Sentences with phrase «people at higher risk»

I've read others» reports of the experiences of divorce and how their daily habits changed: less eating, less sleeping, more crying.4 One of the unfortunate things about weight loss following divorce is that women are almost universally praised for this «accomplishment» — even if it comes at an emotional cost or the shedding of pounds leaves them underweight.5 Losing weight should not always be greeted with congratulations; in fact, being underweight puts people at a higher risk of death than does obesity.6

In later life, weight issues can have a severe impact on health, leaving people at a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and more likely to develop several types of cancer.

It puts people at higher risk for infections such as Kaposi's Sarcoma, co-infection with hepatitis C, as well as immune system deterioration.

It puts people at higher risk for infections such as Karposi's Sarcoma, co-infection with hepatitis C, as well as immune system deterioration.

Why are older people at higher risk?

There are other risk factors that can put people at higher risk of developing melanoma.

New research in the journal Addiction suggests that even the occasional glass of wine puts people at higher risk for cancer.

And physicians know prematurity puts these people at higher risk when they need to be sedated, Havidich said.

Similar issues could arise from the ability to identify people at a higher risk for contracting or spreading a disease using human genetic markers.

The huge confounder here is that doctors prescribe those drugs especially to people at higher risk of gastrointestinal bleeds.

While the first guideline recommendation is to abstain from cannabis use to avoid all risks, the remaining recommendations address the elevated potential of risks related to initiating use at a young age, high potency products, alternative delivery systems, heavy use and driving, as well as identifying people at higher risk of problems — with concrete recommendations for risk reduction in each case.

Former senior police chief and Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson Brian Paddick said he was shocked by the revelations and is worried that it could put vulnerable people at higher risk of hate crimes.

Do, gluten - free diets put people at a higher risk for excessive and dangerous exposure to inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen?

Getting the shot can mean the difference between a mild illness and a hospital stay, Schuchat said, particularly for people at higher risk such as children and the aged.

Sedentary jobs put people at a higher risk of issues like obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Novartis, Amgen, and BAI are trying to figure out whether or not an experimental treatment called CNP520 can delay Alzheimer's in the people at high risk for the disease — or prevent it altogether.

«Unless we can surveil them 24/7, they should be incarcerated,» Conservative MP says of people at high risk of committing terrorist acts

People at high risk for heart disease should strive for 500 mg or less.

The discovery holds promise for singling out people at high risk for more aggressive treatment.

After all, screening people at high risk of developing the chronic eye disease had been common practice for decades.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

Up to 30 people at high risk of HIV infection will take part in the trial.

The company has begun two safety trials in the US, in people at low risk of infection and in people at high risk, and says it has evidence that the vaccine is safe.

But John Collinge of University College London, UK, and colleagues, who reported the clinical details of the most recent case, say people at high risk of vCJD should be informed, so they can be enrolled in clinical trials of drugs which are hoped to delay or prevent the onset of the disease.

The study also found distinct blood pressure patterns from ages 18 to 55 that reveal people at high risk for calcification of coronary arteries — a marker for heart disease — by middle age.

The test, which can be used on a teardrop, identifies people at high risk of blindness, and is some 15 times cheaper to use than the standard method.

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.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association today released a new clinical practice guideline for the treatment of blood cholesterol in people at high risk for cardiovascular diseases caused by atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries, that can lead to heart attack, stroke or death.

Those on diets, for example, often prefer not to look at the number of calories in a tasty dessert, people at high risk for a disease avoid screening tests that could give them a definite answer, and most consumers of news choose sources that align with rather than challenge their political ideology.

A test based on the genetic make - up of the Barrett's lesions could benefit patients through improved diagnosis, giving people at high risk of cancer the best care, and reducing the burden of endoscopy for those at low risk.

People at highest risk are better protected if those around them are also protected.

But this is early laboratory research and the next stage is for clinical trials to confirm whether resveratrol has the same effects in people at high risk of bowel cancer.»

«Identifying persons at a higher risk of dementia could postpone or even prevent dementia by timely targeting modifiable risk factors.»

Immunobiologist Kevan Herold of Yale University says the result bodes well for a circulating DNA test that could be used to screen people at high risk for type 1 diabetes before their pancreas is so damaged that blood sugar levels rise.

People at high risk of cancer may soon be advised to take readily available drugs such as aspirin to reduce their chances of succumbing to one of the world's biggest killers.

Second, this potential marker could also be used to identify groups of persons at higher risk of developing dementia, which could improve the efficiency of clinical trials and in the future, detect persons that would benefit the most from a preventive treatment,» explained co-corresponding author Sudha Seshadri, MD, professor of neurology at BUSM and FHS senior investigator.

Additionally, strategies such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can effectively prevent HIV acquisition among people at high risk for infection.

They developed country - specific risk charts for predicting individuals» risk of cardiovascular disease, and country - specific assessments of the 10 - year cardiovascular disease burden.They estimate that the proportion of people at high risk (10 % or higher) of having a fatal heart attack or stroke within 10 years is higher in low - and middle - income countries (eg, China and Mexico) compared with high - income countries (eg, South Korea, Spain, and Denmark).

Maguen: «I do think military women are extremely resilient, but I think the differences in rates in the civilian literature actually have to do with a number of factors, including women having much higher rates of interpersonal traumas, which we know put people at high risk for PTSD.»

Steffen Borrmann of the Heidelberg University School of Medicine in Germany and the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Kilifi and his colleagues wondered whether administering certain antimalarial drugs to people at high risk of being infected might have a similar effect.

«That could be because people at high risk for depression simply haven't been diagnosed and treated for depression yet.»

It will also help identify people at high risk of developing late - onset AD, who would be prime candidates for prevention therapies and clinical trials.

Dr. Sturgis and his colleagues hope to provide data for such tests in clinical trials that will screen people at high risk for HPV - related anal or oropharyngeal cancers.

The populations of the cohorts had to be generally healthy; we excluded studies based only on people at high risk (for example, taking drugs for cardiac related disorders).

Without the test, she might not have been identified as a person at higher risk of that cancer.

«With the increase in lifestyle - related diseases around the world, estimated fitness is an easy, cost - effective method that could significantly help medical professionals identify people at high risk,» said co-author Carl J. Lavie, MD, professor of medicine at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, in a press release.

Based on these findings, researchers suspect hand grip could one day become a useful measure for identifying people at high risk of developing heart disease.

Autoinjectors (such as the brand name injector is EpiPen) should be carried by people at high risk as a safety precaution.

A 2012 study found that daily consumption of dark chocolate could decrease non-fatal strokes and heart attacks in people at high risk of such issues.

Persons at highest risk of disease from these organisms include newborns and infants; the elderly; pregnant women; those taking corticosteroids, antibiotics or antacids; and those having chronic illness or other conditions that weaken their immunity.