Sentences with phrase «school at increased risk»

As a result, these children enter school at increased risk for significant academic, social, and emotional challenges.

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Black survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more atSchool in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more atschool safety by increasing security would actually put them more at risk.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

But there have been concerns that a second breakfast at school following breakfast at home could increase the risk of unhealthy weight gain.

«Babies born with low levels of protective intestinal bacteria are at an increased risk of devastating and sometimes deadly infections,» said Michael Sherman, M.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Child Health at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

A third of existing state - funded schools are religious, as are a similar proportion of new Free Schools that are being approved, and now it seems that an increasing number of schools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced uposchools are religious, as are a similar proportion of new Free Schools that are being approved, and now it seems that an increasing number of schools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced upoSchools that are being approved, and now it seems that an increasing number of schools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced uposchools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced upon them.

Women with a history of infertility have a 10 percent increased risk of death compared to those without reported infertility struggles, according to results of a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a mutation in a fat - storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

«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.

«Estimating from various studies that looked at increasing BMI and endometrial cancer risk, a woman with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 would have approximately eight times greater risk of endometrial cancer than someone with a BMI of 25,» said first author Kristy Ward, MD, the senior gynecologic oncology fellow in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

A ten-fold increase in some types of bacteria living under the foreskin can increase a man's risk of HIV infection by up to 63 percent, according to a new study by researchers at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University (GW).

«Our findings support recommendations of increasing the intake of a variety of nuts, as part of healthy dietary patterns, to reduce the risk of chronic disease in the general populations,» said Marta Guasch - Ferre, PhD, lead author of the study and research fellow at the department of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The Claim: Time to Change the Message It's been known for decades that stopping antibiotics early doesn't cause resistance, says Martin Llewelyn, author of The BMJ paper and an infectious diseases professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the U.K.. For most of the bacteria posing threats today, it's just the opposite: Longer exposure to antibiotics increases the risk they'll develop a resistance.

Among American high schoolers, vaping reportedly increased by 900 percent between 2011 and 2015, and Murthy says this sharp uptick in e-cigarette use places a new generation at risk of addiction to nicotine, and tobacco - related disease.

«In our study, it did not matter whether their sodium levels were high at the beginning of the study or if they were low to begin with, then gradually increased over the years — both groups were at greater risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Tomonori Sugiura, M.D., Ph.D. the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the Department of Cardio - Renal Medicine and Hypertension at the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in, Nagoya, Japan.

With the rate of diabetes increasing dramatically worldwide, many individuals will be at risk for vision loss from diabetic eye complications and DME is a major global health concern,» says Jennifer K. Sun, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the study research team and writing committee, and an Investigator in the Section on Vascular Biology, an ophthalmologist in Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Successful implementation of preschool to 3rd grade programs yields benefits in increasing school readiness, improving attendance, and strengthening parental involvement in school education — strategies that can close the achievement gap for children at risk, according to a new University of Minnesota study.

Teenagers are still at risk because of the kinds of things they do but I would hope for increasing education and healthcare access for everyone in the professional and university ranks so the culture filters down into the high school ranks,» Russell said.

Middle - aged people who experience temporary blood pressure drops that often cause dizziness upon standing up may be at an increased risk of developing cognitive decline and dementia 20 years later, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

«While we can't guarantee that the partners of patients will not develop oral HPV infections or cancers, we can reassure them that our study found they had no increased prevalence of oral infections, which suggests their risk of HPV - related oral cancer remains low,» says Gypsyamber D'Souza, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Researchers also looked at months of the year including «July phenomenon,» the month of the year that is associated with an increased risk of medical errors and surgical complications that occurs in association with the time of year in which United States medical school graduates begin residencies.

Data collected during a long - term health study provides additional evidence for a link between increased risk of cancer in individuals with advanced gum disease, according to a new collaborative study led by epidemiologists Dominique Michaud at Tufts University School of Medicine and Elizabeth Platz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Kimmel Cancer Center.

«This is the first national study to identify specific regions of the United States where residents may be at an increased risk for poor clinical outcomes — including misdiagnoses and late detection — as a result of limited access to specialized gynecologic cancer care,» says David Shalowitz, MD, a fellow in the division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and lead author on the study.

«When we looked at data for the people who had never smoked, we also found evidence that having severe periodontal disease was related to an increased risk of lung cancer and colorectal cancer,» said Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., deputy chair of the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, and published on July 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

«We know that sleep is important for cardiovascular health and many studies have linked poor or insufficient sleep with increased risk factors for cardiovascular - related diseases,» said Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, a researcher in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and Harvard School of Public Health and senior author of this study.

