Sentences with phrase «tanning devices»

The data they collected included the type of indoor tanning device used (sunlamps, tanning beds, or booths), and skin sensitivity to the sun and proportion of time spent outdoors in childhood.

The authors conclude that effective policies and strategies are needed to reduce the use of tanning devices, in order to mitigate their significant health and financial impacts.

«Tanning devices cause hundreds of thousands of people to suffer a number of different diseases, costing billions of dollars and, most importantly, people's lives.

«Through national media coverage and reality television, attention has been drawn to the use of indoor tanning devices in New Jersey.

California, New York, Vermont and Springfield and Chicago, Ill. have passed laws prohibiting the use of indoor tanning devices by minors.

«Tanning devices cost US healthcare $ 343 million a year: New study says indoor tanning - related skin cancers contribute significantly to early deaths.»

«By restricting the use of indoor tanning devices among minors, we could potentially save thousands of lives.»

These productivity losses amounted to US $ 127 billion over the lifetime of the people who had the conditions attributable do tanning devices in 2015.

Melanoma Moon Shot co-leader Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, M.D., professor of Surgical Oncology, says about this development, «There will now be a national order against using indoor tanning devices for youth around the country.

The WHO group later deemed tanning devices to be carcinogenic.

There is strong evidence that tanning devices cause skin cancer.

The new law prohibits the use of indoor tanning devices by children less than 17 years of age and requires teens between the ages of 17 and 18 to obtain parental consent.

Tanning devices cost the US $ 343.1 million a year in medical costs because of the skin cancers their use is associated with, according to a new study published in the Journal of Cancer Policy.

«By restricting the use of indoor tanning devices among minors, we could potentially save thousands of lives,» Guy added.

In 2013, only 10.1 % of U.S. high school students used sunscreen routinely and 20.2 % of young women reported using an indoor tanning device in the previous year.

«Exposure to UV radiation can be extremely harmful, particularly for younger people, and this new law will help protect teenagers from the heightened risk of skin cancer that can come from using indoor tanning devices,» Governor Cuomo said.

There were 9,000 cases of melanoma, 86,600 cases of squamous cell carcinoma and 168,000 cases of basal cell carcinoma that could be attributed to the use of tanning devices.

Under the legislation signed by the Governor today, minors 16 years of age and younger will be prohibited from using UV indoor tanning devices, and parental consent will be required for those between the ages of 17 and 18.

A higher proportion of patients with early - onset BCC reported indoor tanning with a tanning lamp compared to controls, and this association was present for all types of indoor tanning devices.

Three - hundred and eighty - nine non-Hispanic white women ages 18 to 30 who had used an indoor tanning device one or more times in the prior 12 months completed online questionnaires; 46.7 percent of the participants were current college or university students.

More than 20 percent of non-Hispanic white women ages 18 to 30 who reported using an indoor tanning device one or more times in the past 12 months were dependent on indoor tanning.

They identified the total number of cases in the US in 2015 and worked out how many of these cases were likely due to the use of tanning devices, by using data on prevalence of use of tanning devices and previously published estimates of relative risk — the likelihood of having the disease for people who use tanning devices compared to people who don't.

We hope that our results will help in the efforts toward reducing the use of tanning devices.»

Despite this, the proportion of people in the US who use indoor tanning devices has risen over the last 20 years; an estimated 30 million people now use the devices at least once a year, in the approximately 25,000 tanning salons across the country.

«Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US and its incidence is increasing, due in part to the increase in the use of tanning devices,» said Dr. Waters.

While indoor tanning has decreased among high school students, about 20 percent of females engaged in indoor tanning at least once during 2013 and about 10 percent of girls frequently engaged in the practice by using an indoor tanning device 10 or more times during the year, according to a research letter published online by JAMA Dermatology.

Indoor tanning was defined as using a tanning device (e.g., sunlamp, sunbed, tanning booth, excluding a spray - on tan) at least once during the 12 months before each survey period and frequent indoor tanning was using a tanning device more than 10 times during the same period.

New Jersey has passed a law that bans minors under the age of 17 years old from using indoor tanning devices.

Furthermore, teens who reported texting while driving were more likely to engage in other risky behaviors such as driving under the influence of alcohol, having unprotected sex and using an indoor tanning device.

«We hope that our results will help in the efforts toward reducing the use of tanning devices,» he added.

The researchers called for effective policies and strategies to reduce the use of tanning devices and their significant health and financial effects.

«Tanning devices cause hundreds of thousands of people to suffer a number of different diseases, costing billions of dollars and, most importantly, people's lives,» Waters said in a journal news release.

«Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and its incidence is increasing, due in part to the increase in the use of tanning devices,» said study author Hugh Waters.

Researchers estimate there were 263,000 U.S. cases of tanning device - related skin cancers in 2015.