• The report would not have been possible without the support and contribution of the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics at Statistics Canada. (gc.ca)
  • Obesity, especially excessive belly fat, is a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a new article. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Recent studies suggest an association between vitamin D status, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and obesity among Canadians (12,13). (cdc.gov)
  • A risk factor is something that increases the risk of developing cancer. (cancer.ca)
  • To assess the effectiveness of multiple risk factor intervention in reducing cardiovascular risk factors, total mortality, and mortality from coronary heart disease among adults. (bmj.com)
  • 903 000 person years of observation were included in nine trials with clinical event outcomes and 303 000 person years in five trials with risk factor outcomes alone. (bmj.com)
  • The pooled effects of multiple risk factor intervention on mortality were insignificant and a small, but potentially important, benefit of treatment (about a 10% reduction in mortality) may have been missed. (bmj.com)
  • 1 2 Randomised controlled trials of the efficacy of multiple risk factor intervention using counselling and education in addition to, or instead of, pharmacological treatments to modify major cardiovascular risk factors have been carried out in primary care and in the workplace. (bmj.com)
  • 3 4 Given the evidence from quasi-experimental studies, such as the North Karelia project 5 6 and the Stanford heart disease prevention programme, 7 8 9 multiple risk factor intervention using counselling and educational methods is widely believed to be efficacious and cost effective and worthy of expansion. (bmj.com)
  • Factors associated with higher odds of ever use included older age, identifying as male, lower household income, more weekly spending money, ever tried cigarettes or other tobacco products, ever drank alcohol or binge drank, ever gambled, friends or siblings smoke cigarettes, greater nicotine dependence, higher depressive symptoms and greater impulsivity. (canada.ca)
  • Sociodemographic and obstetric risk factors for postpartum depression symptoms in Nigerian women. (scirp.org)
  • The federal agency investigating last year's fatal crash between a Via Rail train and an OC Transpo bus in Ottawa provided a progress report today, saying speed and distracted driving could have been factors in the crash. (cbc.ca)
  • We investigated if well-established risk factors for cannabis, alcohol and/or tobacco use during adolescence are associated with ever use of cannabis in youth aged 12 years. (canada.ca)
  • Canadian Cancer Society's Advisory Committee on Cancer Statistics. (cancer.ca)
  • Statistical heterogeneity between the studies with respect to changes in mortality and risk factors was due to trials focusing on hypertensive participants and those using considerable amounts of drug treatment, with only these trials showing significant reductions in mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Vaginal cancer possibly caused by pessary and immunocompromised condition: multiple risk factors may influence vaginal cancer development. (cancer.ca)
  • Vitamin D may modulate various metabolic processes and may influence cardiometabolic disease risk in Canadians. (cdc.gov)
  • Dementia numbers in Canada The Alzheimer Society is committed to providing accurate and reliable data on dementia in Canada. (alzheimer.ca)
  • 0828-282X/Ó 2021 Canadian Cardiovascular Society. (bvsalud.org)
  • Interventions using personal or family counselling and education with or without pharmacological treatments seem to be more effective at reducing risk factors and therefore mortality in high risk hypertensive populations. (bmj.com)
  • We examined whether factors identified as associated with cannabis use at age 14 to 16 years are also associated with ever use at age 12. (canada.ca)
  • In Canada, 18% of students in Grades 7 to 12 (12-18 years old) reported past-year cannabis use in 2018/19, including 2% of students in Grade 7 (aged 12-13 years) and 4% of those in Grade 8 (aged 13-14 years). (canada.ca)
  • age range, 16-79 years) from the Canadian Health Measures Survey. (cdc.gov)
  • This report summarizes that effort and will guide Canadian Police operational decision-making on a solid foundation. (gc.ca)
  • The report says if the bus had been travelling the speed limit and all other factors were the same, it should have been able to stop before colliding with the train. (cbc.ca)
  • For more details on Canada-specific emission factors, see the latest National Inventory Report for Canada. (canada.ca)
  • They will change as police understanding of cases evolve, but as it stands, this is the most comprehensive data that has ever been assembled by the Canadian policing community on missing and murdered Aboriginal women. (gc.ca)
  • As the privacy landscape continues to evolve, the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada ( TBS ) policy suite, of which the Directive on Privacy Impact Assessment is a part, may also be revised. (gc.ca)
  • Protective factors included higher levels of parental/guardian monitoring and greater self-esteem and school connectedness. (canada.ca)
  • Vitamin D may modulate cardiometabolic disease risk, although the relationship has not been investigated in the general Canadian population. (cdc.gov)
  • Indeed, the proportion of vitamin D-insufficient individuals in the general Canadian population was higher in winter than in summer (9). (cdc.gov)
  • Reports on dementia Understand dementia and its impact in Canada and around the world. (alzheimer.ca)
  • Excessive belly fat and low physical activity are linked to progression of the disease in people with COPD, but it is not known whether these modifiable factors are linked to new cases. (sciencedaily.com)
  • It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. (cbc.ca)
  • Using a discrete-choice model of recidivism, we estimate an average annual discount factor of 0.74, although there is heterogeneity based on age, education, crime type, and nationality. (ssrn.com)
  • But sometimes vaginal cancer develops in women who don't have any of the risk factors described below. (cancer.ca)
  • In late 2013, the Commissioner of the RCMP initiated an RCMP-led study of reported incidents of missing and murdered Aboriginal women across all police jurisdictions in Canada. (gc.ca)
  • Changes in risk factors were modest, were related to the amount of pharmacological treatment used, and in some cases may have been overestimated because of regression to the mean, lack of intention to treat analyses, habituation to blood pressure measurement, and use of self reports of smoking. (bmj.com)