Sentences with phrase «placed at increased risk»

Likewise, employers are placed at increased risk of litigation and public relations problems when their employment background screening partners employ these practices.

Many victims of dog bites are placed at increased risk for developing an infection and left to suffer from nerve damage and permanent scarring.

Concern: In the event of a motor vehicle crash, and the ensuing side impact airbag deployment, a small child could be placed at an increased risk of spinal injury.

Charging that thousands of patients are being misled and may be unnecessarily placed at increased risk of death, a U.S. watchdog group last week demanded that federal regulators suspend a major clinical trial exploring when to offer blood transfusions after a heart attack.

Certain biologic (injectable) medications that are commonly used to treat the mother's psoriasis and PsA place her at an increased risk of developing infections such as the common cold.

Did you really know that the fact they sleep better in comfy swings is what places them at increased risk of SIDS due to less arousal points?

The UI study says: «Office workers sit more than 80 percent of the workday, placing them at increased risk for many sedentary - related pathologies.»

We spend so much time sitting at our desks that it places us at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, weight gain, muscle loss, and musculoskeletal pain.

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Flattening of the arch of your foot can place you at increased risk of developing Achilles tendonitis because of the extra stress placed on your Achilles tendon when walking or running.

Nearly one in five high - school students have had four or more sex partners, placing them at increased risk of contracting the virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has found.

«Nearly 17 percent of children in the United States live in poverty, placing them at increased risk for developmental delays and school problems.

Children's intakes of fruit, juice, and vegetables (FJV) do not meet the recommended minimum of five daily servings, placing them at increased risk for development of cancer and other diseases.

Our children need the right response, however, and need it urgently as the status quo places them at increasing risk.

Not exact matches

«More families that have elderly heads are placing themselves at risk of running short of money in retirement due to their increased likelihood of holding debt while in retirement,» he concludes.

In contrast, when the foot rolls to the outside, called over-supination, increased stress is placed on the 4th and 5th metatarsal bones, putting them at risk for a stress fracture.

Our place in the coefficient table is not at risk at present, and while we still stand a chance of finishing above THAT team in second - place, any increase in our chances of winning on Sunday I will take.

Rupturing your membranes also puts you on a clock, has a greater chance of cord prolapse meaning emergency, increases your risk of infection and takes away your baby's buffer to the strong contractions caused by Pitocin, your epidural can slow labor, making you unable to move and / or push effectively, doesn't allow for proper fetal descent, you will most likely have a catheter placed to your bladder, increasing risk of bladder infections, and if all else fails, at 5PM, you will have a C / S at 5PM before your baby gets too tired or sick to continue laboring (because the doctor is tired of waiting).

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Because they still have poor head control and often experience flexion of the head while in a sitting position, infants younger than 1 month in sitting devices might be at increased risk of upper airway obstruction and oxygen desaturation.128, — , 132 In addition, there is increasing concern about injuries from falls resulting from car seats being placed on elevated surfaces.133, — , 137 An analysis of CPSC data revealed 15 suffocation deaths between 1990 and 1997 resulting from car seats overturning after being placed on a bed, mattress, or couch.136 The CPSC also warns about the suffocation hazard to infants, particularly those who are younger than 4 months, who are carried in infant sling carriers.138 When infant slings are used for carrying, it is important to ensure that the infant's head is up and above the fabric, the face is visible, and that the nose and mouth are clear of obstructions.

For the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in place.28

Babies placed to sleep on their sides are at increased risk for SIDS.

Women and their partners should be advised that the risk of PPH is higher among births planned to take place in hospital compared to births planned to take place at home, but that further research is needed to understand (a) whether the same pattern applies to the more life - threatening categories of PPH, and (b) why hospital birth is associated with increased odds of PPH.

Meeting the increased demands of two premature infants places mothers at risk for sleep deprivation.

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

Cobedding of twins and other infants of multiple gestation is a frequent practice, both in the hospital setting and at home.174 However, the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples have not been established.175, — , 177 Twins and higher - order multiples are often born prematurely and with low birth weight, so they are at increased risk of SIDS.101, 102 Furthermore, there is increased potential for overheating and rebreathing while cobedding, and size discordance might increase the risk of accidental suffocation.176 Most cobedded twins are placed on their sides rather than supine.174 Finally, cobedding of twins and higher - order multiples in the hospital setting might encourage parents to continue this practice at home.176 Because the evidence for the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples is not compelling and because of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffocation.

Infants born prematurely have an increased risk of SIDS, 101,102 and the association between prone sleep position and SIDS among low birth weight infants is equal to, or perhaps even stronger than, the association among those born at term.69 Therefore, preterm infants should be placed supine for sleep as soon as their clinical status has stabilized.

