Sentences with phrase «while decreasing the incidence»

«With prevention so readily available, there's no reason why we can't significantly increase the percentage of protected pets while decreasing the incidence of this deadly disease,» Dr. Rubin says.

Not exact matches

Positional plagiocephaly, or plagiocephaly without synostosis (PWS), can be associated with supine sleeping position (OR: 2.5).113 It is most likely to result if the infant's head position is not varied when placed for sleep, if the infant spends little or no time in awake, supervised tummy time, and if the infant is not held in the upright position when not sleeping.113, — , 115 Children with developmental delay and / or neurologic injury have increased rates of PWS, although a causal relationship has not been demonstrated.113, 116, — , 119 In healthy normal children, the incidence of PWS decreases spontaneously from 20 % at 8 months to 3 % at 24 months of age.114 Although data to make specific recommendations as to how often and how long tummy time should be undertaken are lacking, supervised tummy time while the infant is awake is recommended on a daily basis.

When the AAP felt youth tackle football had «no place in programs for kids» in the 50's; now in 2015, this is a game so sacred to our society that while, modifying «would likely lead to a decrease in the incidence of overall injuries, severe injuries, catastrophic injuries, and concussions» the AAP can not recommend limiting tackle for young children as «the removal of tackling from football would lead to a fundamental change in the way the game is played.»

«While the incidence of childhood lead poisoning is decreasing in New York State, it is time that we eliminate this threat to our children's health once and for all.

While incidence in black, non-Hispanics decreased during the period in individuals 35 or over, incidence rates in those under 35 were higher in 2012 than at the beginning of the period.

Dr Gerrit - Jan Liefers (MD, PhD), a surgical oncologist and head of the geriatric oncology research group at Leiden University Medical Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands), said: «For a screening program to be effective, one would expect that the incidence of early stage breast cancer would increase while the incidence of advanced stage cancer would decrease because any cancer would have been detected at an earlier stage.

While infectious diarrhea is most common in children younger than 5 years of age, its incidence has decreased in the last decade since vaccines for rotavirus were introduced.

As in prior studies among older adults, we found that obesity was associated with a decreased risk of dementia, consistent with the hypothesis that, while obesity in mid-life may increase risk for later - life cognitive decline and dementia, obesity at older ages may be associated with cognitive and other health advantages.25 - 27 The trend toward a declining risk for dementia in the face of a large increase in the prevalence of diabetes suggests that improvements in treatments between 2000 and 2012 may have decreased dementia risk, along with the documented declines in the incidence of common diabetes - related complications, such as heart attack, stroke, and amputations.11 Our finding of a significant decline between 2000 and 2012 of the heart disease - related OR for dementia would also be consistent with improved cardiovascular treatments leading to a decline in dementia risk.

The case was made that while decreased chronic disease incidence is clearly associated with generous dietary intake of vitamin E (mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols), supplementation with high - dose α - tocopherol alone, whether natural (RRR) or synthetic (all - rac), may promote potentially harmful imbalances in inflammatory and detoxification pathways.

A lack of fiber leads to constipation, while diets high in fiber might be associated with a decreased incidence of colon cancer, reports Colorado State University.

Some studies have found that eradication of H. pylori decreases risk factors associated with atherosclerosis, such as oxidative stress, C - reactive protein, body fat, and blood pressure (27), while others found that H. pylori eradication increased the incidence of hyperlipidemia and obesity (28).

This is basically what Allie was saying and I did not articulate well at all, that there are both benefits and risks associated with spay / neuter and while the S / N may increase the incidence of some cancers / conditions, it basically balances with the decrease of others, some of them more deadly such as mammary tumors.

While supplements can be used in times of illness, maintaining a healthy immune system important in decreasing the incidence and severity of disease.

First, while certainly anyone (ferret, person, or other animal) can have a reaction to a vaccine, the incidence of vaccine reactions has dramatically decreased since newer brands of vaccine against both rabies and distemper virus have been developed for ferrets and since we started administering a Benadryl injection just prior to giving the shots.

While NSAIDs have not yet been carefully evaluated in dogs as a cancer prevention treatment, studies in humans have shown a decrease incidence in certain cancers (colon, prostate) in patients treated chronically with NSAIDs.

While it is difficult to eliminate, we can decrease the incidence of hip dysplasia by only breeding dogs with normal hips.

During an El Niño event, the incidence of hurricanes typically decreases in the Atlantic (Gray, 1984; Bove et al., 1998) and far western Pacific and Australian regions, while it increases in the central North and South Pacific and especially in the western North Pacific typhoon region (Gray, 1984; Lander, 1994; Kuleshov and de Hoedt, 2003; Chan and Liu, 2004), emphasizing the change in locations for tropical storms to preferentially form and track with ENSO.