Sentences with phrase «higher than average risks»

Women who know they are at a higher than average risk of breast cancer can also make proactive lifestyle changes to lower their lifetime risk, according to ACS.

Diabetics have a higher than average risk of premature death with most attributed to cardiovascular disease.

This is higher than the average risk for cancer in the entire -LSB-...]

A positive number indicates a higher than average risk of disease.

According to CLEAR, these cars are a much higher than average risk.

Both of these numbers are important for getting a full picture of your health, because even if you have a low total amount of cholesterol (200 is the ideal), if your total - cholesterol - to - HDL ratio is higher than 5, you could be at higher than average risk for heart disease.

With much of New Jersey covered in interstate highways and the massive amounts of traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, there is a higher than average risk of being in an auto accident if you live in the state.

In addition, there are some jobs that may not seem so risky, but do have a higher than average risk of illness or injury which may keep you from working.

Each company uses a slightly different rating system, but the general approach is that the more health risks you pose, the higher you will be rated, until you reach a critical risk level that means you can only be insured through insurers willing to cover a higher than average risk.

I am simply pointing out that these could be a higher than average risk for you as a property owner.

Not exact matches

In fact, they showed no more risk of developing metabolic syndrome [high blood pressure, high blood sugar, abnormal cholesterol and excess waistline fat] than the average non-workaholic employee,» reports Knowledge@Wharton.

The proclivity to detect and dwell on stressors and threats — a tendency that unites neurotics — explains why the personality trait is not just associated with experiences of fear, moodiness, worry and frustration but also a higher - than - average risk factor for common mental disorders.

But these women have a higher risk of preeclampsia, a condition involving high blood pressure, and their babies tend to be smaller than average.

Very simply, I strongly believe that stocks should currently be priced with a risk premium that is somewhat higher than the historical average.

That's the average estimate, but the report notes that «there is a risk those costs could be not just higher, but much higher»: the model found a five per cent chance that the economic cost to Canada in 2050 could be greater than $ 91 billion.

Logically, by taking more risk — in paying up to own «growth» stocks at higher multiples than the market average — one should expect to achieve higher returns.

For example, a risk index of 1.30 for a fund indicates that it is 30 % more volatile than the typical fund in its category and should therefore have a higher return than average.

The low interest rate environment may also have encouraged a shift in investments towards hedge funds as, in the past, hedge funds have achieved higher average returns than traditionally managed investments, albeit in exchange for greater risk.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

$ Finally, whenever you see high reported «average» returns, you should conclude that the risk of fund death or disability is also higher than average.

Specifically, the higher negative rating of salespeople is inversely related to a department's tolerance for risk; for example, IT buyers rated 37 % of all salespeople as poor — higher than any other department — while their risk tolerance average was a low 5 %.

While the average indicator rate on large business variable - rate loans, at 8.0 per cent, is now higher than the corresponding rate for small businesses, the all - up borrowing cost to large business remains lower than for small businesses since customer risk margins for the former are, on average, finer than those for the latter.

Up to 10 % of your portfolio U.S. small caps are higher risk and therefore higher return than the average stock.

The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio constructed of different kinds of investments will, on average, yield higher returns and pose a lower risk than any individual investment found within the portfolio.

They found that children and adolescents had higher average daily consumption of such foods than adults, potentially posing a health risk.

According to Baleka, the average life expectancy for a long - haul truck driver in the U.S. is 61 to 64 years (10 to 15 years less than the average American male); truck drivers have the highest rate of obesity of any occupation in the U.S. (86 % are overweight, 69 % are obese); they have one of the highest rates of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes; in some years they have had the highest number of fatalities of any occupation, making trucking one of the most dangerous and unhealthy occupations in the U.S.

The perinatal death rate in infants weighing more than 2500 g was higher than the national average (5.7 versus 3.6 per 1000: relative risk 1.6; 1.1 to 2.4) as were intrapartum deaths not due to malformations or immaturity (2.7 versus 0.9 per 1000: 3.0; 1.9 to 4.8).

Pregnancy (while normally a normal process) actually poses much greater risk to the average woman's health than any birth control pill because estrogen and progesterone levels are MUCH higher during pregnancy than when any woman is on BC.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

I have a history of depression and am therefore already at higher risk for postpartum depression than the average person.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

Her risk for celiac disease was higher than in the average population, so she asked her doctor for follow - up testing, which showed she did have the illness.

He's at higher - than - average risk of developing prostate cancer, so he should probably check with a urologist on a regular basis.

Rheumatoid arthritis patients are likelier than the average person to develop chronic kidney disease, and more severe inflammation in the first year of rheumatoid arthritis, corticosteroid use, high blood pressure and obesity are among the risk factors, new Mayo Clinic research shows.

At 10 years after transplantation, the organs from donors with unacceptable / high risk provided each recipient with more than 7 additional years of survival on average.

The condition results in high blood sugar levels, which can increase the risk of early labor and a larger than average baby, which may result in problems during delivery.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers found that men, blacks, and low - income populations had higher risk estimates from PM2.5 exposure compared with the national average, with blacks having mortality risks three times higher than the national average.

Bipolar disorder can be a disabling condition, with a higher - than - average risk of death through suicide.

The relative risk of pre-eclampsia (a condition in pregnancy characterised by high blood pressure) in women with chronic hypertension was on average nearly eight times higher than pre-eclampsia in non-hypertensive women.

Amid all the findings of concern, including the overall trend and disparities of income, education, insurance and ethnicity, the researchers did find one bright spot: Black men, who are known to be at higher risk for prostate cancer incidence and death, were more likely to report having discussed advantages and disadvantages than men on average.

The fighters at surgical risk in this study had higher - than - average concentrations of eosinophils that would still be considered normal.

The full trial includes some women whose risk is only slightly higher than average, at twice the general risk.

A new study reveals that African - Americans have measurable differences in the number and type of bacteria that live in the colon — and those differences are related to their higher - than - average colon cancer risk.

«People with depression also are at higher risk for suicide, which accounts for more deaths than car accidents, natural disasters and war each year on average.

On average, MA plans generate risk scores that are 6.4 percent higher than what the same enrollees would generate on traditional fee - for - service, report the researchers.

Testing for those variants can identify men with a risk of the disease that is almost six times higher than average.

«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.

A man in the top one per cent of genetic risk had a five per cent lifetime risk of developing testicular cancer, more than 10 times higher than that of the average man.

They ran statistical analyses to uncover the risk of having two diseases together, identifying pairs of diseases for which the percentage of people who had both was higher than would be expected if the diseases were uncorrelated — in other words, a patient who had one disease was more likely than the average person to have the other.

Women whose periods start earlier than average are also at a higher risk.