposure to nicotine, such as in E-cigs, may exhibit immunosuppressive effects.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

First is the doctor prescribing of the correct medication and dosage that will help the client the best, and the 2nd half of treatment is teaching clients the necessities in life such healthy eating (and eating the correct kinds of fats), the proper amount of sleep necessary (at least 8 hours), the unhealthy consequence of smoking (do not do it) and how stress effects the both the body and the mind.

And while side effects range from breakthrough bleeding to way lighter periods to skin changes, pills that contain estrogen can raise a woman's risk of certain health conditions, such as blood clots (if you also smoke).

It may be, then, that a certain level of vitamin E deficiency is needed to «activate» some of the harmful effects of smoking, and that poor - quality animal fats and a few helpings of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are the best way to achieve this, but that fats that weren't tested in this study such as high - quality butter or relatively saturated but vitamin E-rich virgin palm oil may provide the most superior protection.

Still, after adjusting for other factors such as smoking, the findings do suggest a favorable effect of a plant - based diet on the prevalence of allergies.

This effect was independent of other risk factors, such as age, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, smoking history and alcohol use.

This is likely due to multiple risk factors, such as a higher rate of smoking, medication side effects and poor diet, among others.

Suppose you were a young adult male, who is highly athletic (exercises every day), has well diversified diet of fruits and vegetables (still eating meat though), would such a lifestyle have a nulling effect if that person were to also smoke cigars every week?

«Given that the effect of social connections on risk for heart disease and stroke and death is equivalent and, in many cases, exceeds that of other factors such as light smoking, obesity, high blood pressure and air quality, we need to start taking social connection seriously for our health,» she said.

Facts on smoking, such as how many people smoke, the effects of smoking and the range of cancers it can cause.

«Marijuana impairs many of the skills required for safe driving, such as concentration, coordination, perception and reaction time, and these effects can last up to 24 hours after smoking the drug.

The detrimental effects of smoking on the smoker, as well as on their family, have been widely publicised, and it is well known that smoking, as well as passive smoking, can cause serious health problems, such as cancer, heart disease, stroke and lung disease.

d) the damaging effects of toxins are dose - dependent in a linear fashion down to zero, where even a tiny amount of a toxin, such as radiation or cigarette smoke, will harm some people... and

Graphically, Dead Effect 2 has some flare that helps it to excel in its horror elements such as flickering lights, sparks and smoke effects, while enemy models are appropriately scary in design, spaceship environments are futuristic in design and weapons look fiercely capable of destroying the oncoming hordes of zombies amongst other enemies which all plays out at a frantic yet consistent pace.

Some scientists are revisiting some basic assumptions of climate prediction models, such as the effects of clouds and smoke particles in the atmosphere.

As to the substantive issue, contrary to the view of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), the court held that preventing a person from smoking did not generally involve such an adverse effect upon their physical or moral integrity, or upon any of the other concepts cited above, as would amount to an interference with their right to respect for private or home life (para 101).

In general, these two levels of coverage will take effect in the event of a hurricane, storm, hail or wind damage, sleet, ice, snow or rain damage, damage caused by negligence of others such as fire damage, smoke damage or flooding damage as well as damage intentionally caused by other people such as theft, vandalism and riots.

Rental coverage comes into effect in the event of any natural disaster, such as an earthquake, landslide or tornado, in the event of any accident, such as a broken pipe, fire, smoke from a fire or water damage, in the event of weather damage, such as damage from snow, sleet, ice, hail and rain, and in the event of negligence of others such as theft, vandalism, arson or civil commotion.

Bad habits such as smoking cigarettes and consumption of alcohol have an adverse effect on the premium amount.

Further studies should examine whether contextual variables, such as character traits of smokers (identity factors) or level of movie violence (arousal factors) modify the effect of movie smoking on adolescent behavior.

Third, even after taking into account the effects of (1) established developmental risk factors and (2) concurrent circumstances and behaviors such as low SES, smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet at 32 years of age, each adverse childhood experience still predicted a greater number of age - related - disease risks at that age (Table 3, panels 3 and 4).

There were significant interactions between age and number of movie channels, number of videotaped movies watched per week, and R - rated movie restriction such that the effect of these on exposure to movie smoking diminished with age.

The potential effects on pregnancy and lactation of alternative forms of nicotine, such as e-cigarettes and vaping, as well as medications used to help with smoking cessation, are also discussed.

As hypothesized, main effects emerged such that smokers with higher health literacy reported stronger smoking risk perceptions and demonstrated greater smoking risk knowledge retention, regardless of message type, whereas smokers with lower health literacy reported lower levels of perceived risk and knowledge retention in response to all of the messages.

It found a significant «dosage» effect between the number of such experiences reported and increased risk, in adulthood, for cardiovascular, lung, and liver disease; depression; smoking; drug and alcohol abuse; obesity; risky sexual behaviors; and early mortality.

When the model was estimated with mothers» self - reports, there was a significant effect of normative beliefs, but not legitimacy or behaviors (Wald χ2 [1] = 4.89, p <.03, OR = 1.37), such that mothers who reported less negative beliefs about their child's smoking were more likely to have a child who had smoked.

For child reports of fathers» parenting, there was a significant effect of antismoking behaviors, but not legitimacy or normative beliefs (Wald χ2 [1] = 15.57, p <.001, OR = 2.33), such that adolescents who viewed their fathers» parenting behaviors as less antismoking were more likely to have smoked.