Sentences with phrase «of modifiable factors»

The role of modifiable factors involved in the inflammatory cascade and how these factors relate to specific neurological conditions.

The identification of modifiable factors, such as diet, that influence serum CRP concentrations may provide the means for reducing the risk of these diseases.

When patients present with variables associated with a greater risk for VPC, clinicians should direct more intensive management of modifiable factors, such as smoking and lung function, as well as improved medication adherence or alternative treatment strategies, the investigators concluded.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, one significant, and modifiable, risk factor for preterm birth was completely ignored by the WHO report: prior termination of pregnancy.

Lead researcher Ira Driscoll told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: «The mounting evidence of caffeine consumption as a potentially protective factor against cognitive impairment is exciting given that caffeine is also an easily modifiable dietary factor.

She was the Site Principal Investigator for an NINR - funded study investigating mechanisms of preterm labor and birth in women of African - descent, and is currently conducting a pilot project examining modifiable factors related to risk for preterm labor and birth.

However, one CAN NOT extrapolate from that the existence of a perfect diet or lifestyle which will prevent all disease, because a) some diseases are not influenced by personally modifiable factors and b) shit happens.

But do know, regardless of this woman's low opinion of parents (especially her insulting statement that bedsharing mothers bedshare because they think it «cool», most of the deaths in bedsharing environments ARE preventable when all known adverse modifiable factors are removed and all known precautions including bedsharing only if breastfeeding are respected.

Despite a 56 % decrease in the national incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) from 1.2 deaths per 1000 live births in 19921 to 0.53 death per 1000 live births in 2003,2 SIDS continues to be the leading cause of postneonatal mortality in the United States.3 The decreased rate of SIDS is largely attributed to the increased use of the supine sleep position after the introduction of the «Back to Sleep» campaign in 1994.4 - 7 More recently, it has been suggested that the decrease in the SIDS rate has leveled off coincident with a plateau in the uptake of the supine sleep position.8 Although caretakers should continue to be encouraged to place infants on their backs to sleep, other potentially modifiable risk factors in the sleep environment should be examined to promote further decline in the rate of SIDS.

Various factors can affect the health of the placenta during pregnancy, some modifiable and some not.

Such barriers are potentially modifiable factors, which together with targeted education to increase maternal knowledge of benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, may improve exclusive breastfeeding practices.

They said the key messages from the study were that stroke is a highly preventable disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional research on stroke risk factors is needed for countries and ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.

«We often think of hearing loss as an inevitable part of the aging process, but these findings provide evidence that potentially modifiable risk factors, such as maintaining a healthy weight and staying physically active, may help in the prevention of hearing loss or delay its progression,» said Sharon Curhan, MD, ScM, lead author of the paper and a researcher in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH.

«We have confirmed the ten modifiable risk factors associated with 90 % of stroke cases in all regions, young and older and in men and women.

The study also confirms that hypertension is the most important modifiable risk factor in all regions, and the key target in reducing the burden of stroke globally.»

«Based on our finding that being overweight or obese is a risk factor for multiple myeloma in MGUS patients, and since extra weight is a modifiable risk factor, we hope that our results will encourage intervention strategies to prevent the progression of this condition to multiple myeloma as soon as MGUS is diagnosed,» Chang said.

«Overweight / obesity are just one of several modifiable risk factors in the workplace — but ones that are most problematic right now because they're getting worse by the minute,» commented Ron Goetzel, Ph.D. of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Truven Health Analytics.

«What this tells us is that the mother's environment is a very strong, modifiable characteristic to which we should be paying more attention, in particular to see if there are specific factors that we can change to improve the outcome of pregnancies.

«The bottom line is that preoperative opioid use is an important and potentially modifiable risk factor prior to surgery, and should be on surgeons» radar as well as the minds of primary care providers,» says Waljee.

So while the phenomenon is interesting, it may not be as important a predictor of heart disease as other already established and modifiable risk factors.

«Our study suggests that short height in children is a possible marker of stroke risk and suggests these children should pay extra attention to changing or treating modifiable risk factors for stroke throughout life to reduce the chances of having this disease,» said senior study author Jennifer L. Baker, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Clinical Research and Prevention at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark.

