If HDL reduces the risk of heart disease, then those who make more should be at lower risk.
The authors acknowledge that both intervention and control subjects were self-selected, and that compliant subjects might be at lower risk for infection to begin with.
Older people who exercise seem to be at lower risk for Alzheimer's disease, as are those who eat a Mediterranean-style diet.
But women with that condition may be at lower risk for developing breast cancer in the first place; their bone problems are believed to stem from lower estrogen levels, and breast cancer risk increases with higher lifelong exposure to estrogen.
But New York City and much of the seaboard will be at lower risk of taking a direct hit, the study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said.
On the positive side of alcohol, aging studies now convincingly show that, compared with abstainers, low-to-moderate alcohol consumers (one or two drinks daily at most) appear to be at lower risk of Alzheimer's or cognitive decline.
Older adults appear to be at lower risk for Alzheimer's disease if they eat a diet rich in fish, poultry, fruit, nuts, dark leafy greens, vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower, and oil-and-vinegar dressing, a new study has found.
People who are physically active appear to be at lower risk for cognitive impairment late in life, and for women, a new study suggests, physical activity during the teenage years may provide the greatest benefit.
If SARS is the result of an autoimmune response, AIDS patients might, ironically, be at lower risk, because their immune systems have been damaged by a different virus HIV.
Thus, more recent cohorts of school-leavers will be at lower risk of un-insurance than members of the NLSY79.
There are other reasons why non-Whites may be at lower risk for overdose related to differences in treatment for pain in White and non-White patients.