«It would be worthwhile to examine these relationships among older adolescents and young adults with food allergy who are at the peak of risk for depression onset, especially because early anxiety is associated with increased risk for subsequent onset of depression,» said Jonathan Feldman, PhD, professor of Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University.

In 2010, researchers from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified a genetic locus on canine chromosome 7 that coincides with an increased risk of OCD.

These variants increased patients» risk of dying in the year following a first heart attack, but they appeared to do so for different reasons depending on race, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), New York State Psychiatric Institute and colleagues in Finland reports an association between smoking during pregnancy and increased risk for schizophrenia in children.

The odds of type 2 diabetes were not statistically significant after adjustment for multiple comparisons among the second generation, but co-corresponding author Dr. Sun Changhao, professor of nutrition and dean of the School of Public Health at Harbin, noted that these people were only in their 20s and 30s and could still be at increased risk as they age and that the research team will continue to follow up on these participants.

«This work suggests that we need to tease out the mechanisms by which COPD may increase lung cancer risk in smokers, and to conduct clinical trials to determine whether treating COPD in former and current smokers lessens that risk,» said David Christiani, Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study.

According to a study published in the journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, co-authored by Jason N. Houle, assistant professor of sociology at Dartmouth College and Danya E. Keene, assistant professor of epidemiology (chronic diseases) at the Yale School of Public Health, changes in health limitations and chronic conditions increased the risk of mortgage default and foreclosure between 2007 and 2010.

You need the presence of both diabetes and the variant to increase the risk of CHD,» says Alessandro Doria, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., co-senior author and an Investigator in the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

«We found that genetic susceptibility to BD can increase the risk for suicide attempt, but only among those who also have experienced traumatic stress such as bullying, sexual abuse, and domestic violence,» said lead author Holly Wilcox, PhD, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

11/13/2008 How Eating Red Meat Can Spur Cancer Progression Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Ajit Varki, M.D., have shown a new mechanism for how human consumption of red meat and milk products could contribute to the increased risk of cancerous tumors.

3/10/2008 Health Problems in Persian Gulf War Veterans Higher Due to Chemical Exposure UCSD researchers warn of potential risk to civilians exposed to pesticides A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows there is increasing evidence that high rates of illness in Persian Gulf War Veteran... More...

3/29/2007 UCSD Researchers Identify Connection between Sleep Disruption and Increased Cardiovascular Risk In Healthy Men and Women Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that sleep disruption in seemingly healthy subjects is associated with increased clotting of the blood, which has previously been shown to predict cardio..Increased Cardiovascular Risk In Healthy Men and Women Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that sleep disruption in seemingly healthy subjects is associated with increased clotting of the blood, which has previously been shown to predict cardio..increased clotting of the blood, which has previously been shown to predict cardio... More...

The team at Emory University School of Medicine, led by Dr Jeanie Park, believe that this contributes to the increased risk of high blood pressure and heart disease in PTSD patients.

Privately insured children and those with Medicaid at the time of a cancer diagnosis experience largely similar survival trends, with slight evidence for an increased risk of cancer death in children who were uninsured at diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

«It increases risk by about 20 %,» says Cheryl Rock, PhD, professor in the department of family and preventive medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

«This research provides really robust evidence that mercury exposure from fish consumption at levels commonly seen in [the] U.S. and similar countries is not linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease,» says Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, the lead author of the study and an associate professor of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.

«It's important to counsel couples regarding the risk of conception [with] in vitro, but, controlling for all confounding factors, there's not really an increased risk for babies conceived with IVF,» says George R. Attia, M.D., director of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

A detailed study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that eating smoked or otherwise processed meats such as hot dogs and cold cuts increases your risk of stroke, heart disease and type 2 diabetes significantly.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, your child is at an increased risk for weight gain and type 2 diabetes if he regularly consumes these beverages.

Reduced diversity of the intestinal microbiota during infancy is associated with increased risk of allergic disease at school age.

In fact, according to a 2004 study in the journal Paediatrics Child Health, school - aged children and teenagers of moms with PPD are at an increased risk for anxiety disorders, learning disabilities and ADHD.

Autism is a «really complicated» disorder, and the evidence to date suggests that a combination of genes and so - called environmental factors — some of which may increase the risk of both autism and schizophrenia — are involved, says Patrick F. Sullivan, M.D., lead author of the study and director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, in Chapel Hill.

Nearly one in five high - school students have had four or more sex partners, placing them at increased risk of contracting the virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has found.