Sentences with phrase «multiethnic study»

Fact: «A new multiethnic study at Cornell University has found that being a single parent does not appear to have a negative effect on the behavior or educational performance ofa mother's 12 - and 13 - year - old children.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

According to Lima, an associate professor of medicine and radiology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute, these early results add to other interesting findings from the so - called Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

(Presentation title: Race, ethnicity and incident congestive heart failure, the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.)

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The Multiethnic Cohort Study comprised a diverse ethnic population.

Dr. King and colleagues set out to evaluate the relationship between aortic arch pulse wave velocity and subsequent cerebral microvascular disease, independent of other cardiovascular risk factors, among 1,270 participants in the multiethnic Dallas Heart Study.

In addition, he is studying the health contours of multiethnic and multiracial individuals in the United States.

Vasectomy and prostate cancer: results from a multiethnic case - control study.

A prospective study of inflammatory cytokines and diabetes mellitus in a multiethnic cohort of postmenopausal women

Urinary isothiocyanates; glutathione S - transferase M1, T1, and P1 polymorphisms; and risk of colorectal cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort Study.

«Children's Perceptions of Interethnic and Interracial Friendships in a Multiethnic School Context,» Pica - Smith's study of 103 children — including one group of kindergartners and first graders and another of fourth - and fifth - graders — found that younger children do have a more positive outlook on inter-group friendships than their older peers.

As an undergraduate, he worked as a research assistant for the Institute for Latino Studies, assisting in studies exploring political identity formation for multiethnic Studies, assisting in studies exploring political identity formation for multiethnic studies exploring political identity formation for multiethnic voters.

The study also examined the relationship between weight and prostate cancer in a multiethnic population including blacks, Japanese, Hispanics, Native Hawaiians and whites.

Association of exposure to diabetes in utero with adiposity and fat distribution in a multiethnic population of youth: the Exploring Perinatal Outcomes among Children (EPOCH) Study

Despite the significant impact of maternal depression on mothers and children alike, maternal mental health needs are often neglected or undiagnosed.18 Prevalence rates of maternal depression are high among low - income women due to the greater challenges they may face related to financial hardships, low levels of community or familial support, and societal prejudice.19 In fact, the prevalence of maternal depression among low - income women in the United States is double the prevalence rate for all U.S. women.20 At the same time, these women are less likely to receive treatment or be screened for postpartum depression.21 Studies show there are clear racial and ethnic disparities in who accesses treatment in the United States, even among women of the same general socio - economic status: In a multiethnic cohort of lower - income Medicaid recipients, 9 percent of white women sought treatment, compared with 4 percent of African American women and 5 percent of Latinas.22

A prospective observational study of 1,735 low - income, multiethnic, inner - city women recruited in pregnancy from 2000 to 2002 and followed prospectively until 2004 (1 prenatal and 3 postpartum interviews) was used to determine whether distinct trajectories of depressive symptomatology can be defined from pregnancy through 2 years postpartum.