Sentences with phrase «as socioeconomic factors»

The researchers analysed data from Mexico on the occurrence of dengue fever and the effect of climate variables such as, temperature, humidity and rainfall, as well as socioeconomic factors that included population figures and GDP per capita.

More research is needed to determine the effects of nutritional supplementation as well as socioeconomic factors for the mother in these situations.

The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health's Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths.

Not exact matches

Factors such as age, socioeconomic status, relationship status, and education did not elevate a -LSB-...]

Data on additional risk factors or possible confounders, such as maternal age, parity, gestational age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, were collected from records accumulated during the pregnancy outcome study.

Women who did not breastfeed their children at all were four times more likely to neglect their children, even after adjusting for factors such as low socioeconomic status and education.

This is after taking account other important factors associated with poor child development such as socioeconomic disadvantage, lower maternal age, maternal smoking in pregnancy and fetal growth restriction.

Factors such as age, socioeconomic status, relationship status, and education did not elevate a woman's risk for the so - called «baby blues».

Statistical analysis showed that the finding was independent of other risk factors contributing to conception, such as age, current smoking, socioeconomic status, bacterial vaginosis, previous deliveries, or clinical periodontal disease.

The researchers estimated the link between road traffic noise on these deaths and admissions, taking into account other factors such as individuals» age and sex, as well as neighbourhood characteristics like ethnicity, smoking rate, air pollution, and socioeconomic deprivation.

They are now examining some of the outpatient factors that may result in disparities, such as frequency of follow - up, and further investigating racial and socioeconomic disparities in treatment and outcomes of children with Crohn's disease.

Certain factors, such as low socioeconomic status and a rural lifestyle, are correlated with lower dietary quality and higher obesity rates.

The study found these relationships despite adjusting for factors such as socioeconomic status but did not look at other factors that contribute to the children's obesity.

After adjusting for various factors, including age, demographic factors, health behaviors such as smoking and alcohol consumption, physical activity, medical conditions, and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that black workers in general — and black professionals in particular — were more likely to experience short sleep than whites.

That system should gather information about factors that may contribute to how children recover from concussions, such as age, sex, preexisting conditions such as learning disabilities, and socioeconomic status, it suggests.

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

While climate conditions in the U.S. are increasingly favorable to mosquitos, socioeconomic factors such as access to clean water and air conditioning make large - scale outbreaks unlikely, according to new analysis of existing research — but small - scale, localized outbreaks are an ongoing concern.

After accounting for other factors, such as socioeconomic status, breast - feeding, birth weight and maternal smoking, infants living above 2,400 meters were 2.3 times more likely to die from SIDS than those below 1,800 meters.

The risk of developing 22 of the most common cancers, which represent 90 % of the cancers diagnosed in the UK, was measured according to BMI after adjusting for individual factors such as age, sex, smoking status, and socioeconomic status.

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

They measured total socioeconomic adversity by weighing factors such as average parental education, family economic hardship, family make - up and employment status.

Maternal demoralization has been correlated with socioeconomic factors such as material hardship.

In predicting how climate will affect irrigated crop yields in the future, the researchers also consider factors such as population and economic growth, as well as competing demands for water from various socioeconomic sectors, which are themselves projected to change as the climate warms.

Factors such as age, ethnicity, socioeconomic groups and geopolitical statuses were analyzed and corrected for.

The study notes its most important limitation is that although researchers accounted for parental socioeconomic status, they could not adjust for other mitigating factors such as parental criminal histories or experiences of abuse by those in the study group.

But none of these studies was able to determine if the longevity was due to cultural factors, such as a higher socioeconomic class or better living conditions.

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

«I'd like to see NIH go to a three - pronged standard [that includes socioeconomic factors],» she says, «so long as MARC students still demonstrate a desire to look at the racial disparities in our health care system.»

Writing in a linked Comment, Alyssa Rheingold from the Medical University of South Carolina in the USA says, «Research suggests that risk factors among patient victims such as substance use, low socioeconomic status, type of psychopathology, and engagement in behaviours that increase risk could be targeted.

«While we found adolescent exercise to be associated with lowered risk of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease as adults, some associations were attenuated after adjusting for adult factors that may influence mortality later in life, such as exercise, diet, body mass index [BMI], socioeconomic status, and a history of chronic diseases.

After adjusting for socioeconomic factors in adult life, women who participated in team sports as adolescents had a 14 percent lowered risk for death from cancer, and a 10 percent lowered risk for death from all causes.

«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»

Of clinical significance in terms of helping people with mental illness, the patients» happiness was unrelated to the severity or duration of their illness, to cognitive or physical function or to socioeconomic factors such as age and education, which among healthy adults have been linked to a greater sense of well - being.

In the new study, people with one «low» MAOA gene and one «high» MAOA gene reported having credit - card debt 7.8 percent more often than did people with two «high» versions, the researchers found, even when they controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status.

«It is not clear whether this relationship is due to confounding factors such as poor socioeconomic environment, or nutrition, during childhood that on the one hand determine achieved height and on the other the risk of coronary heart disease, or whether it represents a primary relationship between shorter height and more coronary heart disease.

«These differences remained statistically significant and robust even when we controlled for multiple known risk factors for initiating cigarette smoking, such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sensation seeking, parental smoking and friend smoking,» Dr. Primack said.

Twenge and colleagues W. Keith Campbell and Nathan Carter, both of the University of Georgia, found that as income inequality and poverty rose, public trust declined, indicating that socioeconomic factors may play an important role in driving this downward trend in public trust:

While socioeconomic factors such as income, health insurance and access to health services contribute to those disparities, they can not explain the whole difference.

Albain's team examined how African - American participants fared, adjusting for potential confounding factors such as weight and socioeconomic status (estimated from ZIP codes).

Rather, given the debate over whether Medicare should include socioeconomic factors in its formula to calculate hospital readmissions, the study raises questions about whether Medicare's readmission rates reflect social factors related to the hospital's patient mix as well as hospital performance and quality.

In this case, socioeconomic factors influence men as much as women, even at the different times analysed and with the different types of partner.

A new study shows that if socioeconomic factors related to patients» income and education are taken into account, differences in readmission rates among hospitals may not be as great as Medicare data indicate.

Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging risk.

Experts suggest that as survival rates improve, understanding racial and socioeconomic differences in pediatric populations are important factors to consider for overall health status.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

While it's important to recognize that diet is frequently associated with other factors that may impact cognition in aging, Fargo says — such as smoking, education levels, and socioeconomic status — he does believe that there is «sufficiently strong evidence to conclude that a healthy diet may reduce the risk of cognitive decline.»

Even after other factors that may influence suicide risk were taken into account — such as socioeconomic status, education, and even body mass index — the men with the lowest IQ were still about 3.5 times more likely to attempt suicide.

In discussing the limited evidence for the «probable» link between red meat and colorectal cancer, the WHO itself concedes that it is not possible to rule out other explanations (which it helpfully describes as «chance, bias or confounding»).2 Harcombe agrees, arguing that even when studies strive to adjust statistically for baseline differences in relevant factors such as socioeconomic status, body mass index, physical activity, smoking status and diabetes, it is impossible to grapple fully with all the factors that differentiate «the couch potato» from «the paleo buff» (her ideal), or to take into account the «chasm» that separates fresh and traditionally preserved meats from modern manufactured meat products.9

The opposite — a «fixed mindset» — is a belief that external factors such as students» socioeconomic backgrounds, available school resources or current levels of achievement limit what is possible and make further improvement unlikely.

Or do they instead reflect such factors as the racial or socioeconomic makeup of their students?