Sentences with phrase «other known risk factors»

and «Limited evidence suggested that LDL subfraction analysis is not a consistently strong predictor of CVD compared to other known risk factors» http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0026967/

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.

Well, as is explained in the video, from a statistical perspective a low cardiorespiratory fitness level is the health risk factor that most strongly predicts death, even when compared against other known risk factors like obesity, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes.

«Stress alone does not provoke or make asthma worse, unless it is in conjunction with other known risk factors such as traffic - related air pollution,» he says.

Treatment of diabetes involves lowering blood glucose and the levels of other known risk factors that damage blood vessels.

«The increase in genetic risk was independent of other known risk factors, suggesting that testing for multiple genetic differences is clinically useful to evaluate risk and guide management,» senior author Dr. Guillaume Paré, an associate professor of medicine at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences in Hamilton, Canada, and the director of the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, said in a statement.

A 2012 study found that emotional stress more strongly predicts tinnitus than other known risk factors, perhaps because the emotion - processing areas of the brain are closely connected to its auditory systems.

«Our results suggest that centralized fat deposition increased disordered eating risk above and beyond other known risk factors,» said Berner.

This study is the first to determine whether solitary drinking during teenage years impacted the development of alcohol use disorders as young adults, after controlling for other known risk factors.

After accounting for all other known risk factors, «you see a progressive increase in cancer rates for each unit increase in BMI above 21,» he told Science News Online.

Nevertheless, de Vincenzi says HIV can clearly be transmitted by vaginal sex without any other known risk factors.

Studying adolescents in Southern California, researchers found that the association between sleep and alcohol / marijuana use was consistent even after controlling for other known risk factors, such as depression.

Bed sharing among black infants and sudden infant death syndrome: interactions with other known risk factors

History of pregnancy loss may be a risk factor for postpartum depression in a similar way as other known risk factors, such as personal or family history of depression, the researchers write.

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.

Especially when you consider that pretty much every one of the co-sleeping deaths is easily attributable to parents» intoxication or other known risk factors, co-sleeping comes in as statistically pretty darned safe.

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.

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Part of the reason that SIDS is still a problem is that experts just don't know all of the things that put a baby at risk, but there are also other things that parents could do to avoid risk factors that they don't always do.

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?

Despite knowing this risk factor was present along with several others, as explained by physician R. Christie Del Castillo - Hegyi who assisted Johnson in writing her blog post, the new mom was encouraged by nurses, lactation consultants and doctors to keep nursing.

Not all the causes of stillbirth are currently known, but experience from other countries suggests that if pregnant women know the risk factors, the signs to look out for and when to seek help, this can reduce how often stillbirth happens.

Many women who develop breast cancer have no known risk factors other than simply being women.

Confounding by other known dietary factors was unlikely because the risk estimates were influenced only slightly by adjustments for covariates, eg, the amount of gluten consumed.

All parents should be provided with information regarding a) factors known to increase the risk of SIDS in the bed - sharing environment, including parental smoking (particularly maternal smoking in pregnancy), young maternal age, infant prematurity; and b) aspects of adult beds that should be modified with infant safety in mind: e.g. gaps between bed and wall or other furniture, proximity of baby to pillows, type of bedding used, parental behaviour prior to bed - sharing such as consumption of alcohol, drugs or medication affecting arousal.

Such forward - looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Rio Tinto, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward - looking statements.

Patients also have to factor in their own sense of how much they fear a heart attack or stroke — all the while knowing there are other means of prevention with almost no risk that can get lost in the statin debate, including weight loss, exercise and a better diet.

Inherited mutations of the tumour suppressor gene CDKN2A are the strongest known risk factors for familial melanoma and mutations in this gene also increase the risk of other cancers.

Many of these risk factors are known to also be associated with each other (such as obesity and diabetes), and when were combined together, the total for all 10 risk factors was 91 %, which was similar in all regions, age groups and in men and women.

DeCODE genetics is known for discovering genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes, early - onset heart attack, and breast cancer, among others.

The other 90 percent are considered sporadic cancers with no currently known risk factors.

These associations persisted even after adjusting for factors such as bone mineral density, physical activity, smoking and alcohol use, calcium and vitamin D intake, falls and all other known fracture risk factors.

BRCA1 and 2, genes whose proteins are supposed to work as tumor suppressors and also repair DNA damage, were the first known risk factor genes for familial breast cancer as well as ovarian and other cancers.

After they statistically accounted for smoking, family history, and other factors known to increase high blood pressure risk, the researchers found that women who adhered to a healthy diet were 20 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who did not.

Professor Michael Lisanti, from The University of Manchester — part of Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We know that high breast density can greatly increase a woman's breast cancer risk as well as other factors such as aging, family history and presence of mutations in genes such as BRCA 1 and BRCA 2.

Professor Samani concluded: «While we know about many lifestyle factors such as smoking that affect risk of coronary heart disease, our findings underscore the fact that the causes of this common disease are very complex and other things that we understand much more poorly have a significant impact.

«We know from previous human studies that changes in gut bacterial composition correlate with the early development of type 1 diabetes, and that the interactions between bacterial networks may be a contributing factor in why some people at risk for the disease develop type 1 diabetes and others don't,» said Jessica Dunne, Director of Discovery Research at JDRF, which funded the study.

These findings suggest that calcium scoring can be an effective tool for assessing heart disease risks in adults with no known risk factors so that they can make the lifestyle and other changes that can help them avoid heart disease in the future.»

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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.»

Dr. Beck notes, «Experts have known for a long time that kidney cancer and uterine cancer are associated more commonly with being overweight, but we're now seeing that cancers like breast cancer, ovarian cancer, stomach cancer and others are tied to being overweight, so it's clearly a risk factor.»

We know that women who are overweight by more than 30 pounds are at increased risk for heart disease (even in the absence of other risk factors).

No significant relationship was found between vitamin D status and early or advanced age - related macular degeneration after making adjustments for age and other known age - related macular degeneration risk factors.

«What makes our findings compelling and different from previous studies addressing this question is that this was also true when we compared siblings who differed in type of delivery — one was born by cesarean and the other by vaginal delivery — and when restricted to women without any known risk factors for having a cesarean, some of whom may have undergone an elective cesarean,» said lead researcher Dr. Jorge Chavarro.

High blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and other known — and treatable — risk factors for MCI and dementia tend to be more common in men, which may explain the higher rate of MCI, Shatz says.

Although the risk factors for other forms of cancer (including breast cancer and lung cancer) are well defined, Dr Hovey says the potential causes of brain cancer are not fully known.

The research, which was funded by the Food and Drug Administration and other federal health agencies, contradicts numerous earlier studies that did find an increased risk of infection associated with the drugs, known as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors.

And all of these benefits combine to help lower a person's risk of cardiovascular disease (among many other diseases including at least 11 known cancers) by reducing risk factors like obesity, hypertension, and high blood cholesterol.