Sentences with phrase «families are at high risk»

Today, 2 out of 3 middle - class families are at high risk of losing or not sustaining their economic security.

Additionally, adolescents in single - mother and single - father families are at higher risk of risky behaviors, victimization, and mental distress compared to those in two - parent families.

We also know these families are at higher risk of mortality, are more likely to be admitted to hospital and have higher incidences of mental health problems.

They have studied how «secondhand sugars» found in breast milk might negatively affect a baby's future body weight, how a concussion might interrupt a child's normal brain development and how teens in military families are at higher risk of depression and suicidal thoughts.

Not exact matches

With interest rates at record lows, family and friends may be willing to take a higher risk for a higher short term return.

Noonan et al (2005), examining the lives of families at high risk of living in poverty, found that having a young child in poor health reduced the father's probability of being employed by four percentage points.

I just wonder how many crunchy / granola families would be so forgiving and not bring any kind of case against a healthcare professional who allowed a mother to have a high risk delivery at home / in the bathtub / etc.

For future research, Berlin is looking at programs that work with low - income or high - risk families and try to promote supportive parenting behaviors.

Genetic meaning that maybe she has a personal history of mental illness or a family history of mental illness, she might be at higher biological risk because she might be an older mother, maybe has gone through infertility, pregnancy loss maybe she has multiples.

Love Makes a Family: I am a full time stay at home mom to my 2 year old son born to us after a high - risk Hyperemesis Gravidarum pregnancy.

If your child is overweight or at risk for being overweight, or if there is a family history of obesity, high blood pressure, or heart disease, your pediatrician may recommend 2 % milk (reduced fat) instead.

The infrastructure would ensure that programs are high quality, true to their intended model, and linked to other critical early childhood systems, thereby creating a seamless and holistic network of support for at risk families.

Although they might not meet the full criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is approximately 3 % and rises to 15 % for women at high risk, mothers are coming away from their births feeling traumatized, which is not a good way to start family life.

Still, health care providers should not treat all families as if they are at high risk for insufficient breastmilk supply, according to Elizabeth Smith, a «baby - friendly» coordinator in charge of breastfeeding education policy for the University of Utah Health Care hospital system.

Kids are at higher risk of developing food allergies if one or more close family members have allergies or allergy - related conditions, like food allergies, eczema, or asthma.

Still, if you've got a strong family or personal history of allergies (at least one immediate relative, such as a parent or sibling, with an allergy), your infant is likely high - risk.

Kids are at higher risk for food allergies if they or a close family member have allergies or allergy - related conditions (like eczema or asthma).

Families living at high altitudes should be aware of a 2x higher risk of SIDS says a new study reported by the New York Times.

First - time parents; Parents of multiples; Cesarean section birth / recovery; Families with little local support; Women who want to breastfeed; Families with other young children; Women at risk for or experiencing postpartum depression & anxiety; Premature births / babies on apnea monitors; Women who have experienced difficult deliveries; Babies with colic or reflux;, Families with high anxiety levels; Babies with special needs; New parents with limited experience with newborns; Women who have been on bed rest throughout pregnancy; New parents with no family nearby.

(3) to ensure that clinicians and other health - care personnel, community health workers and families, parents and other caregivers, particularly of infants at high risk, are provided with enough information and training by health - care providers, in a timely manner on the preparation, use and handling of powdered infant formula in order to minimize health hazards; are informed that powdered infant formula may contain pathogenic microorganisms and must be prepared and used appropriately; and, where applicable, that this information is conveyed through an explicit warning on packaging;

(New York, NY)-- Two weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention — a non-partisan coalition of legislators from across the country — announced today that lawmakers in 30 states have introduced or are planning to introduce Extreme Risk Protection Order legislation that would empower family members and law enforcement to help prevent gun violence.

Project Lifesaver is an electronic tracking system used by specially trained members of the Erie County Sheriff's Office to locate and rescue children and adults in our community that are at a high risk of wandering away from their families and caregivers.

American Family Association hate group mouthpiece Bryan Fischer said that gays should not be allowed to parent children because children in same - sex homes are at a higher risk for sexual molestation, citing the deeply flawed Mark Regnerus study and the Jerry Sandusky Penn State abuse case, Right Wing Watch reports.

With 71 per cent of families in owner occupation - the highest in the Western world - the private sector is not far from market saturation, with penal income / price ratios putting first time buyers at increasing risk should there be an economic slow down.

