Sentences with phrase «biological risk markers»
Lifestyle, Biological Risk Markers, Morbidity and Mortality in a Cohort of Men 33 - 42 Years Old at Baseline, after 24 - Year Follow - Up of a Primary Health Care Intervention
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Ultimately, biological and genetic markers might allow psychiatrists to better predict which patients are most at risk of suicide.
Mental illness, he adds, has too long been regarded as simply mental: «Identifying the biological markers and risk for mental illness in early childhood may ultimately have a huge impact on human and economic health.
Dr Becker said, «prospective longitudinal studies in occasional users are of great importance to determine biological vulnerability markers, which can help to identify individuals at greatest risk of developing an addiction.»
This work is part of the ongoing Duke Neurogenetics Study (DNS), a comprehensive study linking genes, brain activity and other biological markers to risk for mental illness in young adults.
«We've got a marker for biological aging — telomere length — so we're studying whether we can relate it to the increased risk of getting some of these age - associated diseases.
For a study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, Ole Andreassen and colleagues compared genetic information from Neanderthals and modern humans and found an association between markers of human evolution and genetic risk for schizophrenia.
«Based on this, we think that 8 - iso is a marker related to one of the underlying biological mechanisms by which outdoor air pollution increases the risk of experiencing asthma symptoms, asthma attacks or the need for use of asthma medications.»
The researchers also measured biological markers that indicate colon cancer risk and studied samples of bacteria taken from the colon.
Telomere length is arguably the best marker of biological age, and shorter mean telomere length, usually measured in your white blood cells, is associated with increased risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, dementia, and premature death (2).
This e-book focuses on salivary cortisol in relation to the following topics: psychosocial work environment (effort reward imbalance and job demand vs control model), psychosocial resources (mastery, perceived control, sense of coherence), psychosocial risk factors (perceived stress, depression, vital exhaustion, burn - out), sleep quality, biological markers (bodily factors, cardiovascular risk factors, inflammation and metabolism) and somatic outcome.
However, because prenatal exposure and maternal substance abuse is a marker — and not a determinant — of risk, a range of social, environmental, and biological factors will moderate developmental outcomes in this population.