Sentences with phrase «measurement of the risk of»

measurement of the risk of default of an individual fixed - income security or the issuer of a fixed - income security; generally measured by one of the major ratings agencies

Not exact matches

Entrepreneurs measure and accept risk, and part of that risk measurement entails seeking expert advice: Will my idea work?

The risk, Tufekci said, is that by focusing only on measurements of engagement such as «likes,» both Twitter and Facebook might be missing the bigger picture.

A statistical measurement of a fund's historical risk - adjusted performance.

In July 2010, we acquired Measurisk, a provider of risk transparency and risk measurement tools for hedge fund investors.

In their November 2017 paper entitled «Tail Risk Mitigation with Managed Volatility Strategies», Anna Dreyer and Stefan Hubrich examine usefulness of managing volatility in this way as applied to the S&P 500 Index over a long sample period and across a range of performance measurements.

Two important bond measurements — credit quality and duration — can give you a good indication of the income you might receive and the risk you are taking on to pursue that income.

This highly flawed concept, widely taught in MBA and financial engineering programs, perceives volatility as an exogenous measurement of risk, ignoring its role as both a source of excess returns, and a direct influencer on risk itself... Systematic strategies are based on market volatility as a key decision metric for leverage... The majority of active management strategies rely on some form of volatility for excess returns and to make leverage decisions.

«Modern portfolio theory conceives volatility as an external measurement of the intrinsic risk of an asset.

They have a different measurement of risk than most people.

To help take the guesswork out of feeding your little one the Evenflo Balance + Wide Neck Bottles have molded measurement markers in both ounces and milliliters to provide an easy and accurate way to measure the volume of liquids without the risk of the measurements washing off.

If there is a possibility that a drug may present a risk to the infant, consideration should be given to measurement of blood concentrations in the nursing infant.

To help take the guesswork out of feeding your little one the Vented + Angled Bottles feature molded measurement markers in both ounces and milliliters to provide an easy and accurate way to measure the volume of liquids without the risk of the measurements washing off.

We all reach that stage in life when our waist measurement begins to catch up with our age, and we begin to wonder if we are at risk of never seeing our feet again without the help of a mirror.

At risk waist measurements are 37 inches or more for men, except those of South Asian origin who are at risk at 35 inches or more, and 31.5 inches or more for all women.

An accompanying editorial, by James A de Lemos, M.D., said the findings support a growing body of literature that suggests identifying the location and type of fat deposits can provide important information about the risk of heart disease not found in the simple BMI measurement.

They researchers suggest that substance P measurement could be a new and noninvasive test to assess the risk of diabetic neuropathy.

In this study, the authors investigated the associations between various body measurements at baseline, mainly BMI and waist circumference, and the risk of prostate cancer incidence, with a focus on tumour stage and grade, and on mortality from prostate cancer.

of the University of California, Irvine and colleagues investigated the relationship between risk of dementia, age of the onset of hypertension, and blood pressure measurements in the oldest old, and reported the results at AAIC 2014.

«Although the trial by McManus et al does not settle all questions regarding self - titration based on self - measurement, it is an important step toward adaptation of treatment for patients who want to actively take part in their own risk - factor control,» write Peter M. Nilsson, M.D., Ph.D., of Skane University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden, and Fredrik H. Nystrom, M.D., Ph.D., of Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, in an accompanying editorial.

Source: «Trends in adult body - mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population - based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants,» by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD - RisC) in The Lancet, Vol.

On the contrary, men who were underweight in childhood had a higher risk of asthma admission in early adulthood compared to men with normal BMI, with the strongest link seen with the BMI measurements taken at the age of 12.

Researchers at Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand reviewed published data to test the utility of a single high - sensitivity cardiac troponin T measurement combined with an ECG to safely identify patients at low risk for MI on presentation to the ED.

A new study published today in The Lancet reveals that a simple questionnaire, combined with bone mineral density measurements for some, would help identify those at risk of hip fracture.

The results validated a previous group's discovery that measurement of the genetic diversity between Barrett's cells in any given lesion is a good predictor of which patients are at high risk of developing cancer.

«The exit screening should consist of, at a minimum, a questionnaire, a temperature measurement and, if there is a fever, an assessment of the risk that the fever is caused» by the Ebola virus, it said.

Bringing together observed and simulated measurements on ocean temperatures, atmospheric pressure, water soil and wildfire occurrences, the researchers have a powerful tool in their hands, which they are willing to test in other regions of the world: «Using the same climate model configuration, we will also study the soil water and fire risk predictability in other parts of our world, such as the Mediterranean, Australia or parts of Asia,» concludes Timmermann.

Pesticide exposure was associated with increased risk of ALS in survey data and by blood measurements, according to the results.

That's a politician's job perhaps, not just to respond to objective measurements of risk but to what people want.

Subgroup analyses did not reveal any differences in the risk estimates based on the type of studies or the measurement of the exposure.

One of the largest studies carried out to date in order to determine mercury levels in umbilical cord blood samples and its association with different reproductive effects: measurements of fetal development (weight, height and head circumference at birth), placental weight, duration of pregnancy and risk of premature birth.

