However, while the general topic of knee injury affecting OA has been studied fairly extensively, it has either been limited to the study of certain specific injuries (SIs) that have been widely identified as posing elevated risks for OA (torn ligament, torn meniscus, injured/dislocated patella), or used a definition that included these injuries.
Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDEs) are widely spread in the environment which posing elevated potential risks triggers world's attention due to their global distribution and accumulation in the environment and have been found to be a class of contaminants of concern.
But in the absence of well-designed ventilation, tightening homes can also mean trapping pollutants from a variety of interior sources, including furniture, carpet, paint, heaters, and kitchen appliances, posing elevated health risks to occupants.
Limited evidence from pilot studies in Central and Eastern Europe has shown that unrecorded alcohol may contain higher alcoholic strengths than normal recorded alcohol [48, 49], and therefore might pose an elevated risk to public health.
A retrospective single centre study from Taiwan observed a cumulative rate of hydrocephalus of 21% in a similar setting with Klebsiella pneumoniae posing an elevated risk [ 7].
When the present study subjects were stratified by stage of disease, the XRCC1-399 Gln allele posed an elevated risk for more advanced stage breast cancer.
30 The precise and accurate use of various small dental instruments hence poses an elevated risk for dentists in terms of developing wrist/hand disorders.
"Would be less loaded to say 'seven countries the US has designated as being states that pose significant or elevated risks of terrorism,'" Baker wrote in the email, according to a BuzzFeed report.
The governor linked the challenges posed by the elevated risk of natural disaster to California's devastating season of wildfires.
In the absence of data on the number of infections due to funeral transmission for the current outbreak, we parameterized the elevated risk posed by funeral attendance using odds ratios calculated from data collected during a previous Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (11).