Prof Storey concluded: «Air pollution should be considered one of the major modifiable risk factors to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease.

Air pollution ranks ninth among the modifiable disease risk factors, ahead of low physical activity, high sodium diet, high cholesterol and drug use.»

«It's an important message because it's a potentially modifiable risk factor,» said lead author Celine Vetter, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

We focused on a different level — modifiable features of the built environment that might be factors in violence risk.»

The report from investigators from MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) and Newton - Wellesley Hospital (NWH), which has been published online in the Journal of Pediatrics, identifies several potentially modifiable factors that may contribute to the persistent risk of sudden, unexplained death during the first days and weeks of life.

«It will be important to explore how these genetic risks play out in environments that differ in terms of air pollution or other important, modifiable factors,» Belsky said.

«We propose that timely targeting of modifiable vascular risk factors might contribute to the prevention of MCI and dementia.»

«Identifying persons at a higher risk of dementia could postpone or even prevent dementia by timely targeting modifiable risk factors.»

Wood et al. discuss the developmental origins of osteoporosis and outline some of the modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors in early life, both antenatal and postnatal.

«Behaviors such as poor diet choices, physical inactivity, excess alcohol consumption and unhealthy body weight could account for more than 20 percent of cancer cases, and could, therefore, be prevented with lifestyle modifications,» Kohler said, adding that when tobacco exposure is considered, these modifiable issues are believed to be factors in two - thirds of U.S. cancer deaths.

About one third of cancer cases are estimated to be linked to dietary and other modifiable risk factors, especially for obesity - related cancers such as breast, colorectal, ovarian, endometrial, kidney, gallbladder, esophageal, and pancreatic cancers.

«The detection of early modifiable factors that influence later child well - being is an important target for individual and community health.

Understanding the long - term impact of modifiable lifestyle factors such as exercise in adolescence is of critical importance and can have substantial public health implications for disease prevention over the course of life, explained author Sarah J. Nechuta, MPH, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

BMI, a measure of body fat based on weight and height, was the primary modifiable risk factor associated with total and soft coronary plaque as assessed by CCTA.

Other factors that play their part include the incidence of HIV / AIDS, malaria, conflict, humanitarian crises, and natural disasters, some of which are modifiable, and others which are difficult to control or unavoidable.

The 10 - year risk of developing CVD, CHD, and stroke was based upon an individual's Framingham CVD RS, which takes into account both modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors.

«It's crucial to better understand modifiable risk factors of atrial fibrillation,» said study author Christina Magnussen, M.D., a medical specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University Heart Center in Hamburg, Germany.

«Our findings add to the public health importance of obesity, particularly as a modifiable risk factor,» said Dr. Macumber.

«Even though the absolute risk is small, and the contribution of shift work to CHD is modest, it is important to note that this is a modifiable risk factor, and changing shift schedules may have an impact on the prevention of CHD.»

The findings of the study indicate that sleep may be an important potentially modifiable risk factor (or marker) of future obesity.»

Published online in World Psychiatry, these findings highlight the importance of regularly screening SMI patients for cardiovascular risk and also point towards a number of potentially modifiable risk factors.

«The findings of the study indicate that sleep may be an important potentially modifiable risk factor [or marker] of future obesity,» Miller said in a university news release.

«We should be interested in modifiable factors that are related to disease and that we can do something about — poor nutrition, lack of exercise, cigarette smoking,» he says.

In other words, Hardman says, «the MedDiet offers the opportunity to change some of the modifiable risk factors» for cognitive decline, as well as other chronic diseases.

She said, «Obesity is a major and modifiable risk factor for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women.»

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Researchers wanted to determine the percentage of cases where modifiable lifestyle risk factors were responsible for cases of breast cancer.

Although depression is usually due to a combination of environmental, biologic, and genetic factors, there are several modifiable risk factors, three of which are mentioned below, before the depression quiz.

«And obesity is now the leading modifiable risk factor, even ahead of tobacco use, that's associated with cancer risk and mortality.»