Sentences with phrase «serve as a risk factor»

That said, there is research that suggests a heightened risk of negative maternal mood associated with «poor» infant sleep which serves as a risk factor for maternal depression and family stress [6].

«Our study indicates that night shift work serves as a risk factor for common cancers in women,» said Ma.

In its review of close to a decade of research, the American Psychological Association has found that exposure to violent video games serves as a risk factor for aggressive behavior.

Not only do ultraviolet exposure and pigmentation characteristics serve as risk factors, but so does genetics.

In its review of close to a decade of research, the American Psychological Association has found that exposure to violent video games serves as a risk factor for aggressive behavior.

Distress responses may serve as a risk factor for use of unhealthful feeding practices among mothers with BE and these responses may increase children's risk for weight gain.

Not exact matches

If anything, the first few weeks of the year have served as a valuable reminder that investing in public markets is inherently volatile and that our main defense against that volatility is to diversify our risk exposures by owning a variety of asset classes and risk factors.

The research confirms that a father's emotional engagement — not the amount of time fathers spend with children, rather how they interact with them — leads to multiple positive outcomes, and serves as a significant protective factor against high risk behaviors in both girls and boys.

In other words, an emotionally close father - child relationship not only serves as a significant protective factor against high risk behaviors, but it is also a potential source of health for the entire family.

As for legal restrictions on dogs based on their appearance, Levy said public safety would be better served by reducing risk factors for dog bites, such as supervising children, recognizing canine body language, avoiding an unfamiliar dog in its territory, neutering dogs and raising puppies to be social companionAs for legal restrictions on dogs based on their appearance, Levy said public safety would be better served by reducing risk factors for dog bites, such as supervising children, recognizing canine body language, avoiding an unfamiliar dog in its territory, neutering dogs and raising puppies to be social companionas supervising children, recognizing canine body language, avoiding an unfamiliar dog in its territory, neutering dogs and raising puppies to be social companions.

«Aside from the direct association with cardiovascular risk factors, skipping breakfast might serve as a marker for a general unhealthy diet or lifestyle which in turn is associated with the development and progression of atherosclerosis,» said Jose L. Peñalvo, PhD, assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and the senior author of the study.

«We hypothesized that mitochondria might also be serving as an essential and early target for the various risk factors leading to kidney injury.»

The results of the study illustrate that Twitter serves as an accurate predictor of health and risk factors of a community.

Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

It serves as an independent and strong female risk factor for eventual progression of T2DM (85).

This laboratory studies aspects of one - carbon metabolism, namely the micronutrients folate and vitamin B12, which serve as substrate and cofactor, respectively, in the methionine cycle and homocysteine, which is a branch - point metabolite in the methionine cycle and an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (coronary artery, cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular disease), cognitive impairment (Alzheimer's disease) and complications of pregnancy (neural tube defects).

To determine risk factors for being diagnosed as osteoporotic, the research team analysed a wide range of factors such as BMI, kidney function, physical activity, servings of milk or cheese, and calcium or vitamin D supplements as well as traditional risk factors for bone health (e.g. smoking, inactivity, alcohol etc.).

These findings show, for the first time, that RNA interference could potentially serve as an important therapeutic alternative in the management of glaucoma risk factors.

Among people who never smoke (a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer) the data show a 36 % higher risk of pancreatic cancer mortality among those who consume three or more servings of liquor a day, as compared to nondrinkers.

For more than 60 years, traditional medical wisdom regarded testosterone as a significant risk factor for prostate hypertrophy and assumed that high testosterone levels served as fuel for prostate cancer.

He summarized that elevated homocysteine levels could serve as an independent risk factor for a person's likelihood of developing vascular disease.

While noncompliance is certainly a critical concern and risk factor, the overall costs of a poorly planned and executed parent communication strategy result in much more impactful consequences: lost dollars that could be spent furthering success in the classroom and a failure to actively engage all students and parents in a way that serves as a foundation for achieving sustained and long term academic achievement.

It covers the history and evolution behind the academic works that serve as today's foundation for a factor based portfolio risk framework

The relationship that exists between these five risk factors and a portfolio's expected return serves as a framework for designing investment portfolios.

As for legal restrictions on dogs based on their appearance, Levy said public safety would be better served by reducing risk factors for dog bites, such as supervising children, recognizing canine body language, avoiding an unfamiliar dog in its territory, neutering dogs and raising puppies to be social companionAs for legal restrictions on dogs based on their appearance, Levy said public safety would be better served by reducing risk factors for dog bites, such as supervising children, recognizing canine body language, avoiding an unfamiliar dog in its territory, neutering dogs and raising puppies to be social companionas supervising children, recognizing canine body language, avoiding an unfamiliar dog in its territory, neutering dogs and raising puppies to be social companions.

In its review of close to a decade of research, the APA found that playing video games that depict violent actions served as a factor for an increase in aggression risk.

An arrest for drunk driving might serve as a red flag to an insurance underwriter you have other risk factors associated with substance abuse.

83 % of PAT families served had major risk factors, such as low - income and low educational attainment.

psychological problems that serve as more potent risk factors for interparental discord; and / or (b)

The reasoning behind this proposition is that: A) EBHV programs are designed to serve women categorized as «at - risk» due to a variety of demographic factors, including single - parent household status, age at time of first pregnancy, being categorically undereducated, under or unemployed, and meeting federal standards of living at or below the poverty line; B) these programs serve women during pregnancy and / or shortly after the birth of their children, offering an excellent chance for the early prevention of trauma exposure; and C) intervention services are provided at the same times that attachment (whether secure or insecure) is being developed between mothers and children, providing the opportunity that generational risk may be mitigated.

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.

Taken together, these findings dovetail nicely as two examples of how cultural values serve adaptive functions by tuning societal behaviour so that social and environmental risk factors are reduced and physical and mental health of group members is maintained.

Emmy Werner's (1992) seminal research has demonstrated that children's participation in a non-sextyped hobby serves as a protective factor, decreasing their vulnerability to risk and promoting positive outcomes.

Furthermore, emotional competence serves as a protective factor that diminishes the impact of a range of risk factors.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

If a difficult temperament would put a child at greater risk for RAD, then as Zeanah also suggested a temperament characterized by positive affect could serve as a protective factor for RAD.

Overall, peer's acceptance may serve as a protective factor, which may reduce the impact of risk factors on adjustment outcomes (Henricsson and Rydell, 2006).

Protective factors are conditions or attributes of individuals, families, communities, or the larger society that can promote well - being by serving as «buffers» to the effects of risk exposure and helping individuals and families negotiate difficult circumstances and fare better in school, work, and life.

Emotional lability and affect regulation also serve as a common underlying risk factor for comorbid internalizing and SUDs [40, 77 •].

These findings suggest that race / ethnicity may be a risk factor for more negative or intrusive involvement by parents, whereas maternal education may serve as a protective factor for more positive collaborative involvement.

In other words, emotion dysregulation as a core deficit serves as an embedded risk factor that can lead to multiple, different outcomes (i.e., «multifinality» [13]-RRB-.

Our findings suggest that chronically ill children are at risk for peer relationship difficulties, but that self - esteem may serve as a protective factor against poor peer relationships for some chronically ill children.