Sentences with phrase «levels of health outcomes»

They also reported lower - than - recommended levels of health outcomes and sleep per night.

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Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermediate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed ailments on only six of them.

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermed.iate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed a.ilments on only six of them.

I have seen warnings and heard of negative health outcomes in regards to killing off candida for people who have high levels of mercury in their systems.

Key themes are: a) The impact of maternal health policy at a health system and service delivery level, and on health outcomes and users» experiences b) The social and organisational implications of the translation of innovative health technologies into health care.

But research shows that parenting that is problematic without reaching the level of maltreatment can also lead to seriously negative educational and mental health outcomes for children.

Change is also happening at the provider level with increased activities dedicated to promoting positive health outcomes for men; a greater diversity in the number of programs dedicated to working with men; increased acceptance of working with men as a vocation; greater recognition of the diversity of male culture; and an enhanced level of contact between practitioners working with men.

Babies that are born early are at risk of DHA deficiency, and it's been found that low levels of DHA in their blood are linked with poorer health outcomes.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

Research has demonstrated that a large proportion of mothers served in home visiting suffer from mental health problems, with up to 50 percent experiencing clinically elevated levels of depression during the critical first years of their child's development.5 There is evidence that many depressed mothers fail to fully benefit from home visiting.6 Identifying depressed mothers or those at risk for depression who are participating in home visiting, and treating or preventing the condition and its deleterious consequences, can improve program outcomes and foster healthy child development.

Nevertheless, failure to contradict the common belief that breastfeeding may not be possible for all women and that for mothers who are unable to breastfeed or who decide not to, infant formula is a healthy alternative trivializes the importance of breastfeeding to maximize short and long - term health outcomes, blurs the distinction between maternal choice and capacity, and leads to an astonishingly high level of misplaced complacency about poor quality assistance offered by health authorities to enable mothers to breastfeed successfully.

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

Since then, research, professional guidelines, state — wide health care directives, hospital systems, health care quality improvement initiatives, and federal and state - level maternity care legislation have identified many aspects of the MFCI and the Ten Steps of the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative as key factors to improving maternal - infant health outcomes.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

The NHS is now back in balance and delivering improvements in health outcomes, the lowest waits on record, as well as providing a level of care that ten years ago was only offered to those who could afford it,» she argued.

There isn't a good scientific body of evidence that someone could pick up their blood PFOA level and say «OK, well this means my risk for some health outcome is x, y or z,» and scientists can't provide that and this is one of the places where we'll have to say we don't know and there is uncertainty about that.»

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delhealth policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delHealth and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delHealth Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

Additionally, the gaps are also growing between London and the North in relation to a number of social outcomes, such as education and health, with improvement in these outcomes in London being in line with economic conditions in the capital bouncing back to pre-recession levels or beyond while the North lags behind.

What is now urgently needed, say researchers, are precise studies linking food, hormone levels and cancer outcomes, such as the EPIC project — the continuing European collaboration that will link diet to the health of 400 000 Europeans over a decade or more («Britain's deadly diet», New Scientist, 11 May 1991).

After accounting for children's age, parental education levels, household income, family structure and family health outcomes such as maternal mental health, and type of health insurance used, the differences remained.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead ahealth outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead ahealth sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead aHealth and a lead author.

«While I believe that encouraging individuals on a personal level to address their depression and stress related to financial strain through mindfulness and relaxation techniques is a good idea, I believe that policy solutions need to be focused on the roots of financial strain (unemployment, low wages and more) and not necessarily the mediators of the strain - health relationship if we really want to see long - term improvements in health outcomes.»

Allan believes much of that stems from misplaced trust in previous research studies showing low vitamin D levels are associated with poor health outcomes, however they don't prove causation.

The first, by researchers based in the UK, Europe and USA, examined data from observational studies and clinical trials (an umbrella review) to summarisze health outcomes associated with vitamin D levels, both naturally circulating and as a result of taking supplements.

