Moreover, these big deals can decrease risk and smooth out earnings by getting companies into new markets.
Some say you increase audit risk by going on extension, while others say you actually decrease audit risk by doing so.
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Analysis of the stone can help in developing a plan to decrease the risk of future stones.
In general, drink lots of fluids to decrease the risk of stone formation.
Plus, a decrease in risk aversion around Europe is unlikely to cause a reversal of the decline in fixed income yields.
"A problem is that there needs to be more corrective work to decrease the risk of injury through faulty movement patterns, " Duncan commented.
In context, that 8% decrease in risk over such a long period of time is not that large, though obviously better than nothing.
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When combined with adequate daily intakes of calcium, vitamin D helps build and preserve bone, helps prevent osteoporosis and helps decrease fracture risk.
In order to meet its main goal and get FDA approval, Provenge will have to decrease the risk of death compared to placebo by 22%.
The investigators of those studies determined at the time that the differences were not meaningful and did not establish an increased or decrease cardiovascular risk for Celebrex.
The group also found that folic acid, a vitamin known to help reduce the chances of birth defects, did not decrease that risk among heavier women.
Women who ate between 9.5 and 15 grams of soy protein saw nearly the same decrease in risk as the women who ate more than 15 grams.
The researchers determined that kids who attend day care and play groups decrease their risk of developing the most common type of childhood leukemia by 30 percent.
It recruited patients who had already been diagnosed with autism, instead of looking at a vast number of births, but arrived at nearly the same 40% decrease in risk.
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It's now believed, or at least it's believed by some people, that exposure to children with natural disease would keep boosting the immune response of adults, and decrease the risk for shingles breaking out.
In this week's issue of the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, " FitzGerald has published experiments showing that knocking out a gene in mice might decrease the risk of heart attacks while inhibiting pain.
The drug's potential is as a medicine to decrease the risk of heart attacks, but it's going to be used for weight loss first, where considerable attention is likely to be paid to possible overuse.
There is also evidence that oral contraceptives decrease the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer, but that they increase the risk of liver cancer in women who are otherwise considered at low risk for the disease.
Global managers "might buy and sell the wrong stocks, but they might also get the allocations wrong among the various global equity sectors, and they might also allocate their portfolios in ways that significantly increase or decrease my risk level, " Mr. Curtis says.
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The AHA says that the best way to maintain a healthy weight and to decrease the risk of heart disease is to eat a healthy diet and to limit added sugar to no more than 100 calories a day for women and 150 for men.
Eventually we will reach a point where policy makers have driven out so much systemic background risk that any marginal decrease systemic background risk will simply induce individuals to take on more personal risk until they raise the total risk level back up to where it was before.
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Additionally, a subscription-based business model that relies on stable recurring revenues will decrease the downside risk in a weak spending environment like the one the networking industry finds itself currently in.
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One way to substantially decrease individual stock risk is obviously to diversify among numerous small cap stocks, and the easiest way to accomplish that is via ETFs designed to track with a small stock index.
Perhaps the most encouraging finding is this: in people who have been nonsmokers for at least 20 years, 1-2 cups of coffee per day corresponds to a 32% decrease in the risk of death from throat cancer.
Those who participated most actively in nutrition classes saw a greater decrease in breast cancer risk.
For others, cholesterol may decrease without reducing their risk of heart attack as much as doctors expect.
Results from another Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study showed a modest decrease in breast cancer risk in women who used calcium when compared with women who didn't use calcium.
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In Wednesday's study, patients who already had cancer diagnoses or who developed cancer within two years of a CT scan were excluded, to decrease the likelihood that risk calculations would be inflated by patients who would have developed cancer without getting a CT scan.
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