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She cited a study showing a 70 per cent cut in processed meat didn't lead to any significant backlash from shoppers.

A 2012 study led by the University of Connecticut found that people who consumed one cup of raisins per day and walked regularly reduced their LDL cholesterol levels.

In the EPA's study of lead levels in Chicago homes, 88 percent of homes had one or more water sample where the lead value was over 7 parts per billion.

That the study found concussion rates for ice hockey (10 per 100,000) and football (8 per 100,000) among younger athletes (7 - to 11 - year - olds) much higher than the overall concussion rate (1 per 100,000), were «not surprising» to lead author, Lisa L. Bakhos, M.D., a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey.

Separate from the EDF's study, the EPA has reported that more than 1 million children are consuming lead levels that exceed the FDA's limit of safe lead consumption of 6 micrograms per day.

A 2013 study by Cheryl Watson at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found that even picomolar concentrations (less than one part per trillion) of BPS can disrupt a cell's normal functioning, which could potentially lead to metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity, asthma, birth defects or even cancer.

Two prominent studies find modest effects, in one case estimating that each 1 % increase in the share of migrants in the UK working age population leads to a 0.6 % decline in the wages of the 5 % lowest paid workers, which would mean about 3p less per hour for someone earning just over the minimum wage of # 6.19.

The bill would require the MTA and NYCTA to study and report back on all elevated train lines in its system — including the 7 train, where a study from District Council 9 Painters» and Allied Trade Union lead level on falling paint chips from the 7 train found 44,000 parts per billion.

Sources say the leading plan would raise the current minimum wage of $ 9 per hour to $ 12.50 in upstate counties by 2021 followed by an economic study to determine whether the wage level should keep rising to an eventual cap of $ 15 per hour, possibly by 2023.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

The risk for high frequency headache, or more than 10 days with headache per month, increased by 60 percent in middle - aged women with migraine during the perimenopause — the transitional period into menopause marked by irregular menstrual cycles — as compared to normally cycling women, says Martin, the study's lead author.

But a team led by Marco Ajello of the Kavli Institute in Stanford, California, studied observations by NASA's Fermi telescope and found this accounts for no more than 30 per cent of the glow.

In all 12 men enrolled in the study, 200 milligrams of mirabegron led to higher brown fat metabolic activity, and at its peak level in the blood it increased the men's resting metabolic rate by 203 calories per day.

Mitchell's study focused on Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a national, low - cost, weight loss program led by peer - volunteers and costing just $ 92 a year (a $ 32 annual fee plus nominal local chapter dues averaging about $ 5 per month.)

In the DRC, the study states, growing international demand for palm oil led to an increase in the nation's production of the product from 175,000 tons per year in the 1990s to 215,000 tons in 2010.

A team of researchers led by Dr Jago Cooper (British Museum) and Dr Alice Samson (University of Leicester) has been studying the island — which is one of the most cavernous regions, per square kilometre, in the world.

The study aims, in part, to address the fact that the U.S. spends about 40 percent more on health care per capita than the next highest - spending country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a group of 35 major nations — a figure that leads many to wonder whether there are significant inefficiencies in U.S. health care spending.

The results indicate that beta cell function does not decline with age, and instead suggest that islet function is threatened by an age - dependent impairment of vessels that support them with oxygen and nutrients,» says Per - Olof Berggren at the Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology at Karolinska Institutet, who led the study together with Alejandro Caicedo at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Hong Gil Nam at DGIST in Republic of Korea.

In one study patients in naturally lit rooms took fewer painkillers than those in darker rooms, leading to a 21 per cent reduction in medication costs.

The pigs that ate the venison containing lead fragments reached a lead level of 3.8 micrograms per deciliter after only two days — more than three times higher than the highest level in the control group of pigs, according to the study, which was sponsored by The Peregrine Fund, a group that advocates for the removal of lead shot to protect condors.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation argues that everyone in the North Dakota study had blood - lead levels below the CDC's health guideline of 10 micrograms per deciliter.

A landmark 30 - year - long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray - Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in waterbird numbers.

Alcohol addiction causes almost 3.8 per cent of deaths worldwide but a study led by QUT researchers offers new hope in the form of a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A 2016 aerial survey of the northern Great Barrier Reef lead by Professor Terry Hughes from JCU's Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies showed that 90 per cent of reefs in some of these areas were severely bleached.

