Sentences with phrase «epidemiological levels»

One of those panels that I went to was on gunshot wounds in children in a neighborhood in Philadelphia; and I was just astonished at the mapping software that is used to try to understand on an epidemiological level why do some kids get shot or what increases your risks of getting shot.

We know that they work at the gross, statistical, epidemiological level, but we really don't know why yet.

The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges noise induced annoyance to be a health effect [19] and the results of WHO research ``... confirmed, on an epidemiological level, an increased health risk from chronic noise annoyance...» [20]

Not exact matches

Based on multiple epidemiological studies, the World Health Organization in 2007 and the American Medical Association in 2012 each issued statements warning that extended exposure to light at night increases the risk of certain cancers, probably via alterations to circadian rhythms and associated hormone levels.

Now, direct evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air), a 10 - year epidemiological study of more than 6,000 people from six U.S. states, shows that air pollution — even at levels below regulatory standards — accelerates the progression of atherosclerosis.

The study measured the levels of lifestyle physical activity by 262 older adults in Rush's Memory and Aging Project, an ongoing epidemiological cohort study.

Epidemiological studies showed an association of these bacteria with levels of illness of people who used the water.

Although vaccination induces an inflammatory response during pregnancy, the magnitude and the duration of response is much lower and shorter, respectively, for influenza vaccination than viral infection.27 Like infection, influenza vaccination during pregnancy has been reported to induce a transient increase in the levels of a number of proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor α, and C - reactive protein.27 - 30 Studies on mice found an association between high interleukin - 6 levels during pregnancy and abnormal behavior and brain structure.19 However, in epidemiological studies, associations between maternal cytokine levels and ASD have been mixed.

Still the majority of epidemiological studies have reported a positive association between aluminum levels in drinking water and the risk of AD.

Thus, the studies cited by Cordain regarding the association between sodium intake and autoimmune diseases found no epidemiological or clinical evidence that prevailing levels of sodium intake in the U.S. increase risk of autoimmune diseases such as MS and type 1 diabetes.

Epidemiological evidence points to an association between vitamin D levels and food allergy incidence.

[5] Furthermore, epidemiological studies have noted an inverse association between levels of HDL and certain forms of cancer.

Epidemiological studies suggest that individuals who have inadequate Vitamin D levels are at an increased likelihood to develop an immune - related disorder such as chronic infections, autoimmune diseases and metabolic complications associated with type 1 diabetes.

Earlier epidemiological (population) studies have also linked higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines with depressive symptoms.

That research brought a lot of attention to the subject and since that time, there has been more epidemiological studies and observational studies that have taken place to look at what's happening on a population level.

However, comparing phytonutrients head to head with conventional medicine would be considered unethical at this point in time for most cases, despite whatever promise has been demonstrated at epidemiological or in vitro levels.

People with high levels of vitamin D in their blood probably live longer than people with low amounts of vitamin D in their blood, according to an epidemiological meta - study published in BMJ.

It is true that DDT has not been demonstrated to be carcinogenic except at very high levels, but this is true of most suspected carcinogens — most data is clinical, not epidemiological.

There are those who maintain that unless effects can be seen in [epidemiological] studies at a 95 % confidence level in a population nothing happened.

We see science operating at multiple levels from the «hard» science looking at the molecular basis of disease (analogous to the physics underpinning the climate sciences), drug development, clinical trials of medical interventions with all their methodological flaws, epidemiological studies (again replete with statistical traps and definitional pitfalls — hockey sticks anyone?)

On a national level, Max is often retained to reexamine defense strategies and to develop new defenses based on epidemiological, toxicological, and environmental analyses for clients which have been in toxic tort and environmental litigation for decades.

Many epidemiological and clinical studies have shown that a high level of blood cholesterol is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Measures included the Structured Clinical Interview for Depression (SCID), Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES - D), State Anxiety Inventory (STAI), State Anger Inventory (STAXI), and saliva samples were also collected to assess cortisol levels.

Descriptive research: This category included epidemiological studies where the primary aim was to explore the frequency or patterns of disease, risk factors, or variables that may be related to health (such as knowledge, attitudes or health care service use), at a community or population level.

Using data from an epidemiological sample of 1,116 5 - year - old twin pairs and their parents, this study found that the less time fathers lived with their children, the more conduct problems their children had, but only if the fathers engaged in low levels of antisocial behavior.

The relative lack of gene — environment interactions may be due to the epidemiological nature of the study, the preadolescent age of the subjects, the measurement level of parenting and the measurement level of FR - EXT, which might be a consequence of both genetic and environmental factors.