The people in the study were part of a larger study on the effect of diet and lifestyle on cancer risk.

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Participants came from the Framingham Heart Study, a large study that has been going on since 1948 to look at heart disease risk factors in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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The IMF should be urged to embark on a study, much like that conducted in January 2008, of loan conditions focused on security-related risk considerations.

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Researchers claimed a breakthrough in preventing the spread of HIV , the virus that causes AIDS, when the results of a study using an experimental vaccine on 16, 000 volunteers in Thailand showed the risk of infection had been cut by 31%.

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The FSID says that the study was carried out before its current campaign on reducing risk had a chance to take full effect.

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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published their opinion on a French study that found severe impacts on the health of rats fed with genetically engineered maize or exposed to a low dosage of herbicides.

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The study suggests that for every year a man delays fatherhood, they risk passing two more mutations on to their child.

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The main beach in Weston-super-Mare received a pass in the MCS Good Beach Guide study, which focuses entirely on water quality standards and the risk of sewage pollution.

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