Sentences with phrase «disorders over recent decades»

This is of concern, since several reports have indicated an increase in the incidence of male reproductive disorders over the recent decades (Swan et al., 1997; Boisen et al., 2004, 2005; Richiardi et al., 2004) and the geographical distribution together with migration studies (Hemminki and Li, 2002) have suggested that lifestyle and environmental factors play key roles in the pathogenesis.

The ongoing reappraisal of the diagnostic criteria for the autistic spectrum of disorders over recent decades has led to substantial uncertainty over whether a true increase in incidence exists or whether such diagnostic shifts represent an artifactual increase.

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Concern over honey bee declines in recent decades as well as annual losses has sparked debate over their causes and has led to hypotheses that a specific novel syndrome «Colony Collapse Disorder» (CCD) is plaguing bee populations.

«The controversy over whether these disorders are completely distinct has been going on for decades, but the recent evidence strongly favors at least some shared genetic elements,» says psychiatrist Eliot Gershon of the University of Chicago, whose team recently identified a gene on chromosome 13 that is associated with both illnesses.