Sentences with phrase «say people at high risk»

But John Collinge of University College London, UK, and colleagues, who reported the clinical details of the most recent case, say people at high risk of vCJD should be informed, so they can be enrolled in clinical trials of drugs which are hoped to delay or prevent the onset of the disease.

Not exact matches

Getting the shot can mean the difference between a mild illness and a hospital stay, Schuchat said, particularly for people at higher risk such as children and the aged.

«Unless we can surveil them 24/7, they should be incarcerated,» Conservative MP says of people at high risk of committing terrorist acts

It is said that people are at high risk of BPA exposure due to leaching from canned foods and canned drinks.

Former senior police chief and Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson Brian Paddick said he was shocked by the revelations and is worried that it could put vulnerable people at higher risk of hate crimes.

For the people of Hoosick Falls who are trying to make sense of what the high levels of PFOA in the bloodstream means, the fact sheet doesn't convey the weight of the health risks detailed in published studies, said Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist and public health researcher at the Silent Springs Institute, which studies the links between environmental contamination and human health.

«Most people who live in the United States, we have a high vaccination rate for measles, in the mid-90s, but people visit from other countries in Niagara Falls, so we wanted to make sure that people are aware of the risks, people who are at risk or people who may not have had vaccinations,» said Niagara County Public Health Director Daniel Stapleton.

«We found that Amish people with this mutation have defects in fat storage, increased fat in the liver, high triglycerides, low «good» (HDL) cholesterol, insulin resistance and increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes,» says the study's senior author, Coleen M. Damcott, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition and member of the Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

«Our research shows that brain training can maintain or even improve cognitive skills among older people at very high risk of cognitive decline — and it's an inexpensive and safe treatment,» Dr Lampit said.

«People with psoriasis, particularly those with more severe disease, have an increased risk for a variety of other health problems, including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke and heart attack,» says board - certified dermatologist Jashin J. Wu, MD, FAAD, director of dermatology research at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Sprisk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), SpRisk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

It is so hard to predict who will actually harm themselves that about 98 to 99 per cent of people deemed «high - risk» and incarcerated or heavily medicated never go on to commit suicide, says psychiatrist Matthew Large at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

The company has begun two safety trials in the US, in people at low risk of infection and in people at high risk, and says it has evidence that the vaccine is safe.

«We're really strongly recommending them for treatment rather than prevention,» said Schuchat, stressing that prophylaxis should be reserved for people who are at high risk for severe disease.

«The rapid shifts in disease burden place poor people in low - and middle - income countries at high risk of not having access to appropriate services and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.

«Our goal is to identify people who are at the highest risk for dementia as early as possible» said study author Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., Chester and Debbie Cadieux Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

Various international agencies recommend CBT as treatment for high - risk young people, says Paolo Fusar - Poli, a psychiatrist at King's College London whose office is in an unmarked building so families will feel more comfortable.

«I'm really excited for other people who are at high risk for diabetes that this new technology is available for them now,» Mia said.

Immunobiologist Kevan Herold of Yale University says the result bodes well for a circulating DNA test that could be used to screen people at high risk for type 1 diabetes before their pancreas is so damaged that blood sugar levels rise.

«There are a lot of questions about how to implement it,» says Connie Celum, an HIV researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, who led a large trial of the drug in East Africa and has begun studies to answer practical delivery questions, such as which subsets of people are at highest risk.

The scientists said the alarmingly high number of people at risk for consuming toxic levels of arsenic in Pakistan — over one - fourth of the population — warrants an urgent response.

Dr Thekla Morgenroth, post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, and lead author of the paper said: «When people imagine a risk - taker, they might picture someone risking their fortune at a high - stakes poker game, an ambitious CEO, or someone crossing the Grand Canyon on a tightrope — but chances are that the person they picture will be a man.

«People who are cured of head and neck cancer are still at very high risk for a second cancer in their mouth or throat, and, unfortunately, these second cancers are commonly fatal,» said lead author Julie Bauman, M.D., M.P.H., co-director of the UPMC Head and Neck Cancer Center of Excellence.

