At -
risk groups include patients over 60 years of age and anyone who has had a kidney, lung or heart transplant.
«At -
risk groups include people who had a previous heart attack, the elderly, or those with risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, obesity, and sedentary lifestyles,» said Wu, of Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Other at -
risk groups include adults under age 35, and people with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, COPD, diabetes, and cancer.
High -
risk groups include menstruating women, pregnant women, infants and toddlers, teenage girls and female athletes.
«With the dramatic rise in diabetes, this research highlights the need for greater awareness and screening, especially in high
risk groups including young women with PCOS.»
Over 80 % of carers found caring adversely affected their health, with particularly high -
risk groups including those who looked after people with serious or mental and physical illnesses, and long - term carers.
Not exact matches
In particular, these factors
include, but are not limited to, the circumstances described in the report on
risks and opportunities contained in the annual report of the OSRAM Licht
Group.
Both
groups had a 60 percent increase in the amount of insulin circulating in their blood, as well as an increase in heart disease
risk factors,
including a seven percent average increase in abdominal fat.
Political
risk consulting company Eurasia
Group says that other measures the Trump administration may soon roll out could
include blocking Chinese cloud services companies from establishing data centres in the U.S.; a renewed emphasis on restricting sales of Chinese telecommunications equipment to major U.S. operators; and prohibiting Chinese acquisitions of U.S. firms in sectors such as artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, semiconductors and biotechnology.
We adopted comprehensive written policies and procedures governing the variable compensation process for our NEOs as well as certain other employees,
including all of our PMDs, who, either individually or as part of a
group, have the ability to expose us to material amounts of
risk (Compensation Framework).
She is active in numerous outside
groups and shareholder coalitions focusing on responsible investment practices
including the Investor Network on Climate
Risk and the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment, for which she served as the Co-Chair of the Small Funds Initiative Work Stream.
On the other side of the ledger, an oil spill in Burrard Inlet would put at
risk industries,
including tourism, real estate and agriculture, that together employ over 200,000 people, according to Vancouver - based CRED (Conversations for Responsible Economic Development), a non-profit research and advocacy
group.
Mr. Chisholm joined Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York in 1985 and he served in a variety of progressively senior leadership roles within the organization during his 30 - year career,
including as Head of the Global Financial Institutions
Group in both London and New York from 2002 to 2012 where he focused on areas such as strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising,
risk and capital management and principal investing advisory for financial institutions globally.
NEXUS's objective is to enable members to achieve higher returns with less
risk than typical angel
groups by combining Florida's community resources,
including our vast university systems, with the business acumen of NEXUS members and partners.
description of the Company's compensation program governance,
including the independence of each member of the HRC, Company performance, peer
group analysis, business line performance, individual performance, independent compensation consultant advice,
risk management, and HRC discretion; and
To determine our peer
group of companies, we considered public cloud - based services providers and selected those most similar to us based on various factors,
including, but not limited to, financial
risk, company size, geographic diversification, profitability, growth characteristics and stage of life cycle.
I think the issue here is whether any amateur fund manager (which I think is what we all are —
including those financial advisers who create their own «homegrown» portfolios using trackers and bond funds) can seriously manage a portfolio for income or for growth and control against downside
risk (in equities or bonds) as well as a good active management
group like Invesco perpetual or M&G.
Investments in SMART529 are not guaranteed or insured by the State of West Virginia, the Board of Trustees of the West Virginia College Prepaid Tuition and Savings Program, the West Virginia State Treasurer's Office, Hartford Life Insurance Company, The Hartford Financial Services
Group, Inc., the investment sub-advisors for the Underlying Funds or any depository institution and are subject to investment
risks,
including the loss of the principal amount invested, and may not be appropriate for all investors.
Name: Chris Fowler, MA Title: President and Chief Executive Officer Areas of responsibility: Executive management, strategy Years with CWB Financial
Group: 27 Career history: Has served at CWB in roles with increasing responsibility since 1991,
including, commercial account management (1991 - 1995), credit
risk (1995 - 2008), and joined the executive team in 2008 as Executive Vice President, Banking, and then President and Chief Operating Officer Education: Master of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia Community involvement: Trustee for the University Hospital Foundation (University of Alberta), Member of the Canadian Bankers Association's Executive Council, director with the Art Gallery of Alberta's board of directors, and campaign cabinet member with the United Way of Alberta Capital Region
Brought together as part of the Farm Animal Investment
Risk & Return (FAIRR) initiative, they
include the fund arms of insurer Aviva and Norwegian lender Nordea, asset management
groups Boston Common and Impax, several Swedish state pension funds and several other charities and ethical investors.
Of most promise for long - term agricultural sustainability was evidence that certain
groups of farmers were found to be realising the potential of these and other alternative markets, in terms of their
risk reducing capacity, and diversifying to
include various conservation values into their agricultural enterprises.
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(vi) engage particularly with
groups of fathers who previously have been excluded from services and whose children are at
risk of poor outcomes —
including young fathers and black and minority ethnic fathers;
Readers are therefore unaware if samples in the intended home birth
group include those who were appropriately
risked out of home birth during the antepartum period and later went on to have a high
risk hospital birth (Nove et al, 2012).
Another 5 studies (13 - 17) claim homebirth to have a higher perinatal mortality rate compared to hospital birth but they all
include high
risk births in the planned homebirth
group.
