Sentences with phrase «than risk infection»

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As soon as personal and professional browsing habits co-mingle on a device that is used at both work and home, «you're more than doubling the risk [of a security breach], because traditionally what people are browsing on their personal time is usually more susceptible to infection than work destinations,» says Stroz Friedberg co-founder and executive chairman Eric Friedberg.

When the scientists modeled disease transmission, they found that while an «infected person's 11 nearest neighbors faced a greater than 80 percent chance of infection,» Wired reports, «all the remaining passengers, however, had a lower than 3 percent risk.»

More than half the world's people are at risk of malaria infection.

Research suggests that circumcision reduces the risk of urinary tract infections in infants by up to 90 percent and penile cancer in older men by more than 50 percent.

Young infants are at a higher risk of dying from this infection than any other age group.

«Yes, as homebirthers we do have to consider the possibility of baby or mom dying at home, but the risk is very low, and much lower than dying from a staph infection from a hospital.»

Giving water to babies younger than six months puts them at risk of infection.

This is hardly the consensus in the medical community, and given the ill effects that bottle - feeding can have (lower IQ's, greater risks of cancer, heart disease, obesity, infection etc. than breastfed babies) this promotion puts infant health at risk.

Between the ages of 7 and 12 months, infants who were breastfed for 4 to 6 months or 6 months or longer had lower risks of lower respiratory tract infections (aOR: 0.56 [95 % CI: 0.38 — 0.84] and aOR: 0.54 [95 % CI: 0.37 — 0.79], respectively) than did infants who were never breastfed.

Elective repeat C - sections are slightly riskier than successful VBACs, because moms are at greater risk of infection, blood loss and organ injury.

To minimize HIV transmission risk, breastfeeding should be discontinued as soon as feasible, taking into account local circumstances, the individual woman's situation, and the risks of replacement feeding (including infections other than HIV and malnutrition).

On the other side of the debate, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that the benefits for the infant in terms of reduced risk of infection, adult obesity, allergies, and asthma are so great that breastfeeding must be viewed as an «investment in your child's future» rather than a «lifestyle choice.»

The World Health Organization says that giving anything other than breast milk to infants younger than 6 months may increase the risk of bacterial infection, serious allergies, and stomach irritation.

Heath campaigners say that for decades, formula has consistently proven to be less healthy than breastfeeding - boosting the risk of diabetes, infections and other medical problems, and, when used exclusively, contributes to 21 percent higher infant mortality.

Not only does spacing out vaccines leave kids vulnerable to infections for longer than necessary — putting them at risk of exposure to diseases like measles and whooping cough while they wait to be vaccinated — but they also require more frequent visits to a doctor's office where they could catch other diseases as well.

Some studies have concluded that breastfed babies have stronger immune systems, decreased risks of developing ear infections and diarrhea, lower infant mortality rates, enhanced neurological development, better oral health (due to a different suckling motion than drinking from a bottle).

Mothers with injured nipples longer than 5 days are at a much greater risk of developing mastitis; 75 % of moms with open nipples go on the develop a breast infection because of the bacteria in the open areas.

For example, in high - income countries breastfeeding reduces the risk of sudden infant deaths by more than a third, while in low - and middle - income countries about half of all diarrhoea episodes and a third of respiratory infections could be avoided by breastfeeding.

Overall, the introduction of formula milk as well as any breast feeding for less than six months were found to be significant risk factors for hospital, doctor, or clinic visits and hospital admissions specifically for upper respiratory tract infections and wheezing lower respiratory tract illness.

In adjusted analysis a shorter duration of predominant breast feeding (less than two months) was a risk factor for four or more hospital, doctor, or clinic visits because of upper respiratory tract infections (OR 1.43, 95 % 1.02 to 2.01, p = 0.041), as was partial breast feeding for less than six months (OR 1.46, 95 % CI 1.07 to 2.00, p = 0.018).

People who are bitten by a blacklegged tick could be at higher risk of more than one infection.

