Sentences with phrase «differences in health outcomes»

Gender stratification was done a priori because of knowledge from other research showing differences in health outcomes for men and women (eg, BMI, fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity).4, 7,26,27 All regression models were adjusted for age, race and ethnicity, and SES.

In a large meta - analysis published today in Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers failed to find the dramatic differences in health outcomes you may expect between the two fat groups.

The discovery could help scientists understand how social, cultural, and environmental factors interact with genetics to create differences in health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the biomedical research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization with genetic tests to determine ancestry.

For this mixed up group of GD women a Cochrane review concluded: «There is insufficient evidence to clearly identify if there are differences in health outcomes for women with gestational diabetes and their babies when elective birth is undertaken compared to waiting for labour to start spontaneously or until 41 weeks» gestation if all is well.»

For parents who have the luxury of truly choosing any feeding method, it's fine to choose exclusive pumping in the same way that it's fine to choose formula, as long as they understand the differences in health outcomes.

However, a recent study that used a more sophisticated analysis found that it was not breastfeeding, but socioeconomic conditions, that contributed to differences in health outcomes.

If we let people define the health problems in our communities as «Indigenous problems», we let them put us in a box, and we don't hold them to account for the difference in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Not exact matches

«PROMs promise to fill a vital gap in our knowledge about outcomes and about whether health care interventions actually make a difference to people's live,» ACSQHC said.

The pregnancy diet Bradley recommends (very healthy, high in protein) makes a big difference in health for the baby and mother and helps with a good birth outcome.

There were no significant differences in outcome of home or hospital births attended by midwives for the other child health measures.

The difference in outcomes for the two simulations represents the burden of suboptimal breastfeeding if observed associations between lactation and maternal health outcomes are causal.

The extent to which midwifery is integrated into a health care system probably explains some of the differences in practice and outcomes reported in U.S. and European studies.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

«We found small but meaningful differences in developmental outcomes between late preterm infants and full term groups, which if applied to larger populations, may have potentially significant long term public health implications,» says lead author Prachi Shah, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

It showed that there was no difference at all in physical and mental health outcomes between different control groups ranging from those who used no cannabis, to those who were regular, heavy users.

«We did not see statistically significant differences between hatha yoga and a control group (health education) at 10 weeks, however, when we examined outcomes over a period of time including the three and six months after yoga classes ended, we found yoga was superior to health education in alleviating depression symptoms.»

In 2002, NIH put out a call for research applications to look at health disparities — differences in health and health care outcomes among diverse populations — from a transdisciplinary perspectivIn 2002, NIH put out a call for research applications to look at health disparities — differences in health and health care outcomes among diverse populations — from a transdisciplinary perspectivin health and health care outcomes among diverse populations — from a transdisciplinary perspective.

There was no difference in the six maternal and seven infant health outcomes, with one exception: the vaccinated mothers were less likely to deliver by C - section, an observation unlikely to be directly connected to the vaccine.

Although the differences in BMI scores seem insignificant, there is evidence that even a small change in BMI score is clinically important and associated with significant change in health outcomes.

«Investigating racial disparities could provide insight into the overall alcohol - sleep relationship, susceptibility differences in sleep homeostasis / architecture across groups, and its subsequent impact on health outcomes.»

Scientists in disability outcomes research have determined that differences in the built characteristics of communities may influence the health and wellbeing of residents with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI).

For example, a brand new UK study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at obese adults who ate the a.m. meal and those who skipped it, and found no differences between the two groups in weight change, or most health outcomes.

«More work needs to be done to better understand the causes of these differences, so that steps can be taken to improve outcomes for mothers and babies,» study lead author Dr. Paul Aylin, of Imperial College London's School of Public Health, said in a college news release.

So with enough sweet potatoes and exercise, maybe a little extra fat isn't the end of the world (or maybe there are in fact significant differences in long term health outcomes that aren't being addressed), but unfortunately these nuances often get lost in translation and the average reader thinks oh goody, coconut oil ad libitum, and will surpass what the islanders were eating in total fat consumption, without incorporating all of the other health promoting diet and lifestyle factors: activity, sweet potatoes and other low fat high fiber foods, community, stress reduction, etc..

