Sentences with phrase «on known risk factors»

Questionnaires also collected data on known risk factors of CHD every two to four years throughout the study period.

Dr Nelson added: «We also examined whether the association we found between shorter height and higher risk of coronary heart disease could be explained by an effect of height on known risk factors for coronary heart disease like cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes etc..

Together with the maps the research team have produced contextual information on known risk factors for health conditions and a summary of current knowledge about possible association of health effects with environmental exposures.

I would prefer the authors to match cohorts based on known risk factors within the «low risk group».

Not exact matches

Our employees are free to take positive risks knowing that they will not solely be judged on a company's profit margin, but also on factors that all of us at Virgin value, like raising awareness of the brand, creating happy and loyal customers or making a positive impact on the larger community.

All known factors & risks when the city approved the project and funding plan, and all much less painful than asking taxpayers to fund a billion dollar arena on top of all of these costs.

The latest safe infant sleep recommendations are based on what experts have learned and are known risk - factors for sleep - related infant deaths.

She knew this about me, about my admission to medical school and dropping out, and on the basis of the internal factors which drove me, in the past, to get into medical school, so calculated that I was not much of a risk at all even though I was broke and continued to be so for the first three years of our marriage.

Thus the decision on whether to perform an elective cesarean delivery (also known as «patient choice cesarean» or «cesarean on demand») will come down to a number of ethical factors including the patient's concerns and the physician's understanding of the procedure's risks and benefits.

I had no idea why he was sleepy — just as you Jillian had no idea that your little baby was dehydrated — I also thought I should have known — yet you had a huge number of health professionals who failed, despite the multiple risk factors you had, to pick up on what was happening.

We know that they are risk factors and one seem to be the baby sleeping on its stomach.

It came up at christmas dinner; at one point, the topic of breastfeeding came up, and my spouse's uncle started to say «I know breastfeeding reduces the risk of allergies later» and, expecting him to move on to obesity and IQ and whatever else he was about to say, I just said «No, that's not true», and started trying to explain the difference between correlation and causation, and the difficulties with prospective studies and confounding factors, etc..

However, bacterial growth may also be a secondary effect of other known risk factors like over-heating, parental smoking and lying a child on its stomach.

What is your opinion on the American Academy of Pediatrics labeling all bedsharing as «hazardous» and recommending against it without qualifications even if the mother is breastfeeding and the context is absent of any maternal (or paternal) smoking, before or after pregnancy, or other known bedsharing risk factors?

Trust me when I say I was cursing the fact that no one knows the real risk factors for SIDS and I wasn't comfortable with my child sleeping on her stomach in her own sleeping space because she hated and fought her swaddle, had an intense Moro reflex, and the gas would've been soothed by tummy sleep.

ECAP targets factors known to mediate the effects of risk factors on adopted children's outcomes.

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

Babies sleeping on their front, parental smoking, poverty, and young maternal age are all well - known factors that are associated with an increased risk of unexpected infant death [50].

«These factors should be considered through targeted interventions focusing on mothers who are at risk of ceasing breastfeeding before the recommended time and on known factors and behavior that can be prevented.»

You know all teens are not getting pregnant or getting their partners pregnant and we are building on positive factors in the community instead of emphasizing risk factors and negative behaviors,» Burstein explained.

«We don't know why only a fraction of individuals with genetic risk factors for celiac disease actually become gluten intolerant,» said Peter Green, MD, the Phyllis and Ivan Seidenberg Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University and co-author on the study.

«We've known that aging is a major risk factor for most chronic diseases for some time, but recently, we've gained a better understanding of the aging process's basic underpinnings, which has allowed us to extend both life span and health — in animals at least,» says Felipe Sierra, director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aging.

Dr. Fuster adds: «For our patients» lives and for the health of our global economies we need to improve our predictive measures for cardiovascular disease and can no longer just rely on traditional risk factors.

The method used in the study is known as the Hirsch Index and while the study authors acknowledge factors such as there being high public interest leading to more studies of a particular illness, they believe that because it is objective and evidence - based it will be a useful complement and guide to more traditional methods of risk assessment and can be used to produce a shortlist of pathogens for authorities to focus on.

Obesity is a well - known risk factor for osteoarthritis, but its effects on cartilage repair are unknown.

Steatosis — when the liver becomes infiltrated with fat — occurs frequently after liver transplantation, but little is known about its actual prevalence in transplant recipients, which risk factors are involved, or what effects the condition has on patients» survival.

