Sentences with phrase «identify people at risk»

Kogan wrote in the email that he wanted to create statistical models that could accurately identify people at risk for various diseases and illnesses by examining their Web browsing and purchase behaviors, and combine that with medical data from Harvard.

«If there were more biomarkers available to identify people at risk of stroke, this would invariably lead to prevention therapies, to lower the number of stroke victims,» Rogove said.

Batchelor says the study should help to identify people at risk from HBV.

Feinberg also sees potential in combining epigenetics and genetics to identify people at risk for disease and monitor a treatment's effectiveness.

And in the clinic, pupils may help diagnose or identify people at risk for mental illnesses, such as anxiety, or the effectiveness of potential therapies.

«There's no cheap, fast, noninvasive test that can accurately identify people at risk of Alzheimer's,» says Brad Dolin, chief technology officer of Neurotrack.

«There's no cheap, fast, noninvasive test that can identify people at risk of Alzheimer's,» says Brad Dolin, chief technology officer of Neurotrack in Palo Alto, Calif. — a company developing a computerized visual screening test for Alzheimer's.

Niculescu's team is now looking for the proteins in more people with a range of underlying conditions, and in women, with the hope of developing a blood test to identify people at risk of suicide.

Kogan wrote in the email that he wanted to create statistical models that could accurately identify people at risk for various diseases and illnesses by examining their Web browsing and purchase behaviors, and combine that with medical data from Harvard.

They analyzed healthcare visits before the attempt, with an eye on the possibilities for identifying people at risk for suicide.

«Given the lack of universal HPV immunization and the potential for the virus to evade the immune system even in individuals with detectable HPV in their blood, our findings could have far - reaching implications for identifying people at risk of developing HPV - related head and neck cancers and ultimately preventing them,» Miller said.

Risk factors for developing cutaneous melanoma and criteria for identifying persons at risk: multicenter case - control study of the Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society.

The researchers concluded their study by noting that estimated fitness level — in consideration with other risk factors such as smoking status, alcohol consumption, and other health conditions — could have a major impact on identifying people at risk for future cardiovascular disease.

A new way of identifying people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes has been developed by researchers in the UK who believe that it could be prevented in many

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Eventually, the technology could help providers identify more individuals who are at risk of developing cardiovascular conditions — cardiovascular disease not only affects over 100 million people in the US, it is also the costliest disease in the nation, with associated costs reaching $ 555 billion in 2016, according to American Heart Association.

These are the issues we have, and we are not even at risk for identifying ourselves as Christians as some people in the world are today.

[31] It is a bill that would address federal adoption incentives and would amend the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to demonstrate that the state agency has developed policies and procedures for identifying, documenting in agency records, and determining appropriate services with respect to, any child or youth over whom the state agency has responsibility for placement, care, or supervision who the state has reasonable cause to believe is, or is at risk of being, a victim of sex trafficking or a severe form of trafficking in persons.

Doctors are to be asked to help identify people they believe are at risk of being drawn into terrorism as part of the government proposals.

When family members or law enforcement identify a person at great risk to themselves or others, removing guns from the equation is just common sense.

«As part of the revised strategy, identifying and providing advice in different healthcare and criminal justice settings to those whose drinking puts themselves and others at risk will be further developed, as well as reviewing NHS alcohol spending to help us make smarter spending decisions to reduce the number of people with alcohol - related illnesses.»

The group will address five topic areas — identifying ways in which to identify individuals who are at risk of causing violence; identifying ways in which those individuals can be helped; identifying other ways to prevent violence; examining how drug abuse and drug - related crimes can be reduced; and identifying ways in which to protect people in public places.

The 34 - page internal audit identified dozens of incidents of potential fraud, reputational risk or suspected rule breaking by staff in at least 12 of the company's offices where public money was claimed for placing long - term unemployed people into work.

They identified a dangerous period of about two hours following an outburst when people were at heightened risk.

«We are going to try to identify those young people working with the school district, working with Peacemakers, working with Say Yes to identify those young people who will be determined as some of the most at - risk young people in this community.

In the advisory, Adams identified several groups of people at elevated risk of overdoses, including people who misuse prescription opioids, those who use drugs like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, and those who have recently left treatment programs or incarceration.

«These findings suggest that looking at activity in the DMN may offer an objective method of identifying people who are at risk of developing major depression,» said lead author Myrna Weissman, PhD, the Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC and Chief of the Division of Epidemiology at NYSPI.

Kranzler notes that the taste differences identified in this study could serve as protection against alcoholism but some people with a family history may also have alterations in taste characteristics that put them at increased risk of the disorder.

Two patterns of antecedent or «prodromal» psychiatric symptoms may help to identify young persons at increased risk of developing bipolar disorder (BD), according to a new analysis in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.

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.

«We'd like to develop the tools to be able to identify people at true risk, independent of why they got there, with the ultimate goal of maybe intervening early and not waiting for depression to strike the person,» says Gabrieli, an author of the study, which appears in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

And because epigenetic changes typically occur early in life, it may one day be possible to identify young people at risk for suicide by studying their methylation patterns and then to treat them with drugs that regulate this mechanism, Szyf notes.

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.

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.

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.

SARS was contained not because of a drug or vaccine but because we identified people who were infected or at risk, and we isolated them.

The work may help doctors better screen for — and treat — cancers in young people, and identify other family members who might be at risk.

«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.»

«Identifying persons at a higher risk of dementia could postpone or even prevent dementia by timely targeting modifiable risk factors.»

«This knowledge may help identify those persons with TBI who need early intervention because they are at greater risk for cognitive impairment.

These include the mood disorders group, which proposes including bereaved people in the definition of major depression, and the psychotic disorders group, which is considering adding attenuated psychosis syndrome, a controversial diagnosis for identifying young people at risk of developing schizophrenia.

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.

«Virtual bone biopsy helps identify why people with diabetes are at risk of bone fractures.»

«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.»

People with the newly identified polymorphism, or form of this gene, appear to be at twice the risk of developing bipolar disorder, though it is not yet clear exactly why, says Blair.

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.

A blood test could reassure some people that they aren't at risk, while identifying others who might benefit from lifestyle changes.

In addition to identifying suicide risk, the team looked at deaths among people identified as highest risk for suicide in 2010.

Advances in computing make it increasingly possible for outsiders to identify people from among the hundreds of millions of patients in dossiers, putting intimate secrets about our bodies and minds at risk