Sentence examples for preventable risks from inspiring English sources

In a new report, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 40% of the world's 56m deaths last year were caused by such preventable risks as unsafe sex, high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, obesity, tobacco and alcohol consumption, indoor smoke from solid fuels, poor sanitation, iron deficiency and child malnutrition.

Alcohol and tobacco use are common among U.S. women, yet if used during pregnancy these substances present significant preventable risks to prenatal and perinatal health.

Interventions can be targeted to address preventable risks early in the pre-surgical phase, so that patients arrive for surgery better prepared and in optimal condition for a smooth recovery.

Not just so they can have candles and music and a better "experience," but because they know that checking into a hospital means exposure to preventable risks.

Given the large volume of participants engaged with the campaign and its short duration, coupled with community perceptions of usefulness and satisfaction with their own participation, this type of integrated campaign may well become a new model for engaging populations and, possibly, for reducing morbidity and mortality associated with common and preventable risks.

Identification of preventable risks and aversion of potentially unsafe situations and fatal complications in maternity units is life saving.

PHE said it wanted to highlight "the debilitating nature of serious lung diseases for which smoking is the biggest preventable risk factor".

With our member organisations around the world, we are committed to addressing one of the leading preventable risk factors for cardiovascular disease, physical inactivity, by encouraging people to walk.

In a document posted Wednesday, the drug agency said it would change its policy if it received data proving that doing so would not pose a "significant and preventable" risk to blood recipients.

In the Lancet report, Australian and British researchers listed maternal overweight and obesity as the most important preventable risk factor in high-income countries, accounting for up to 18 percent of stillbirths.

"Smoking is the most important preventable risk factor for the leading cause of death in the Philippines today: cardiovascular disease," said Dr. Susan Mercado, regional adviser of the Tobacco-Free Initiative of the W.H.O.