Sentences with phrase «groups at low risk»

Evidence in humans suggests that in groups at low risk, we are creating more problems than benefits with early screening.

Specifically, in the absence of findings from a comparison group at low risk for antisocial behavior, our findings could alternatively be interpreted as suggesting either that the intervention produced compensatory but abnormally high elevations in cortisol levels before peer entry or that the intervention normalizes an already perturbed HPA axis.

Not exact matches

So with one group of shareholders essentially writing a very large check to the government for all shareholders to reap the benefits of lower corporate income taxes in the future, it begs the question: Are the shareholders who are most at risk in an inversion scenario even aware of this disadvantage?

«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.

These results present strong evidence that the TL system more effectively allows consumers, particularly those in lower SES groups who are most at risk of obesity (McLaren, 2007), to make healthier food choices.

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.

Most hospitals give hepatitis B vaccines to newborns.We YOU docs don't think it's necessary to expose your child to this vaccine at birth if you are in a low - risk group.

After a diagnostic ultrasound with an OB at the delivery hospital, I was placed in the group that is low risk enough to be cared for primarily by midwives during delivery.

The study looked at intended place of birth to rule out improperly assigning transferred patients to the hospital group, and included only the lowest possible risk women.

«The sheer magnitude of numbers in de Jonge et al. — over half a million midwife - attended low - risk births, either at home or in the hospital — combined with a true comparison group (low - risk, women who chose hospital birth but could have chosen a home birth; both home and hospital groups, attended by the same group of midwives) makes this a valuable study (Freeze, 2010, p 8).»

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.

We compared medical intervention rates for the planned home births with data from birth certificates for all 3 360 868 singleton, vertex births at 37 weeks or more gestation in the United States in 2000, as reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, 10 which acted as a proxy for a comparable low risk group.

The neonatal death rate including the depth and breadth of risk at hospital births was lower than the self - selected, «low - risk,» health - conscious group who tends to choose home birth that Johnson and Daviss studied.

Babies who are more at risk include those who are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, those with a blood group incompatibility with their mother, or whose mother has diabetes, babies with liver disease, anemia, or metabolic disorders.

We considered that only four of the studies used methods that were at low risk of bias to generate the random sequence and conceal allocation to the experimental groups (Collins 2004; Graffy 2004; Hoddinott 2012; Reeder 2014).

«All of these evaluations support the conclusion that bisphenol - A is not a risk to human health at the extremely low levels to which consumers might be exposed,» the group said.

Twelve of the included studies were judged at low risk of bias for incomplete outcome data on the basis that attrition rate was less than 20 % for all outcomes (other than satisfaction), or missing outcome data were balanced across groups (Begley 2011; Biro 2000; Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Hicks 2003; Homer 2001; Kenny 1994; McLachlan 2012; North Stafford 2000; Tracy 2013; Turnbull 1996; Waldenstrom 2001).

One paper in Britain claims that for a select group of very low risk women who have had at least one successful vaginal delivery home birth is no more dangerous than hospital birth.

Dexter «not just low - risk healthy white women» Before commenting, you did check the paper we're discussing — look at the details of the group to which Dr Amy is comparing — right?

This was a problem for studies that looked back at their medical records to select women who had a water birth, and then made a control group of «low risk women».

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.

There is also research showing that moms who planned to give birth at home (regardless of where they actually had their babies) ended up with fewer interventions, such as episiotomies and c - sections, compared with a group of equally low - risk women who had planned hospital deliveries.

Again, there was some evidence that the treatment effect may be partly due to bias; sensitivity analysis including only those studies assessed as being at low risk of bias for allocation concealment showed that results still favoured the intervention group although the treatment effect was less pronounced in the studies at lower risk of bias (Analysis 1.8).

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.

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.»

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

«Tailored interventions to reduce driver distraction could focus on at - risk groups, such as young males with bad attitudes to distracted driving and a low belief that they can control their distraction,» he concludes.

Last summer, Italian and Dutch groups separately published papers suggesting that children are at wildly different risks for cancer depending on which defect they carry — with the risk ranging from less than 3 % to about 25 % — and argued that for lower - risk children, screening might not make sense.

Nevertheless, neurologist Peter Rothwell, a researcher at Oxford University and specialist on stroke, has found that 80 percent of such procedures were performed on low - risk patients without symptoms — an inappropriate group.

Previous findings from Hariri's group show that people whose brains exhibit a high response to threat and a low response to reward are more at risk of developing symptoms of anxiety and depression over time.

«This means that interventions and programs aiming at prevention of overweight and obesity may need to be broadened to also include these groups that are normally regarded as being at low risk for weight gain,» says Kristina Lindvall.

It is also important to reach groups normally considered as being at low risk for gaining in weight.

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.

Those who were in the most active third of the sample were on average achieving 39 minutes of moderate - to - vigorous activity and were at half the risk of emergency hospital admissions than those in the low active group.

«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.

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.

By comparison, in a «low - risk» group, the risk of HIV infection in a single encounter has been estimated at 0.1 per cent.

«The rapid shifts in disease burden place poor people in low - and middle - income countries at high risk of not having access to appropriate services and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.

But as a group they're at a higher risk for low birth weight, which is associated with obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes later in life.

As expected, participants in both the low - and high - risk groups were better at remembering the disease facts that were repeated in the radio show compared to those that weren't.

Eight hundred women will be divided into three groups in McFarlin's latest study: women who have previously had a baby prematurely; women who at 20 weeks have a shortened cervix; and a low - risk control group.

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.

They discovered that those in the highest risk group were at 3.7 times the risk of developing COPD than those in the lowest risk group.

«For most women, the risks are very low,» said Diana Miglioretti, professor of Biostatistics at UC Davis School of Medicine, senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute in Seattle and first author on the study.

Removal of a fifth course of chemotherapy containing cytarabine resulted in worse overall survival and disease - free survival in pediatric patients with low - risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to the results (abstract 10515) of a pooled analysis of two Children's Oncology Group (COG) trials presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held June 2 — 6 in Chicago.

FL progression risk at 2 years was twice as high in the high - risk vs the low - risk group, and the gene - expression score may help to guide treatment.

A growing number of human studies suggest that a low plasma Aβ42 / Aβ40 ratio is a risk factor for major depression, 45, 46 dementia47 and higher mortality.48 The Framingham Study also showed that increased plasma Aβ42: Aβ40 ratios are associated with decreased risk of AD and dementia.13 Thus, the higher Aβ42 / Aβ40 ratio observed in regular meditators at baseline and the increase in this ratio from pre - to post intervention in the novice meditator and vacation groups may be salutary to brain health.

Participants with less than 12 years of education in the highest GI group were 77 percent more at risk of developing lung cancer than those in the lowest GI group.