But for the most part, Beyrer says, the failure to get PrEP to the people who need it most — those who are HIV negative and are at high risk of infection — and the backsliding in terms of civil liberties for the gay community in nations such as Russia, Nigeria and Uganda have contributed to the continued high HIV rates among gay men.

«We were looking at the optimum way to evaluate people with chest pain and focusing on those patients who are generally older, have many risk factors for coronary disease or may have had prior health problems, basically the intermediate to higher risk population,» Miller said.

Angel Aguirre, the governor of Guerrero, urged people to leave areas at high risk of flooding, and Michoacan's government said all maritime activity and road travel should be avoided.

Sherr says that certain gene variations may be at work inside some people, putting them at higher risk for AhR activation by environmental chemicals.

«If we can identify similar genetic loci in people, and if we could find biomarkers for these gene - environment interactions, then perhaps we could develop a simple blood test that identifies people who are at high risk of cancer from low - dose radiation,» says Mao.

Given the 50 people identified as at high - risk «we should not be surprised if we see new cases coming out,» from the new case identified in the village of Sella Kafta in the northern district of Kambia, he said.»

«Severe TBI is particularly frequent in young people, and it is concerning that the risk of dementia is particular high in relatively young persons who suffer TBI,» co-author Jakob Christensen, an associate professor of neurology at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, said in a statement.

«With the increase in lifestyle - related diseases around the world, estimated fitness is an easy, cost - effective method that could significantly help medical professionals identify people at high risk,» said co-author Carl J. Lavie, MD, professor of medicine at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, in a press release.

People who use proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have a 20 percent to 50 percent higher risk of chronic kidney disease compared with nonusers, said lead author Dr. Morgan Grams, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

And physicians know prematurity puts these people at higher risk when they need to be sedated, Havidich said.

«There is a lot of evidence that [people] with cognitive decline are at highest risk of later developing dementia, so it is likely that preventing or delaying cognitive decline today will help reduce risk of dementia tomorrow,» says Grodstein, who was not involved in the research but wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

(The closer a person's in - office reading is to high blood pressure, the more likely that person is to have masked hypertension, they say, so people on the low end of normal probably aren't at risk.)

«I was surprised that even people who would be considered normal weight in terms of their [body mass index] have a higher risk of death if their waist circumference is increased,» says Tobias Pischon, MD, the study's lead author and a member of the department of epidemiology at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE).

In previous trials and in clinical practice, people who stop taking TNF blockers «tend to be older and at a higher risk of serious infections,» Dr. Felson says.

I don't have a link but I remember Dr Joel Fuhrman saying in a video or paper that people on an optimum vegan diet who are eating only good fats and oils (like whole food nuts and avocado) are at a higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke, because as a group, their blood tends to be thinner.

People who consume large amounts of rice — about 7 ounces, or 200 grams, a day — may also be at higher risk for health effects, Meharg said.

A once - a-day pill known as PrEP — short for pre-exposure prophylaxis medication — has been found to reduce HIV infection by 92 percent in people at high risk for the AIDS - causing virus, including men who have unprotected gay sex, the researchers said.

«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.

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.

Juicy Excerpt: I think that it is because people are worried that if they say risk is sky - high when the P / E10 level is at 25 and then it rises to 35, as Shiller properly notes it might, they will be blamed by investors for being «wrong.»

The bank says the people most at risk as a result of high debt loads are under the age of 45.

«We found that people who do not own cats have a 40 % higher risk of dying from a myocardial infarction (MI) than people who do keep cats as pets,» said Adnan Qureshi, M.D., of the Minnesota Stroke Institute in Minneapolis, told attendees at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference.

«The insurance industry has expressed concern that insured persons who learn, after taking a genetic test, that they are at high risk for a genetic disease could knowingly take out policies for large amounts of additional coverage without insurers being aware of any increased risk,» says the report.

Says CBRE's Whitlock, «We look at the skilled nursing marketplace, and for those people willing to accept the risk associated with a higher return, there will be a tremendous amount of opportunity.