Sentences with phrase «epidemiologic factors»

Animals that have expired vaccinations should be evaluated on severity of exposure, time elapsed since last vaccination, number of previous vaccinations, current health status and local rabies epidemiologic factors to determine the need for euthanasia or immediate revaccination and observation with isolation.

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy has emerged as a major risk factor in almost every epidemiologic study of SIDS.

Maternal smoking during pregnancy is a major risk factor in almost every epidemiologic study of SIDS.201, — , 204 Smoke in the infant's environment after birth is a separate major risk factor in a few studies, 202,205 although separating this variable from maternal smoking before birth is problematic.

The members of the initiative hope to improve early detection of cancer by making an impact in a variety of areas, including doing epidemiologic studies on risk factors, developing new and improved methods of diagnostic imaging, discovering and verifying new biomarkers as indicators of cancer, and developing new technologies to aid early detection.

Then we briefly describe some of the epidemiologic characteristics and recent genomic advances associated with four particular infectious diseases - Ebola, pandemic influenza, hepatitis B and tuberculosis - that have large - scale public health consequences but differ in terms of ease of transmission, chronicity, severity, preventability and treatability, factors which affect a range of ELSI issues.

Expand genetic epidemiologic research to identify risk and protective factors for Alzheimer's Disease.»

Epidemiologic data, acknowledging all of its shortcomings, has revealed that chronic inflammation correlates with tumor progression in patients already with cancer.11 C - reactive protein (CRP), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and IL - 6, all cytokines known to be increased from stress, are also increased in cancer patients.12, 13

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.

Vascular risk factors for Alzheimer's disease: an epidemiologic perspective.

Epidemiologic studies have suggested that higher intake of added sugar is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors.

She is also involved in the epidemiologic study of preventive factors for pet surplus in the United States including spay / neuter programs, pet trafficking, veterinary activities impacting relinquishment to animal shelters, and valid epidemiologic uses of shelter software programs.

A scoping review of epidemiologic risk factors for pediatric obesity: Implications for future childhood obesity and dental caries prevention research.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Epidemiologic and public health research highlights a robust connection between social factors and physical health.10 Following this approach, several studies have now identified specific environmental and child factors associated with an increased likelihood of injury in young children21 (but see reference 22).

Several studies have addressed the validity of the parent - reported SDQ in school - aged samples, predominantly confirming the intended 5 - factor structure.5, 6 A 3 - factor configuration of externalizing (conduct problems and hyperactivity), internalizing (emotional and peer problems), and prosocial factors has also been proposed and suggested for use in epidemiologic studies and in low - risk populations.7, 8 The internal reliability of SDQ subscales has been predominantly examined by using Cronbach's α, a measure of the interrelatedness of items; however, α estimates are a lower bound for reliability and is often underestimated.9 A meta - analytic review reported weighted mean α coefficients extracted from 26 studies that showed generally modest reliabilities for parent reports (0.53 < α < 0.76).10 McDonald's ω, which estimates the proportion of a scale measuring a construct, typically yields higher reliability estimates but has rarely been used to assess reliability of the SDQ.

Structural factor analyses for medically unexplained symptoms of somatization disorder in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study