Sentences with phrase «people are less of a risk»

This is the case because insurers believe that most people are less of a risk when they are younger.

Not exact matches

Instead, people who fall into this category place less value on personal relationships, and are more likely to advance their own interests (read: pay and promotion) even at the risk of upsetting social harmony.

Essentially our offer is that we handle the production & distribution and then share revenue with the people who help create the works for a period of time (12 months) in exchange for their work at half pay — As shoots only last a day or two max, there is very little risk for people to participate as it's a good deal and we already know everyone in the business so there is little downtime building any of the infrastructure or much less cold calling anyone

One hypothesis is that people in industries which generate a bigger «paper trail» — because they use more intermediate goods as inputs, for example — are at greater risk of being caught and therefore evade tax less.

Of course, these investments carry a lot higher risk thresholds which make them much less viable as investment vehicles for a majority of people, but regardless it's time for the technologies that have improved public markets for the individual investor to help them go private as welOf course, these investments carry a lot higher risk thresholds which make them much less viable as investment vehicles for a majority of people, but regardless it's time for the technologies that have improved public markets for the individual investor to help them go private as welof people, but regardless it's time for the technologies that have improved public markets for the individual investor to help them go private as well.

It's true that you can make a heck of a lot more being entreprenurial, but it leaves out a lot of the costs / risks along the way that are priced into the return you get vs. a wage (and a lot of people would prefer the less - risky wage route, even with a degree from a private college).

But for a huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person game development studio.

In less developed countries where capital markets are restricted this mistrust is a given as people are threatened by devaluations, seizure of property and political risk.

The person who has exhibited responsible behavior until some sort of personal crisis occurs is perceived as less of a risk, while many lenders believe that someone who habitually misses payments is likely to keep missing payments in the future.

People who are nervous about money backed by a central bank with unclear controls — such as China's — have become attracted to bitcoin, an open source currency that is less influenced by the state of the economy or any looming geopolitical risk.

There are lots of other sex acts in which people engage other than penetrative sex which all carry less risk of disease transmission (in differing degrees).

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

If only people knew that Millet are 5 times more nutritious than the average rice varieties, has a low glycemic index (studies show they benefit type2 diabetes), cost less, cook faster, aids weight loss, reduces risk of heart disease and more!

People who were breastfed as babies are less likely to be overweight or obese later in life, they may have a reduced risk of diabetes and perform better in intelligence tests, the WHO said.

In Pakistan, in contrast, bombings are driven by religious differences between people who are ethnically much more similar within a multi-ethnic panorama of predominantly Muslim ethnicities - indeed, often the targets of bombings are secular people, or Christians, or less «fundamentalist» Muslims of the same ethnicity as the bombers, so simple ethnic profiling is not very useful in making a first order assessment of the risk that someone is a bomber and generates vastly more false positives.

Jeremy Corbyn unites the true labour following, and these MPs that are so out of touch have now made themselves even less in tune with ordinary people now risk being abandoned — and its all their own doing.

* For every day of benzodiazepine use in the previous month there is a 7 % increase in relapse; while current age carries 7 % reduction in risk of relapse (the older the person, the less likely of relapse).

Adolescents and young people who relied on «gist» representations of risk were less open to taking future online risks.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Kaufman, meanwhile, has found that a minority of his respondents misunderstand the «relative risk» figures provided by personal genomics firms, particularly when the risks are below average — a relative risk of 0.8, for instance, indicates that the person tested is 20 per cent less likely to develop a condition than a typical member of the same population.

«In Asia and the Middle east, you'll find that people are less aware about the risks of climate change and global warming,» a spokesman for the Kuwaiti team said.

For example, should we be counselling people with certain blood groups that they have a greater or lesser chance of recurrence, and should these risk factors be built into decisions on treatment?»

Using non-invasive brain imaging, the researchers found that people at - risk for anxiety were less likely to develop the disorder if they had higher activity in a region of the brain responsible for complex mental operations.

