First, the AHA guidelines were designed based on knowledge of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and thus did not take into account certain risk factors for specific cancers.
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Unfortunately, our extensive knowledge about risk factors affords little basis for women to reduce their risk, since most of these factors (family history, reproductive factors, etc.) are not modifiable.
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Smart companies often work with a local partner to benefit from market knowledge, reduce risk, and relieve short-term financial constraints.
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First, while we know a good deal about breast cancer, knowledge of established risk factors provides few opportunities for reducing risk.
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This would dissuade individuals from signing up to frivolous lawsuits in the knowledge that they risk nothing, however much damage they may inflict on a company, its workers and its shareholders.
While the benefits of local and indigenous knowledge in reducing disaster risk are increasingly being acknowledged, a challenge remains: how do you integrate such knowledge constructively with scientific knowledge and policy?
Any assessment of the degree of SME credit risk relies on deep knowledge of the borrower.
We are prepared for tough times with good risk management and profound knowledge of the markets where we operate.
Ideas floated for study include using advanced scanning techniques and genetics to fuel knowledge about who is most at risk for head injury, finding ways to regrow knee ligaments in a lab, identifying injury prevention strategies such as new drugs or new helmets, and addressing ethical issues surrounding player injuries.
The public can reduce their fear by gaining knowledge and assessing their actual level of risk, he says.
Dr Blumenthal said this knowledge could help screen for people at greatest risk of developing heart disease.
Developing standardized ways to capture and express risk, and to record tribal knowledge, helps to remove IT leadership from its cave and to capitalize on the wealth of information IT systems collect every day.
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And as knowledge and technology become ever more important, they risk falling off entirely.
Returns in this new economy flow to creativity, technological skills, and risk-taking rather than to static knowledge and seniority.
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Without knowledge of the future, I can reduce my pricing risk by dollar-cost averaging my investment.
This comes in many forms, such as problem-solving creativity, special knowledge and skills, work experience, and willingness to risk investment capital for promising new enterprises.
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The need to mobilize knowledge from several disciplines is particularly apparent in the field of disaster risk reduction.
They must have enough confidence in themselves, supplemented by expert knowledge, solid relationships, or personal wealth, to see the risk as near zero.
Indeed, youth seems to have advantages in innovation: everything is possible, knowledge is fresh, obligations are few and reputation is not at risk.
They also want people with a good mix of industrial engineering knowledge and command of supply chains for efficiency, cost savings and risk reduction.
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Part of the reason why it is so important to re-energize the dialogue is that frequently discussions of HIV among Black men have had the effect of casting blame without spreading knowledge of the factors that cause Black men to be at heightened risk.
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By teaching these skills to the entire class, at-risk students who are subsequently referred to me have this knowledge and experiential foundation which we can build upon, for example by practicing the skills using the Heart Math computer software, if, after engaging from the CDOI framework, is found to be a helpful intervention.
"There is a risk here, especially as not every GP has a great knowledge of public health, " he said.
"Girls at Risk" connected girls: it brought them together to share knowledge and experience and to disseminate their thoughts and opinions and testimony on a world stage.
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The risk-takers and visionaries of this agency have expanded human knowledge, have revolutionized our understanding of the universe and produced technological advances that have benefited all of humanity.
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Harry was withdrawn only 10 weeks into his last deployment to Afghanistan, amid concern that knowledge of his presence there could expose him and his fellow troops to greater risk.
The crew aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier has massive turnover rates yet maintains their shared knowledge and 90 years of accumulated expertise, operating at extremely high levels of risk and expertise.
Public awareness remains a critical factor in the prevention, detection and management of this disease and that there is a need to expand knowledge and eliminate hepatitis-related stigma among health care providers, at-risk populations, and the general public.
The Global Platform for Disaster Reduction was established in 2007 as a biennial forum for information exchange, discussion of latest development and knowledge and partnership building across sectors, with the goal to improve implementation of disaster risk reduction through better communication and coordination amongst stakeholders.
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