Sentences with phrase «residents at a greater risk»

This potentially toxic cocktail puts Niagara County residents at greater risk to develop pollution - related health problems than most Americans, an Investigative Post analysis of federal data found.

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One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

For example, light - skinned people are at a significantly greater risk of skin cancer, sunburn and other concerns when exposed to high ultraviolet rays, as opposed to longtime residents whose skin has adapted appropriately through evolution.

When I took a group of at - risk high - school boys from the inner - city of Chicago to volunteer at a homeless shelter, numerous residents commended the boys, telling them «It's so great to see you all in here helping people instead of being out on the street gang - banging.»

Our mobile clinic operates in low - income neighbourhoods where need for services is greatest, with residents who are at greatest risk of not being able to afford the service otherwise.

While anyone may be at risk of suffering a choking injury, many nursing home residents are at greater risk of choking than people in the general population.

Unfortunately, residents and tourists who choose to walk rather than drive are at a greater risk of harm.

As such, you may be at greater risk than you realize, and you may also be among the thousands of state residents who have a medical history that makes it difficult to obtain effective health coverage, affordable or not.

At great personal risk to themselves, they went door to door among the burning apartments, going so far as to kick in doors to ensure that residents were aware and evacuating.