Sentences with phrase «population risk their lives»

Why should half the population risk their lives while the other half supports them from the sidelines?

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

Baldet, who has spent a lot of her time in tech working with at - risk populations, stresses how having someone at the design table who represents the people who are going to use the technology can sometimes even be a matter of life or death.

Meanwhile the last decade's rapid economic expansion has yet to filter down to many of the population who continue to live well below the poverty line and whose livelihoods remain at risk from adverse climatic conditions.

To leave roads and railroads, electric and power utilities in private hands ran the risk of private owners «rack - renting» the population, adding to the cost of living and doing business.

Also, with the cost of malpractice insurance these days and a sue - happy population in which we live in, it's a risk to them if they do not do what is excepted of them by the gov» t.

Lower estimations of how many people safely bedsharing in our population significantly makes crib sleeping look much, much safer than bedsharing because parents are not afraid to say that their babies sleep in cribs; but many who bedshare and their babies live, and are not therefore counted in relative risks of crib vs. bedsharing statistics.

Supportive housing enhances the quality of life for these clients in the near term and provides better health outcomes for vulnerable high - risk populations.

While there was some variation between the populations that were studied, such as between men and women, people living in different regions, or people with different risk factors, the researchers found that nut consumption was associated with a reduction in disease risk across most of them.

To compute how additional pollution from ships increases risk of disease for exposed populations, especially those living in coastal communities or along major shipping lanes and far inland in some nations like India, the team incorporated important underlying health information from the World Health Organization and Global Asthma Network.

Some physicians argue that although tiny blood pressure drops will not have a big effect on individuals — they will not really affect your risk of having a heart attack — they may end up saving lives at the population level, in part because a small percentage of the population, including some African - Americans and elderly individuals, seem to be hypersensitive to salt.

The recent growth is driven, experts say, by aging populations and increased life expectancy in the developed world; combination products that couple a medical device with a drug, the device usually acting as a drug - delivery vehicle; miniaturization (via nanotechnology), making medical devices less invasive; and the use of molecular diagnostics to customize therapeutic regimens and to assess individual disease risk.

Some environmentalists worry that identifying hidden populations of marine life could hasten their exploitation, but researchers say the potential conservation benefits outweigh the risks.

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.

Active Living Research plans to increase its support for reviews of these high - risk populations, Sallis says.

In the first large population - based, long - term investigation of the association between preterm birth and later retinal detachment, the research determined that birth before 32 weeks is associated with increased risks of retinal detachment in childhood, adolescence and young adult life.

Yet, as of 2010, 39 percent of the U.S. population lived in coastal areas that feature greater risks of hurricane, floods and earthquakes.

However, nearly half of the world's population — 3.3 billion people — currently live in 106 countries and territories that are at risk of malaria transmission, according to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If that's the case, the high population scenarios provide the biggest risk: Not only will more people be living along shorelines, but the world will be less able to protect them financially.

Recent studies have centered on potential water pollution from this process that may increase endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in surface and ground water and whether populations living near these operations have an increased risk of disease.

The subjects were a population - based sample of more than 2,600 men living in eastern Finland and participating in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD).

«Linking these findings with other results from the same population suggests that persons living in a more polluted part of town may have a 2 percent higher risk of stroke as compared to people in a less polluted part of the same metropolitan area,» Adar said.

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

... Finally, this study draws attention to the need for large controlled clinical trials to determine if a combination of fall prevention strategies and treatment with bone - active drugs might produce additive benefits on fractures, especially in high - risk populations such as those living in nursing homes.

The cohort used in the study was compiled with data that would reflect a true - to - life 10,000 person population among urban, non-monogomous men who have sex with men, who were defined by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as «high - risk.»

«Across all countries a substantial number of people who inject drugs are living with HIV or HCV and are exposed to multiple adverse risk environments that increase health harms,» says UNSW's Professor Louisa Degenhardt, lead author of the paper reviewing prevalence of injecting drug use and HIV and Hepatitis in this population.

«Future errors of this scale could result in flood forecast error providing less time for population to react and increasing risk to life and property (hours vs days).»

The risk to coastal areas is high because of the high population density in the area — some 130 million people live along the sea's coastline.

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.

In some cases, at risk populations live in environments that are remote and as a result it is expensive to collect data over a sustained period of time.

This work defines an element, often missing from health policy discussions, in improving outcomes for this important population and underscores the importance of social factors in affecting health outcomes both for people at risk of becoming infected with HIV and for those living with HIV or AIDS, said the researchers.

