Sentences with phrase «of epidemic proportion in»

The 2015 California Forest Health Highlights Report found that drought - stricken and fire - damaged trees fueled bark beetle outbreaks of epidemic proportions in areas of coastal and southern California, as well as throughout the central and southern Sierra Nevada range.

The results have been dangerously low downpayments and exorbitant monthly mortgages — both of which could lead to foreclosures of epidemic proportions in troubled times.

Not exact matches

At least one study implicates changes in surrounding landscape (increased proportion of pastures) in greater rust spread / epidemics.

However, with our aging population and unprecedented levels of blue light exposure, the prediction is that we will see AMD reach epidemic proportions in the coming years.

The Centers for Disease Control reports that non-medical use of prescription opioids has reached epidemic proportions in the United States in the past five years.

«Today, we launch an aggressive assault on a public health crisis that is reaching epidemic proportions: the scourge of dangerous new drugs that are killing people and sending thousands upon thousands to emergency rooms in New York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

«As flu diagnoses and hospitalizations continue to increase to epidemic proportions, this administration is doing everything in its power to protect New Yorkers from this especially durable strain of influenza,» Governor Cuomo said.

Senator Ken LaValle, who represents portions of Eastern Long Island, says Lyme disease has reached epidemic proportions in his district.

The collapse of the Soviet health care system in the 1990s coupled with prisons releasing improperly treated inmates and endemic poverty escalated incidences of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis to epidemic proportions

«Even though the industry acknowledges that greening has reached epidemic proportions across the state, estimates of the level of infection and its impact on citrus operations are scarce,» the researchers wrote in the paper.

«Tobacco smoking has now reached epidemic proportions in Asia and it is likely, with the maturation of this epidemic, and the lack of effective tobacco control efforts, smokers will continue to face an increased risk of death from cancer and other diseases.»

«Diabetes is occurring in epidemic proportion in the U.S. and the developed world,» said Frank Gilliland, senior author and a professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine.

Opioid use has grown to epidemic proportions in the United States and has been a main contributor to a resurgence of heroin use, as well as the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C.

«By any measure, the lead poisoning rates in condors are of epidemic proportions,» says Myra Finkelstein, a toxicologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, who led the research.

In recent decades as study hours have expanded, so has the country's rate of nearsightedness — to epidemic proportions.

This has implications for health care in countries with a Zika virus epidemic as a proportion of those affected with Guillain - Barré syndrome will need breathing support on a ventilator for a while, and some cases do not recover fully from the syndrome and are left with disability.»

But now that we know that vitamin D won't cure cancer, we tend to avoid thinking about it at all, and that's a big mistake because vitamin D deficiency, which is currently at epidemic proportions in the United States, is still a major contributor to a plethora of serious health issues, including low testosterone.

Unfortunately, very little coconut oil is consumed in the U.S. and metabolic syndrome — along with its symptoms of obesity, diabetes and heart disease — is reaching epidemic proportions!

In the past 40 years, the rates of estrogen - related disorders and cancer in both sexes have reached epidemic proportions never seen before in historIn the past 40 years, the rates of estrogen - related disorders and cancer in both sexes have reached epidemic proportions never seen before in historin both sexes have reached epidemic proportions never seen before in historin history.

As PCOS is reaching epidemic proportions for many young women in urban cities and 70 % of women with PCOS are still undiagnosed, it is vital that we stand together with non-profit organizations like PCOS Challenge and PCOS Awareness Association (PCOSAA) to find ways to collaborate and find answers before more generations go through decades of not knowing what is wrong.

In addition, low levels of vitamin D, typically from inadequate sun exposure, and sarcopenia, the loss of muscle during aging, are both very common problems of epidemic proportion that can speed up the aging process.

The effects of stress have reached epidemic proportions in this country.

(NaturalHealth365) After rising steadily for 50 years, the incidence of chronic degenerative conditions in the United States has now reached epidemic proportions.

A study conducted at the Endocrinology & Metabolism Unit of Evgenidion Hospital in Greece states that «The incidence of both obesity and the metabolic syndrome in modern Western societies has taken epidemic proportions over the past decades and often correlates with indices of stress in the affected populations.

(Naturalhealth365) Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the presence of excess fat in the liver, is approaching epidemic proportions — with experts estimating the prevalence at 20 to 30 percent worldwide.

In his 1984 book, A Place Called School, he asked, «Boredom is a disease of epidemic proportions.

In just the last year, institutional efforts to artificially inflate student performance — mostly for the benefit of teachers or administrators — seem to have reached epidemic proportions.

Although the last Ebola outbreak was far from pandemic proportions (a global disease outbreak), the panic - level reactions in the western media to this currently West - African based epidemic gave many the impression that we were facing a crisis on the level of Spanish flu.

The tragedy of homeless cats has reached epidemic proportions in the Twin Cities area.

Obesity in our pets has reached epidemic proportions, mirroring that of the human population.

So while some pets may end up in pounds because of holidays, common - sense would sugguest its not in epidemic proportions, despite pounds and shelters trotting it out as an excuse, year after year.

Electricity blackouts are reaching epidemic proportions in states where half of the electricity is used to pump water from depths of up to a kilometer.»

Nationwide, fatal motorcycle accidents have increased every year for more than a decade and have reached epidemic proportions; Each year, 1 in every 7 fatal traffic accidents nationwide is the result of a motorcycle accident, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

In some states the problem of drivers being out on the roads with no insurance has reached epidemic proportions.

Automobile crashes are the leading cause of death and injury to teens in America and according to the Florida Sheriff's Association (FSA), have reached epidemic proportions in the state of Florida.

With the Center for Disease Control stating that type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, life insurance companies are faced with the challenge of how to underwrite the disease so that it is properly assessed in the context to the risk pool they need to protect.

Stress levels have reached epidemic proportions in today's workforce and can cost organizations in terms of presenteeism, absenteeism, lowered productivity, and physical and emotional problems.

The incidence of HIV has reached epidemic proportions in Washington, DC, where African - American women, men and adolescents represented more than 80 percent of people with new diagnoses of HIV between 2001 and 2006.

That's led to a rise in childhood obesity of epidemic proportions.