While the first guideline recommendation is to abstain from cannabis use to avoid all risks, the remaining recommendations address the elevated potential of risks related to initiating use at a young age, high potency products, alternative delivery systems, heavy use and driving, as well as
identifying people at higher risk of problems — with concrete recommendations for risk reduction in each case.
The test, which can be used on a teardrop,
identifies people at high risk of blindness, and is some 15 times cheaper to use than the standard method.
Still, Samani notes that CRP can still be very useful for
identifying people at high risk for heart disease, particularly those without other risk factors such as high cholesterol.
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Identifying persons at a higher risk of dementia could postpone or even prevent dementia by timely targeting modifiable risk factors.»
Similar issues could arise from the ability to
identify people at a higher risk for contracting or spreading a disease using human genetic markers.
It will also help
identify people at high risk of developing late - onset AD, who would be prime candidates for prevention therapies and clinical trials.
«With the increase in lifestyle - related diseases around the world, estimated fitness is an easy, cost - effective method that could significantly help medical professionals
identify people at high risk,» said co-author Carl J. Lavie, MD, professor of medicine at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, in a press release.
Based on these findings, researchers suspect hand grip could one day become a useful measure for
identifying people at high risk of developing heart disease.
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Identifying people at highest risk is crucial to preventing disabling strokes.
An evaluation of the performance of the NHS Health Check programme in
identifying people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Not exact matches
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.
«Our goal is to
identify people who are
at the
highest risk for dementia as early as possible» said study author Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., Chester and Debbie Cadieux Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.
Identifying people who are
at high risk of diabetes should be a particular priority since the onset can be prevented or delayed through lifestyle changes, diet or medication.»
They announced that they had used exome sequencing to
identify people with cystic fibrosis who are
at high risk of infection with the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa — associated with worse lung health and survival (Nature Genetics, DOI: 10.1038 / ng.2344).
Second, this potential marker could also be used to
identify groups of
persons at higher risk of developing dementia, which could improve the efficiency of clinical trials and in the future, detect
persons that would benefit the most from a preventive treatment,» explained co-corresponding author Sudha Seshadri, MD, professor of neurology
at BUSM and FHS senior investigator.
«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.»
The findings help validate a neurobiological basis behind why so many
people trying to quit end up relapsing — up to 80 percent, depending on the type of treatment — and may lead to new ways to
identify smokers
at high risk for relapse who need more intensive smoking cessation therapy.
In addition to
identifying suicide
risk, the team looked
at deaths among
people identified as
highest risk for suicide in 2010.
«If we can
identify similar genetic loci in
people, and if we could find biomarkers for these gene - environment interactions, then perhaps we could develop a simple blood test that
identifies people who are
at high risk of cancer from low - dose radiation,» says Mao.
In 2012 he recieved an NIH Director's Early Independence Award to examine why some
people die unexpectedly after being seen and discharged from emergency rooms, so doctors can
identify patients that are
at high risk of dying after being discharged.
Our
High -
Risk Cancer Genetics Program at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center provides risk assessments and evaluations to identify and counsel people who may be at increased risk for cancer because of an inherited predisposit
Risk Cancer Genetics Program
at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center provides
risk assessments and evaluations to identify and counsel people who may be at increased risk for cancer because of an inherited predisposit
risk assessments and evaluations to
identify and counsel
people who may be
at increased
risk for cancer because of an inherited predisposit
risk for cancer because of an inherited predisposition.
Given the 50
people identified as
at high -
risk «we should not be surprised if we see new cases coming out,» from the new case
identified in the village of Sella Kafta in the northern district of Kambia, he said.»
Scientists
at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now revealed that a single blood sample test for specific antibodies can
identify persons who are
at a
high risk of developing this type of cancer ten years or more before cancer diagnosis.
Without the test, she might not have been
identified as a
person at higher risk of that cancer.
However, for yoga teachers teaching
people with osteoporosis and / or 65 and up, it's important to
identify individuals who may fall into the frailty category, and who are
at higher risk for falls or fractures.
This one looks
at the personal status attributes of
people that file North Carolina car insurance claims thereby
identifying those attributes that tend to represent a
higher or lower
risk of getting in an accident.
Conclusions This evaluation, which was based on a large population sample, demonstrates that the NHS Health Check programme diabetes filter failed to
identify a third of
people at high risk of having or developing diabetes.
This evaluation, which was based on a large,
high -
risk population sample, demonstrates that the NHS Health Check programme diabetes filter failed to
identify a third of
people at actual
risk of having or developing diabetes (defined as HbA1c ≥ 42 mmol / mol).
This evaluation, which was based on a large population sample, demonstrates that the NHS Health Check programme diabetes filter failed to
identify a third of
people that are
at high risk of having or developing diabetes.
Specific techniques include exploring the positive and negative consequences of continued use of the
person's addiction of choice, self - monitoring to recognize cravings early and
identify situations that might put one
at risk for use, and developing strategies for coping with cravings and avoiding those
high -
risk situations.