Instead of excluding the high
risk births from both
groups, they
include the homebirth outcomes of premature births at 34 - 37 weeks gestation (13 - 17) breech and twins (13,14) lethal anomalies incompatible with life (13,14) unattended homebirths (15,16) unplanned homebirths (15,16) or women who became
risked out of homebirth by becoming high
risk at the end of pregnancy, had hospital births, but are
included in the homebirth
group.
The study looked at intended place of birth to rule out improperly assigning transferred patients to the hospital
group, and
included only the lowest possible
risk women.
Moreover, instead of comparing the homebirth
group to comparable
risk women who gave birth in the hospital, the authors compared the homebirth
group to all women who gave birth in the hospital
including premature births, and those with serious complications.
Not surprisingly, since the women who experienced complications during attempted VBAC were
included in the C - section
group instead of the VBAC
group, the
risk of maternal mortality was elevated in the C - section
group.
The program was started to help high -
risk women who were giving birth at Highland Park Hospital and
includes bilingual support, home visits and parent education
groups.
I'm curious as to whether the hone birth
group included those who were high
risk but had a home birth anyway.
The strengths of the study
include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare
groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical
risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the
groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.
This book covers key aspects of hydration and fluid imbalances in athletes of different age
groups, sport activities and demands and clinical
risk conditions; and it is written by recognized experts in their respective research areas
including Professors Michael Bergeron, Ron Maughan and Louise Burke.
ECPC provides parenting education
groups and counseling to the residents and training for staff at homeless and domestic violence shelters to counteract serious
risk factors
including homelessness, poverty, youth or emancipation from the child welfare system.
The CDC page on iron deficiency (
includes a specific sections on high -
risk age
groups,
including babies)
We used multivariable logistic - regression models to adjust for potential confounders,
including maternal race or ethnic
group (non-Hispanic white vs. other), parity (nulliparous vs. multiparous), insurance status (public or none vs. other), extent of prenatal care (≥ 5 visits vs. < 5 visits), advanced maternal age (≥ 35 years vs. < 35 years), maternal education (> 12 years vs. ≤ 12 years), history or no history of cesarean delivery, and a composite marker of conditions that confer increased medical
risk.
Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study
include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare
groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical
risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.
The neonatal death rate
including the depth and breadth of
risk at hospital births was lower than the self - selected, «low -
risk,» health - conscious
group who tends to choose home birth that Johnson and Daviss studied.
A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health,
including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high -
risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control
group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.
Babies who are more at
risk include those who are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, those with a blood
group incompatibility with their mother, or whose mother has diabetes, babies with liver disease, anemia, or metabolic disorders.
Twelve of the
included studies were judged at low
risk of bias for incomplete outcome data on the basis that attrition rate was less than 20 % for all outcomes (other than satisfaction), or missing outcome data were balanced across
groups (Begley 2011; Biro 2000; Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Hicks 2003; Homer 2001; Kenny 1994; McLachlan 2012; North Stafford 2000; Tracy 2013; Turnbull 1996; Waldenstrom 2001).
And «All
risk hospital birth,» excluding only young preemies but
INcluding loads of
risk factors totally absent for MANA's pool, still has a death rate half that of MANA's low -
risk group.
Including high
risk births in the hospital
group artificially inflates the mortality rate, giving you in inaccurate impression of actual
risks.
These data report intrapartum and early neonatal death rates in full term women who intended to deliver out of hospital (and subsequently deliver either out of hospital or in hospital) at the start of labor compared with women who intended a hospital birth (thus «higher
risk» pregnancies are
included in this
group) in 2012.
Rumpler of the advocacy
group and others have led campaigns to educate parents and school administrators about lead exposure
risks,
including the school - based initiative Get the Lead Out.
Some of the many benefits a Postpartum Doula provides for you and your baby
include: Better infant care skills Positive newborn characteristics Breastfeeding skills improve A healthy set of coping skills and strategies Relief from postpartum depression More restful sleep duration and quality Education and support services for a smooth transition home A more content baby Improved infant growth translates into increased confidence A content baby with an easier temperament Education for you to gain greater self - confidence Referrals to competent, appropriate professionals and support
groups when necessary The benefits of skin to skin contact Breastfeeding success Lessen the severity and duration of postpartum depression Improved birth outcomes Decrease
risk of abuse Families with disabilities can also benefit greatly by learning special skills specific to their situation Families experiencing loss often find relief through our Doula services Improved bonding between parent and child.
New approaches,
including making sure healthcare providers are providing accurate, consistent information and innovative public service announcements targeting teenage mothers, should be considered to improve safe sleep behaviors in this high -
risk group.
Again, there was some evidence that the treatment effect may be partly due to bias; sensitivity analysis
including only those studies assessed as being at low
risk of bias for allocation concealment showed that results still favoured the intervention
group although the treatment effect was less pronounced in the studies at lower
risk of bias (Analysis 1.8).
Group prenatal care models are designed to improve patient education and
include opportunities for social support while maintaining the
risk screening and physical assessment of individual prenatal care.
Other experience
includes a year on the US 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a year at the Kabul - based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, two years in Beirut, Lebanon, shorter project management roles in Jordan, Pakistan, and Iraq, political
risk forecasting in a London - based firm, and stints with the International Crisis
Group and the US Embassy in Kuwait.