Sentences with phrase «groups at greatest risk»

Identify locations and population groups at greatest risk for specific health threats, such as heat waves.

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.

The group at greatest risk for reaction were small breed young adult (age 1 - 3 years) neutered male dogs.

Not exact matches

While this group is not primarily responsible for student loans, they are at a much greater risk of sharing the burden or picking up payments entirely.

Meeting secretly and at great risk — the group had ties to the Kreisau Circle — they also prepared extensive plans for a new ordering of the economy.

Representatives of the nation or group do so only at great risk, given their responsibility to their publics.

Sources tell Press Association Sport that a major study into whether footballers are at greater risk of degenerative brain disease is set for launch in the next few weeks with the appointment of a research group to undertake the most comprehensive study of its kind, jointly commissioned by the Football Association and Professional Footballers» Association.

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.

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.

But that does not give any individual or group the right to put our people at great risk.

«What we need is to accelerate a just transition plan to ensure workers are prepared for jobs in the new green energy economy — not a dangerous deal that puts millions of people in the greater New York City metropolitan area and Western NY at risk,» said Manna Jo Greene, environmental action director for the Hudson River advocacy group Clearwater.

Thomas Stocker, a professor of climate and environmental physics at the University of Bern and chairman of the IPCC working group charged with assessing the physical origins of climate change, said that the Oxford group's results had «shown movement in one direction only — toward greater risk».

According to first author Olivia Remes from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge: «Anxiety disorders can make life extremely difficult for some people and it is important for our health services to understand how common they are and which groups of people are at greatest risk.

One possible explanation included in the study: The women with lower inflammation scores were more physically active as a group and therefore were at a slightly greater risk of falls.

«In our study, it did not matter whether their sodium levels were high at the beginning of the study or if they were low to begin with, then gradually increased over the years — both groups were at greater risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Tomonori Sugiura, M.D., Ph.D. the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the Department of Cardio - Renal Medicine and Hypertension at the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in, Nagoya, Japan.

Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, adds: «Even with a reasonably large number of studies of anxiety disorder, data about marginalised groups is hard to find, and these are people who are likely to be at an even greater risk than the general population.

Bilingual children from low - income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time.

And, Shah says, a comprehensive package of interventions that coupled targeted screening of high - risk groups, improved linkage to care, and enhanced retention and re-engagement in care was projected to have the greatest benefit, averting a projected 752,000 new HIV infections and 276,000 AIDS deaths at a cost of $ 96 billion over 20 years, or $ 45,300 per QALY gained.

Young gay and bisexual men are at significantly greater risk of poor mental health than older men in that group, according to new research published in the Journal of Public Health.

In reality, the people at greatest risk from this old foe are those who have always been most at risk: the poorest and most marginal groups, those with suppressed immunity, and those who care for them — in Harlem, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and across the river in Newark, New Jersey.

«The most vulnerable groups, including poor and marginalised populations and migrants and refugees, are at greater risk of developing MDR TB.

«Our data show that daily cannabis users had no greater risk than non-users (control group) to experience serious adverse events,» Dr. Ware who is also a researcher from the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program at the RI - MUHC.

«These markers need to be further studied in a larger group of CTE cases, but they could be very important in determining whether an individual is at greater risk of developing these brain changes,» Bieniek says.

Of the approximately 4,000 who were identified as at risk for mental health problems and offered the ten - session group intervention during second grade, those who participated in a greater number of sessions showed significantly greater improvements in third - grade outcomes than did the at - risk students who participated in fewer sessions.

Additionally, lifting heavy weights in unsupervised extreme sports training or without low back protection in any age group also could put athletes at greater risk of lower back injuries.

These students could have a form of bipolar that's more like schizophrenia, MacCabe speculates: among the same group of Swedes, he found that students who scored the worst marks were at the greatest risk of schizophrenia.

They determined which populations are at greatest risk and how public health officials are working with those groups.

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.

«The risk numbers we're talking about for that group are comparable to or greater than what we see for radon, which has been identified as the most dangerous hazard in homes in the country by far,» said Richard Corsi, a professor specializing in indoor air pollution at the University of Texas at Austin.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Compared to the other groups, people with blood type A are at greater risk of stomach cancer.

The following groups are at greatest risk for iodine insufficiency:

This suggests that such groups are at greater risk of abusing alprazolam and may experience more severe adverse reactions if they do.

«We think our findings are promising because it shows that basic strategies such as maintaining food journals, eating out less often and eating at regular intervals are simple tools that postmenopausal women — a group commonly at greater risk for weight gain — can use to help them lose weight successfully,» McTiernan said.

Some groups are at greater risk for obesity than others, the survey showed.

The reason for these differences is not well understood, but researchers believe that higher rates of vascular disease in these groups may also put them at greater risk for developing Alzheimer's.

When I took a group of at - risk high - school boys from the inner - city of Chicago to volunteer at a homeless shelter, numerous residents commended the boys, telling them «It's so great to see you all in here helping people instead of being out on the street gang - banging.»

We focus on the scores of students at the 25th percentile of the distribution of achievement for each group, because it is low - performing students who are at greatest risk of not graduating from high school.

There is no group of children at greater risk than low - income students with disabilities.

We wanted to get behind the averages, to go deeper and more granular, to find out which groups of EAL pupils are at greatest risk of not doing well at school.

Obesity negatively affects both males and females, as well as all racial and age groups, but low - income children and food - insecure children may be at even greater risk (Eisenmann, Gundersen, Lohman, Garasky, & Stewart, 2011; Singh, Saipush, & Kogan, 2010; Townsend & Melgar - Quinonez, 2003).

This is remarkable in itself, but even more so given that Linked Learning schools enroll greater numbers of students from groups at risk of not graduating.

Then, when the explicit lesson on that code - based concept is taught as a whole group, those students at risk receive more (or repeated) explanation, more repetition and feel positive vs. apprehensive (perhaps leading to greater participation...).

At the end of the day i belive if the client is willing to take a risk and their financial situation alows them to take a risk then i would recomend mutual funds however if the cleint is low to medium risk then why put them in a low risk mutual fund with higher fees and no gurantees when the group RESP's are a great alternative with potential heigher returns and lower fees.

While this group is not primarily responsible for student loans, they are at a much greater risk of sharing the burden or picking up payments entirely.

The characteristics noted about this group of 60 breeds need close attention because they are the breeds at greatest risk.

Pet rodents, including guinea pigs, are not recommended for families with children younger than 5 years, pregnant women, elderly adults, or people with weakened immune systems because these groups are at greater risk for serious illness.

These activists bring with them years of experience working with underprivileged and at - risk groups around the world, as well as a great deal of energy.

The answer, as the artists behind Glasgow's Sculpture Placement Group (SPG) are keenly aware, is usually into storage at either great cost or, more commonly, great risk to the work — in damp studios, garages and sheds.

In quieter corners, including at environmental groups focused on energy and climate policy as well as land preservation, the goal has never been a ban, but instead a push to create the set of rules, policies, revenue flows and relationships that give the greatest social and economic benefits with the least risk of environmental regrets.