Sentences with phrase «risk than college»

High school students are at greater risk than college or professional players because of brain development and access to expensive equipment and special helmets.

Not exact matches

I don't recommend them other than as a low - risk component of a college savings plan.

As of Monday, Reilly's investigation had uncovered no evidence of point shaving, but the BC scandal revealed a deep and troubling gambling involvement by team members and served as a warning to all college athletes: When they place a bet with a bookie, they are risking more than money or the possibility that bookies might get their hooks into them.

If he lands at Tennessee, he will receive a monstrous salary, and, per dollar, he will bring with him more risk than any coach in college football.

Oddsmakers are more likely to shade their lines in college football games than they are in NFL games, but that's only the case in heavily bet games where they're trying to mitigate risk and / or exploit public perception.

Peer pressure can be dangerous, in a lot of ways, and though getting shin splints might seem a lot less of a risk than trying to drive buzzed or going to that college party, they can turn into a serious and even life - long condition.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

«VBACs carry a less - than -1-percent increased risk of a uterine rupture, which could cause brain damage in the baby or even death, according to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists.»

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

«Twin pregnancies are at substantially higher risk of early preterm birth than singleton pregnancies and this risk is inversely related to sonographically measured cervical length at 20 - 24 weeks» gestation,» explained lead investigator Kypros H Nicolaides, MD, Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, London.

The research sample in the King's College London study included more than 2,200 British twins from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study.

Pitch pine forests are at greater risk of attack from the southern pine beetle than forests with a mix of tree species, according to research from Dartmouth College.

People living in rural areas are at no greater risk of dying from heart disease than their urban counterparts, according to a new study by researchers at Women's College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES).

According to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in San Diego, children born to mothers with lupus may be at twice the risk of autism spectrum disorders than those born to mothers without the disease.

«The results of this study were of particular interest because more than half of the pregnant women with migraine experienced some type of adverse birth outcome, suggesting that these pregnancies should be considered high risk,» said study author Matthew S. Robbins, M.D., director of inpatient services at Montefiore Headache Center, chief of neurology at Jack D. Weiler Hospital of Montefiore, and associate professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Brooke, along with co-researchers at Dartmouth College, examined records of more than 12,000 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent open surgery to repair a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a high - risk procedure, and almost 53,000 who received a ventral hernia repair (VHR), a lower - risk operation, between 2003 - 2010.

In a complementary study, the researchers found that some minority groups are at considerably higher risk for sexual assault in college than peers in majority groups.

People with high fitness levels in midlife have significantly lower annual health care costs after age 65 than people with low fitness in midlife, after adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

Research from North Carolina State University and Ohio University finds that having an «alcohol identity» puts college students at greater risk of having drinking problems — and that posting about alcohol use on social media sites is actually a stronger predictor of alcohol problems than having a drink.

More than one - third of those patients, for whom new American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association guidelines would recommend statin therapy, were reclassified as being at very low risk for cardiovascular disease.

Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their interventional cardiologist accessed the heart through an artery in the arm rather than the groin, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

Led by King's College London, the research shows that people with severe mental illness (SMI), including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, have a 53 per cent higher risk for having cardiovascular disease than healthy controls, with a 78 per cent higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease over the longer term.

However, full - time college students were less likely than others their age to believe there was great risk of harm from monthly cocaine use (59 percent versus 64 percent), trying heroin once or twice (about 77 percent versus 80 percent), and trying LSD once or twice (about 50 percent versus 58 percent), the findings showed.

Adults with no educational qualification had more than double the risk of heart attack, compared to those with a college degree.

«We recommend statins after diet and exercise if the 10 - year risk of an event [such as a heart attack or stroke] is greater than 7.5 %,» Dr. Gotto adds, citing a metric developed by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association.

But rather than supplanting BMI as the best predictor of diabetes risk, waist circumference might be most useful if it's simply added to the mix, says Jane Bolin, Ph.D., an associate professor of health policy and management at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, in College Station.

According to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, individuals who spend four or more hours of leisure time per day sitting in front of a screen (whether it be computer or TV) have a 48 percent increased risk of death from any cause, and a 125 percent increased risk of having a heart problem that results in hospitalization, compared to those who spend less than two hours a day relaxing in front of the TV / computer.

A new study presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that more than one - third of elite, Division I college athletes may have low levels of vitamin D, which is critical in helping the body to absorb calcium needed to maintain bone mass, and to minimize musculoskeletal pain and injury risk.

Recent analyses of administrative data suggest that borrowers who leave college without earning a degree are at even greater risk of default than those who graduate, even if they graduate with more debt.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

We studied the effects on two groups of at - risk children: those whose mothers had less than a four - year college degree and those who had displayed significant behavioral, social, and / or academic problems.

Even though College Success Arizona students are often considered «at - risk,» they have a 71 percent graduation rate; significantly higher than their counterparts across the state.

Just because your kids are headed to college, it doesn't mean they'll graduate Two new reports out this month describing who completes college and the warning signs for students at risk of dropping out paint a picture of a much different future than the one most parents imagine for their kids.

In addition, they learned that more than one - third of their students in colleges required remedial classes which indicated a high risk of not graduating.

If you don't have a college degree, it can be difficult to refinance your student loan debt, as lenders will see you as a bigger risk than someone who finished school.

While I would be very cautious in attempting any one of these ideas (each one of them does come with its own potential risks), here are a few ways that you could actually improve your financial status by using the money for something other than your college expenses.

More people than ever are going to college, and that unfortunately also means that the risk of going to college has increased.

The most recent cuts, in the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007, when combined with the savings from the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008 (ECASLA), caused the FFEL program to cost less than the Direct Loan program in FY2008 on a per - dollar - lent basis even when certain types of high - risk consolidation loans are excluded from the analysis.

It all means that at a time when families are particularly rattled by the volatility and low returns of financial markets and want the security of a prepaid plan, the college savings vehicles have become more expensive and higher risk than consumers realize.

«More so now than ever, the individual cat's environment and risk of exposure should determine whether particular vaccines are administered,» said James R. Richards, D.V.M. Richards is director of the Feline Health Center at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, as well as chair for education and communication at the national Vaccine - Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force.

«Plastic particles smaller than 5 mm pose a massive environmental and human health risk when they enter our waterways,» said Abby Barrows, a marine research scientist with Adventure Scientists and College of the Atlantic, who is featured in the film and has analyzed thousands of water samples from around the world for microplastics.

Imperial College Business School Centre for Climate Finance and Investment director Charles Donovan said: «The findings have displayed a robust evidence about the risk - return profile of clean - energy investing, with yieldcos in the UK performing better than conventional energy.»

This is also the first Valentine's Day to see more than 800 colleges and universities, according to the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, including all those in California, adopt some kind of «Yes Means Yes» affirmative consent definition of sexual assault.

Between textbook theft and electronics theft, college students are more at risk than ever before.

Make sure and pay the extra couple of dollars for liability insurance because while away at college your liability risk may be higher than you realize.

A parent's homeowner policy may have more coverage and cover more risks than a basic starter renter policy or a college student insurance policy.

Overall, this is a rarity in the insurance industry, because students are a hazardous risk group (more due to their age than their education) However, it's worth a check if you're in college.

More people than ever are going to college, and that unfortunately also means that the risk of going to college has increased.

There are even discounts for mature residents, because you have life experience and you're much less of a liability risk than, for example, a college student might be.