Sentences with phrase «risk factors in each case»

Food items and food groups as risk factors in a case - control study of diet and colo - rectal cancer.

Not exact matches

Consider these risks before investing: The value of securities in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions, changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry, or sector and, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates.

So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.

Many of the cases you cite in this article include either untrained or undertrained midwives (due to no licensing of CPMs) or mothers who clearly presented risk factors such as diabetes and VBAC.

After more than a decade (ending in 2011) of working with the Alaska Division of Public Health tracking local SIDS and sleep - related death cases, we were unable to find evidence that co-sleeping increased the risk of death when controlling for other factors.

In their recent meta - analysis of European case - control studies, Robert Carpenter and his colleagues (2013) note that risk factors don't just add up, they multiply.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

In any case, links between mortality and socioeconomic factors seem to underscore the point: The risks of shared sleep depend on the context.

These maternal differences may contribute to differences in infant risk factors with respect to the development of morbidity, specifically infection in this case.

«Three - quarters of COPD cases are linked to childhood risk factors that are exacerbated in adulthood.»

Hazardous cosleeping environments and risk factors amenable to change: case - control study of SIDS in south west England.

Which is interesting because both guidelines support induction in the case of GD with high BGLs where the only significant risk factor for birth is a suspected big baby.

Except for male sex, which was not a risk factor in study participants, the ORs obtained from participants were similar to those obtained from all eligible cases and controls, providing no evidence of a noticeable selection bias.

Additionally, in over half of these cases other major risk factors, such as smoke exposure or sleeping on soft surfaces, were present at the death scene.

In cases where the risk was greater, other factors — such as advanced maternal age, smoking, and severity of mental illness — were involved.

Case - control study of current validity of previously described risk factors for SIDS in the Netherlands

Less drastically, to be sure, but in each case the effect has been similar: confidence in the market for renewables undermined; companies less likely to invest and a risk premium factored in and at least partly passed on to the rest of us.

«But in this case, when this virus infects cells, the virus makes its own transcription factors, and those sit on the human genome at lupus risk variants (and at the variants for other diseases) and that's what we suspect is increasing risk for the disease.»

Starting in the 1990s, studies from Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden began making the case for urban life as a distinct risk factor.

«We have confirmed the ten modifiable risk factors associated with 90 % of stroke cases in all regions, young and older and in men and women.

«Even though this genetic predisposition is a strong risk factor for violence, it still needs other factors to bring it out, in this case alcohol,» says Han Brunner at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

But in rare cases, young patients who have never been exposed to either risk factor are diagnosed with the disease.

Results showed that 23 percent of cases where protective orders were filed indicated a risk of firearm use, and in 39 percent of cases, victims reported at least one factor linked to a higher risk of homicide.

And the biggest risk factor for this disease is obesity, which accounts for 40 % of all cases in the United States and 30 % in Europe.

«However, in women with other stroke risk factors, the risk seems higher and, in most cases, oral contraceptive use should be discouraged,» Drs. Morales and Biller wrote.

«ApoE4 has become the genetic factor in Alzheimer disease and is found in about 50 % of all cases, so we're talking about a fairly large risk factor in large populations,» says Poirier.

The study was constructed to analyze stroke cases over the past two decades, not to investigate causation; however, researchers did find evolving patterns in the risk factors associated with strokes.

The most common risk factors are low and high birth weights as well as premature birth — although half of all children who develop CP are born at term and most cases occur in children with an apparently uncomplicated pregnancy.

But despite these risk factors, most centenarians remain healthy up to the last few months of their lives and, in some cases, up until their dying breaths.

It refers to random, isolated cases in which individuals have no known risk factors or family history of the disease.

This specific spontaneous mutation, which we found in a sufficient number of cases, announced itself as an autism risk factor.»

«Reducing psychological distress could be an important factor in ensuring that high - risk cases receive regular screening,» says Kash.

About 35 percent of dementia — one in three cases — is attributable to these risk factors, the report says.

Over the past decade, SNPs have shed new light on the genetic risk factors for common illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease — and they've even helped federal investigators hone in on a suspect in the anthrax case (ScienceNOW, 12 August).

They found that C9ORF72 mutations explained about 22 % of familial cases of ALS and 12 % of familial cases of FTD, far more than any of a handful of other genetic risk factors they examined in the same patients.

Although obesity has been considered a risk factor for more - severe cases of the flu, a new study found that it is not a risk factor for severe acute respiratory illnesses, including the flu, in children or adults.

Host genomic factors could be important in determining: (1) which individuals should be vaccinated in the case of a public health emergency - those who are at highest risk for severe disease; (2) which individuals should not be vaccinated - those who are at high risk of adverse events following vaccination; or (3) which individuals should be quarantined, because of increased risk to themselves or to others.

Exactly how the genetic risk factors contribute to the disease is not readily apparent in most cases, and requires cellular and molecular biology investigations that use cultured cells and mouse models.

Smoking, diabetes, NSAID use, low vitamin D levels and old age are known risk factors, but in a significant subset of cases, unknown factors appear to be involved.

Previous genome - wide association studies (GWAS) by the group have identified new genetic risk factors for the higher rates of asthma and poor response to bronchodilator medications seen in these minority populations — in many cases different from risk factors seen in prior studies conducted in European Americans.

We then tested whether known risk factors for T2D, including obesity and hyperglycemia, affect DNA methylation of the 15,627 CpG sites differentially methylated in case - control cohort 2, already in nondiabetic subjects.

Confirmed by a metaanalysis of case - control and cohort studies low SES is an important risk factor for T2DM in both sexes worldwide (96).

The researchers reviewed the history of approximately 2.8 million cases in Denmark and found that the overall risk of dementia for those with a history of dementia was 24 percent higher than those without a history of brain injuries, after accounting for other risk factors for the disease.

DNA extracts from peripheral blood specimens were obtained from a population - based case - control study of risk factors for breast cancer in women 21 to 45 years old.

Second, because we utilized specimens from a matched case - control study, reproductive and other risk factors were more similar than in the prior pilot and allowed for multivariable modeling to adjust for any potential confounders.

17 / Jun / 2013 Although a family history of Alzheimer's disease is a primary risk factor for the devastating neurological disorder, mutations in only three genes — the amyloid precursor protein and presenilins 1 and 2 — have been established as causative for inherited, early - onset Alzheimer's, accounting for about half of such cases.

If the FDA adopts the panel's recommendation — the agency isn't required to do so, but typically does in such cases — it would mark the first time that a statin was approved for heart - disease - free people with healthy cholesterol levels but other risk factors, including high levels of C - reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation.

Having staph aureus in your nose — which is the case for about 30 percent of people — is not necessarily a problem in and of itself, but is a risk factor for getting other infections such as surgical site infections, boils, catheter site infections in people on dialysis and diabetic foot ulcers.

We've known for years that not all cases of heart disease, the # 1 killer in the Western world, are explained by the traditional risk factors such as smoking, elevated blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, high cholesterol, and a family history of premature heart disease.

In some cases, the drugs also appear to contribute to elevated blood - sugar levels, high blood pressure, and other risk factors for heart disease and diabetes.