Sentences with phrase «individuals at increased risk»

This health center offers PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), a daily pill that individuals at increased risk for HIV can take to prevent HIV infection.

Colon cancer screenings Pregnancy testing and option counseling STD testing and treatment Birth control and emergency contraception This health center offers PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), a daily pill that individuals at increased risk for HIV can take to prevent HIV infection.

Researchers hope that early intervention in individuals at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's will prevent the cognitive decline of this devastating and ultimately fatal disease.

Therefore, it is possible that SIRT1 activation places susceptible individuals at increased risk for autoimmune diseases.

Individuals at an increased risk for lupus also include individuals of Asian or African descent, individuals at reproductive ages between the late teens to early 40s and has the highest prevalence in Italy, Martinique, Spain and the British African - Caribbean population.

«There is also strong evidence that low levels of HDL identify individuals at increased risk for cardiovascular events.

Those individuals at increased risk can then be further stratified based upon H pylori status and virulence factors, along with serologic markers of chronic inflammation such as pepsinogen I, pepsinogen II, and gastrin.70

An analysis of all published articles on internet gaming disorder (IGD) notes that the condition has a complex psychosocial background, and many personal, neurobiological, familial, and environmental factors may put certain individuals at increased risk.

«Understanding more about the genetic pathways which underlie different manifestations of SLE is an important step towards the goal of improving the management of SLE, and ultimately to offer preventative care to individuals at increased risk of SLE,» he added.

Obesity leaves individuals at increased risk for flu - related complications, including hospitalization and death.

«Using imaging tests to detect disease in carotid or coronary arteries before it causes symptoms can better identify healthy individuals at increased risk than our current, traditional risk assessment methods,» says the study's principal investigator Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician - in - Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Not exact matches

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Cuomo put forward a list of proposed laws that include: implementing a ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines, a single license standard across the state for background checks, closing the loophole on private sales, and an increased onus on mental health professionals to report at - risk individuals.

«Whether individuals who have a defect in SCARB1, and as a result have high HDL cholesterol, are at an increased risk for heart attack is still an open question,» says Kathiresan.

Their study showed that a woman's risk of death increased by 7 % per year for each son born — a small but statistically robust effect, at least for the individuals the team looked at — Finnish villagers in pre-Industrial Scandinavia.

If an accurate diagnosis and appropriate advice are not given individuals are at increased risk of future life threatening episodes and drowning.»

With the rate of diabetes increasing dramatically worldwide, many individuals will be at risk for vision loss from diabetic eye complications and DME is a major global health concern,» says Jennifer K. Sun, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the study research team and writing committee, and an Investigator in the Section on Vascular Biology, an ophthalmologist in Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Reducing obesity rates — through changing diets and increasing physical activity — is a key target for public health policy as it places individuals at greater risk for conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

«It was previously unknown whether individuals who have a normal BMI but increased body fat have an increased risk of developing cancer,» said Neil Iyengar, MD, medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

The analysis also found that such psychosocial adversities could help explain why individuals with epilepsy are at an increased risk of developing depression and anxiety disorders.

Data collected during a long - term health study provides additional evidence for a link between increased risk of cancer in individuals with advanced gum disease, according to a new collaborative study led by epidemiologists Dominique Michaud at Tufts University School of Medicine and Elizabeth Platz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Kimmel Cancer Center.

Increasing the proportion of people linked to care engagement protocols within three months of a new HIV diagnosis to 90 percent, coupled with targeted yearly screening of high - risk individuals, would avert an estimated 292,000 HIV infections and 107,000 AIDS - related deaths, at an incremental cost of $ 52.9 billion, or $ 65,700 per QALY gained.

A new study presented today at the IOF Regionals 4th Asia - Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting in Hong Kong supports widespread evidence that individuals who have suffered a fracture are at significantly increased risk of subsequent hip fractures.

Following a heart attack, individuals are at an increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD).

Individuals may thus be unaware of their degree of impairment from sleep deficiency, which raises the question of whether these individuals are at an increased risk of motor vehIndividuals may thus be unaware of their degree of impairment from sleep deficiency, which raises the question of whether these individuals are at an increased risk of motor vehindividuals are at an increased risk of motor vehicle crash.

Chokshi said, «in general, most individuals who increase their workouts gradually and feel well while doing so are at low risk and require no medical evaluation.

In addition, individuals with stage B HF had greater circulating concentrations of cardiac stress biomarkers levels, putting them at increased risk for death.