Giant pandas live in scattered populations in the wet, cool bamboo forests of China's mountainous Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, making it difficult for scientists to monitor their populations and extinction risks.

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.

«The elderly living in long - term care facilities have higher influenza exposure risks, lower immune defenses and a much greater likelihood of flu - related death than the general population,» said lead author David A. Nace, M.D., M.P.H., director of long - term care and flu programs in Pitt's Division of Geriatric Medicine and chief medical officer for UPMC Senior Communities.

In a paper published recently in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers from several Western institutes estimated the number of people living in low - elevation coastal zones, as well as the scale of the population at risk from one - in -100-year storm surge events, by using scenario - based projections.

Faced with an aging population and rising rates of chronic diseases, Singapore has been forced to revisit how best to finance health services for the Pioneer Generation and is interested to understand the perspective of those most at risk, which includes older adults and patients with life - limiting illnesses, such as advanced cancer.

The research results determined that life - course overweight and obesity increased the risk for unfavorable periodontal outcomes in this population.

Where else in the world are huge populations still at risk because they are living in cities where the primary building construction is unreinforced concrete and there is a likelihood of a major earthquake like this?

But the JAMA editorial notes that the USPSTF excludes the highest - risk populations (persons living with HIV, close contacts of persons with active TB, and those being treated with immunosuppressive agents) from its review of evidence for screening for latent TB infection in primary care settings because TB screening and treatment of latent TB infection may already be considered standard of care in these groups.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

To illustrate potential mutation - specific effects on absolute cancer risks, we used the hazard ratio estimates to derive approximate absolute risks and 95 % confidence intervals, based on published estimates for the overall risks of breast and ovarian cancer by age 70 years.26 These estimates are for illustration and do not represent absolute risk estimates that would be required in a genetic counseling setting, as they do not account for noncancer outcomes that may influence a woman's life expectancy, the effects of family history, and nonrandom ascertainment of mutation carriers in this sample and depend on assumptions about the prevalence of different mutation classes in the population.

Californians are at particular risk from wildfire - related health impacts, because the state has the largest population in the U.S. living in wildland - urban interface (inhabited areas approaching wildland areas) where there is an elevated risk of being exposed to wildfires.14 More than 11 million people, about 30 percent of the California population, live in these wildland - urban interfaces.5

SEATTLE, Feb. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which Danish researchers used the Prosigna ® Breast Cancer Assay risk of recurrence (ROR) score to accurately predict rates of 10 - year distant recurrence (DR) of cancer in a comprehensive and population - based cohort including all postmenopausal women in Denmark with early - stage hormone receptor (HR)- positive, Her - 2 negative breast cancer who received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy according to nationwide guidelines between 2000 and 2003.

Recent research shows that the overall risk of heat - related illness or death has climbed steadily since 1980, with around 30 % of the world's population now living in climatic conditions that deliver prolonged extreme heatwaves.

Although differences in the environments in which people live often are suspected when asthma risks among populations differ, the new findings illustrate the importance of also considering genetic differences among ethnic groups in diagnosing and treating disease, said Esteban Burchard, MD, professor of bioengineering for the UCSF School of Pharmacy and the senior scientist for the study.

One possible explanation for any improvements seen in the survival of patients who stop smoking might be a reduction in mortality from cardiorespiratory causes, as the risk of death from these diseases reduces after cessation.9 18 Consequently, we estimated the expected contribution of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases by using life tables as above to find the number of cardiorespiratory deaths prevented by smoking cessation in the general population.

Assuming that the findings of the review reflected a causal relation between smoking cessation and risk of all cause mortality, we further investigated the data by constructing life tables for a hypothetical group of 100 patients aged 65 years with early stage lung cancer to estimate how many deaths would be prevented by smoking cessation within the non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer populations during five years.

Since efforts to save even one human life are worthwhile and critical, these same authorities, both existing and newly elected, should play a proactive role in the prevention of future suicidal acts by better assessing the needs of the population and of individuals at high risk for suicide.»

A study from an international research team finds that familial hypercholesterolemia — a genetic condition that causes greatly elevated levels of LDL cholesterol throughout life — accounts for less than 2 percent of severely elevated LDL in the general population but also increases the risk of coronary artery disease significantly more than does elevated LDL alone.

The University of Chicago researchers said the increased risk of premature death among women older than 50 «emphasizes the importance of other life - threatening health conditions in later life of the DES population.»