Sentences with phrase «twofold increased risk»

Despite these changes in risk factors for heart disease, men who had three heart risk factors in middle age had a threefold higher risk of dying from heart disease and a twofold increased risk of dying from other causes, compared with men with none of these risk factors, the study found.

These veterans had a more than twofold increased risk of suicide compared with those without a substance use disorder.

The paper, entitled «The gene encoding 5 - lipoxygenase activating protein confers risk of myocardial infarction and stroke,» presents the results of a major population study of heart attack linking a version of the gene encoding FLAP with a nearly twofold increased risk of heart attack.

Analysis of a linkage peak on chromosome 13 with a dense set of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) revealed a four - SNP haplotype spanning the gene encoding FLAP (ALOX5AP) that confers an approximately twofold increased risk of myocardial infarction, or heart attack.

The use of a tanning bed 10 times per year or more is linked to a twofold increased risk of melanoma for those older than 30 years.

Within the manufacturing sector, male electrical and electronics workers and material handling operators had a twofold increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis than the reference group.

Maternal obesity causes a twofold increased risk of atonic postpartum hemorrhage more than 1,000 mL.

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Specifically, they should be informed that although the absolute risk may be low, planned home birth is associated with a twofold to threefold increased risk of neonatal death when compared with planned hospital birth» (ACOG, 2011).

Further, the study confirmed earlier studies that found a twofold increase in heart attack risk shortly after treatment began in men older than 65.

This comes as a new study shows that the long - term impact of vaginal childbirth delivery is associated with an almost twofold increase in the risk of stress urinary incontinence.

Now, a new joint study by UCLA, the National Institutes of Health and Consolidated Research Inc., has shown there is a twofold increase in the risk of a heart attack shortly after beginning testosterone therapy among men under 65 who have a history of heart disease.

In addition to its more obvious ills, type 2 diabetes is a condition closely associated with bone fractures, increasing the risk of fractures twofold.

Large studies of children whose mothers were infected with influenza during the last months of their pregnancy, for example, have a roughly twofold increase in risk of developing the syndrome compared with the general population.

Additionally, the researchers identified a 54 percent increased risk associated with PhIP intake and a nearly twofold increase associated with MeIQx intake.

In fact, the twofold to threefold increased risk is one of the highest and most significant among all cancer GWAS conducted within the past few years,» said Bond.

In another study using the Veterinary Medical Database for the period 1980 through 1994, it was concluded the risk for bone cancer in large breed, purebred dogs increased twofold for those dogs that were also sterilized.

Unlike testicular and breast cancer, spaying or neutering actually increases the risk of bone cancer in dogs twofold, possibly because sterilization alters hormone levels.

If we're considering the risk of hurricane damages, and not just overall basin activity, then the effect of increased vertical wind shear would seem to be (at least) twofold — it not only reduces potential intensity, but it also influences the steering of hurricanes (since hurricanes are basically steered by the background flow plus a beta drift).

African Americans also have a 30 % greater chance of dying of cardiovascular disease relative to whites (Office of Minority Health, 2012), a twofold greater risk of type - II diabetes and increased likelihood of being affected by complications of type 2 diabetes, including heart disease, blindness, amputations, stroke and death (Konen et al., 1999).