Sentences with phrase «population at increased risk»

The reckless prescription of restrictive diets to a population at an increased risk of eating disorders causes harm to women with PCOS.

This leaves the older members of our population at increased risk for autoimmune diseases, infections, and cancer.

Young adults, particularly men, lag behind middle - aged and older adults in awareness and treatment of high blood pressure, putting this population at an increased risk for heart attack and stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension.

For exclusively breastfed infants, a population at increased risk of bed - sharing, bed - sharing was reduced by 50 %.

For exclusively breastfed infants, a population at increased risk of bed - sharing, bed - sharing was reduced by 50 %.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for latent tuberculosis infection in populations at increased risk.

Accurate screening tests are available to identify syphilis infection in populations at increased risk.

Not exact matches

Exposure to pollution is associated with the increasing population of cities, but people who live in rural areas are also at risk.

At the same time we strengthened our services to vulnerable populations in residential programs to increase our impact to these high risk families.

In some cases, we can actually trace that increased risk to actual alleles that segregate at different frequencies in different populations (eg., diabetes in Native American populations).

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.

Other investigators have reported a significant increase in adverse perinatal outcomes related to planned home births, especially where skilled birth attendants are not universally integrated into regional health systems, or in population - based studies that include at - risk pregnancies [20 — 22].

The increased risk of extinction occurred because at small population sizes, as the flies spent more time being vigilant and less time eating, populations that declined could not quickly rebound.

So far they have mapped the natural geologic stresses throughout Oklahoma and Texas — the states with the largest populations at risk from human - induced quakes — and have discovered that only a fraction of faults hold the potential to slip in the presence of moderate pressure increases.

The team is now examining telomere length in additional populations to evaluate whether some groups based on age, gender, smoking history and other factors may be at additional increased risk.

«Our findings support recommendations of increasing the intake of a variety of nuts, as part of healthy dietary patterns, to reduce the risk of chronic disease in the general populations,» said Marta Guasch - Ferre, PhD, lead author of the study and research fellow at the department of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

This means that at a population level, an increased risk of psychosis from cannabis use is low, and those vulnerable to developing serious mental health problems is relatively rare.

«This survey shows that CalMHSA's partnership of California's counties is successfully reaching the population most at risk for mental health challenges to increase support and encourage help - seeking.»

This risk appears to be lower among women in the general population (increase 31 %) than for women already at high risk of acquiring HIV such as sex workers.

«A prediction tool should be developed in order to estimate which women are at increased risk of breast cancer and should receive breast cancer screening, instead of screening the whole population.

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.»

In a related editorial comment, Paolo Boffetta, M.D., M.P.H., associate director for population sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute and chief of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control of the at Mount Sinai in New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general public.

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

Forty percent of the world's population live in areas where they are at risk of the virus, which is most common in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific islands and has been rapidly increasing in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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.

And while human populations are largely adapted to local climates, researchers point to «an increase in mortality risk observed at both high and low temperatures in populations in temperate and cold climates... and tropical and subtropical areas.»

Half the world's population (nearly 5 billion) will be myopic by 2050 they predict, with up to one - fifth of them (1 billion) in the high myopia category, and at a significantly increased risk of blindness, if behavioural interventions and optical treatments are not developed and implemented.

Dr. Paus, a prominent researcher and pioneer in the field of population neuroscience, strongly cautioned that more research is needed to determine whether lower cortical thickness actually increases the probability of schizophrenia in at - risk males later in life.

This, according to a model of the world economy developed by IIASA, would increase the number of people at risk to more than a billion within 50 years — one in eight of the world's likely population by that time.

But now a team has discovered that a new variation in one of those genes, called SCN5A, may increase the risk of arrhythmia in members of the population at large.

Losing two or more teeth in middle age is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in population based cardiovascular science for researchers and clinicians.

People with mood disorders are at increased risk of abusing opioids, and yet they received many more prescriptions than the general population, according to an analysis of data from 2011 and 2013.

The latest Western guidelines increased target blood pressure to 140/90 mmHg for patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease and renal failure, but this may be too high for Asian populations warn, the authors.

The results of a large population study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2015) showed an increased risk of developing Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) among psoriasis patients exposed to physical trauma, particularly when the trauma involved bone and / or joints.

«Our findings provide the first general population - based evidence that osteoarthritis patients who have total knee or total hip replacement surgery are at increased risk of heart attack in the immediate postoperative period,» concludes Dr. Zhang.

It vastly increases our knowledge of the causes of declines and the locations and times at which terns are at risk, and more importantly, provides a model for future studies of declining populations.»

Utilizing population - based genealogical and phenotypic data, the deCODE team was able to demonstrate that the variant confers increased risk for breast cancer in the population at large.

Based on her analysis and assessment of remains in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Ross has developed a data - driven approach to identifying populations that are at increased risk of genocide.

Refugees were at increased risk of psychosis compared with both the Swedish - born population (adjusted hazard ratio 2.9, 95 % confidence interval 2.3 to 3.6) and non-refugee migrants (1.7, 1.3 to 2.1) after adjustment for confounders.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 8 June 2015 — A study led by scientists at deCODE genetics and published today demonstrates at population scale that variations in the sequence of the genome that increase risk of mental illness characterized by psychosis are also predictors of creativity.

Smoking has previously been shown to increase the risk of these cancers in the general population and people who had inherited he genetic mutation were at least 15 times more likely to develop one of these smoking related cancers.

Ruuskanen emphasized that the study found a small increase in strokes at the population level — which means that for any one person, daylight saving time transitions would not have a big impact on stroke risk.

«If we were to find that increased dietary zinc impacts the outcome of C. diff infection in people, I think that official recommendations regarding how much zinc is consumed by certain patient populations would have to be reconsidered,» Skaar says, «particularly for those patients on antibiotics and at increased risk for C. diff infection.»

Individuals at an increased risk for lupus also include individuals of Asian or African descent, individuals at reproductive ages between the late teens to early 40s and has the highest prevalence in Italy, Martinique, Spain and the British African - Caribbean population.

In contrast, a negligible percentage of the hypertensive population of the U.S. and Canada is at increased risk of CVD events because of a sodium intake exceeding 7 grams per day.

Consequently, the reductions in sodium intake recommended by health officials will significantly increase the population at risk due to low sodium intake but will benefit only a negligible number of hypertensives who are at increased CVD risk due to high sodium intake.

Approximately 40 percent of the total population of the U.S. and Canada has sodium intake of less than 3 grams per day (supplied by about one and one - half teaspoons of salt) and is therefore at significantly increased risk of death and major CVD events.

The recently announced government efforts to reduce the salt content of processed foods will undoubtedly further increase the percentage of population at risk due to inadequate salt intake.

It has been estimated that about 40 percent of the U.S. population is at increased risk for cardiovascular events due to sodium intake of less than 3 grams per day.