Sentences with phrase «risk than adult»

Predisposing factors towards infection include age (puppies and kittens are at higher risk than adult animals), life - style (free - roaming or hunting animals being predisposed), and local climate (pets living in warmer, more humid climates are predisposed).

Previous research shows that due to their weight and growing patterns children have a much higher risk than adults do from industrial chemicals and heavy metals, and that chemicals can have lasting effects on children's brain development and learning.

The situation is even clearer for children, who are at greater risk than adults from a given dose of radiation (Figure 4), both because they are inherently more radiosensitive and because they have more remaining years of life during which a radiation - induced cancer could develop.

The risks of GMOs clearly outweigh any perceived benefit, and children face even more risk than adults.

The vision of children is even more at risk than adults.

As Dr. Becky Sutton, study's author pointed out, «Just because a shampoo or sunscreen is labeled «children's» doesn't mean it's been tested and found safe for kids; children are more at risk than adults from many chemical hazards, but we have no special standards to protect them.»

However, we note that patterns of developmental trajectories of risky decision making may depend on the methodology employed, with a recent meta - analysis [44] showing that when completing behavioral lab - based tasks, adolescents take more risks than adults (as expected), but are comparable, or in some cases, less risky than children (contrary to the expected curvilinear trajectory over time), whereas real - world behavioral measures show that adolescents take more risks than both children and adults.

Not exact matches

The study found that adults who sat for 11 hours or more per day had a 40 % increased risk of dying in the next three years than those who sat for less than four hours a day.

Among youth — who use e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults do — there is substantial evidence that e-cigarette use increases the risk of transitioning to smoking conventional cigarettes.

Doses as low as 54 milligrams in an average - sized adult female (far less than a quarter of a teaspoon) can cause an increased risk of phocomelia — a decrease in the size of the upper limbs.

They found that children and adolescents had higher average daily consumption of such foods than adults, potentially posing a health risk.

And remember, kids who eat raw cookie dough and cake batter are at greater risk of getting food poisoning than most adults are because their immune systems are not yet mature.

Athletes who suffer concussion should follow a six - step, symptom - limited, return to play process towards return to game play and may require a longer rest period and / or extended period of non-contact exercise before return than adults because they have a different physiological response to concussion, take longer to recover, and have other unique risk factors.

«Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term,» said lead author Justin Roe of North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre.

Consequently, teens view risk differently than adults do.

Although the health effects of these chemicals to babies are not yet known, it's still an important safety risk to consider, because as the study pointed out, babies actually inhale more air per surface than adults, putting them at greater risk for inhalation exposure.

The AAP points out that the choking risk is higher for young children than adults for several reasons.

Too, children tend to be quite a bit more flexible than adults, and there can be a risk of overstretching (we all love to do what we are good at).

Additionally, the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study concluded that consumers who eat fast food two or more times a week had a one - hundred percent increase in their insulin resistance compared to consumers who ate at fast food establishments less than once a week.

Infants are most at risk: Their BPA exposure can be 12 times higher than adults.

Children face the highest risks, because their bodies are still developing and their exposures are higher than adults», pound for pound.

Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse have a four - time higher lifetime risk of depression than do their non-abused counterparts (Briere & Elliot, 1994).

On the other side of the debate, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that the benefits for the infant in terms of reduced risk of infection, adult obesity, allergies, and asthma are so great that breastfeeding must be viewed as an «investment in your child's future» rather than a «lifestyle choice.»

Also, I can think of several mechanisms by which a baby sleeping in an adult bed might come to harm, but I can't think of any obvious reason why a baby in a safe sleep space in its own bedroom (assuming that it has parents who are able to hear and responsive to its cries) should be at much greater risk than if it were on the other side of a wall in the parents» room?

Furthermore, a child who is obese by age 12 has more than a 75 percent chance of becoming an obese adult, at risk for Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, hypertension, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, asthma and certain cancers.

This increase is necessary because the baby's neck is not developed enough to support the weight of the head, which is proportionately bigger than an adult's head, and this leads to a risk of injury in the event of a head - on impact.

