Sentences with phrase «males are at greater risk»

Dr. Marty Becker says, «Intact males are at greater risk for testicular cancer and prostate disease.

Intact males were at greater risk (~ 40 - 50 % increased risk) for dilated cardiomyopathy and GDV and neuter status was not associated with lens luxation, elbow or hip dysplasia, IVDD, or patellar luxation.

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As the autism risk gene is located on the X chromosome and males have only one X chromosome (females have two), they are at greater risk.

«Male and female veterans who report MST are more vulnerable to homelessness both in the short - and long - term following their discharge from the military, with males at differentially greater risk,» Brignone says.

Compared to females, males were consistently at greater risk for synthetic marijuana use and more frequent use.

Male refugees from eastern Europe and Russia were at greatest risk compared with their migrant counterparts (hazard ratio 2.88, 1.22 to 6.82).

Obesity negatively affects both males and females, as well as all racial and age groups, but low - income children and food - insecure children may be at even greater risk (Eisenmann, Gundersen, Lohman, Garasky, & Stewart, 2011; Singh, Saipush, & Kogan, 2010; Townsend & Melgar - Quinonez, 2003).

Neutered male cats are at greater risk than female cats.

Male dogs are thought to be at greater risk for having a hiatal hernia.

Trauma, fight wounds, cat bite abscesses and transmission of serious infectious diseases (such as FELV / FIV) are just a few of the serious problems that intact male cats are at greater risk for vs. those who are neutered.

So, while all dogs are susceptible to blastomycosis, those at greatest risk for infection are two - to - four year old intact males of hunting or sporting breeds that weigh 50 - 75 pounds and are exposed to river valleys or lakes during late summer or fall.

The group at greatest risk for reaction were small breed young adult (age 1 - 3 years) neutered male dogs.

Their results indicate that males who were physically punished, sexually abused, or who witnessed domestic violence in childhood were at greater risk for sexual perpetration in high school (White and Smith, 2004).

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

For instance, although previous research has shown that an individual carrying a short 5 - HTTLPR genotype is at greater risk for a negative outcome and other research has shown that male carriers of the short MAOA - uVNTR variant exposed to a specific negative environmental factor are also at greater risk for the same negative outcome, this does not mean that carriers of both genotypes are at increased risk, as there is no evidence that the combination of genotypes is additive (Goldman and Rosser, 2014).