Sentences with phrase «established risk factor»

Those who reported working irregular or rotating shifts with usual night shifts were 44 percent more likely to have type 2 diabetes, after taking into account other established risk factors.

Adding information on missing teeth to established risk factors improved the risk discrimination of death.

This discovery is important from a medical standpoint because the only firmly established risk factors for the disease until now have been age, family history and ethnicity.

Chronic inflammation and chronic oxidative stress are well - established risk factors for type 2 diabetes.

After considering total calorie intake and other established risk factors, breast cancer risk was reduced in those consuming greater amounts of fiber, garlic, and onions (12).

Approximately two decades after the review by House and colleagues [1], a generation of empirical research validates their initial premise: Social relationships exert an independent influence on risk for mortality comparable with well established risk factors for mortality (Figure 6).

«To improve health and prevent chronic disease, we should stick to what is proven: encourage better lifestyles in general and target established risk factors in people at elevated risk,» they conclude.

«How these genetic factors interplay with other established risk factors remains to be fully understood.

Another clearly established risk factor is exposure to ionising radiation.

Comparison of Established Risk Factors among Type 2 Diabetic Patients with or without Retinopathy in Golestan Hospital, Ahvaz 2010

This confirms the idea that when affordability is attained across the population through universal health insurance, multiple factors such as parenting, parent's mental health, neighborhood characteristics, parent's background in terms of disadvantage, and other established risk factors continue to play a role in determining patterns of health care for children.

«Our findings indicate that sexual minorities living in communities with higher levels of prejudice die sooner than sexual minorities living in low - prejudice communities, and that these effects are independent of established risk factors for mortality, including household income, education, gender, ethnicity, and age, as well as the average income and education level of residents in the communities where the respondents lived,» said Dr. Hatzenbuehler.

In addition, they propose a unique solution, one more akin to the types of strategies used by thoughtful clinicians — namely, children in need might be best identified not only through the presence of early behavioural signs and symptoms but also through the convergence of other indicators, such as well established risk factors for adverse outcomes independent from the behavioural indicators themselves (eg, single parent status, family poverty, neuropsychological functioning, etc).

«There are established risk factors in the diabetes literature,» says Thakar.

«Interestingly, however, while supine [on the back] positioning has been a well - established risk factor for the development of plagiocephaly, we were not able to demonstrate a logical correlation to indicate more severe flattening from the supine position.»

If the mother is also exhausted or sedated, she may even fall asleep with the infant on her chest resulting in co-bedding, an established risk factor for SIDS.

Because most of the epidemiologic studies that established the risk factors and on which these recommendations are based include infants up to 1 year of age, these recommendations for sleep position and the sleep environment should be used consistently for infants up to 1 year of age.

Two well - established risk factors for EOC [ie, the use of oral contraceptives (OCs) and parity] have been hypothesized to decrease risk by suppressing ovulation, which has been explained by the «incessant ovulation» hypothesis (5) or related to decreasing gonadotropin concentrations (6 — 8).

Under the agreement announced today, judges will be required to consider well established risk factors, such as an offender's prior violation of an order of protection and the accused's access to guns.

But, they conclude, the new study, described in the August 15 issue of Arthritis and Rheumatology, could offer patients a viable way to control uric acid concentrations — and presumably gout flare - ups — through a diet already shown to have positive effects on blood pressure, a well - established risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Elevated plasma low - density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL - C) is an established risk factor of CVD, and dietary fatty acids play a significant role in modulating plasma LDL - C and thereby influencing the risk of CVD.

«Obesity is a well - established risk factor for breast cancer in the general population and some studies suggest that maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exercising or avoiding obesity may decrease the likelihood of developing cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.»

Overt hyperthyroidism is an established risk factor for osteoporosis and fractures.

If the mother is also exhausted or sedated, she may even fall asleep with the infant on her chest resulting in co-bedding, an established risk factor for SIDS.

Alcohol is an established risk factor for homicide perpetration and victimization.

High LDL, or what's considered «bad» cholesterol, is an established risk factor of Parkinson's, Willette said.

«The strength of associations found in this study is comparable to the modest increases that have been found in blood lead, an established risk factor for diminished IQ,» said Dr. Graziano.

These recommendations are based largely on a body of research that links higher sodium intakes to certain «surrogate markers» such as high blood pressure, an established risk factor for heart disease.

Previous studies have correlated decreased sleep times with established risk factors for calcification, including high blood pressure, excess weight, and poor glucose regulation.

In fact, it's hostility by itself that's a well - established risk factor for heart disease.

But did you know it's a well - established risk factor for MS, too?

«Contrary to current opinion, both small and large LDL were significantly associated with subclinical atherosclerosis independent of each other, traditional lipids, and established risk factors, with no association between LDL size and atherosclerosis after accounting for the concentrations of the two subclasses» (2).

In fact, as I discuss extensively in Chapter 16 of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food, soy protein isolate and other soy protein products are well - established risk factors for the exocrine type of pancreatic cancer that killed actors Michael Landon, Patrick Swayze and astronaut Sally Ride, but not for the much rarer endocrine type that killed Jobs.

Chronic inflammation and chronic oxidative stress are well - established risk factors for type 2 diabetes.

Obesity is a well - established risk factor for type 2 diabetes in cats and people.

Adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood are likely to be accompanied by other developmental risk factors for poor adult health, including family history of disease, 38 low birth weight, 39 and childhood overweight.40 It is thus important to test whether adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood exert an influence on adult outcomes that is independent of these established risk factors.

After controlling for these established risk factors (Table 2, panel 1, multivariate analysis), children who were maltreated (definite maltreatment: RR, 1.69; 95 % CI, 1.13 - 2.55) and children who were socially isolated (very high social isolation: 1.76; 1.12 - 2.77) were both at greater risk of becoming depressed in adulthood.

We, therefore, investigated overgeneral memory, psychopathology (depression and anxiety), and rumination (an established risk factor for psychopathology) longitudinally in 269 typically - developing youth (125 females, 144 males) across 3 annual assessment points.