Sentences with phrase «remain at increased risk»

People with mild cognitive impairment that improves in the shorter term remain at increased risk of future cognitive decline

Patients usually need to adjust their diets and lifestyles and take cholesterol - lowering statins, but even then they may remain at increased risk of heart disease.

Not exact matches

In the U.S, an increasing number of employees who don't have a college degree remain at risk.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

Effective January 1, 2011, upon the recommendation of the GNC, the Board increased to $ 25,000 the annual fee paid to the chair of each standing Board committee other than the AEC, which remained at $ 30,000; set at $ 25,000 the annual fee paid to the chairs of the CRC and Risk Committee, which were formed effective January 1, 2011; eliminated the annual stock option grant; and increased the value of the annual stock award to $ 140,000.

While overall wage costs remain contained at present, despite pressures in particular sectors, ongoing strength in demand would pose an increasing risk of acceleration of costs over time.

The Board's assessment of this information at its May meeting was that inflation remained likely to increase gradually from its current level of around 2 1/2 per cent, but that upside risks to this forecast had receded, partly as a result of the March tightening.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

In the much less likely case that a twin dies in the second or third trimester, the remaining baby may be at an increased risk of intrauterine growth restriction and the mother may be at risk of preterm labor, infection or hemorrhaging.

While great progress has been achieved in recent years in preventing child occupant deaths and injuries, and increasing the correct use of child safety seats, booster seats and safety belts — thanks in no small measure to the tireless dedication of NHTSA and its many partners in the child passenger safety community — more work needs to be done to protect child occupants who remain at heightened risk.»

The addition of prostitutes and heroin addicts to the list of high - risk groups did little to increase public sympathy, so at first funding for prevention and care remained scarce.

After adjustment for other characteristics, current smokers remained at significantly increased risk of reoperation for infectious complications — the relative risk was 80 percent higher, compared to nonsmokers.

Birds exposed to dim light at night remain infectious longer, increasing the risk to wildlife and humans

Women who had their first menstrual period when they were aged 11 or younger have an increased risk of an early or premature menopause and if they remain childless the risk is increased even more, according to results from the first large scale, multi-national study to investigate the links between age at puberty and menopause and whether or not a woman has had children.

Although more data are needed to fill gaps in the study, the authors say that the region connecting these sites faces rapid land - cover changes, which have severely increased over the last two decades, putting remaining stepping - stone habitats for jaguars at further risk.

«While we can't guarantee that the partners of patients will not develop oral HPV infections or cancers, we can reassure them that our study found they had no increased prevalence of oral infections, which suggests their risk of HPV - related oral cancer remains low,» says Gypsyamber D'Souza, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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.

26) Virginia: As the «public private partnerships» industry recovers from its shock at the state's increased risk - shifting toward the private sector on any P3 deal for the I - 66 managed lanes project, Skanska, Fluor and ACS remain in the running.

For example, planning for sea - level increases remains a key challenge for governments of countries with vulnerable coastlines, including several with major cities at risk from rising waters.

However, the US and Canadian plans, while ambitious, remain at the high end of the pathways that succeed in limiting warming to the 2 °C level, increasing risk.

While the safety of automobile drivers and their passengers has greatly increased in recent decades — with seat belts, air bags, and now even rearview video cameras — motorcyclists and their passengers remain at great risk.

Therefore, assuming Sum at Risk remains constant (which it would in case of a Type - II ULIP), your mortality charge will increase as you age.

And if the original block size limit is increased through a hard fork at some point in the future, this risk multiplyer will probably remain.

Therefore, it remains possible that a universal early parenting programme coupled with an effective targeted family support programme for toddlers still at risk at age 2 — 3 years could substantially add to the population benefit of the targeted programme alone, by increasing community reach and uptake of the targeted intervention when needed.

(2) life stresses particularly in the men increased, and positive resources particularly in the women, reduced psychiatric vulnerability; and (3) men who had been the more aggressive and the better - liked among their childhood peers remained at psychiatric risk when stress and personal resources were taken into account.

The results indicated that (1) likeability was separate from aggression, but a moderating attribute of withdrawal as a protective source of influence on psychiatric status in maturity;... (2) life stresses particularly in the men increased, and positive resources particularly in the women, reduced psychiatric vulnerability; and (3) men who had been the more aggressive and the better - liked among their childhood peers remained at psychiatric risk when stress and personal resources were taken into account.