And all of these are heightened risk factors in an area that suffers from a combination of endemic poverty, huge cuts to public services and chronic unemployment.
In our study, quartiles of glucose, both fasting and at 2 h, were not associated with heightened risk factors for CVD.
While all men are at risk for prostate cancer, there are some men who have heightened risk factors.
Indeed, because SR cross-talk with growth factor signaling pathways is extensive and tumors tend to progress towards endocrine resistance under the influence of heightened growth factor signaling, combination therapies targeting both ER and ERBB receptors enhance progression free survival [ 89, 90].
The Battle of the Nations, in its fourth year, is the first international full-contact competition of this scale that uses steel armor — a heightened risk factor that has attracted a certain breed of fighters.
The report says the effects of warming may be heightened by other factors, including overfishing, rising populations, rising levels of ultraviolet radiation from the depleted ozone layer (a condition at both poles).
The desperate vulnerability of such children is only heightened by endemic factors like violence, drugs and sexually transmitted diseases.
19 Despite elevated HIV prevalence rates and heightened vulnerability to factors that drive HIV transmission, sexual behaviors of MSM have been under-recognized, under-studied, and under-funded.
It is possible that these factors heightened staff perceptions of stress within the system, although previous and ongoing research in Malawi suggests that inadequate HRH is a persistent challenge for both EmOC staff and the women in their care.
Traders will also keep a firm eye on tonight's [Federal Reserve] minutes release to gauge for any clues as to how the Fed might position itself in the immediate term to stave off a slowdown in the US economic recovery, a factor heightened by the shockingly weak US jobs data last Friday.