On closer inspection, the scientists discovered that the three genes involved in producing miR135 are located in areas of the genome that are known to be associated with risk factors for bipolar mood disorders.

The known risk factors the researchers focused on included depression, lower education levels, physical inactivity, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and smoking.

While the negative effects of stress on the body have been known for a long time, loneliness is a more recently recognized health risk factor.

One limitation of the study is that researchers relied on self - reporting by study participants for information about high blood pressure or preeclampsia, a pregnancy disorder marked by high blood pressure and protein in the urine and a known risk factor for heart disease, that occurred in subsequent pregnancies after the one in which the initial data was collected.

«The favorable effect of coffee on liver cancer might be mediated by coffee's proven prevention of diabetes, a known risk factor for the disease, or for its beneficial effects on cirrhosis and liver enzymes.»

«We know from many studies that good physical fitness reduces cardiovascular mortality, and that physical activity has a positive impact on cardiovascular risk factors following a rehab program,» said Maxime Caru, a doctoral student in human kinetics at UdeM and lead author of the study.

A recent analysis of the existing research on factors associated with an individual's risk for engaging in terrorist activity highlights how little we know about these factors and the need for additional research in this area.

Bereavement has long been known as a risk factor for death and this study increases our understanding of its effects on cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks and strokes.

It has been known for some time that coeliac disease develops in people who have a genetic susceptibility, but despite the fact that 40 % of the population carry the most decisive risk factor (the HLA - DQ2 and DQ8 polymorphisms), only 1 % go on to develop the disease.

Andersson's research is based on the well - known fact that vessel dysfunction is associated with oxidative stress, and that certain «molecular messengers» between cells promote inflammation and are a risk factor for atherosclerosis and hypertension.

Age remains the strongest known risk factor for dementia, but emerging evidence on aspects of the environment could become important to help prevent dementia in future.»

While we know that other donor characteristics can influence the risk of the patient developing Graft versus Host disease or other complications, more research is needed to determine how important different donor factors are on outcomes other than patient survival.»

«While there is extensive scientific literature on the late effects of cancer therapy, including the risk that survivors will develop subsequent malignancies, until now little was known about the contribution of genetic factors,» said Jinghui Zhang, PhD, Computational Biology chair.

Even though elevated risk factors in younger adults are known to lead to greater risk later on, most of the guidelines only begin for people at age 40, he says.

Contact with contaminated fish and shellfish is also a risk factor, and crabs are known to carry Vibrio bacteria on their shells.

This was an observational study, so it can not prove that the blueberries caused the reduction in risk, but it seems likely given the known beneficial effects on risk factors.

11 ApoE4 heterozygotes (people with one allele) have a five-fold increased risk of developing AD, and homozygotes (two alleles) are estimated to have a staggering lifetime risk between 50 - 90 percent.12 Despite this seemingly damning genetic heritage, the ApoE4 allele is neither required nor sufficient for development of AD, as 50 percent of people with AD are not carriers, and some E4 homozygotes never develop the disease.13 On the other hand, the other known risk factor — hyperinsulinism — elevates risk by 43 percent independently of ApoE status.

In fact, greater intake of fruits and vegetables was associated with a reduced risk independent of other known risk factors, meaning that there may be additional benefits to bulking up on plant foods above and beyond restricting animal foods.

We don't just rely on one antibiotic, because we do know that one of the biggest riks — risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection is cumulative antibiotic exposure according to literature, right?

Stress is known to have damaging effects on health and is widely recognized as a major risk factor in the development of heart disease and in heart disease -LSB-...]

While there's still some content about mammograms on the site, «informational pages and factsheets about the disease, including symptoms, treatment, risk factors, and public no - or low - cost cancer screening programs, have been entirely removed and are no longer found elsewhere on the [Office on Women's Health] site,» according to the foundation's report.

They focus on net fund alphas, meaning after - fee returns in excess of the risk - free rate, adjusted for exposures to three kinds of risk factors well known at the start of the sample period: (1) traditional equity market, bond market and credit factors; (2) dynamic stock size, stock value, stock momentum and currency carry factors; and, (3) a volatility factor specified as monthly returns from buying one - month, at ‐ the ‐ money S&P 500 Index calls and puts and holding to expiration.

Risk tolerance is based on two main factors: your personality and how soon you need to access your investment, also known as investment horizon.

@Grant - a portion of the expected returns on dividend stocks may be attributable to the term factor (similar to one of the known risk factors in bonds).