Risk factors

increase a child’s risk. The clearest evidence of these environmental risk factors involves events before and during birth. They include advanced parental age at time of conception (both mom and dad), maternal illness during pregnancy, extreme prematurity and very low birth weight and certain difficulties during birth, particularly those involving periods of oxygen deprivation to the baby’s brain. Mothers exposed to high levels of pesticides and air pollution may also be at higher risk of having…

cancer if the persons’ family has a history of bladder cancer or any type of cancer. There are factors that decrease the risk of bladder cancer. Being active, giving birth, having menopause later in life, a higher fruit and vegetable intake and someone that has Parkinson’s disease has a lower risk of bladder cancer. Researchers do not know exactly what causes bladder cancer. Changes in DNA or in normal cells can cause cancer. When normal cancer cells have a mutation it makes cells grow…

Annotated Bibliography: How do social factors lead to the transformation of a child, to a criminal? Beller, Lindsay. "The Making and Unmaking of a Criminal." Insight Magazine. WordPress, Aug. 2011. Web. 11 Jan. 2016. This article from Insight Magazine examines “psychology’s role in addressing the causes and treatment of criminal behavior”. The causes of criminal behavior have long been up for debate, and this article helps clear up any misconceptions. Beller provides arguments for the effects…

Amir faced risk factors at the individual, family, and societal levels. For the individual level, there were two risk factors, Amir keeping quiet during and after his best friend Hassan got raped and then sneaking his watch under Hassan’s pillow. For the first part, Amir chose to keep quiet because he didn’t know what he could have done for Hassan in his situation and he was afraid he also would get hurt. He didn’t want to mention anything after because he didn’t want Hassan thinking of him as a…

is the obstruction of blood vessels that supply the heart muscle, due to the deposition of lipid material [1]. The risk factors affecting the prevalence of CHD within Australians today are presented in Figure 1. Figure 1: The risk factors affecting the prevalence of Coronary Heart Disease in Australia (extracted from [2] and [3]) Modifiable Risk Factors Non-Modifiable Risk Factors Diet, containing saturated fat and salt Increasing age Hyperlipidemia Gender Excessive alcohol and tobacco use…

prolonged ischemia (Lilly 2012). 1. Risk Factors The risk factors for myocardial infarction are divided into two categories: the modifiable risk factors and the non-modifiable risk factors. Modifiable risk factors are those whose effects can be reversed by changing the lifestyle, routine or circumstances surrounding such risk factor. Mr. Vargas, for example, have the following modifiable risk factors: smoking, a sedentary lifestyle and stress. Non-modifiable risk factor are those that the person…

vessels, which pump blood around the human body (World Health Organization, 2015). Figure 1 illustrated a variety of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors, increasing the prevalence of coronary heart disease, include: Figure 1: The Risk factors for Coronary Heart Disease (adapted from Ski et al., 2015) Modifiable Risk Factors Non-Modifiable Risk Factors Obesity Increasing age Hyperlipidaemia Gender Excessive alcohol and tobacco use Family History Psychological stress Heredity…

Risk factors relating to criminology are influences that can cause an individual to be more likely to commit offending behaviours compared to others. There are many factors that can lead to juvenile delinquency. Key risk factors include social influences such as family and peers or communal influences such as school policies and the area that they live in. However how much of these of these risk factors actually lead to offending behaviour in adolescence and what risk factor may have the biggest…

What are 4 risk factors for cardiovascular disease? (max. 4 marks) There are four factors that can increase an individual’s risk for cardiovascular disease: Excessive weight Lack of physical activity Smoking Inflammation 26. How are proteins distinct from carbohydrates and lipids? (max. 1 mark) Proteins are unique from…

the risk of birth defects that affect the spinal cord, iron is important because you need it to make hemoglobin for your blood, and calcium is vital because it helps the development of a baby’s teeth, bones, heart, nerves, and muscles (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2014). Another general risk factor is stress, which can lead to women having their babies early or having babies that weigh less than average (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2014, p. 45). Finally, the last of the three general risk factors…