Sentences with phrase «as epidemiologists»

Detailed studies have been carried out of the disease in the UK population of flatcoats, involving diplomate clinicians, as well as epidemiologists and statisticians.

As epidemiologists, our data can rarely prove that an exposure caused a health outcome.

As an epidemiologist, Michels works as a sort of data detective.

As an epidemiologist you are supposed to present your corrected relationships, not rough correlations.

Brinkman says she was originally compelled to conduct this research through her work as an epidemiologist for the North Metropolitan Health Service in Western Australia.

He held positions in public health with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an epidemiologist and with the Department of Agriculture Office of Public Health and Science.

Not exact matches

Erin Landry, 32, an epidemiologist from Beaumont who considers herself a Republican, said she also voted for Stephens as well as for Trump.

This work yielded a number of different «clusters» of jobs, such as those that work intimately with other people (psychologists, social workers) and those that handle bugs in complex systems (epidemiologists).

... And in terms of that added risk, we see how someone weighs that as a personal choice,» said Jonathan Snowden, an epidemiologist at Oregon Health and Science University who led the study, which examined nearly 80,000 low - risk births in Oregon during 2012 and 2013.

As defined by epidemiologists, risk refers to the probability that an outcome will occur given the presence of a particular factor or set of factors.

Marsden began his career in public health as a neonatologist and epidemiologist, first in California then Denmark.

► As part of a series of articles about fighting malaria in this week's issue, Leslie Roberts wrote about Myaing Myaing Nyunt, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore who leads «a unique collaboration [with] her husband, molecular epidemiologist and malariologist Chris Plowe.

«Population studies have consistently supported a protective role of nuts against cardiometabolic disorders such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and we know that inflammation is a key process in the development of these diseases,» said corresponding author Ying Bao, MD, ScD, an epidemiologist in BWH's Channing Division of Network Medicine.

But epidemiologists are increasingly turning to agent - based models to include factors that the equations ignore, such as geography, transportation networks, family structure, and behavior change — all of which can strongly affect how disease spreads.

Young children's weight predicts their future health, says epidemiologist Ashleigh May, the lead author of the CDC report: «If they're obese at this age, they're five times as likely to become obese as adults.»

Epidemiologists have worried that the avian flu virus, formally known as H5N1, could mutate enough to sicken and pass among humans, who would not have an immunity to it.

Part sci - fi thriller, part love story, Perfect Sense follows an improbable couple — a cocksure chef (played by Ewan McGregor) and a prickly epidemiologist (Eva Green)-- who fall for each other just as the disease strikes.

SHEA and CDC collaborated in 2016 to form the Outbreak Response Training Program to guide healthcare epidemiologists in how to maximize their facilities» preparedness and response efforts to combat outbreaks such as Ebola, Zika, pandemic influenza, and other infectious diseases.

Frank Gilliland, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, became intrigued when laboratory studies suggested that certain pollutants in the environment might function as «obesogens,» contributing to weight gain by mimicking or disrupting the action of hormones, or having other effects.

For a year after graduating from Tulane, West worked as a chronic disease epidemiologist at the Louisiana Office of Public Health.

«This guidance details the role of the healthcare epidemiologist as an expert and leader supporting hospitals in preparing for, stopping, and recovering from infectious diseases crises,» said David Banach, MD, co-chair of the writing panel and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut and Hospital Epidemiologist atepidemiologist as an expert and leader supporting hospitals in preparing for, stopping, and recovering from infectious diseases crises,» said David Banach, MD, co-chair of the writing panel and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut and Hospital Epidemiologist atEpidemiologist at UConn Health.

This week on the podcast, Harvard epidemiologist Walter Willett talks about the connection between diet and fertility as well as other nutrition and health relationships such as the links between diet and cancer.

But H1N1 changed as it spread, and by the time it reached Japan it was mild, killing mostly the immunocompromised elderly, says Hiroshi Nishiura, an epidemiologist at the Japan Science and Technology Agency.

We must factor in politics, economics and people's behaviour as well as medicine in the fight against HIV, says epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani

«There needs to be more work in this area,» says Colin Baigent, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who sees the observation as fodder for a future trial.