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

Preterm infants are at increased risk of SIDS, 12,13 and the association between prone sleep position and SIDS among low birth weight infants is equal to, or perhaps even stronger than, the association among those born at term.14 Preterm infants and other infants in the NICU should be placed in the supine position for sleep as soon as the infant is medically stable and significantly before the infant's anticipated discharge, by 32 weeks» postmenstrual age.15 NICU personnel should endorse safe - sleeping guidelines with parents of infants from the time of admission to the NICU.

In fact, the little data that is available on this says that infants who are in the adult be to breastfeed and are then placed back to sleep in a safe crib are not at increased risk of SIDS (those would be the infants like my babies who bedshared in adult bed accidentally because the mother did not plan or intend to bedshare but passed out while night nursing and woke up several hours later).

NEW YORK CITY — Illegal hotel complaints increased 62 percent last year because short - term rental sites such as Airbnb are violating the law, hurting efforts to provide affordable housing and placing the safety of legal tenants at risk, elected officials said Tuesday during a marathon City Council hearing.

Among American high schoolers, vaping reportedly increased by 900 percent between 2011 and 2015, and Murthy says this sharp uptick in e-cigarette use places a new generation at risk of addiction to nicotine, and tobacco - related disease.

«Substance abuse is the topic of high public interest, yet little attention is given to the experiences of college students with disabilities,» wrote the study authors Steven L. West et al. «Given that binge drinking is highly correlated with academic failure, drop - out, and an increased risk for various negative health conditions, such use by students with disabilities may place them at extreme risk for various negative outcomes.»

«The substantial variation in prescribing patterns of such extremely addictive medications for minor injuries results in many thousands of pills entering the community, and places patients at an increased risk of continued use and potentially addiction,» said lead author M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Penn. «It's vital that we identify and understand the root causes of this growing issue.»

Reducing obesity rates — through changing diets and increasing physical activity — is a key target for public health policy as it places individuals at greater risk for conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

«Following our research, it is important that clinicians treating patients with Type 2 diabetes are aware that their patients who also have OSA are particularly at increased risk of developing advance retinopathy and, hence, appropriate preventative measures should be put in place.

But experiments involving PPPs massively increase the stakes: they place the world's population at risk.

Shah noted that public health experts recently have placed efforts on increased screening, particularly among those at high risk of HIV, such as men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and heterosexuals ages 15 to 24.

September 20, 2011 Food and drugs: Administer together A regulatory bias against taking oral anti-cancer medications with food places many patients at increased risk for an overdose and forces them to «flush costly medicines down the toilet,» argues Mark Ratain, MD, an authority on cancer - drug dosing.

Looking at people from these same ethnic groups who had moved to places like Australia or the US showed that the increased risk of vision problems did not occur in other countries.

In women who performed any amount of strength training, moderate to strenuous exercise was linked to higher water content as well as increased degeneration of collagen architecture in the knee, which indicates that moderate to strenuous exercise could accelerate degeneration of cartilage, placing these women at increased risk of osteoarthritis.

Because muscles do more than move our bodies, lowered muscle mass can also cause poor circulation, reduced immune function, especially in controlling free radicals, and can place us at risk for carbohydrate intolerance and diabetes, increased blood fats (cholesterol and triglycerides), hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.

This poor posture places more pressure on our pelvic floor and effectively turns our pelvic floor muscles off, leaving us at risk for increased symptoms.

Therefore, it is possible that SIRT1 activation places susceptible individuals at increased risk for autoimmune diseases.

At the risk of committing some sort of «humor - cide,» a type of scientific dissection must take place if teachers are to consider harnessing the powerful effects of humor, not only to increase joy and enhance the classroom environment, but also to improve learner outcomes.

Placing students at increased risk of dropping out is one of the major objections that critics lodge against any kind of testing regime that imposes harsh penalties on students.

The lack of diversity in the teaching profession, combined with these differing interpretations of student ability and behavior, may partially explain why students of color are suspended or expelled from all levels of school at disproportionate rates.23 Such harsh discipline practices place them at higher risk of subsequent academic disengagement and increase the probability that they will later drop out.24 While these mindsets may be unintentional, their prevalence greatly affects students» performance and behavior.

Missing just two days a month places students at significant increased risk of academic failure, social and behavioral difficulties in school, dropping out, and a host of other negative school and life effects.

Jefferson has undertaken «a very intentional plan» for increasing the number of teachers certified in gifted and talented education and «strategically placing them in schools where we have those at - risk populations who are traditionally underserved,» says Carmen Coleman, chief academic officer for the district.

As the curriculum increases in complexity, struggling readers fall further behind, placing them at risk of special education identification, tracking into lower - level coursework, failing to graduate and worse.