When controlling for other factors that affect risk of HIV infection (e.g., condom use), the researchers found that users of injectable DMPA were 50 % more likely to become infected with HIV than those not using hormonal contraceptives.

«The implication for people is that if women are planning to get pregnant it makes more sense being immunised in advance rather than risking having a bad flu infection when pregnant,» Coe says.

Women who used the ring had a 27 percent lower risk of HIV infection than women who received a placebo, scientists reported February 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

One of the studies, published in 2008, suggested that patients whose antiretroviral treatment was deferred until their CD4 cell counts were below 250 were at greater risk of opportunistic infection than those that received antiretroviral treatment when CD4 cell counts were higher than 350.

Smoking overall, however, was unrelated to the risk of readmission without surgery, or for reoperation for reasons other than infections.

«A human is better at spreading viruses than an aerosol» that might breach a lab's physical containment, said epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who has calculated that the risk of a lab - acquired infection sparking a pandemic is greater than recognized.

In the MSM trial, a sub-study of people's blood who received Truvada showed that if they had detectable levels of the drug, it reduced their risk of infection by 92 % — more than double what was found in the study as a whole.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

Furthermore, the number of new infections per number of people at risk was significantly higher in African countries than in non-African countries at 3.6 % and 0.3 %, respectively.

The work is the first to show a possible mechanism for how environmental factors such as infections alter genetic risk to make some individuals more susceptible to inflammatory disease than others, Sawalha says.

«And it's much higher in men than in women... we know performing oral sex is the main risk factor for oral HPV infection.

For example, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at most risk for HIV infection in the United States, yet within that subgroup, HIV seroprevalence is four times higher among black MSM than among white MSM, and virologic suppression is 50 percent lower, according to the authors.

«But if you're in an area where Zika is circulating, you might vaccinate during pregnancy because the risk of Zika infection is worse than some theoretical risk of immune - mediated damage.»

«Data analysis finds lower risk of infection with LASIK than with contacts over time.»

If the surgery is assumed to have essentially a one - time risk for infection, after five years of extrapolation, contact lens wearers would show 11 more cases per 10,000 than those with surgery.

Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug Lucentis made by the same company, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Over several years, more than 2,000 people exposed to high risks of HIV infection were tested twice - weekly in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Thailand.

More than half the women surveyed in the South African township of Soweto felt they were at risk of infection with HIV — not because of their own sexual behaviour but because their men had other lovers.

Although there is substantial evidence that the virus can be transmitted by breast - feeding, the risk to infants is lower than the risks of death from other infections and malnutrition.

NHS England has lost its appeal over a High Court ruling that it has the legal power to commission PrEP, a drug that has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection in people who are at high risk by more than 90 per cent.

Gaffield notes that there is more in the balance than a woman's risk of HIV infection.

People who sell sex face a disproportionate risk and burden of HIV; in low - and middle - income countries, female sex workers have a 13.5 times greater chance of HIV infection than women in the general population.

The study, published in the September issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, demonstrates that the risk of CLABSI with PICCs is based more on patient factors, rather than the device.

The IPERGAY researchers found that men who have sex with men and transgender women at high risk for HIV infection who took PrEP around the time of sexual activity were 86 percent less likely to acquire HIV than similar individuals who took a placebo.

They found that infants born past 42 weeks had approximately twice the risk of contracting infections, experiencing respiratory difficulties and being admitted to NICUs than those born at 39 - 40 weeks.

But patients who had neurological infections had a higher risk of dying of some other diseases than the general population.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

This disruption usually is caused by broad - spectrum antibiotics (Figure 2), 1,5,8 — 11 with clindamycin (Cleocin) and broad - spectrum penicillins and cephalosporins most commonly implicated.8 Antibiotics with a reduced propensity to induce infection include aminoglycosides, metronidazole, antipseudomonals, and vancomycin.8 The risk of developing antibiotic - associated diarrhea more than doubles with longer than three days of antibiotic therapy (risk ratio: 2.28).12

But that well - intentioned drug may actually boost their risk of dying during their hospital stay, a new study finds — by opening them up to infections that pose more risk than bleeding would.