Sentences with phrase «risks as contributing factors»

A.T. Kearney's report cites San Francisco's strong start - up ecosystem, emphasis on technology and willingness to take risks as contributing factors to the city's rapid increases in the number of U.S. patents.

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Although some people may believe that co sleeping can contribute to the risk of SIDS, as long as you practice it safely and pay close attention to any risk factors that may be present in your room or sleeping arrangement, co sleeping may actually help reduce this chance significantly.

Statistical analysis showed that the finding was independent of other risk factors contributing to conception, such as age, current smoking, socioeconomic status, bacterial vaginosis, previous deliveries, or clinical periodontal disease.

To separate the effects of poor sleep from other factors that also contribute to a risk of preterm birth, the researchers used a case - control design: 2,265 women with a sleep disorder diagnosis during pregnancy were matched to controls who did not have such a diagnosis, but had identical maternal risk factors for preterm birth, such as a previous preterm birth, smoking during pregnancy, or hypertension.

The researchers caution that their findings, described online on May 4 in npj Schizophrenia — a new publication from Nature Publishing Group — do not establish a cause - and - effect relationship between mental illness and yeast infections but may support a more detailed examination into the role of lifestyle, immune system weaknesses and gut - brain connections as contributing factors to the risk of psychiatric disorders and memory impairment.

Results indicated that after correcting for lung disease as well as other factors that can contribute to ROP risk such as gestational age, there is still a higher risk of ROP in steroid - treated infants than in those infants not treated with steroids.

Only half of identical twins whose siblings have schizophrenia develop the disease, making it critical to better understand how known risk factors such as urban environments and complications at birth contribute, he says.

Variables such as age, diabetes, heart health risk factors, slow gate, depression and anxiety disorders, stand out as contributing most to the risk score.

Non-traditional risk factors such as the inhalation of cooking fire smoke and chronic infection or inflammation might have been important factors contributing to atherosclerosis in ancient times.

Professor Peymané Adab, Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health, said: «This study contributes to existing evidence for sleep duration as a risk factor for obesity in childhood, and later bedtime as an additional risk factor — regardless of sleep duration.

«More research is needed in Canada on additional contributing risk factors as well as longitudinal data to evaluate the complex relationship between e-cigarette use and tobacco cigarette use in adolescence.»

«In addition, primary - care physicians in the community will want to screen regularly for the presence and extent of alcohol drinking, as well as the potential contributing factors of obesity and ethnicity as high risk factors for the development of alcoholic liver disease in their high alcohol - consuming patients.»

The researchers add that greater awareness of the metabolic syndrome and its health consequences may have contributed to improvements in optimizing treatment of risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes.

As the brothers and sisters of those with CD are significantly more likely to develop antisocial behavior themselves, the findings suggest that similar difficulties in facial emotion recognition could be a factor that contributes to this increased risk.

As the brothers and sisters of those with conduct disorder are significantly more likely to develop antisocial behavior themselves, the findings of this study suggest that similar difficulties in facial emotion recognition could be a factor that contributes to this increased risk.

Pesticides and other environmental chemicals may not have contributed to Lee's gynecological problems, since other factors, such as age and genetic predisposition, also increase a woman's risk.

«We believe some factors contributing to the higher risk may include long - term exposure to poor living conditions and stressors in transition countries including anxiety, racism, domestic or personal violence and major life events, such as a death in the family — to name a few,» said Dr. Wanigaratne.

The results suggest that cooking method is an important factor contributing to the elevated RCC risk associated with consuming more meat, as both red and white meat resulted in increased risk, explained Wu.

Researchers said their evidence further strengthens the concept that transportation noise contributes to the development of heart disease risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes because noise is associated with oxidative stress, vascular dysfunction, autonomic imbalance and metabolic abnormalities.

«The lack of association between the body type genetic risk score and confounding factors such as diet and smoking provides strong evidence that abdominal adiposity itself contributes to causing Type 2 diabetes and heart disease,» explained Connor Emdin, from the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Incidence of bladder cancer varies considerably between ethnicities, and as the risk factors reported here were discovered by analysing DNA from groups of European descent, it is our hope that the publication of these findings will contribute to the swift analysis of the impact of these variants in cohorts of other continental ancestries.

And in retrospective studies, he says, it's harder to control for common risk factors — such as diet — that might contribute to both prostate cancer and heart problems.

Secondhand smoke is now believed to be a risk factor for children to develop asthma; it also contributes to respiratory infections (such as pneumonia and bronchitis) and ear infections, as well as coughing, wheezing, and decreased lung function.

The same diet that leads to high cholesterol may also contribute to periodontitis, as bad cholesterol levels may be a risk factor for both.