According to the researcher, who is in the closing stages of her doctorate thesis, the measurements show that in several parameters mice expressing the risk factor for Alzheimer's «age» metabolically at a relatively young age.

«Our results indicate that 2 measurements of hs - cTnT appear to be better than 1 for characterizing risk and that large increases in hs - cTnT are particularly deleterious.

By contrast, patients with peak troponin T levels between 20 and 64 ng / L had three - times the risk of death within 30 days than patients with lower troponin T measurements as well as a 3 percent absolute risk of 30 - day mortality.

In relative terms, across samples and measurements, the study shows a consistent pattern of increased relative risk of later violence.

Tell it to the judge Even as enhanced computer modeling and more precise measurement bring control of extreme weather closer, those pushing the envelope find themselves facing the same hurdle as Bernard Vonnegut and his colleagues at General Electric half a century ago: the risk of getting sued.

As a next step, Bradshaw, De Jager and their colleagues plan to measure CD33 and TREM2 levels in subjects as part of the Brigham Healthy Aging Project to determine if these measurements and others could be part of a diagnostic panel for predicting risk of Alzheimer's disease.

With growing evidence that a measurement of the buildup of calcium in coronary arteries can predict heart disease risk, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) researchers found that the process of «calcium scoring» was also accurate in predicting the chances of dying of heart disease among adults with little or no known risk of heart disease.

The researchers also measured these risk factor measurements of «ideal cardiovascular health»:

Using a novel approach, scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC - WHO) showed that three different measurements of body size, BMI, waist circumference, and waist to hip ratio all predicted similar obesity - related cancer risk in older adults.

These findings indicate that measurement of these cation transport systems may help to predict those at high risk for sickle organopathy and that these transport systems represent viable pharmaceutical targets.

«AFM is an extremely versatile technique and our approach of linking the AFM tip height to the bottom of the frequency curve enabled us to perform measurements at the same time but without the risk of losing information from the surface,» study lead author Pierre Etienne Allain, a LIMMS / CNRS - IIS postdoctoral researcher, says.

We used standardized and objective measurements of fitness and adiposity and examined their associations with mortality, providing quantitative risk estimates and a lower likelihood of misclassification on the exposure variables.

It is also providing direct, controlled, high - resolution measurements of individual reactions to sound, including military sonar systems, to better estimate risk and minimize effects of mid-frequency sonar systems.

Those at the highest risk who also had the highest levels of cardiorespiratory fitness — conducted through oxygen and effort measurements on a stationary bicycle — cut their coronary heart disease risk by 49 percent and their AFib risk by 60 percent.

The relative and absolute risks linked to high blood pressure were evaluated making use of both conventional blood pressure measurements and 24 - hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

THE CDC WEIGHS IN On June 1, 2016, the same day that CDC announced the new recommendations regarding the salt content of processed foods, the agency published an article, «Dietary Sodium and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Measurement Matters,» which was an attempt to discredit recent studies (including the Hamilton sodium studies) showing that sodium intake of less than 3 grams per day significantly increases risk of death and serious CVD events, and to support their contention that sodium intake of 1.5 grams per day is adequate for adulRisk: Measurement Matters,» which was an attempt to discredit recent studies (including the Hamilton sodium studies) showing that sodium intake of less than 3 grams per day significantly increases risk of death and serious CVD events, and to support their contention that sodium intake of 1.5 grams per day is adequate for adulrisk of death and serious CVD events, and to support their contention that sodium intake of 1.5 grams per day is adequate for adults.5

One cited study, which attributes stroke to excessive salt intake, is a meta - analysis of thirteen studies published between 1966 and 2008 in which most measurements of sodium intake were highly inaccurate estimates based on food frequency questionnaires.22 The second is a review of fifty - two studies, which concluded that strokes are not caused by excess sodium but rather by insufficient potassium, a finding that is consistent with the preponderance of evidence.23 Cordain ignores more recent large clinical and epidemiological studies, which have found that sodium intakes of less than 3 grams per day significantly increase cardiovascular risk.3, 4

While measurement of unconjugated estriol may be helpful in terms of evaluating a woman's risk of cancer (an «Estrogen Quotient» [estriol divided by the sum of estrone and estradiol] of ≤ 1.0 suggests lower cancer risk), its usefulness is significantly hampered because 90 % of estriol is conjugated.

Four studies failed to demonstrate an inverse association with colorectal cancer, while a fifth found that people who consumed the equivalent of 2.5 cups of crucifers per week had a decreased risk of colon cancer but an increased risk of rectal cancer compared to those who consumed the equivalent of one - half cup per week.2 A pooled analysis of eight studies on the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and breast cancer showed no relationship with crucifers.25 None of four studies showed an inverse association with prostate cancer, but one of them found a 28 percent reduced risk for the consumption of five servings of crucifers per week compared to one serving per week when they limited the analysis to men who were diagnosed with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, which is considered a more sensitive diagnostic measurement.