Sentences with phrase «while epidemiologic»

While epidemiologic studies don't always single out garbanzo beans from other beans when determining their relationship to cardiovascular disease, garbanzo beans are almost always included in the list of legumes studied when heart disease is the focus of diet research.

In clinical practice, she concentrates on germ cell tumors, while her epidemiologic research primarily focuses on colorectal cancer screening and prevention.

Not exact matches

Epidemiologic research shows that human milk and breastfeeding of infants provide advantages with regard to general health, growth, and development, while significantly decreasing risk for a large number of acute and chronic diseases.

Moreover, there are specific circumstances that, in epidemiologic studies, substantially increase the risk of SIDS or suffocation while bed - sharing.

Epidemiologic data has shown that chronic depression, stress, and lack of social support are all risk factors for cancer.14 A study in humans even showed chronic depression and even the death of a mother during childhood to be associated with increased breast cancer in women.15 While we do not have concrete evidence in humans, animal studies more definitively point to stress as a cause of cancer.

While these conclusions are based on a lot of epidemiologic data, associations, and animal studies, the data is relatively strong.

Some frequently cited epidemiologic studies have found an increased correlation between elevated IGF - 1 and breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers, while the majority of studies failed to document increased risk of cancer (or have shown a decreased risk) with increasing IGF - 1 levels.

The Subcommittee felt that while laboratory findings suggested that red wine might have some extra health benefits, this finding did not translate into the epidemiologic data.

While this approach is potentially very useful for an agency or community to assess their own problems and progress, it renders the data unfit for any epidemiologic tally or comparison.

All have been shown in epidemiologic studies in the United States and elsewhere to be capable of damaging developing brains, especially while babies are exposed in utero or in their early life.»