Sentences with phrase «percent lifetime risk»

Women with a BRCA1 mutation have about a 40 percent lifetime risk for ovarian cancer.

Those with a BRCA2 mutation have about a 10 to 20 percent lifetime risk.

According to ACS guidelines, women with a lifetime risk of 20 percent or greater should receive annual MRI breast screenings in additional to mammograms, and women at 15 to 20 percent lifetime risk should talk with their doctors about the benefits and limitations of adding MRI screening to their yearly mammogram.

«Women with a BRCA mutation have a 40 to 50 percent chance of getting ovarian cancer in their lifetime compared to somebody with an average risk, who has a 1.8 percent lifetime risk,» she said.

In fact, men with BRCA1 mutations have between a 1 and 5 percent lifetime risk of breast cancer, and men with BRCA2 mutation have between a 5 and 10 percent lifetime risk of breast cancer.

On average, people have a 20 percent lifetime risk for developing heart failure.

Not exact matches

People call that area the risk zone because your account balances are at their highest then — you have a lifetime of savings — and if you lose 30 percent, like people did in 2008, you're toast.»

According to the April 21 study, women who lactated for two years during their lifetime had a 13 percent lower risk for high blood pressure and a 20 percent lower risk for high cholesterol than women who never breastfed.

Thus, Stuker's 100 - mSv dose would increase his lifetime risk of contracting a potentially fatal cancer by about 0.5 percent.

The lifetime risk of an individual being diagnosed with melanoma is 2 percent.

«The lifetime risk of high blood pressure in the US is about 80 percent,» says the study's senior author Richard Cooper, professor and chairman of Public Health Sciences at Loyola University Medical School, who collaborated with Bress.

They found the three strategies were equally effective in improving cardiovascular health, and were expected to reduce a person's lifetime risk of developing cardiovascular disease 10 percent — from 46 percent to 36 percent.

Study participants who were in the higher (second, third, and fourth) quartiles of vigorously intense physical activity performance in their lifetimes had about 25 percent to 30 percent lower risk for NHL, compared with those who were in the lowest (first) quartile of vigorously intense physical activity.

men with two or more major risk factors at all ages had even higher lifetime risks for of at least 12 percent (or more than one in eight men);

By comparison, the lifetime risk of ovarian cancer in all women (including those without BRCA mutations) is only 1.4 percent.

It has been estimated that the lifetime risk of osteoporotic fracture for a 60 - year - old woman is 44 percent.

This figure is beyond safety guidelines and enough to raise lifetime cancer risk by as much as 3 percent.

Based on observed cancer rates at high exposures, studies have estimated the increased cancer risk from lifetime exposure at the 1 ppm level to be between 0.7 and 2.5 percent, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Twins in the study whose genomes showed a low risk for Alzheimer's, for example, did have about a 12 percent (thus, much, much smaller) risk than that of the general population (which, to begin with, has a relatively small risk of getting Alzheimer's during their lifetimes).

People with Lynch syndrome, on the other hand, have a lifetime risk of 50 - 80 percent.

The model estimated that lifetime incidence and mortality risks averaged 11 percent to 13 percent lower for every 5 - point higher ADR, which translates to overall differences of 53 percent to 60 percent between the lowest and highest quintiles.

The research team found that infants born within a half a mile from a fracking site were 25 percent more likely to be born at low birth weights, leaving them at greater risk of infant mortality, ADHD, asthma, lower test scores, lower schooling attainment and lower lifetime earnings.

In another finding, female scoliosis patients received two times more X-rays than non-surgical patients, amounting to twice the radiation exposure to the breasts, ovaries and bone marrow, and correlating to an over two percent increased lifetime risk of fatal breast cancer, almost one percent risk of fatal leukemia, and three percent risk of genetic defects.

According to the American Cancer Society, average lifetime risk for women of European descent is 12 percent.

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.

A strong family history might also indicate that you could be carrying an inherited genetic mutation, such as a mutation of a BRCA gene, which by some estimates might increase your lifetime risk of breast cancer to 65 percent and your risk of ovarian cancer to 39 percent.

According to Professor Scott M. Stanley, a research professor and co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver, «A young couple marrying for the first time today has a lifetime divorce risk of 40 percent, unless current trends change significantly.»

But, really, the best part here is the 100 percent lifetime warranty, so you'll never have to risk quality or your device's safety.

The lifetime risk for a Great Dane developing bloat has been estimated to be 37 percent.

Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day increases risk of cancer deaths, compared to non-smokers risk of 1 % lifetime risk, to a 10 % lifetime risk, one thousand percent.

The breast cancer findings were seen mostly in postmenopausal women, with a 17 percent higher risk for those who had had low exposure, a 19 percent increased risk for those with medium exposure and a 26 percent increased risk for those who had high long - term exposure over their lifetime.

The lifetime risk is about 17 percent.