News tagged with risk model
No pain, no gain? Studies of the ideal way of making jump shots in handball
For handball players, ankle sprains are just part of life. But this may be about to change: Christian Peham and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have undertaken a detailed analysis of the three ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Colorado mountain hail may disappear in a warmer future: study
Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado's Rocky Mountains by 2070, according to a new modeling study by scientists from NOAA and several other institutions.
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Diametric shift in 2 protein levels spurs Alzheimer's plaque accumulation
A diametric shift in the levels of two proteins involved in folding, moving and cutting other proteins enables accumulation of the destructive brain plaque found in Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Antibiotics may not be only cause of community-acquired clostridium difficile infection
Antibiotics may not be the only risk factor associated with community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection, indicating that other undefined causes of the potentially life-threatening infection may exist and could also p ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Yeast model connects Alzheimer's disease risk and amyloid beta toxicity
In a development that sheds new light on the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a team of Whitehead Institute scientists has identified connections between genetic risk factors for the disease and the ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Researchers devise index for predicting long-term survival after liver re-transplantation
Liver re-transplantation generally has an inferior outcome compared with a patient's first transplant, due to the technical demands of the surgery and because patients are often sicker than they were at the time of their ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Liver cancer linked to male sex hormones: HK study
Hong Kong researchers have found that men are more likely to develop liver cancer due to a type of gene which is linked to male sex hormones.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Canada's Cancer Risk Management model is an important new health tool for policymakers
If Canada's smoking rates were cut by half to an average national rate of 11% within five years, it would result in 35,900 fewer cases of lung cancer by 2030 and save $656 million in treatment costs, according to analysis ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
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B vitamins in mother's diet reduce colorectal cancer risk in offspring
Mice born to mothers who are fed a diet supplemented with B vitamins are less likely to develop intestinal tumors, report scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University.
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Breast cancer risk calculator updated for Asian-Americans
Researchers have developed a more accurate method for estimating breast cancer risk for Asian and Pacific Islander American (APA) women. Most current risk estimates rely on data from non-Hispanic white women, but researchers ...
May 17, 2011 |
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New strain of 'high-runner' rats uniquely resistant to disease -- all disease
Everybody knows that if you're physically fit, you're less likely to get a wide range of diseases. What most people don't know is that some people are "naturally" in better shape than others, and this variation in conditioning ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Predicting extinction risk to birds with a model
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have developed a tool for biodiversity conservation in the face of global change: a statistical model that helps predict the risk of extinction for almost 90% of the world’s ...
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Market changes affect risk tolerance, study finds
As the U.S. economy continues to lag, many investors remain wary about taking risks with the stock market. Now, researchers at MU have concluded that this attitude toward investment risk-taking is more than just a recent ...
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Sep 28, 2010 |
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High cholesterol levels affect mobilization of cells from the bone marrow
Increased cholesterol levels are being increasingly recognised as risk factors for the onset and progression of several cancers. Now researchers in Portugal show that high levels of cholesterol can affect the microenvironment ...
May 10, 2010 |
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Adding Common Genetic Variants to Breast Cancer Risk Models Offers Only Small Benefit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists report that breast cancer risk assessment models, which predict a woman's chance of developing breast cancer, do not perform better when they include common inherited genetic variants recently ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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