Sentences with phrase «other risk»

When using these medications, women can offset the increased risk of blood clots by reducing other risk factors such as smoking, obesity and high blood pressure.

Additionally, even with heightened risk, a heart healthy lifestyle — maintaining a normal body weight, regular exercise and controlling other risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol — can help lower the risk of heart disease and heart failure.

But scientists are accumulating a growing list of other risk factors that predispose people to this condition, including prenatal exposure to famine conditions, certain infections or exposure to lead.

In addition to gestational diabetes, the researchers studied more than a dozen other risk factors, including pre-gestational diabetes, for association with PPD in women with and without a history of depression.

The authors note that although the effect of maternal obesity on cerebral palsy may seem small compared with other risk factors, the association is of public health relevance due to the large proportion of women who are overweight or obese.

She applauds the new work, noting that Ludwig and colleagues used apt statistical models to try to avoid confounding effects and excluded subjects with other risk factors such as gestational diabetes or extremely high birth weight.

Our results suggest the need for future studies involving long - term ambulatory cardiac monitoring to better delineate the risk associated with transient vs persistent perioperative AF, as well as randomized clinical trials to determine optimal strategies for antithrombotic therapy in patients with perioperative AF and a significant burden of other risk factors for stroke,» the authors write.

Dr Anna Hansell added: «It's important to remember that the effects of air pollution are small compared to other risk factors.

Other risk factors for diabetes included AHI during rapid eye movement sleep and measures of the physiologic consequences of OSA, including oxygen desaturation, sleep deprivation and activation of the sympathetic nervous system, as indicated by a higher mean heart rate during sleep.

If other risk factors such as having an unhealthy diet persist, then risk for Type 2 diabetes is compounded, researchers said.

This risk persisted even when controlling for other risk factors like smoking, obesity, and other major medical conditions.

«It is not clear whether this relationship is due to confounding factors such as poor socioeconomic environment, or nutrition, during childhood that on the one hand determine achieved height and on the other the risk of coronary heart disease, or whether it represents a primary relationship between shorter height and more coronary heart disease.

But Warensjö says that makes sense since it's likely that those other risk factors are manifestations of changes that might be affected by dairy consumption.

Other risk factors, which are often related to race, were low income and lacking health insurance.

Other risk factors fall into two categories: 1) risk factors for psychiatric problems in general, including anorexia; and 2) risk factors specific to anorexia.

Even harder to come by is backing from other risk - takers, especially investors, and that's something a successful start - up can not live without.

They used population averages to estimate sexual partnerships, needle sharing and other risk behaviors.

«Even after adjusting for other risk factors, including urine chemistries, hypertension and obesity, we still found that those with a kidney stone episode had subsequent abnormal kidney function,» says Dr. Rule.

Individuals in the lowest of the 6 poverty - income ratio categories had more than a 2-fold increased odds of PAD compared with those in the highest poverty - income ratio category, an association that was still significant after accounting for other risk factors.

«In addition, practitioners have to look for other risk factors that are more common in obese patients such as diabetes, hypertension or coronary artery disease.»

It was his exposure to Milner and other risk - embracing high - tech entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, Worden says, that had motivated his departure as well as shifting priorities within the U.S. government.

The identification of this and other risk factors (such as lower levels of cognitive stimulation and a higher body mass index) may help us to target individuals for screening, intervention and possible treatment.

«This study highlights the importance of concussion prevention, long - term follow - up of those with concussion, and the need for future studies to investigate if there are other risk factors for Parkinson's disease that can be modified after someone has a concussion,» said lead study author Raquel C. Gardner, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

Observing this group of people over time could provide insights on how other risk factors or life events, such as puberty, affect the mind.

Sanghavi and others also took issue with the AAP's recommendation of cholesterol screening starting at age 2 for children who are overweight or have other risk factors for heart disease.

«Although you can not change the genes you are born with, doctors can use this information to start screening for kidney disease earlier and to aggressively treat any other risk factors you may have such as diabetes or high blood pressure,» said Dr. Naik.

Individuals who have had mild or transient psychotic symptoms (such as unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances) without using substances such as marijuana or alcohol and have a family history of psychosis or other risk factors are considered at clinical high risk for psychotic disorder.

In common with other risk assessment analyses, it is difficult to obtain reliable data for these probabilities but we can make assumptions — for example, that the direct threat from the bodyguards is substantially lower than the threat from assailants.

Future studies are warranted to better characterize sleep disturbances and other risk factors and mechanisms of growth impairment in eczema and to determine whether such impairment is reversible,» the authors note.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute on Drug Abuse stress the potential for long - term cognitive impairment, problems with attention and coordination and other risk - taking behaviors due to heavy marijuana use.

The study did not assess other risk of harm to the baby that may be caused by consuming alcohol.

Besides age, other risk factors include family history, previous brain trauma, heart disease and gender (the prevalence rate for women over 70 is 16 percent, compared with men at 11 percent).

Nevertheless, there are several conclusions which could be important for other risk - assessment analyses.

After adjusting for other risk factors, the researchers again found an overall survival benefit for BCT compared to BCS and mastectomy.

Although the prevalence of diabetes mellitus increased over time, other risk factors, such as cigarette smoking, measured systolic blood pressure, and total cholesterol values, decreased.

The USPSTF also found inadequate evidence on the effectiveness of targeted screening in persons who are at increased risk for celiac disease (e.g., persons with family history or other risk factors), or on the effectiveness of treatment of screen - detected, asymptomatic celiac disease to improve morbidity, mortality, or quality of life compared with no treatment or treatment initiated after clinical diagnosis.

«The research clearly suggests that, among other risk factors, exposure to violent video games can lead to aggression and other potentially harmful effects.»

Her team's next step will be to understand whether certain patients are at higher risk for getting infected with rhinovirus in the first place and to ask if there are other risk factors for pneumonia and other poor outcomes from the infection.

Still, Samani notes that CRP can still be very useful for identifying people at high risk for heart disease, particularly those without other risk factors such as high cholesterol.

This other approach doesn't rule out that CRP reflects existing disease or travels along with other risk factors that are the real culprits.

But for a host of other risk factors — such as cigarette smoke and certain bacterial infections — the disease - causing mechanism is unclear.

But not all of these persons had a history of concussion and this suggests that undiagnosed subconcussive blows may also contribute to CTE, they explain, and call for more research into how the condition develops and to determine other risk factors.

Since nitrites are powerful carcinogens, Duesberg thought this explained why gay men frequently developed the cancer Kaposi's sarcoma but other risk groups, such as hemophiliacs and heterosexual drug abusers, rarely did.

Other risk factors include smoking, some chronic infections, and chronic inflammatory diseases such as diabetes.

This relationship held true independent of age, gender, body mass index (BMI), skin type, sun exposure and other risk factors for melanoma.

«Our study sought to discover if there are other risk factors or clues that may help identify the women with preeclampsia who are at the highest risk for pregnancy - related stroke.

«People at risk of Type 2 diabetes, especially women who had gestational diabetes, should be closely monitored by their doctor, and they need to control their weight and other risk factors for diabetes.»

In addition, post-Katrina patients were significantly more likely to have other risk factors for heart attack, including:

«Most parents today support traditional health education topics like pregnancy prevention, drug abuse and other risk behaviors that used to generate more debate in years past.

Radiation exposure levels for most people were elevated so minutely above background that it may be impossible to tease out carcinogenic effects from other risk factors, such as smoking or diet.