Epidemiologists have long understood statistical ways to separate confounding data, but it was not until the 1990s that they began developing computational tools that could control for factors such as smoking and sloth.

David Williamson, an epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, says that the researchers don't furnish the usual indicators of statistical significance for their projections, such as error bars.

Discover senior editor John Langone interviewed more than a dozen leading epidemiologists in the United States, Britain, and France and consulted such publications as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet.

Those who coordinate such projects have to be able to speak to medical people, epidemiologists, statisticians, economists, and sociologists as well as administrators and data security personnel and be able to understand their different concepts and principles.

«Obstetricians and midwives should consider pregnancies for immigrants from these regions as high risk,» said Dr. Marcelo Urquia, lead author and an epidemiologist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.

The epidemiologist, Chetna Mehrotra, is an Indian, but an Asian Indian; she was as enthusiastic about conquering diabetes as Wolf.

The authors of the consensus statement are a collection of experts in the field of Streptococcal diseases in horses including veterinary microbiologists, epidemiologists, and veterinarians who research this disease, as well as internists who encounter the disease frequently.»

«We found prenatal SSRI exposure was nearly 3 times as likely in boys with ASD relative to typical development, with the greatest risk when exposure took place during the first trimester,» said Li - Ching Lee, Ph.D., Sc.M., psychiatric epidemiologist in the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.

AS THE swine flu pandemic continues to sweep the world, what do public health officials, epidemiologists and flu researchers think will happen in the coming months?

«As time passes, the likelihood of more cases gets remote,» says Jeff Bender, a food safety researcher and infectious - diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota.

And when Italian epidemiologists examined 156 studies of alcohol and cancer, they found that drinking as little as 25 grams of alcohol a day — two bottles of beer — increases the risk of cancers of the upper digestive tract, larynx, intestines, liver, and breast.

But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began working in an interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all working together.

Given the symptoms of the disease and the rate of death, «C. novyi makes perfect sense» as the cause for the Glasgow outbreak, says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

One Dartmouth scientist, epidemiologist Margaret Karagas, had already found that babies whose mothers relied on water from wells drilled in New Hampshire's arsenic - rich bedrock — with contamination measured at levels as high as 1 ppm (1,000 ppb)-- were disproportionately likely to have low birth weight and might also be more vulnerable to childhood infections.

Epidemiologists finger St. Louis encephalitis as the culprit.

Wael Al - Delaimy, an Iraqi - born physician and chronic disease epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), travels six times a year to U.S. - or UCSD - funded projects in Ecuador, Mozambique, Jordan, and India that address topics such as indoor air pollution and refugee mental health.

As Andrew Grulich, an epidemiologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, reported, more than 9000 MSM have now started PrEP.

Ami Zota, an epidemiologist at University of California, San Francisco who did not participate in the Salinas study, said the findings are «important to our understanding of PBDE toxicity in humans as well as to our understanding of thyroid disruption during pregnancy.»

In October, as senior citizens and others at high risk from flu waited in long lines for shots after half of the United States» vaccine supply for the season was lost, epidemiologists were already on high alert because of an ominous development halfway around the world.

Nearby cities such as Lagos in Nigeria or Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo fit the bill, but epidemiologists worry that infected travellers could get much further, as the virus can sometimes take three weeks to produce symptoms.

As the six articles in this special report show, hope resides with interdisciplinary collaborations — epidemiologists, climatologists, ecologists, and others working together to solve medical problems with deep social roots.

Always neat and tidy in appearance, he is equally meticulous at bringing together diverse areas of knowledge in his work as a geriatrician, clinical epidemiologist, and gerontologist.

People have demanded answers to these questions since 1979, when Nancy Wertheimer, an epidemiologist, wrote a paper with Ed Leeper, an independent physicist in Boulder, Colorado, purporting to show that children living close to power transmission lines were twice as likely to contract leukaemia as children in homes farther away.

Epidemiologists now talk about syndemics — sets of interlocking afflictions (such as AIDS, violence, and substance abuse) that affect entire communities.

In a paper published last January, Rassen and Sebastian Schneeweiss, another Harvard epidemiologist and cocreator of the algorithm, put hd - PS to a test to see if it could analyze complicated health data as well as human experts.