Possible explanations for the change in age group affected include: N meningitidis of serogroup C was antigenically new to the entire population; adolescents and young adults have enhanced risk factors for meningococcal transmission and invasion, such as crowding, active or passive smoking, and exposure to oral secretions.
It is unquestionable that geographically-related characteristics (e.g., diet, health care system), enhancing risk factors, may influence long term clinical outcomes.
These findings underscore the need for interventions to enhance cardiovascular risk factor control that look beyond educational strategies to address a broader range of factors with potential influence on patient outcomes and the delivery of preventive care.
The essential quality measures include improving screening rates, enhancing fall risk factor identification, and facilitating necessary referrals to other disciplines targeting the identified risk factors.
The rapidly increasing capacity to conduct genetic typing of pathogens makes such traced epidemiological analysis more accessible and has the potential to substantially enhance epidemiological risk factor studies.
Thus fat mass assessment as part of the triple assessment may further enhance cardiovascular risk factor stratification and should provide considerable research opportunitiues in the evaluation of this pathophysiological process.
Physicians in England are forced, by their electronic patient records, to tick boxes for QOF-indicators, which might be a strong driver for change in registration, enhancing good risk factor registration in England.
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of persistent developmental impairments in children with congenital heart defects and to identify factors that enhance risk for an adverse outcome.
Microvascular dysfunction is mostly caused by factors that enhance risk for cardiovascular disease.
Nevertheless, continuing factors that enhance risk to lead exposure, particularly during fetal life, are low socioeconomic status, old housing with lead-containing paint, and less than ideal nutrition, particularly low dietary intake of calcium, iron, and zinc.
