Sentences with phrase «most severe»

According to the study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, liver injury caused by non-bodybuilding supplements is most severe, occurring more often in middle - aged women and more frequently resulting in death or the need for transplantation than liver injury from bodybuilding supplements or conventional medications.»

Some of the most severe effects will likely be in the form of tropical storms, he says, which are not only caused by El Niño but exacerbated by its strength.

These patients often suffer from the most severe asthma symptoms and can only be treated through steroid - based medications such as prednisone.

«Our findings showed a general tendency, in about 15 % of the children, of being exposed to the most severe levels of victimization from the beginning of their education until the transition to high school,» writes Dr. Marie - Claude Geoffroy, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, with coauthors.

For Flint children, risks of the most severe consequences of lead exposure — which are most concerning when exposure is prolonged over years — are low compared to children growing up in the city a decade earlier, Gomez notes.

Only the most severe of memory disorders affect procedural memory; even profound amnesiacs can usually recall how to perform daily activities such as putting on clothes and cooking even when they can not subsequently describe what they have done.

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a way to safely use multiple programming languages within the same program, enabling programmers to use the language most appropriate for each function while guarding against code injection attacks, one of the most severe security threats in Web applications today.

Considering the high prevalence of obesity and the continued rise of its most severe forms, the finding that maternal overweight and obesity are related to rates of cerebral palsy in a dose - response manner may have serious public health implications.»

However, warfarin confers an increased risk of hemorrhage, with intracranial bleeding the most severe effect.

Of those who develop the most severe form, up to half will die.

Large swathes of the city are sparsely populated, particularly in the poor neighbourhoods that suffered the most severe flood damage.

The most severe damage occurs in the macula, a small area of the retina that is needed for sharp, central vision necessary for reading, driving and other daily tasks.

The weather event produced 122 tornadoes, resulted in 313 deaths across the southeastern United States, and is considered the most severe event of its kind since 1950.

Even the most severe critics, Bachhuber says, would accept that medical cannabis is safer than opioids when it comes to the risk of fatal overdose.

In a report on the trials, published online Feb. 8 in Neurology, the investigators conclude that the diet is a «feasible» option for people with so - called super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE), the most severe seizure classification, in which up to an estimated 60 percent of patients die once they develop this type of seizure.

«Borderline personality disorder is considered one of the most severe and troubling personality disorders,» Miller said.

The infantile onset form of the disease is the most severe, with untreated patients experiencing significant heart and lung failure by the second year of life.

The study focused on women carrying fetuses diagnosed with myelomeningocele, the most common and most severe form of spina bifida, in which the spinal cord bulges outside the spinal column.

Spinraza, the gene therapy medication, also provides significant improvements in cases with the next most severe form of neuromuscular disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which afflicts children from 6 to 18 months of age.

Then Spinraza was administered for the most severe form of spinal muscular atrophy, SMA type 1, which afflicts children before they are six months old.

The results of the study showed that there were indeed negative consequences for people's livelihoods, but in Niger the impacts were much greater, particularly for the poorest people and those who saw the most severe reduction in their access to park resources.

Cerebral malaria is the most severe form of the disease.

The most severe cytopathic effects were observed 48 hours after infection, with a larger number of rounded, swollen cells, more syncytium formation and pronounced loss of cell integrity, all of which denote cell death.

But, he adds, «the long - term drying trends exacerbated the recent drought, making it the most severe in the observed record.»

Scientists know that storms with a rotating updraft on their southwestern sides — which are particularly common in the spring on the U.S. southern plains — are associated with the biggest, most severe tornadoes and also produce a lot of large hail.

Those natural yearly variations led to the occasional drought, but the long - term drying exacerbated the 2007 - 2010 drought, making it the most severe in the observed record, says Kelley.

Despite increased understanding of heart disease risk factors and the need for preventive lifestyle changes, patients suffering the most severe type of heart attack have become younger, more obese and more likely to have preventable risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

And for small children, who often suffer the most severe and damaging symptoms of malaria, the vaccine appears more effective, offering up to 77 per cent protection.

Many of those employees live in the coastal parishes that have suffered most from oil and gas activities and face the most severe consequences from the resulting land loss.

Pieter Tans, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who wrapped up the panel, said that while governments and policymakers should still aggressively pursue the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he did not believe that the most severe IPCC scenario, RCP 8.5, was likely.

«Imagine being in the most severe thunderstorm you've been in, where it's really dark and ominous - looking,» says team member Scot Rafkin of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Relatively speaking, however, the problem is most severe in Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union.

The new study analyzed heart disease risk factors among more than 3,900 patients who were treated for ST - elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI — the most severe and deadly type of heart attack — at Cleveland Clinic between 1995 and 2014.

To gauge the potential threat, researchers reviewed the toll of the most severe previous case, which occurred in 1918 when a flu swept the world, claiming at least 20 million lives.

«This is the first study that looks at all seven impact effects generated by hazardous asteroids and estimates which are, in terms of human loss, most severe,» said Clemens Rumpf, a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

To test their method, the researchers looked at functional predictions of a protozoan parasite known to cause the most severe form of malaria in humans — Plasmodium falciparum.

This may herald the most severe ozone loss yet over the Arctic region next spring — the time when sunlight returns to the northern hemisphere and triggers the reactions that destroy ozone.

For years, deep - brain stimulation — in which a neurosurgeon drills a hole in the skull and inserts an electrode far into a patient's brain tissue — was considered a radical treatment, reserved for the most severe cases of Parkinson's disease.

Researchers have discovered that protection from the most severe form of malaria is linked with natural variation in human red blood cell genes.

A sounding rocket launcher adjacent to the pad, and buildings nearest the pad, suffered the most severe damage.

Many of Turkey's most severe quakes occur on one of the two faults that flank the Anatolian plate — the north and the east Anatolian faults.

«However, only a smaller number of these individuals will develop the most severe form of this disease known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH.»

The patients in the study had myelomeningocele — the most severe type of spina bifida.

It affects one in 6000 babies and around half of children with the most severe form will die before the age of two.

The most severe declines were seen toward the center of each species» range in the U.S. «The Mid-Atlantic states, in particular, need to start paying more attention to managing these species,» Palkovacs said.

A successful early warning system is key to reducing the economic impact of such storms, which has been estimated by the National Academy of Sciences to be several trillion dollars in the most severe cases.

The scientists have released unique footage showing the extent of the bleaching in March and April, which was most severe in the northern 700 km section of the Great Barrier Reef.

Following a massive underestimate straight after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the crisis, in April NISA said that between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels were released between 11 and 15 March, putting the crisis at level 7, the most severe category on the international scale used to rate nuclear accidents.

«Once we had an understanding of the genetic stocks, the second part was to look at the demographic data to see where the declines are most severe and which stocks deserve greater attention for conservation.»

A recent study found that 1934 brought the most severe North American drought in a millennium.