Sentences with phrase «lead exposure changes»

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The banking royal commission's exposure of shady practices will no doubt lead to calls for change, but perfect solutions are hard to find.

Preclinical and clinical research demonstrates that repeated substance exposure leads to molecular and functional neuroplastic brain changes that powerfully contribute to the vicious cycle of use.

Food Allergy Center research investigator and lead author of the study Jessica O'Konek said: «We're changing the way the immune cells respond upon exposure to allergens.

If you work in a field that may have lead exposure, change your clothes and your shoes before you enter the home.

Facilitate less diaper changing from parents; this leads to prolonged exposure to bacteria and ammonia

Washington (CNN)-- The Democratic lawmaker taking the lead in crafting the Senate's financial regulatory reform bill has agreed to a key change that would limit taxpayers» exposure if the government must step in to wind down a large, failing financial institution, a key House Democrat said Thursday.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

«In short,» said Pandey, «epigenetic reprogramming in the brain due to early life experiences or exposure to alcohol can lead to the changes in gene functions and predispose an individual to adult psychopathology.»

The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons, measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.

«Early life exposure to lead causes a long lasting impact on gut microbiome, and the change of gut microbiome may partially contribute to the increased body weight in adult life,» said lead author Chuanwu Xi, associate professor of environmental health science.

«Regardless of whether you're in a closed or open environment, there's always a constant exchange of microbes between a host and their environment, and that constant exposure has impacts on health; for example it can lead to changes in a host's immune system that help the host stave off pathogens,» said Argonne's Jack Gilbert, an author of the study and the director of The Microbiome Center, a joint Argonne, University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory program.

Together, the findings provide critical information that could lead to the development of new products that change skin tone without exposure to UV radiation or toxic bleaching agents.

«We don't know what exposure is leading to this susceptibility to dietary glutamate, but this pilot study suggests the need for a large - scale clinical trial, since dietary change could be an effective low - cost treatment option for developing countries.»

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

A National Toxicology Program report released last fall said there was «some concern» that exposure to BPA could lead to developmental changes in infants and children.

«Changes in mouse breast tissue after exposure to fracking chemicals: UMass Amherst, University of Missouri led first study of such effects.»

«We observed the queens to see whether low level pesticide exposure might lead to changes in these important nesting behaviours,» said Raine.

According to Dr. Raül Andero Galí, lead researcher in this study, «Once we discovered the relationship between the Ppm1f gene and different psychological disorders after exposure to traumatic stress, we wanted to find an effective drug to prevent these changes and its negative consequences on the brain.»

Previous research has shown that low to moderate exposure to chlorpyrifos during pregnancy can lead to irreversible changes in a child's brain.

In the skin, changes in proteins such as collagen lead to a loss of elasticity, while exposure to the sun leaves a legacy in added wrinkles.

The study is one of the first to characterize the timing of exposure to such stress and the emergence of the physiologic changes leading to cardio - metabolic disease and to document these relationships during this critical developmental period.

Because algal blooms are closely related to climate factors, projected changes in climate could affect algal blooms and lead to increases in food - and waterborne exposures and subsequent cases of illness.95, 96,97,98,99,100,101 Harmful algal blooms have multiple exposure routes.102, 103,104

The interaction between the human host and microbes reflects a unique exposure that not only can lead directly to disease expression, but also can lead to changes in human host phenotype that is not directly pathogenic.

It is well known that our environment and lifestyle factors, such as food choices, smoking and exposure to chemicals, can lead to epigenetic changes.

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But when your body clock is disrupted or thrown out of balance by occasional or continuous interruptions of sleeping patterns, changes in light exposure, working the night shift regularly or other disruptions in your schedule, your natural circadian rhythms can become accelerated or slowed, leading to a cascade of physiologic impacts.

Facilitate less diaper changing from parents; this leads to prolonged exposure to bacteria and ammonia

Inhaling cancer - causing substances such as tobacco smoke may lead to changes in the lung tissue shortly after exposure — so - called precancerous changes.

Besides the availability of food, environmental exposures also lead to epigenetic changes.

This process led to a reduction in some of the portfolio's larger sector - level overweights and resulted in changes to industry - level exposures.

After Brexit and in the lead - up to the US election, due to changes in risk dynamics in the markets, our exposure to the US began to decrease in favour of exposure to emerging markets and more globally diversified ETFs.

Radical changes in ecology can lead to unexpected viral proliferation and infection via a number of routes — greater human exposure, changes in wildlife populations, changes in environmental factors that encourage viral proliferation.

Because algal blooms are closely related to climate factors, projected changes in climate could affect algal blooms and lead to increases in food - and waterborne exposures and subsequent cases of illness.95, 96,97,98,99,100,101 Harmful algal blooms have multiple exposure routes.102, 103,104

Potential impacts of climate change on the transmission of Lyme disease include: 1) changes in the geographic distribution of the disease due to the increase in favorable habitat for ticks to survive off their hosts; 85 2) a lengthened transmission season due to earlier onset of higher temperatures in the spring and later onset of cold and frost; 3) higher tick densities leading to greater risk in areas where the disease is currently observed, due to milder winters and potentially larger rodent host populations; and 4) changes in human behaviors, including increased time outdoors, which may increase the risk of exposure to infected ticks.

Of significant note, the sign of the bias is counterintuitive to photographic documentation of poor exposure because associated instrument changes led to an artificial negative («cool») bias in maximum temperatures and only a slight positive («warm») bias in minimum temperatures.

Different symbiont types can confer differential thermal tolerance [22], [23], and the types of symbionts harbored may change due to heat stress exposure, leading to increased bleaching resistance during later events [31].

, and longer exposure can even lead to personality changes, impaired memory, and slower cognitive function.

Recent workplace studies have demonstrated that indoor air quality affects the ability to concentrate, mood, and anxiety, and longer exposure can even lead to personality changes, impaired memory, and slower cognitive function.

Their green - above - all approach makes lots of sense for children's furniture, from both a planetary and human health perspective: youngsters spend tons of time in their cribs, on a changing table, and surrounded by stuff in their nurseries; exposure to VOCs and other harmful pollutants that are off - gassing from their surroundings can lead to both short and long - term health problems, especially if they're living with poor indoor air quality during their busiest developmental years.

Melanoma is becoming increasingly more common, the result is thought to be sun exposure that can damage DNA and lead to cancer - causing genetic changes within skin cells.

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

The shift from living in jungle huts to cities has dramatically changed human exposure to certain microbes, which could have implications for healthy immune function, according to a study led by researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center and published online February 12 in Science Advances.