Britain has a child mortality rate of 1630 deaths per one million children, according to the study, which was led by Professor Colin Pritchard of Bournemouth University.

«Our simple «diode» panel could obtain high brightness efficiency of 60 Lumen per Watt, which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption,» said Norihiro Shimoi, the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.

«Our data suggest that a single bout of AIT performed three times per week may be a time - efficient strategy to improve VO2max,» says Arnt Erik Tjønna, a postdoctoral fellow at the centre and lead author of the study.

Families led by older matriarchs also turned out to have more offspring per female per year throughout the study.

A study published in Ecological Applications led by Professor John Swaddle, visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, found that filling a controlled area with acoustic noise around an airfield, where the majority of collisions tend to take place, can reduce the number of birds in the area by 80 per cent.

The study's lead author, Michael Levin, and his colleague Douglas Blackiston took tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) whose eyes had been surgically removed and transplanted «donor» eyeballs — one per tadpole — along various points on the back.

They found that the average annual rate of claims was 24 per 1,000 workers, said Laura Syron, a doctoral student in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences and lead author of the study.

On average, fish are expected to migrate 25 miles per decade, according to a new study led by William Cheung of the University of East Anglia.

Dr Anja Schmidt from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, who led the study, said: «The eruption discharged lava at a rate of more than 200 cubic metres per second, which is equivalent to filling five Olympic - sized swimming pools in a minute.

The researchers estimate that childhood lead levels at or above 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood accounted for as many as 25 percent of the children in the study failing reading and math standardized tests.

Borja Ibáñez — joint lead investigator on the study with Valentín Fuster — explains that «the possibility to reduce so dramatically the number of cases of chronic heart failure (with all the associated treatments and hospital readmissions) with such a cheap procedure (the metoprolol treatment costs less than two euros per patient) could generate enormous savings for health services across Europe.»

«Over the next few decades, the majority of birds currently found across the National Park System are expected to experience changes in climate conditions, which on average may lead to turnover of nearly a quarter of the bird community per park,» says Gregor Schuurman, co-author on the study.

Dr Rebecca Lacey, Research Associate in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and lead author of the study, said: «Our study suggests that it is not parental divorce or separation per se which increases the risk of later inflammation but that it is other social disadvantages, such as how well the child does in education, which are triggered by having experienced parental divorce which are important.»

Cecilia de Castro, lead author of the review, commented: «This study comes at a pertinent time, providing further evidence to highlight the importance of the IMO Ballast Water Convention, which has recently reached 35 per cent of world merchant shipping tonnage and will enter into force on 8/09/2017.

The study, which appears in the Journal of Pediatrics, found a decrease in Flint childhood blood lead levels, from 2.33 micrograms per deciliter in 2006 to 1.15 micrograms per deciliter in 2016 — a historic low for the city.

In a new study, led by Imperial College London, the treatment prevented symptoms of severe disease from worsening for five years, in 46 per cent of patients.

«The compounds show up in low levels — parts per billion or parts per trillion — but aquatic life and humans aren't exposed to just one at a time, but a whole mix,» said Antonette Arvai, physical scientist at the International Joint Commission and the lead author of the study.

A study led by Assistant Professor Darren Chian Siau Chen from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

An August 2013 study led by Ethan Kross, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, sidestepped this problem by studying people's use of Facebook over time, surveying them about their well - being five times per day for 2 weeks.

The study, «CEO Narcissism and Accounting: A Picture of Profits,» published in The Journal of Management Accounting Research, by Professor of Accounting Mark Young, who holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports Entertainment and Business at Marshall, Professor of Accounting Kelsey Kay Dworkis, Ph.D.» 13, University of Melbourne, and Kari Joseph Olsen, doctoral student of accounting, Marshall, found that companies led by narcissistic CEOs reported higher earnings - per - share and share price than those with non-narcissistic CEOs.

Lead author and UQ PhD student in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences James Allan said the study revealed that only 1.8 per cent of the world's wilderness is protected in these sites.

«Our simple diode panel could obtain high brightness efficiency of 60 Lumens per Watt, which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption,» said Norihiro Shimoi, the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.

Results from the study showed indicated that with carbon taxes set at $ 50 per ton and increased at a rate of 5 % per year would lead to a reduction in the total greenhouse gas emission in the US by as much as 63 %, confirms Reilly.