Sentences with phrase «group at highest risk»

Among children under the age of 5 — the group at the highest risk of severe disease and death from malaria — there were 16 % fewer cases in the villages that received ivermectin at 3 - week intervals.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

People who identify as African American, for example, are as a group at higher risk for disorders that do have a genetic component, such as hypertension and diabetes.

«By identifying groups at higher risk for electronic bullying, it is hoped that targeted awareness and prevention strategies can be put in place.»

If countries have enough vaccine, they can reduce disease and death by vaccinating groups at higher risk, such as pregnant women, those with chronic health conditions, or even all healthy young adults between 15 and 49 years old, the age group that appears most vulnerable.

«Now we have evidence that psychosocial treatment — which provides support, not medication — is able to prevent suicide in a group at high risk of dying by suicide.»

They also suggest that the true scope of the problem may be even greater, since NHANES excludes some groups at high risk of illicit drug use.

This incidence is not directly comparable to that observed in unselected populations because to minimize reverse causation, we excluded women with severe depressive symptoms at baseline, thus eliminating a group at higher risk of depression.

The proposal is outlined in the Ukip manifesto and includes an «integration agenda» which states that the party intends to «implement school - based medical checks on girls from groups at high risk of suffering FGM.

«Paradoxical though it may seem, these ostensibly privileged youth, many of who start experimenting early and often with drinking and drugs, could well be among the groups at highest risk for alcoholism and addiction in adulthood.»

Groups at highest risk of developing side effects from taking fluoroquinolones include those over 60 years of age and people who have had heart, lung or kidney transplants.

There are very few studies of urban youth in poor metabolic control, a group at higher risk for T1DM complications compared to suburban youth with lower HbA1c (Delamater et al., 1999).

Not exact matches

The group at the greatest risk of a lifestyle adjustment, in fact, are in the highest - earning category; 41 % of those aged 55 to 64 with an average income of $ 140,000 a year are not saving enough to replace their spending after they stop working.

«Trust in West Coast ports is at an all - time low, and the perception of supply chain risk is at an all - time high,» said Peter Tirschwell, chief maritime analyst at the JOC Group, a supplier of U.S. sea - borne trade data.

«Conversely, Marketing rated 18 % of salespeople as poor — the lowest «poor» rating in the group — while their tolerance for risk rating was much higher, at 7.1 %.»

However, with the exception of women who consumed a high intake of soy during adolescence, the majority of epidemiological studies (studies carried out in defined population groups) have not found that women with higher soy intakes are at lower risk of breast cancer.

The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

At the same time, it is self - evident that food products with no history of safe use must be subjected to the highest standards of risk assessment before the most vulnerable groups of the population are exposed to it.

BRICC works to reduce high - risk drinking at individual, group, organization and community levels at the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky.

BAM uses group discussions and role - playing exercises to help develop anger - management and self - control capacities in the students, all teenage boys, who are selected for the program because they are considered to be at especially high risk of dropout or of involvement with the criminal - justice system or both.

Instead of excluding the high risk births from both groups, they include the homebirth outcomes of premature births at 34 - 37 weeks gestation (13 - 17) breech and twins (13,14) lethal anomalies incompatible with life (13,14) unattended homebirths (15,16) unplanned homebirths (15,16) or women who became risked out of homebirth by becoming high risk at the end of pregnancy, had hospital births, but are included in the homebirth group.

The study noted that another possible explanation for the great NMT effectiveness in the mid-teen age group may be variability in the «quality» of athletes participating in the cutting, pivoting, and jumping sports such as soccer, volleyball and basketball in the younger ages, so that targeting NMT to athletes who are at higher risk results in greater reduction of that risk.

Adolescents who skip breakfast are at high risk for having an inadequate intake of dietary fiber, as are other age groups; so make sure your child does not skip this important meal.

Young infants are at a higher risk of dying from this infection than any other age group.

The program was started to help high - risk women who were giving birth at Highland Park Hospital and includes bilingual support, home visits and parent education groups.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

In 2015, the AAP, along with other groups of experts, officially released a statement that «new research has shown that early introduction of peanuts into the diet of infants at high risk of peanut allergy can play a role in the prevention of peanut allergies.»

As a result of the LEAP study, groups such as the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, now state that for infants at high risk, there is strong evidence to support the introduction of peanut between 4 and 11 months.

One of the studies in the 2005 meta - analysis, conducted with high - risk women delivering at a hospital in India, was stopped early because of 4 fetal deaths: 3 in the nipple stimulation group, and 1 in the oxytocin induction group.

«women of African descent are at higher risk of obstetric problems compared to other ethnic group»

Dr Tuteur's point was that women of African descent are at higher risk of obstetric problems compared to other ethnic groups, that 1 in 6 women giving birth in the US is of African descent, and that this may explain disparity of outcome to some extent.

These data report intrapartum and early neonatal death rates in full term women who intended to deliver out of hospital (and subsequently deliver either out of hospital or in hospital) at the start of labor compared with women who intended a hospital birth (thus «higher risk» pregnancies are included in this group) in 2012.

Despite the care taken in this study to match the 3 groups, there may be differences regarding the women who chose home birth that placed them at either lower or higher risk for adverse outcomes that we are unable to measure.

Adopted children as a group are at high risk for attachment problems, even those adopted at a very young age.

And for our Boob Group club members our conversation will continue after the end of the show as Rose will discuss which babies are at a higher risk for having jaundice.

As an african - american woman I and my child have the highest risks of death out of all racial groups despite my education and financial status, so I will be staying as far as possible from a hospital, and I'd rather do it at home as the vast majority of my ancestors did.

high risk of bias (e.g. numbers or reasons for missing data imbalanced across groups; «as treated» analysis done with substantial departure of intervention received from that assigned at randomisation);

The Flood Free Homes campaign, launched by the Association of British Insurers and supported by Friends of the Earth, National Flood Forum, Know Your Flood Risk, The BRE Centre for Resilience and the Property Care Association's Flood Protection Group, is calling for no home to be at high risk of flooding by 2Risk, The BRE Centre for Resilience and the Property Care Association's Flood Protection Group, is calling for no home to be at high risk of flooding by 2risk of flooding by 2025.

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.

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.

The speech had, at the centre of interest, a category of hard working frequently low, if paid at all, group of people who put their lives at risk to report and keep Ghana very high in the ranking of World Press Freedom (rank 22 precisely far above the UK rank 34) perhaps like Anas recently.

It said the rolling out of the programme had become necessary as the groups were at a higher risk of being targeted by hackers.

Persons in these groups at «high risk» of complications from H1N1 are urged to get the vaccine as soon as it is available.

Studies suggest that kind of prolonged exposure to high temperatures increases the risk of death for vulnerable groups like the elderly, said Rebecca Noe, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Of all four groups studied, only those at high genetic risk for Alzheimer's who did not exercise experienced a decrease in hippocampal volume (3 %) over the 18 - month period.

All other groups, including those at high risk for Alzheimer's but who were physically active, maintained the volume of their hippocampus.

Several large trials of amyloid - based therapies are underway in groups of people more carefully selected to be at high risk for Alzheimer's.

Today's guidance, written by a group of cervical cancer screening experts led by University of Alabama at Birmingham gynecologic oncologist Warner Huh, M.D., is being published simultaneously in the journals Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease under the title «Use of Primary High Risk Human Papillomavirus Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening: Interim Clinical Guidance.»

Geneticists usually consider that due to the small size of social groups, these are at high risk of losing diversity and becoming inbred.