Although short - term randomized clinical trials have shown a beneficial effect of high protein intake, 3,4,20,21 the long - term health consequences of protein intake remain controversial.8,9,22 - 25 In a randomized clinical trial with a 2 - year intervention, 4 calorie - restricted diets with different macronutrient compositions did not show a difference in the effects on weight loss or on improvement of lipid profiles and insulin levels.26 When protein is substituted for other macronutrients, the dietary source of protein appears to be a critical determinant of the outcomIn a randomized clinical trial with a 2 - year intervention, 4 calorie - restricted diets with different macronutrient compositions did not show a difference in the effects on weight loss or on improvement of lipid profiles and insulin levels.26 When protein is substituted for other macronutrients, the dietary source of protein appears to be a critical determinant of the outcomin the effects on weight loss or on improvement of lipid profiles and insulin levels.26 When protein is substituted for other macronutrients, the dietary source of protein appears to be a critical determinant of the outcome.

How Poverty Changes the Brain Newsweek, 8/25/16» «We have [long] known about the social class differences in health and learning outcomes,» says Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

One of the more famous studies that has been cited by the National Institute of Health, among other research papers, is Melanie Dreher's «Prenatal Marijuana Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica,» published by the University of Massachusetts and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which also found no significant difference in birth weight, and actually found substantial benefits to children who were born.

McCrae's and Costa's early landmark findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging showed that individual differences in personality traits are stable over time and predictive of important life outcomes such as health and coping, leading to a strong resurgence of the entire field of personality psychology in the 1980s and the establishment of the five - factor model as the dominant paradigm for personality.

The distributions of adult health outcomes for men and women within each of the NCDS and BCS cohorts are presented in table 1, with some notable differences in the prevalence of each outcome according to cohort and gender.

In comparing the birth cohorts from 1958 and 1970 we investigate whether differences in the relationship between indicators of childhood disadvantage and development and adult health outcomes for these two cohorts are evidential, given the changes in health policy and provision and in social, demographic and economic conditions in Britain over the life course of these two birth cohortIn comparing the birth cohorts from 1958 and 1970 we investigate whether differences in the relationship between indicators of childhood disadvantage and development and adult health outcomes for these two cohorts are evidential, given the changes in health policy and provision and in social, demographic and economic conditions in Britain over the life course of these two birth cohortin the relationship between indicators of childhood disadvantage and development and adult health outcomes for these two cohorts are evidential, given the changes in health policy and provision and in social, demographic and economic conditions in Britain over the life course of these two birth cohortin health policy and provision and in social, demographic and economic conditions in Britain over the life course of these two birth cohortin social, demographic and economic conditions in Britain over the life course of these two birth cohortin Britain over the life course of these two birth cohorts.

SI Appendix, Table S6 shows that whether we examined self - control as measured by observers, teachers, parents, or children's self - reports, individual differences in childhood self - control were significantly related to each of the adult health, wealth, and public safety outcomes; that is, the results were not sensitive to the use of any particular source of information about children's self - control and were robust to the data source in measuring self - control.

We did not find any differences in outcomes between patients with DSM - IV Hypochondriasis only, patients with severe Health anxiety only, and patients with both diagnoses.

For the secondary aims, the analyses will be performed both for differences in changes between the intervention and the control group and for differences between groups at different time points (baseline at inclusion, childbirth, 6 — 8 weeks and 1 year postpartum) in maternal metabolic health outcomes, maternal mental health outcomes and offspring metabolic and mental health outcomes.

For initial exploratory analyses, no such correction will be used.178 For the partners, we will evaluate changes between groups and differences between groups at different time points (baseline at inclusion, 1 year postpartum) in weight and paternal eating behaviour and mental health outcomes.

Perhaps the most famous and shocking gap in Australia's health outcomes is between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, where the ten - year life expectancy difference has remained, despite a polity that purports to have placed a high priority on the issue.

