Brenner also speaks and writes on the difference between individual and population risk.
"The risk in individual patient is small, but when you start totaling up millions of people getting these kinds of doses it adds up and the population risk starts to become concerning, " says lead author Reza Fazel, a cardiologist at Emory University, who led the study.
This could allow us to divide the general population into risk categories, in order to better target monitoring and preventative strategies, such as screening for breast and bowel cancer, to those at greatest risk.
But this produced mixed results, with one state showing a statistically significant decline in general population mortality risk associated with the Medicaid expansion, while another showed a statistically significant increase in mortality risk and the third showing no statistically significant change.
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As of 2000, the Asian urban population at risk of coastal flooding was 1.39 billion people, more than twice the number at risk in Europe, more than four times greater than in Latin America, and almost five times that of Africa.
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" They cite a study that found that without factoring in the effects of climate change, "the global population at risk from malaria would increase by 100% by 2080, whereas the effect of climate change would increase the risk of malaria by at most 7%.
Thus, when we say that 80 per cent of African population at risk of malaria has access to LLINs, we must not just sit back on our laurels but recognize that these nets do not last more than a few years and will need replacing.
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The gradual transition would give further funding to insurers to support their high-risk population, hopefully, mitigating the obvious discrimination of not allowing those high-risk persons equal, free market participation in the individual market.
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The CV rates are far less than anticipated in this enhanced CV risk population enrolled.
One would examine the role of alternative approaches in the high-risk population eligible for surgery.
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We were using the best technology available to take care of a high risk population.
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But by doing so, we will put our own health, and the health of the global population, at risk.
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This benefit is small, which is exactly what I would predict for a preventive measure in a low-risk population.
Focused on the at-risk population of approximately 1.8 million women of child-bearing age and children, this programme is developing a comprehensive approach to food security, child and maternal nutrition, which includes intense awareness-raising through media.
As part of that experience, she assisted at a clinic on a nearby Native American reservation, where she learned about water fluoridation issues on tribal land and helped to provide dental care to an at risk population.
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The good news from the study is that while resilience is the key factor to overcoming great obstacles that are all-too-often part and parcel of daily life for the disadvantaged and at-risk population, it is a skill set that can be learned.
For men aged between 65 and 69, the mortality risk for the wealthiest decile of the population is 40% lower than the risk for the poorest decile.
Mugabe did not mention the cholera epidemic, which his government has said is under control despite the United Nations' assessment that half the country's population may be at risk.
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Officials maintained, however, that those 65 and older should be vaccinated yearly, for reasons including that this population is at high risk of serious illness, hospitalization and death from the flu.
With the augmented ownership and usage of smartphones among adolescents, Dixit says the young population is more at risk, partly because they can access the Internet through phones more easily, increasing the time spent on phones.
And not so much because we're concerned about any risk that our population would pose.
He added that most people would have at least one of the genes but it was the combination of a few that would increase a person's risk above the population average.
But it said evidence revealed the general UK population was not at increased risk of TB, HIV or malaria infection from migrants, but some UK-born ethnic communities did have a higher risk of disease because of their links to countries where the diseases were endemic.
The study population was from the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) study, a prospective study that enrolled white and black men and women aged 45 to 64 years in four communities in North Carolina, Mississippi, Minnesota, and Maryland between 1987 and 1989.
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Health chiefs said there was no risk to the general population or even family members of the patient.
The doctrine called for protecting the population from violence even at the risk of taking additional military casualties.
It strengthens evidence that the virus can spread between people, however experts say the risk to the general population remains small.
Launching a new alcohol strategy, Cornwall Council said about a quarter of the county's 500, 000 population was putting itself "at risk".
Earlier this year HWDT warned that the UK's only known resident population of killer whales was at risk of becoming extinct.
To get the population ready, we have regular risk exercises when people must evacuate the building in a case of an earthquake.
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