Sentences with phrase «status as alcohol»

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At the other extreme, there is the legalization option, which seeks to reestablish the status quo prior to drug and alcohol prohibition, when now - illicit drugs were sold over the counter and as ingredients in patent medicine, cough syrup and Coca - Cola.

NABI was welcomed as the first alcohol importer group to experience the current status of our industry in Cuba in over 60 years.

In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.

These needs may be linked (but are not limited) to drug or alcohol dependencies; severe mental health problems; experiences of domestic violence, institutional experiences, particularly local authority care and prison); involvement in sex work; and participation in «street culture» activities, such as begging, street drinking, and street - level drug dealing or migrant status.

One in five neets have abused alcohol, 15 % and 13 % have resorted to self - harm and taking drugs respectively, and a quarter have contemplated suicide as a direct result of their status.

After adjusting for various factors, including age, demographic factors, health behaviors such as smoking and alcohol consumption, physical activity, medical conditions, and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that black workers in general — and black professionals in particular — were more likely to experience short sleep than whites.

Factors such as age, sex, smoking status, alcohol consumption, co-morbidities and use of other drugs were accounted for.

They adjusted for a variety of factors, such as age, physical activity, smoking, family history of diabetes, alcohol intake, postmenopausal status, menopausal hormone or oral contraceptive use, total caloric intake, and body mass index.

A larger proportion of pregnant women used alcohol and tobacco in their first trimester as compared to the second and third trimesters, regardless of insurance status: 19 percent drank alcohol in the past month during the first trimester, and 22 percent used tobacco in the past month during the first trimester.

Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging risk.

The researchers concluded their study by noting that estimated fitness level — in consideration with other risk factors such as smoking status, alcohol consumption, and other health conditions — could have a major impact on identifying people at risk for future cardiovascular disease.

«And even the researchers considered a wide range of factors, such as diet, exercise, alcohol consumption, smoking, body mass and marital status, it's still possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as - yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death» — says Susan Fisher, Ph.D., chair of community and preventive medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, New York.

When they controlled for factors such as age, body mass index, smoking status, and alcohol consumption, the researchers found that people in the low physical - activity group were 10 % less likely to have had an infection than those in the sedentary group.

We drink good water, have only occasional alcohol, take few supplements, and we try to eat «organic» as much as possible, although the status of organic foods is up for debate.

Although coffee consumption was inversely associated with diabetes, it was also positively associated with a number of behaviors that are considered unhealthy and are associated with an increased risk of death, such as tobacco smoking, 35 consumption of red meat, 36 and heavy alcohol use.37 Tobacco smoking was the strongest confounder in the multivariate analysis, and the inverse association between coffee consumption and mortality tended to be stronger among persons who had never smoked or were former smokers than among those who were current smokers, suggesting that residual confounding by smoking status, if present, attenuated the inverse associations between coffee drinking and mortality in our study.

Look for a C / TPA that has received status as Nationally Accredited for Administration of Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs (NAADATP).

While it may be clear to most students at the University of Colorado that if they are arrested on campus as a minor in possession of alcohol that there will be repercussions regarding their status at CU, it catches many students by surprise that a minor in possession arrest that occurred off campus will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct for disciplinary action.

Observed and documented patient status and reported patient complaints to the case manager.Read and recorded temperature, pulse and respiration.Massaged patients and applied preparations and treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs and heat - lamp stimulation.Completed and submitted clinical documentation in accordance with agency guidelines.Prepared patient rooms prior to their arrival.Assisted with adequate nutrition and fluid intake.Planned, prepared and served meals and snacks according to prescribed diets.Directed patients in prescribed range of motion exercises and in the use of braces or artificial limbs.Provided transportation, assistance and companionship to clients.Cleaned and organized patients» living quarters.Performed household tasks such as laundry, dusting, washing dishes and vacuuming.Positioned residents for comfort and to prevent skin pressure problems.

Within Indigenous status, those children exposed to a maternal alcohol use disorder were significantly more likely to be classified as being in the «severe» attendance category when compared with those in the comparison cohort (non-Indigenous: 1.9 % vs 4.8 %, p < 0.001; Indigenous: 19.7 % vs 30.5 %, p < 0.001).

A number of factors have been associated with poor school attendance, including low socioeconomic status and low levels of parental education.1 3 In Australia, Indigenous young people have been identified to have significantly worse attendance and school retention when compared with non-Indigenous children, and it has been suggested that this is a key driver of the gap in academic outcomes between non-Indigenous and Indigenous young people.6 — 8 In addition Moore and McArthur9 identified that maternal and family risks, such as family instability, mental illness and drug and alcohol issues, are associated with reduced child participation in school.

As part of the study, 49,093 participants were interviewed by the U.S. Bureau of Census and asked questions related to the marital status and the alcohol patterns of their parents, and then they were analyzed for depression.

Baseline drinking status (ever vs never tried alcohol) did not predict attrition, but to account for attrition bias related to other variables, estimation was carried out after multiple imputation using the standard missing at random assumption (ie, missing data are assumed missing at random conditional on observed predictors included in the model).27 The imputation model included all the predictors in the alcohol models plus a number of auxiliary variables that were not of direct theoretical interest but were nonetheless predictive of missingness so as to improve the quality of the imputations and make the missing at random assumption more plausible.28

Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to test the association between the depressive state and a weight gain of 4 kg or more over the 4 - year study period after controlling for potentially confounding variables such as the age, smoking status, alcohol intake status, and physical activity.

It is also important to examine drinking status as well as the amount of alcohol consumed as older adults may be more affected by lower levels of alcohol use than younger adults.

Next, in order to assess whether drinking status had implications for negative marital quality beyond the amount of alcohol consumed, we estimated identical models with drinking status as well as the average number of drinks per week reported by both members of the couple as predictors of Wave 2 negative marital quality, controlling for negative marital quality in Wave 1.

In addition, we consider both drinking status (drink alcohol vs. do not drink alcohol) as well as the level of consumption in order to understand whether drinking concordance at lower levels of alcohol consumption may affect older couples.