Young, male Saudi citizens living in highly endemic areas were at greatest risk of acquiring brucellosis.
Epidemiologists soon confirmed that health workers were at greatest risk and that air travel was spreading the disease.
Italy found itself grouped into the acronym "PIIGS" (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain), which was used to describe the countries that were at greatest risk in the euro-zone debt crisis.
Efforts recommended to improve this situation included reaching out to areas where women were at greatest risk, such as in rural areas, poor households, and conflict zones, where access to health care was difficult.
In multivariable analyses, infants were at greatest risk for CLD when they had exposure to both chorioamnionitis and either mechanical ventilation >7 days (odds ratio, 3.2; 95% confidence interval, 0.9-11) or postnatal infection (odds ratio, 2.9; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-7.4).
This technical assistance included background information on anticipated tidal conditions when the tsunami was set to arrive, wave height estimates from state-modeled scenarios for areas not covered by NOAA's forecast models, and clarifying which regions of the state were at greatest risk.
Even now, there is debate about how harmful the dust was, and whether it could cause cancer or debilitating chronic diseases, although there is emerging medical consensus that workers who arrived at ground zero early and stayed longest were at greatest risk of getting sick.
In the Columbia study, the severity of the heart event was not a factor in a patient's risk of developing P.T.S.D. Instead, the research found that patients who were relatively young when they experienced their first heart event, and those who subjectively felt that their lives were in danger and that they had lost control, were at greatest risk for the disorder.
Agency officials have said that responding to those petitions and to lawsuits, which centered on the agency's failure to meet deadlines set under the law, kept them from focusing on the animals, plants and other species that were at greatest risk.
Indeed, in the Avon study, it was those children exposed to the lowest levels of methyl mercury who were at greatest risk of having low verbal IQ.The researchers' second finding was that at 3½ years of age, those children with the best measures of fine-motor performance were the ones whose mothers had had the highest intake of omega-3s.
LinkedIn hashed and salted its database, and it disabled accounts of members who were at "greatest risk".
