Sentences with phrase «british epidemiologist»

Is Marriage Good for Your Health In 1858, a British epidemiologist named William Farr set out to study what he called the «conjugal condition» of people of France.

In 1858, a British epidemiologist named William Farr set out to study what he called the «conjugal condition» of people of France.

I have not heard anyone mention another nutrition - disease pioneer, British epidemiologist T.L.Cleave, who found that primitive people with adequate nutritional food supplies remained free of degenerative diseases until the entry of modern foods (he called the villains «refined carbohydrates»).

First proposed by British epidemiologist Dr David Strachan in 1989, the hygiene hypothesis asserts that a lack of exposure to bacteria during early childhood increases the chances of developing allergies.

Almost three decades ago a British epidemiologist named David P. Strachan proposed a simple, if counterintuitive, idea to explain why hay fever, eczema and asthma had become increasingly common over the preceding century.

The Bradford - Hill criteria were devised in 1965 by British epidemiologist and statistician Sir Austin Bradford Hill to assess causality when only correlational data are available.

There are nine criteria used to determine a causal relationship in disease, developed in the context of smoking and lung cancer in 1965 by British epidemiologist Sir Austin Bradford Hill.

The British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have been tracking global trends that show inequality is linked to the higher incidence of ill - health for everyone, not just for the poorest among us.

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«In collaboration with researchers from the University of Calgary and the University of British Columbia our team has developed a computer model to help doctors and their patients better understand how excess body weight contributes to reduced life expectancy and premature development of heart disease and diabetes,» says lead author Dr. Steven Grover, a Clinical Epidemiologist at the RI - MUHC and a Professor of Medicine at McGill University.

In September, the group of scientists and epidemiologists from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the WHO will visit the Rossing complex, owned bythe British conglomerate Rio Tinto Zinc.

According to pharmacological epidemiologist Dr. Mahyar Etminan, who is affiliated with the University of British Columbia, one reason for this is that some doctors opt to prescribe a more powerful drug when a much milder one is even warranted.