Of a remarkable 137 different health outcomes reportedly linked to vitamin D, they found that only 10 had been thoroughly tested in trials, and only one (birth weight — linked to a mother's vitamin D levels in late pregnancy) had apparently concordant evidence of «benefit.&raquOf a remarkable 137 different health outcomes reportedly linked to vitamin D, they found that only 10 had been thoroughly tested in trials, and only one (birth weight — linked to a mother's vitamin D levels in late pregnancy) had apparently concordant evidence of «benefit.&raquof «benefit.»

The researchers note that the most likely response from industry will involve a combination of the approaches outlined in the study, and although there is a high level of uncertainty in the estimates, the findings provide much needed evidence on the relative effects of different industry responses, and the possible magnitude of health outcomes.

«Overall, our results suggest a connection between opioid and heroin use and heroin - related adverse outcomes at the population level, implying that frequent nonmedical users of prescription opioids, regardless of race or ethnicity, should be the focus of public health efforts to prevent and mitigate the harms of heroin use.»

As a scientific standard, future studies evaluating possible population - level health effects of this intervention (which, to be clear, was not the purpose of the study by Kypri et al) should assess outcomes at the population level, ideally using instruments external to the study.

This action, announced in advance, provided a unique opportunity to compare data on ambient PAH levels, biomarkers, and health outcomes in two successive cohorts of children, with and without prenatal exposure to emissions from the coal - fired power plant.

· further research is needed to shed more light on associations between lower levels of sodium (in the 1,500 to 2,300 mg / day range) and health outcomes, both in the general population and the subgroups.

Recent studies that examine links between sodium consumption and health outcomes support recommendations to lower sodium intake from the very high levels some Americans consume now, but evidence from these studies does not support reduction in sodium intake to below 2,300 mg per day, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

Different racial and ethnic groups also eat different diets, live in neighborhoods with more or less pollution, experience different levels of poverty, and are more or less likely to smoke tobacco, all of which could also impact their health outcomes.

In previously published research on these cohorts, the authors reported newborns born after the plant closure had lower levels of PAH - DNA adducts, lower rates of various health outcomes, and increased levels of BDNF.

And while researchers are still striving to fully understand the health and environmental impact of increased levels of secondary organic aerosols in the atmosphere, studies have linked exposure to outdoor aerosols generally to morbidity and mortality outcomes.

Family - level preventive intervention can lead to improved behavioral health outcomes for military families affected by wartime deployment, a new study published in the January 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports.

A new study finds a possible explanation for why lonely people often have poorer health outcomes: Loneliness triggers the «fight or flight» response, leading to higher levels of inflammation and lower levels of antiviral compounds.

This connection between optimism and positive health outcomes was independent of patients» age, sex, health or level of activity before the heart attack, Huffman said.

But getting back to its role in brain health, in 2007 researchers at the University of Wisconsin uncovered strong links between low levels of vitamin D in Alzheimer's patients and poor outcomes on cognitive tests.

Additionally, a recent review of 47 studies found that prolonged sitting was strongly linked to negative health outcomes, regardless of exercise levels (6).

It is quite probable that people who consume x amount of low nutrient density wheat will have poorer health outcomes than people who consume x amount of higher nutrient density wheat from more fertile soil, simply because assuming both have the same amount of phytate, the later will have much higher levels of essential co-factor vitamins and minerals that contribute to better health.

Although short - term randomized clinical trials have shown a beneficial effect of high protein intake, 3,4,20,21 the long - term health consequences of protein intake remain controversial.8,9,22 - 25 In a randomized clinical trial with a 2 - year intervention, 4 calorie - restricted diets with different macronutrient compositions did not show a difference in the effects on weight loss or on improvement of lipid profiles and insulin levels.26 When protein is substituted for other macronutrients, the dietary source of protein appears to be a critical determinant of the outcome.