The Homeowner Protection Program (HOPP), which was launched in June 2012, is a network of almost 90 housing counseling and legal services agencies that provide free, high - quality assistance to at - risk families across New York to help them avoid foreclosure.

«If family planning reduces the high - risk, high - parity women who have had many children and are at higher risk of death, then certainly it should reduce the maternal mortality ratio,» Black says.

«I was taught that SCAD was rare and the causes entirely unknown, but through our partnership with SCAD survivors and their families, clues are emerging that may change that,» says Sharonne Hayes, M.D., senior author and cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. «We know from previous research that SCAD occurs most often in younger women with no or minimal cardiovascular risk factors, like high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

The clinic monitors people who are already at high risk of pancreatic cancer due to family history or having known risk - raising genetic mutations.

In the study, the researchers found distinctive brain differences in children known to be at high risk because of family history of depression.

Women with a family history of two or more immediate family members (mother, sister, daughter) with breast or ovarian cancer or with a positive genetic test for mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes may be advised to consider having both breasts removed, because they are at high risk of a new cancer developing in the other breast.

«We found that even in those with high levels of vitamin D over 50 ng / mL, there was not an increased risk of hypercalcemia, or elevated serum calcium, with increasing levels of vitamin D,» says study co-author Thomas D. Thacher, M.D., a family medicine expert at Mayo Clinic.

«Because of the analytical approach used, these findings apply only to mothers and infants who would be eligible for delivery by either family physicians or specialists in at least some jurisdictions in the country,» and not to high - risk mothers who are referred to specialists based on risk criteria.

Various international agencies recommend CBT as treatment for high - risk young people, says Paolo Fusar - Poli, a psychiatrist at King's College London whose office is in an unmarked building so families will feel more comfortable.

Individuals who have had mild or transient psychotic symptoms (such as unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances) without using substances such as marijuana or alcohol and have a family history of psychosis or other risk factors are considered at clinical high risk for psychotic disorder.

When you look at those families, you're going to make a very high estimate of risk.

They also found that members of these families appeared to be at higher risk of developing other cancers including melanoma and endometrial cancer.

«The high concentration of suicide risk in the 5 percent of highest - risk hospitalizations is striking,» said lead author Ronald Kessler, McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

«Up to 60 per cent of women will start their pregnancy overweight, many women are having children at an older age, and most people have a family member with Type 2 diabetes, so traditional risk factors are starting to apply to more and more people, which prevent us from properly identifying those at a high risk.»

Twin and family studies have shown that people with first - degree relatives (such as a parent, sibling, or child) who have OCD are at a higher risk for developing OCD themselves.

Those who have a family history of a certain disease are at higher risk.

To be certain that adoptees at high - genetic risk did not have an effect on their families as to increase dysfunction, the proportion of the families» levels of dysfunction between the low - genetic risk and high - genetic risk adoptee families were compared, and there were no significant differences found.

The first is that the Finnish national database that was consulted for sampling purposes is so extensive that they were able to find adoptees and families at high - and low - genetic risk for schizophrenia - spectrum disorders that were matched on demographic variables (age, education, income level, household size, etc.).

This is especially valuable for those patients with diseases that compromise or create an abnormal immune system as well as for those apparently healthy individuals who are at higher risk of developing diseases due to family history or exposure to certain environmental conditions.

The information suggests the protective effect of being reared in a healthy adoptive family, with the risk for these high - genetic - risk adoptees developing schizophrenia in healthy families at 5.8 % compared with 36.8 % for those reared in «dysfunctional» families.

An Emotional Training program «Mind Reading» developed by Researcher Simon Baron - Cohen is software designed for autistic children, but being used in schizophrenia research and possibly of value to children at high risk of schizophrenia (i.e. a child with close family relatives who have had schizophrenia).

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

The Sabin Family Fellows Award was established to encourage creative, independent thinking and high - risk, high - impact research at MD Anderson.

Typically, cardiac arrest risk factors are the same as those that put a person at risk for any heart problems, like high blood pressure or cholesterol and a family history of heart disease or cardiac arrest.

The researchers — who examined data on more than 8,000 children up to age 14 — did find that breast - feeding was linked to a reduced risk of obesity and hyperactivity and measures of higher intelligence, but that breast advantage evaporated once they looked at families where one child was breast - fed and one wasn't (my exact situation — my older son got the breast while the younger one had to settle for formula because I had low supply).

Being overweight, older than 45, or having a family history of the disease are all key factors that can put you at a higher risk.