From this perspective, pastoral care can assist students to develop positive self - esteem, healthy risk taking, goal setting and negotiation, thus enhancing their strengths and other protective factors contributing to their resiliency as well as developing a sense of social cohesion that together can improve their overall health and wellbeing (Nadge, 2005 and Doll & Lyon, 1998).

These and other types of high - risk mortgages have been widely cited as a contributing factor in the housing collapse.

Student loans, however, carry specific dangers that often act as a contributing factor towards insolvency: a mismatched risk - to - reward ratio.

As a Westie owner, you need to understand the risks the coat is exposed to and the factors that contribute to staining so that you are able to prevent discoloration and preserve your pet's bright white coat.

Stress may be a contributing factor to GDV - in recent studies, dogs that were more relaxed and calm were at less risk of developing GDV than dogs described as «hyper» or «fearful».

To me the characterization of reports and presentations as «myths» that challenge the continued investment in high risk energy sources and designated so by someone with their feet firmly planted in oil and coal reserves, is not respectful disagreement but propaganda and a contributing factor in the stalling of «the drive to clean up the world's energy system.»

This study by the The Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York identifies maternal fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure as a possible risk factor contributing...

The three largest risk factors that contribute to a teen's wrongful death behind the wheel are as follows:

Factors such as liquidity, risk management, and capitalization all contribute to a travel insurance company's ability to meet its financial obligations.

Many insurance companies aren't just determining your premium by your common factors contributing to your overall risk alone; now many are using what is known as «price optimization» to slowly increase your rates.

Facts about women and drug abuse and their risk factors for drug abuse are shared, as well as information on necessary elements of treatment training programs for women, characteristics of addiction and dependence, and factors contributing to chemical dependence.

The treatment of complicated grief is important not only because it produces tremendous sadness, but it has been identified as a contributing factor in hospitalizations, suicide, increased health risks, and use of outpatient mental health services.

First, low SES in childhood is a recognized risk factor for age - related disease, such as cardiovascular disease.24 Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage predicts age - related - disease risks, such as elevated inflammation levels and the clustering of metabolic risk markers in adulthood.25 - 27 In contrast, the effect of low childhood SES on later depression risk is debated.28 Second, retrospective investigations and some prospective studies have shown that childhood maltreatment could contribute to age - related - disease risks.

Interventions targeting modifiable risk factors (eg, smoking, inactivity, and poor diet) in adult life have only limited efficacy in preventing age - related disease.3, 4 Because of the increasing recognition that preventable risk exposures in early life may contribute to pathophysiological processes leading to age - related disease, 5,6 the science of aging has turned to a life - course perspective.7, 8 Capitalizing on this perspective, this study tested the contribution of adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood to 3 adult conditions that are known to predict age - related diseases: depression, inflammation, and the clustering of metabolic risk markers, hereinafter referred to as age - related - disease risks.

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

Research in this area is focused on understanding factors that contribute to dating violence victimization and perpetration, the relation between dating violence and sexual risk behavior, as well as developing and testing dating violence prevention interventions.

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

Direct impacts upon brain growth such as brain structure and function and indirect mechanisms including co-morbid mental health issues and substance use, are likely to contribute, and argue for interventions directed across the range of risk factors.

I have seen this with other suicide deaths of children and young people — where reporting has made a strong link with a specific risk factor (such as cyberbullying) only to have coronial findings suggest other factors were more likely to have contributed to the death.

More important, however, is the need for clinical pediatrics to move beyond the level of risk factor identification and to leverage advances in the biology of adversity to contribute to the critical task of developing, testing, and refining new and more effective strategies for reducing toxic stress and mitigating its effects as early as possible, before irrevocable damage is done.

Demographic, individual and environmental factors, such as being female, stressful living conditions, poverty and violence, all contribute to increased risk for developing PTSD among Aboriginal populations.

That is, the finding that clique isolation predicted an increase in depressive symptoms indicates that viewing peer relations from a group perspective contributes significantly to the existing knowledge about problematic peer experiences as social risk factors for depression in early adolescence.

Variations in the type, severity, chronicity and timing of maternal depression [9], heterogeneity in sampling (community versus high - risk multiproblem samples), and potentiating risk factors, such as family adversity, low social support and financial stress [10], all contribute to differences in outcomes in children.

Prior work by Matsueda and Heimer [43] has highlighted how identities crafted through social interaction with others, such as that of a troublemaker, are positively associated with delinquent behavior and contribute to delinquency involvement, net of traditional risk factors.

It described the finding as «consistent with emerging evidence that serious psychological stress contributes to a range of health problems and may be involved in the development of risk factors for metabolic syndrome, including raised blood glucose».

Taken together, these findings point to comorbidity as an important risk factor for increased sleep problems among youth with ADHD and there is recent evidence to suggest sleep problems may likewise contribute to comorbid symptoms in youth with ADHD.