The World Health Organization recommended less than 10 % of calories from added sugar based on its assessment of higher consumption and adverse health outcomes.4 With the evidence of higher added sugar consumption and adverse health outcomes accumulating, the American Heart Association recommended that total calories from added sugar should be less than 100 calories / d for most women and less than 150 calories / d for most men.5 Our analysis suggests that participants who consumed greater than or equal to 10 % but less than 25 % of calories from added sugar, the level below the Institute of Medicine recommendation and above the World Health Organization / American Heart Association recommendation, had a 30 % higher risk of CVD mortality; for those who consumed 25 % or more of calories from added sugar, the relative risk was nearly tripled (fully adjusted HR, Health Organization recommended less than 10 % of calories from added sugar based on its assessment of higher consumption and adverse health outcomes.4 With the evidence of higher added sugar consumption and adverse health outcomes accumulating, the American Heart Association recommended that total calories from added sugar should be less than 100 calories / d for most women and less than 150 calories / d for most men.5 Our analysis suggests that participants who consumed greater than or equal to 10 % but less than 25 % of calories from added sugar, the level below the Institute of Medicine recommendation and above the World Health Organization / American Heart Association recommendation, had a 30 % higher risk of CVD mortality; for those who consumed 25 % or more of calories from added sugar, the relative risk was nearly tripled (fully adjusted HR, health outcomes.4 With the evidence of higher added sugar consumption and adverse health outcomes accumulating, the American Heart Association recommended that total calories from added sugar should be less than 100 calories / d for most women and less than 150 calories / d for most men.5 Our analysis suggests that participants who consumed greater than or equal to 10 % but less than 25 % of calories from added sugar, the level below the Institute of Medicine recommendation and above the World Health Organization / American Heart Association recommendation, had a 30 % higher risk of CVD mortality; for those who consumed 25 % or more of calories from added sugar, the relative risk was nearly tripled (fully adjusted HR, health outcomes accumulating, the American Heart Association recommended that total calories from added sugar should be less than 100 calories / d for most women and less than 150 calories / d for most men.5 Our analysis suggests that participants who consumed greater than or equal to 10 % but less than 25 % of calories from added sugar, the level below the Institute of Medicine recommendation and above the World Health Organization / American Heart Association recommendation, had a 30 % higher risk of CVD mortality; for those who consumed 25 % or more of calories from added sugar, the relative risk was nearly tripled (fully adjusted HR, Health Organization / American Heart Association recommendation, had a 30 % higher risk of CVD mortality; for those who consumed 25 % or more of calories from added sugar, the relative risk was nearly tripled (fully adjusted HR, 2.75).

The Subcommittee would conduct a literature search on the impact of stearic acid on health outcomes and would pursue the menu modeling exercise, looking at the impact on nutrient adequacy of different fat levels, 20, 25, 30, and 35 percent.

In addition to steps, the researchers measured levels of moderate - to - vigorous physical activity and health outcomes, including weight, systolic (top number) blood pressure, aerobic capacity and quality of life.

«Given the transactional nature of the regulation of interrelated biological systems, and our findings of associations between flatter DCS (lower morning peak in cortisol and / or higher even cortisol levels) and multiple health outcomes, it seems plausible that reciprocal and cascading interactions among clock gene mechanisms, sleep, cortisol, inflammation, fatigue, appetite, behavior, and social and psychological experiences jointly contribute to the observed associations between flatter DCS and multiple types of negative health outcomes.»

It reads: «Increasing engagement with the natural environment through the education system can therefore produce a number of beneficial health outcomes, such as increased levels of physical activity, helping tackle childhood obesity and greater well - being and potentially improving mental health.»

Graduates may also enjoy lower rates of poverty, better health outcomes, be less likely to engage with the criminal justice system, and report higher levels of personal happiness.

This is a clickable map, showing Super Local Output Areas (SLOAs), which are a subdivision of local government wards, and their ranking nationally for a range of deprivation indicators such as the educational levels of adults, health outcomes, employment, crime, poverty, and poverty affecting children.

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population