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Epidemiological studies look for associations in large populations, but it is usually difficult to reliably determine cause and effect — what we call causality.
The women took part in
an epidemiological study looking at the connection between lifestyle, diet, and disease development.
Not exact matches
«Our
study suggests that if we had
looked at whether or not Zika would be a problem using previous
epidemiological evidence, we would not have wasted energy or effort worrying about tourists getting Zika,» said Robert Snyder, the
study's lead author and program manager for the Center for Global Public Health.
Sood and colleagues
looked at samples from 80 cases of human ovarian cancer grouped according to patient stress using the National Institutes of Health's Center for
Epidemiological Studies Depression scale as a surrogate marker.
Looking at life - course
epidemiological studies, the secret lies in two questions: Are you comfortable in your socioeconomic status, and do you like your job?
The Behavioral Genetics of Addiction Laboratory (PI information: http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/palmer-rohan.html) located in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, is
looking for self - motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellows to work on statistical genetics and
epidemiological studies of substance use, psychopathology, and their relation to cognitive functioning.
They did not
look at rats only, but other «animals» including humans and the rat
studies were only part of their
studies, which included
epidemiological evidence and meta surveys.
Looking at all the evidence — from
epidemiological studies on diet and health, to biochemical
studies on the minute mechanisms of disease — the potential health benefits of taking a standard daily multivitamin appear to outweigh the potential risks for most people.
That research brought a lot of attention to the subject and since that time, there has been more
epidemiological studies and observational
studies that have taken place to
look at what's happening on a population level.
Looking at
epidemiological studies, those who eat more plant - based foods generally are thinner.
We see science operating at multiple levels from the «hard» science
looking at the molecular basis of disease (analogous to the physics underpinning the climate sciences), drug development, clinical trials of medical interventions with all their methodological flaws,
epidemiological studies (again replete with statistical traps and definitional pitfalls — hockey sticks anyone?)