Sentences with phrase «thus decreases the risk»

Both the fruit and its seeds are exceptionally rich in lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that helps protect your cells from damage caused by free radicals, thus decreasing the risk of many types of cancer, including prostate, breast, ovaries, lung and colon cancer.

In addition to providing bulk and decreasing the transit time of fecal matter, thus decreasing the risk of colon cancer and hemorrhoids, barley's dietary fiber also provides food for the «friendly» bacteria in the large intestine.

In addition to providing bulk and decreasing the transit time of fecal matter, thus decreasing the risk of colon cancer and hemorrhoids, prunes» insoluble fiber also provides food for the «friendly» bacteria in the large intestine.

It has been shown that altered pets have a reduced urge to roam and thus decreases the risk of contracting diseases or getting hurt.

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If this were to happen, there is a risk of decreasing the blood flow to your uterus and thus, to your baby.

The health risks associated with formula feeding for premature infants include increased incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, 5 delayed brainstem maturation, 6 decreased scoring on cognitive and developmental tests,7 - 10 and decreased visual development.11, 12 Thus, human - milk feeding of premature infants is desirable, and effective strategies to increase breastfeeding rates in this population are needed.

Thus, stress or pain, which may be associated with breastfeeding, may result in a decrease in serotonin levels with resultant anxiety and depression.15 Early identification of at - risk women is important to both decrease the negative sequelae of postpartum depression and, potentially, to increase breastfeeding success.

Thus, according to these hypotheses, ever breastfeeding and a longer duration of breastfeeding would be expected to decrease EOC risk through their effects on ovulation and gonadotropin concentrations.

«Thus, even though the 72 % decrease in pneumonia risk with vitamin E in ATBC participants who quit smoking may be a real effect, it should not be generalized to current elderly males in Western countries.

With a greater understanding of these mechanisms, treatments could potentially be developed to speed wound healing, thus reducing pain, decreasing risk of infection and getting patients back on their feet more quickly.

Given that information generators spend much of their time in the company of similar baboons, researchers say there is a risk that acquired information may end up exclusively confined to other information generators, thus decreasing the likelihood of new knowledge being disseminated to the wider troop.

A growing number of human studies suggest that a low plasma Aβ42 / Aβ40 ratio is a risk factor for major depression, 45, 46 dementia47 and higher mortality.48 The Framingham Study also showed that increased plasma Aβ42: Aβ40 ratios are associated with decreased risk of AD and dementia.13 Thus, the higher Aβ42 / Aβ40 ratio observed in regular meditators at baseline and the increase in this ratio from pre - to post intervention in the novice meditator and vacation groups may be salutary to brain health.

In a study of healthy and type 2 diabetes participants to determine the blood glucose response after eating a meal of brown rice in comparison to white rice, the total sugar released in vitro was 23.7 percent lesser in brown rice compared to white rice, thus helping to decrease the risk of weight gain.

This sort of training will not only increase the range of motion that you can move through when you do your exercises, thus allowing you to see better benefits, but it will also help you reduce post workout muscle soreness, decrease the risk of injury, and help to relax the body after a hard workout.

• EGCG reduces the risk atherosclerosis (clogged arteries) by decreasing arterial inflammation, thus reducing the chance of sticky build up occurring on the artery walls.

Over-inhibition of 5AR results in increased availability of testosterone, which may be shunted, via aromatase, to estradiol, causing «feminization,» e.g., gynecomastia, one of the side effects of 5AR inhibitor drugs; and decreased production of not only 5α - DHT, but its metabolites, 5α - Androstane - 3α - 17β - diol (aka 3α - adiol, a storage form of 5α - DHT), and 5α - Androstane - 3β - 17β - diol (aka 3β - adiol), an estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) ligand that promotes normal cellular differentiation, thus lessening risk of benign prostatic hypertrophy and prostate cancer.22, 23, 24

A 2010 study in Nutrition Research and Practice showed that curcumin could decrease LDL and total cholesterol when consuming a high - fat diet, thus reducing risk for heart disease.

The cholesterol «was found to be responsible» for the thickening of the arterial walls and thus decreasing the diameter in the arteries which leads in most cases to high blood pressure and increased risk of diseases affecting the blood vessels.

Thus decreasing a person's risk of heart disease yet at the same time improving insulin resistance.

The study showed that folic acid decreased the levels of homocysteine and thus reduced the risk of heart disease.

By making it easier to buy a home, the credit could stimulate the housing market as well as improve the financial health (and thus decrease the default risk) of new borrowers.

If risk was slowly and surely re-introduced to the student loan market the supply of new money would decrease, the demand for education would decrease and the prices would decrease, thus allowing more people to afford the education they want without the need for debt.

Thus, it decreases a person's risk of having a heart attack.

Over 500,000 dogs were seen by a veterinarian with seizures and Dr. Ned Patterson discussed the difficulties in identifying dogs at high risk of developing seizures by genetic testing.They are working on devices to predict seizures and thus decrease the amount of sedating medications dogs must take.

«Such practices will compress preventive veterinary care for puppies into a shorter period and fewer visits, as has been reported in the United Kingdom, thus decreasing opportunities for client counseling by veterinarians during the period of greatest risk for relinquishment,» the researchers concluded.

El Nino events typically lead to delayed rainfall and decreased rice planting in Indonesia's main rice - growing regions, thus prolonging the hungry season and increasing the risk of annual rice deficits.

Third, chronic stress associated with family violence may alter hypothalamic - pituitary axis functioning, lead to dysregulation of neuroendocrine systems controlling appetite, and influence hormonal regulation of visceral fat distribution.35 Other traumatic childhood experiences have been linked to altered serotonin and cortisol systems.70 Overlapping research has shown that bulimia is associated with decreased serotonin metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid,71 - 73 reduced platelet binding of serotonin reuptake inhibitors, 73 reduced density of paroxetine - binding sites, and altered cortisol function.70 Thus, early - life disruption of neuroendocrine systems may elevate risk for disordered eating behaviors and suboptimal fat storage and distribution.

Long - term maternal risks include a 30 % — 70 % GDM recurrence, a 7-fold higher 5 — 10 year risk of type 2 diabetes and an increased risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease.5 — 8 Compared with women without GDM, women with GDM are twice to four times9 as likely to develop antenatal or postpartum depression and approximately one - third of women with recent GDM develop postpartum depression.10 Postpartum depression leads to an increase in comfort eating and a decrease in physical activity, 11 thus putting the women at higher risk of weight gain and future diabetes.10

Third, the identification of risk factors for juvenile - onset MDD in no way ensures their causal status.47 Although the early childhood risk factors (except childhood sexual abuse) covered the period prior to the first diagnosis of MDD (and could thus be ruled out as consequences of depression), future research is needed to determine whether changes in any of the childhood risk factors would decrease the likelihood of MDD, thus implying their causal status.

If the balance tilts toward risk factors, either because they increase or because protective factors decrease, the child may lose his or her resilience... Thus, rather than believing that children who have experienced multiple moves with seemingly minimal adverse emotional consequences are resilient and somehow immune, it should be evident that disrupted caregiving may place children at risk for further trauma and consequently decrease the child's capacity for resilience.»

Thus, although supportive friendships had no main effects on sexual risk, they assisted in decreasing risk by enhancing the protective effects of increased parent connectedness.