The finding that higher education was associated with higher rates of some negative health outcomes (eg, 2 or more accidents) was unanticipated and contrasts with previous work.29 The finding may reflect more accurate reporting of some health outcomes in higher compared with lower socioeconomic groups or may reflect a real difference attributed to an unspecified cause.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

Clause 5 of the National Healthcare Agreement says that `... the healthcare system will strive to eliminate differences in health status of those groups currently experiencing poor health outcomes relative to the wider community».

Research suggests sex differences in the association between partner health problems and relationship satisfaction31 as well as PTSD treatment outcomes.32 The more rigorous methods of the current randomized trial compared with prior studies, including controls for patient inclusion, treatment assignment, and blinded assessment, may also account for the different findings.

We implemented unadjusted and adjusted analyses (potential prognostic factors listed in table 2) of the outcomes (all quantitative) by using random effects linear regression models fitted by maximum likelihood estimation to allow for the correlation between the responses of participants from the same maternal and child health centre.29 We present means and standard deviations for each trial arm, along with the mean difference between arms, 95 % confidence intervals, and P values.

EIP showed favorable impacts on 8 outcomes, including fewer days and episodes of hospitalization, relative to those in the comparison group, covering a range of 6 weeks to 2 years postpartum.13, 23,24 EIP also showed a favorable effect on the percentage of children who were adequately immunized by 1 year, but the difference was no longer statistically significant by 2 years.13, 24 Early Start demonstrated favorable effects on 3 outcomes, including percentage who received well - child visits and dental service.25 — 27 HFA had favorable results for 4 health care outcomes, such as the number of well - child visits and whether the child had health insurance.28 — 31 HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.32 The research showed that Healthy Steps had a beneficial effect on 2 outcomes: 1 - month well - child visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcomes.

Vandell (2000) cited a study by Rodgers, Rowe, and Li (1994) to support her carefully phrased statement that «differences in home environments for children in the same family are related to differences in child and adult mental health outcomes» (p. 702), but as Rodgers et al. (1994) admitted, «Of course, the causal direction is ambiguous» (p. 381).

A research fellow at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Phillips pointed to evidence that self - determination is «the factor that makes a difference» in health and social outcomes — more than workforce capacity, funding levels, and the design of programs.

An impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make in maternal prenatal health, health care use, preterm births and other birth outcomes, and infant health and health care use.

When the dashed line falls below the solid line this indicates a reduction in the strength of association between family adversity and child health when parenting variables are added to the model suggesting that differences in parenting across families with different levels of adversity explain some of the inequalities in child health outcomes.

As noted in the previous chapter, health inequalities can be fairly broadly defined to include differences in: specific health outcomes (such as low birthweight, obesity, long - term conditions, accidents); health related risk factors that impact directly on children (such as poor diet, low levels of physical activity, exposure to tobacco smoke); as well as exposure to wider risks from parental / familial behaviours and environmental circumstances (maternal depression and / or poor physical health, alcohol consumption, limited interaction, limited cognitive stimulation, poor housing, lack of access to greenspace).

Previous research has found that exposure to poor maternal mental health in the early years can have a range of impacts on child behavioural, emotional, social and cognitive outcomes, and that there may be differences in outcomes for those exposed to brief or long - standing maternal mental ill health.

When the dashed line falls below the solid line this indicates a reduction in the strength of association between family adversity and child health when parenting variables are added to the model suggesting that differences in parenting across families with different levels of adversity explain some of the inequalities in that health outcome.

This gradient in differences in outcome suggests that the impact of maternal mental health on children's development may be causal.

When women experience acute and chronic life stressors during pregnancy, maternal mental health issues can arise.33 Yet differences in maternal mental health are also not enough to explain the gap in birth outcomes, as African American women have not consistently reported higher levels of stress during pregnancy.34 However, women of color are not typically aware of mental health symptoms experienced during pregnancy and in the postpartum period.35 This is due to a lack of knowledge regarding the signs and symptoms associated with mental health challenges.