Breastfeeding is protective and helps reduce the risk of death and if you breastfeed your baby at night, a safely prepared adult bed is safer than a couch or chair should you accidentally fall asleep.

There is evidence that this arrangement decreases the risk of SIDS by as much as 50 % 64,66,142,143 and is safer than bed - sharing64, 66,142,143 or solitary sleeping (when the infant is in a separate room).53, 64 In addition, this arrangement is most likely to prevent suffocation, strangulation, and entrapment, which may occur when the infant is sleeping in the adult bed.

NIGHTTIME PARENTING helps parents understand why babies sleep differently than adults, offers solutions to nighttime problems and even describes how certain styles of nighttime parenting can aid in child spacing and lower the risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Young children are particularly at risk, as their bodies heat up three to five times faster than an adult's.

In 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency («EPA») concluded that appropriate use of DEET at concentrations of up to 30 % posed no significant risk to children or adults but that DEET should not be used on children younger than 2 months of age because of increased skin permeability.

The study, led by Mark Pletcher of the University of California, San Francisco, compared the effects of both cigarette and marijuana smoking over a period of 20 years in a group of more than 5,000 adults, part of a longitudinal study called Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CAadults, part of a longitudinal study called Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CAAdults (CARDIA).

Adolescents who have engaged in past risky online behavior are much more likely than older young adults to repeat the behavior in the future, according to a new study by researchers seeking to understand the psychological mechanisms contributing to young people's online risk taking.

The research team concluded that this study may be the first to show that for older adults who are at risk for or who have AD, aerobic exercise may be more effective than other types of exercise in preserving the ability to think and make decisions.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

There is something about the neurobiology of adolescents that makes them more likely to take risks than children or adults.

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults.

Generally, however, studies in children must meet a higher standard than adult trials in protecting children from risk, particularly if the treatment has little chance of providing benefit.

The risk of riding with an impaired driver was much higher for peer drivers than for older adult drivers (21 percent vs. 2.4 percent for marijuana, 17 percent vs. 4 percent for alcohol, and 5.4 percent vs. less than 1 percent for illicit drugs).

The risk of MS as an adult was 90 percent higher in children of mothers who were vitamin - D deficient (25 (OH) D levels less than 12.02 ng / mL) compared with the children of mothers who were not vitamin D deficient, according to the results.

Researchers noted that boys and girls who were 2 to 3 inches shorter than average for their age were at increased risk of clot - related (ischemic) stroke in adult men and women and of bleeding stroke in men.

In a national sample of approximately 1500 adults older than 50, negative social interactions were associated with a greater risk for hypertension among women and individuals ages 51 to 64.

He notes, however, if an older adult's risk for dementia continues declining as it has in some high - income countries over the last few decades, «that increase in number of cases may be a little less eye - popping than it would be if the risk were staying the same.»

The results of their study suggest that hospitalization may be a more of a major risk factor for long - term cognitive decline in older adults than previously recognized.

Even though early detection of vision difficulties may lead to better quality of life, greater independence and a lower risk of falls in older adults, routine screening doesn't appear more effective than only testing patients with symptoms, the USPSTF reports in JAMA March 1.

A study of older adults at risk of late - onset Alzheimer's disease found that those who consumed more omega - 3 fatty acids did better than their peers on tests of cognitive flexibility — the ability to efficiently switch between tasks — and had a bigger anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region known to contribute to cognitive flexibility.

Many U.S. adults consume more added sugar (added in processing or preparing of foods, not naturally occurring as in fruits and fruit juices) than expert panels recommend for a healthy diet, and consumption of added sugar was associated with increased risk for death from cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

Because children are known to be more susceptible than adults to risks of cancer from radiation, Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. antinuclear proliferation group, condemned the exposure limit as «unconscionable.»

Johns Hopkins researchers report that an analysis of survey responses and health records of more than 10,000 American adults for nearly 20 years suggests a «synergistic» link between exercise and good vitamin D levels in reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Using a sample of more than 6,000 adults from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, the researchers examined whether adult self - reported social support decreased mortality risk associated with self - reported exposure to three types of childhood abuse: severe physical abuse, modest physical abuse and emotional abuse.