Sentences with phrase «over the risks associated»

There are very real concerns over the risks associated with the possible transfer to humans of infections from pigs.

Governments, while embracing the potential for growth, nevertheless continue to express concern over the risks associated with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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Eventually, the technology could help providers identify more individuals who are at risk of developing cardiovascular conditions — cardiovascular disease not only affects over 100 million people in the US, it is also the costliest disease in the nation, with associated costs reaching $ 555 billion in 2016, according to American Heart Association.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

Given the potential opportunity cost associated with avoiding the stock market — which could be as much as $ 3.3 million over 40 years, according to NerdWallet — as well as the benefits of compound interest over four decades, the bigger risk may be not investing at all.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

More than 800 of these people were found to have invasive lung cancers over the study's course, and the risk seemed to be especially associated with men who took discrete supplements with vitamin B6 or B12.

When you look back on this moment in history, remember that rich valuations had not only been associated with low subsequent market returns, but also with magnified risk of deep interim price losses over shorter horizons.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

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«Many participants reported that their contacts had taken the previous month's turbulence in stride, although a few participants suggested that financial developments over the intermeeting period highlighted some downside risks associated with still - high valuations for equities or from market volatility more generally,» the minutes said.

But that doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of easy money still washing over VCs — and that there still isn't a lot of risk associated with that phenomenon.

Bank of America has expressed its concerns over the costs and risks associated with increased competition it faces from cryptocurrencies and the various businesses, exchanges and technologies that support them.

Paul Singer's profound understanding of markets and risk has allowed Elliot Associates to compound capital successfully over 40 years with only two small down years.

Based on historical outcomes associated with those prior instances (which prior to the current market cycle, include only 1929, 1972, 1987, 2000 and 2007), we continue to view the stock market as vulnerable to significant downside risk both in the near - term and over the completion of the present market cycle.

Fourth, Mr. Luskin totally avoids talking about the risk associated with the fact that this tax reform will increase the deficit of an already indebted U.S. by $ 1.5 T over 10 years.

The yield curve typically slopes upward to reflect the increased risk associated with lending over longer time horizons.

While this has been associated with a boost to domestic spending which was welcome in a weak international environment, such trends carry increasing risk if they persist over long periods.

That combination of improved valuation and early improvement in market action emerges over the completion of every market cycle, and is associated with the strongest estimated market return / risk profile we identify.

As we have argued in the past, the risks associated with economic and fiscal forecasting increase over time.

So, whilst the well - informed individuals who may be reading this article are likely to recognise and avoid the risks associated with over consumption and excessive calorie intake, the very real risk of deteriorating mental health and cognitive performance exists within this group as much as any other.

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

In the case of infant formula, the well - documented risks associated with artificial feeding are glossed over by this image transfer.

Given questions about how long the vaccine is effective for, she questioned the efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical cancer may be less than the «small» risks associated with the vaccine.

Health risks associated with formula feeding over the long term include increased incidence of infectious morbidity, childhood obesity, both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Studies in Australia, 13 Canada, 14 and the United States15 16 have concluded that in some settings midwife managed home birth can be associated with as low a perinatal mortality as hospital birth for low risk women, reviving the debate over the need to allow women genuine choice.17 18

Co-sleeping next to a smoker was significant for infants under three months, whilst the risk associated with bed - sharing in the absence of these factors was not significant overall, and was in the direction of protection for older infants (over three months).

In a new study of over 7,000 older Chinese women published online today in the journal Rheumatology, breastfeeding — especially for a longer duration — is shown to be associated with a lower risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Risky labor inductions for «convenience» and all the complications associated with them — increased risk of prematurity, C - section, bladder and bowel injury, and maternal death — are now on the rise all over the country.

Over the years, there has been a big push to eliminate soft drinks from school vending machines and to educate parents about the risks associated with sugary drinks.

«Restricting calories can slow your basal metabolism, and if by - products of metabolism accelerate aging processes, calorie restriction sustained over several years may help to decrease risk for chronic disease and prolong life,» says lead author Leanne M. Redman, associate professor of Clinical Sciences at Pennington Biomedical Research in Baton Rouge, LA.

Compared with women who had never breastfed, those who breastfed between 0 - 6 months, 6 - 12 months, 12 - 18 months, 18 - 24 months, or over 24 months, respectively, had a 1 %, 7 %, 11 %, 13 %, and 18 % lower risk of coronary heart disease, with each additional 6 months of breastfeeding per child associated with 4 % lower risk (P < 0.001).

Over the past several years, fluctuating advice regarding the relative risks associated with bed - sharing, and a certain amount of media scaremongering, has prompted NHS trusts to remove bedsharing information from patient areas and introduce restrictive policies on what health professionals can say to parents about where their new baby might sleep.

The health experts, including a doctor, a veterinarian, and a Cornell University medical professor, have requested a meeting with Governor Cuomo's acting health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, to go over the growing number of studies that indicate numerous health risks associated with fracking.

«Estimating the economic impact is challenging now, let alone in over a century,» says Edward Oughton, a research associate at the University of Cambridge's Center for Risk Studies.

However, results for women who decreased their alcohol intake over the five year period were not significantly associated with risk of breast cancer or coronary heart disease.

«A recent study identified over 100 genes associated with schizophrenia risk, but their functions are largely unknown,» said Yingwei Mao, associate professor of biology at Penn State and lead author of the study.

Hormone replacement therapy has been controversial over the past few decades as studies have associated it with both health benefits — lowering the risk of osteoporosis and improving some measures of heart health, for example — and risks, including links to cancer and stroke.

Declines in VA acuity over time were associated with increased mortality risk in part because of decreasing levels of IADL over time.

In other words, a drop of 10 °C in the average temperature over seven days, which is common in several countries because of seasonal variations, is associated with an increased risk in being hospitalized or dying of heart failure of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease..

This challenge arose from complaints made initially by breast cancer patients who objected to Myriad's monopoly control over the testing and interpretation of risks associated with these cancer genes.

Put another way, among those who couldn't walk a little over 8 feet, high blood pressure was associated with less mortality risk.

Professor Kristina Akesson, Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit at Lund University, Chair of the IOF Capture the Fracture Campaign, stated, «This study concludes that in the population sample of elderly women, vitamin D insufficiency sustained over 5 - years was associated with increased 10 - year risk of osteoporotic fracture.»

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

In a new study of over 7,000 older Chinese women published online today in the journal Rheumatology, breastfeeding — especially for a longer duration — is shown to be associated with a lower risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

The study was constructed to analyze stroke cases over the past two decades, not to investigate causation; however, researchers did find evolving patterns in the risk factors associated with strokes.

«The absence of a significant survival benefit associated with one prosthesis type over another focuses decision making on lifestyle considerations, including the burden of anticoagulation medication and monitoring, and the relative risks of major morbidity — primarily stroke, reoperation, and major bleeding events,» the authors write.

A new population - based study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston showed for the first time that exposure to testosterone therapy over a five - year period was not associated with an increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer.

For example, a one - unit increase in the percentage of body fat stored in the abdominal region was associated with a 53 percent increase in the risk of developing loss - of - control eating over the next two years, whereas total percentage body fat did not predict loss - of - control eating development.»

Again and again, readers expressed worries over potential health risks associated with the commonly used herbicide glyphosate.