Tag: Heightened

People with atopic (allergic) diseases like asthma or eczema may be at heightened risk of the painful and often disabling ...

Pregnant women involved in road traffic collisions—even those with minor injuries—are at heightened risk of potentially serious birth complications, including ...

Ginger has a reputation for stimulating the immune system. New results from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at ...

Carrying far too much weight, including a midriff bulge, from mid-life onwards, is linked to a heightened risk of physical ...

COVID-19 infection is linked to a subsequent heightened risk of poor cardiovascular health and death, particularly among those whose infection ...

A disorder that can trigger abnormally high blood pressure in pregnancy is associated with increased risks of death in offspring ...

High levels of trauma-related mental health disorders across UK police forces are partly the result of bad working conditions such ...

New long term use of opioids to quell pain after lung cancer surgery is linked to a 40% heightened risk ...

Experience of race discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, skin colour, or nationality is linked to a heightened risk of ...

The build-up of fat in the liver, known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD for short, is linked to ...

Recreational cannabis use is linked to a heightened risk of emergency care and hospital admission for any cause, finds research ...

Just before swimmer Schuyler Bailar made history as the first openly transgender athlete to compete in an NCAA Division I men’s team, ...

Drugs known as antidopaminergic antiemetics (ADAs) that are widely used to relieve nausea and vomiting caused, for instance, by migraine, ...

Long term exposure to air pollution is linked to a heightened risk of autoimmune disease, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, connective tissue ...

Low levels of folate (vitamin B9) in the blood may be linked to a heightened risk of dementia and death ...

The illicit use of amphetamines, the stimulants commonly known as ‘speed’, is linked to a 5-fold heightened risk of psychosis, ...

Lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of COPD, the umbrella term for a group of ...

Waiting more than 5 hours in emergency care before admission to hospital is linked to a heightened risk of death ...

The difference between the biological age of the retina, the light sensitive layers of nerve tissue at the back of ...

Secondhand exposure at home to the nicotine vapour from e-cigarettes is linked to a heightened risk of bronchitic symptoms and ...