Industrial farms growing a single Cavendish cultivar are at a high risk of Foc - TR4 infestation, but the fungus poses less of a threat to the bulk of the bananas that provide a staple for some 400 million people worldwide.

The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.

People with communication difficulties are at a high level of risk because they are less able to report abuse.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

One result stood out in the DNA of the people who were less at risk for malaria: Two genes that provide instructions for two proteins called glycophorin A and glycophorin B were snipped, fused together and duplicated.

The skinny on fat: Too little is more dangerous than too much Overweight people are at no greater risk than normal - weight folks of dying from heart disease or cancer and are actually less likely to fall prey to some other causes of death, such as accidents and Alzheimer's, according to freshly analyzed data on 2.3 million adults 25 years and older as of 2004.

People with fewer socioeconomic resources — less education, lower income — have less healthy diets, may be less physically active and have poorer quality sleep, all of which lead to the early development of heart disease risk factors.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Researchers found that people who experienced lesser amounts of REM sleep are more at risk of developing dementia in the long run.

This may be partly because sun - sensitive people (those people who are at increased risk of melanoma) reported less sun exposure than those who are not so sensitive.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

People who sleep less may also have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which is a risk factor for heart disease.

Some studies suggest that people who consume full - fat diary are healthier, weight less and have a lower risk of developing diabetes.

Aspirin has been shown to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer and precancerous polyps, and in a pair of studies published earlier this year, researchers found that people were less likely to develop or die from cancers — including those of the lung, prostate, and bladder — if they took aspirin daily.

People whose diets contain daily omega 3s have been shown to have 26 % less risk of having brain lesions that cause dementia compared with those who do not.

What's more, in a pair of French studies, people with diverse gut microbiomes were less likely to be obese or at risk of diabetes.

People who consume lots of foods rich in vitamin B12 — such as fish and fortified cereals — may be at lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than people who take in less of the vitamin, a new study sugPeople who consume lots of foods rich in vitamin B12 — such as fish and fortified cereals — may be at lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than people who take in less of the vitamin, a new study sugpeople who take in less of the vitamin, a new study suggests.

Scientists say that people who drink 3 to 4 cups of coffee a day, have lower risk of premature death due to heart disease, diabetes and Parkinson's disease and are less prone to depressive state and suicide.

Short sleepers, typically defined as people who get less than six hours of sleep a night, as well as people who don't spend enough time in the deepest stages of sleep, are at higher risk of heart attacks and strokes than those who get at least seven hours.

Researchers found that the more coffee people downed, the less likely they were to get the disease: Those drinking four cups daily had a 20 percent lower risk of developing malignant melanoma over a 10 - year period than non-coffee drinkers.

There's a reason the Mediterranean Diet has generated so much buzz: Research shows that people who closely follow a traditional Mediterranean diet may reduce their risk of heart disease, may be less likely to put on weight, and may even live longer.

People who are physically active for about 7 hours a week have a 40 percent lower risk of dying early than those who are active for less than 30 minutes a week.

I read that when one is obese the risk of diabetes goes up to a 1 in 3 chance, way, way higher than people of normal weight, which by the way is quite a bit less than the 1 in 10 average.

In fact, research has shown that people with a high health IQ are 42 % less likely to be obese and have a 57 % lower risk of early death.

Node Smith, ND A new study from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that people raised in an urban environment without pets around have a less resilient immune system and may be at higher risk for mental illness.1 This research furthers the conversation of the «hygiene theory» into realm of mental health, connecting some -LSB-...]

The reduction in stress and depression risk is directly proportional to the level of attachment the person holds for their pet; the stronger the bond, the lesser the risk of depression and stress.

Given what we know about clinical nutrition, that sometimes a startling mix of foods can be used to help people in certain disease states — more ice cream and gravy for someone undergoing cancer treatment, less protein and fewer vegetables for someone with kidney disease — and since dividing your risk among a wide variety of different foods can help hedge your health bets, the idea that there are universally good or bad foods doesn't hold up well under scrutiny.