Despite the increase in risks, the absolute risks «to any individual child of a man at any age are quite small,» Malaspina says.

Individuals who carry this ε4 variant of APOE are at increased risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, early age of Alzheimer's disease onset, and more rapid progression of Alzheimer's disease symptoms.

The strength of the relationship played a role: If a friendship was mutual, that boosted the chance of obesity 171 %; but if one of the friends didn't acknowledge the friendship in the survey, that individual was at no increased risk of obesity.

«Increased meat consumption, especially when cooked at high temperatures, linked to elevated kidney cancer risk: Individuals with certain genetic variations more vulnerable to dietary risk.»

By developing blood biomarkers and «immunologic signatures» related to antigen - specific T - cell responses, the researchers hope to identify individuals with latent TB infection who are at greatest risk for progression to active disease, allowing development of prevention strategies to target those at highest risk in areas with high rates of infection (usually low - and middle - income countries), as well as high income countries such as the U.S., where factors such as recent infection and HIV co-infection are associated with an increased risk of progression to active TB.

Interestingly, an imaging study comparing DA increases using BPND and 4 - propyl -9-hydroxynaphthoxazine -LRB-[11C] PHNO)(radiotracer with > 20-fold higher affinity for D3 over D2 receptors, and presumably more sensitive to competition with endogenous DA)(63, 64) in response to a stressor in individuals at high risk for schizophrenia showed that those who abused marijuana had a blunted response, consistent with decreased DA signaling (22).

Host genomic factors could be important in determining: (1) which individuals should be vaccinated in the case of a public health emergency - those who are at highest risk for severe disease; (2) which individuals should not be vaccinated - those who are at high risk of adverse events following vaccination; or (3) which individuals should be quarantined, because of increased risk to themselves or to others.

«This study uniquely examines suicidal and self - harm behaviors in a young cohort of individuals who are at increased risk of BD, but many of whom have not yet developed BD themselves,» Dr. Wilcox said.

«But if we can add additional genes into the screening, we can refine the prediction of the disease, we can increase the accuracy, we can probably even identify higher percentages of at - risk individuals.»

The Comprehensive Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic at the University of Chicago Medicine is dedicated to identifying and caring for individuals who have an increased risk of cancer due to family history, medical and genetic factors, and / or lifestyle influenRisk and Prevention Clinic at the University of Chicago Medicine is dedicated to identifying and caring for individuals who have an increased risk of cancer due to family history, medical and genetic factors, and / or lifestyle influenrisk of cancer due to family history, medical and genetic factors, and / or lifestyle influences.

However, patients and immunocompromised individuals are at an increased risk of developing infection.

Thus, anatomical brain changes may contribute to specific cognitive deficits associated with very preterm birth and could be used in the identification of those individuals who may be at increased risk for cognitive impairment.

We aimed to derive a SSA - specific optimal WC cut - point for identifying individuals at increased cardiometabolic risk.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

But if you are in frequent contact with children or sick individuals, like nurses or teachers are, you are probably at increased risk.

«This study suggests individuals even with a body mass index in the normal or overweight category but who have increased abdominal mass — a pot belly — may be at increased cardiovascular risk,» Fonarow said.

Dr. Tove Fall, lead study researcher at the Department of Medical Sciences and the Science for Life Laboratory at Uppsala University commented, «We knew already that obesity and cardiovascular disease often occur together... in this study we found that individuals with gene variants that lead to increased body - mass index also had an increased risk of heart failure and diabetes.»

Vegetarians, pregnant and lactating women, patients with anorexia or protein - energy malnutrition, elderly people taking one or more prescription drugs and individuals with intestinal inflammation or any digestive disorder marked by persistent diarrhea are among the populations that may be at increased risk for zinc deficiency.

Their exact conclusion was «an increase in serum calcium concentrations is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in individuals at high cardiovascular risk».

The individual approach for children and adolescents at higher risk for CVD and with a high concentration of LDL includes recommended changes in diet with nutritional counseling and other lifestyle interventions such as increased physical activity.

Here's a little insight from the medical profession on COX: «The increase of evidence implicating COX - 2 in cancer has stimulated clinical trials to investigate the efficacy of selective COX - 2 inhibitors in individuals at risk for human cancer.

High risk individuals, especially people who suffered a previous heart attack, are at increased risk for developing this potentially fatal arrhythmia.

And according to American experts from the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER) «Persistent or chronic stress has the potential to put individuals at a substantially increased risk of depression, anxiety and many other emotional difficulties».