Sentences with phrase «epidemiological risk»
The strongest epidemiological risk factor for many forms of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is female gender.
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The study found that language analyses may predict heart disease risk as well or better than traditional epidemiological risk factors.
This review examines three areas of study — one, the biological pathways of alcohol - linked breast cancer; two, the epidemiological risk relationship between drinking and breast cancer; and three, the global burden of breast cancer incidence and mortality that is attributable to drinking — with a focus on light drinking.
Our mission is to be the model for both rural and urban shelters; we reunite, rescue, shelter and secure permanent homes for adoptable companion animals and livestock; we support a healthy and responsible pet community as well as advocate for responsible pet ownership; we fight the pet overpopulation problem; and we protect the community by managing the epidemiological risks and enforcing the laws and ordinances pertaining to the animals.
Not exact matches
Citing intervention - based trials and epidemiological studies, the National Institute on Aging found that exercise can also play a key role in reducing your risk for Alzheimer's and general cognitive decline.
Studies by the National Academy of Science and evidence from other epidemiological studies indicate that the higher intake of carotene and vitamin A may reduce the risk of cancer.»
However, with the exception of women who consumed a high intake of soy during adolescence, the majority of epidemiological studies (studies carried out in defined population groups) have not found that women with higher soy intakes are at lower risk of breast cancer.
Combined effects of sleeping position and prenatal risk factors in sudden infant death syndrome: the Nordic Epidemiological SIDS Study
Further epidemiological studies will provide only relatively small gains and some clarification of the risk factors.»
Epidemiological studies have identified several risk factors for the onset and continuity of behavioural problems.
Diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis immunization and sudden infant death: results of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Cooperative Epidemiological Study of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Risk Factors
Risk factors for SIDS: results of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development SIDS Cooperative Epidemiological Study
The finding that mother - infant co-sleeping on separate surfaces confers reduced risk of SIDS but some forms of same surface co-sleeping increase risk (under certain circumstances, see below), has given rise to recent public health campaigns against any and all bedsharing in the United States.29 However, when examined in detail, epidemiological studies reveal inconsistent findings as to whether or not, to what degree, or under what circumstances bedsharing represents a consistent risk factor for SIDS and / or SUID.
An epidemiological study conducted by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Seoul National University suggests that persons deficient in vitamin D may be at much greater risk of developing diabetes.
Several epidemiological studies have suggested that exposure to antibiotics during the peripartum period (late pregnancy and the nursing period after birth) increases the risk for IBD in humans.
«Current epidemiological data in humans do not support a meaningful link between diet drinks and risk for diabetes, whereas sugar - rich beverages do appear to be associated with higher diabetes risk.
But epidemiological studies have identified pesticides as a risk factor for the disease.
More troubling, says Fugh - Berman, is that the ghostwritten articles downplayed the risk that HRT might promote breast cancer by disputing epidemiological data showing such a link.
«Greater effort to track concussions using large - scale epidemiological data are needed to identify high - risk subpopulations and monitor prevention efforts,» the researchers wrote.
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.
Previous research has largely focused on dietary components and which diet would be best to lower the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes, but so far there is no clear evidence from epidemiological or clinical trial data that a specific diet is optimal for long - term weight - loss or lowering the risk of diabetes.
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND — The first major epidemiological study of bisphenol A, a common ingredient in baby bottles and drink containers, suggests that relatively higher doses of the chemical double the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
«Both controlled - feeding studies that have examined the effects of trans fat on blood cholesterol and epidemiological studies of trans - fat intake in relation to the risk of heart disease and diabetes indicate they are considerably worse than saturated fats,» he says.
Although epidemiological studies have suggested that moderate drinking can lower a person's risk of heart attack or stroke, that possibility has not been studied in a randomized trial with a control group.
Children born to mothers with polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, are at an increased risk of developing autism spectrum disorders, according to a new epidemiological study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.
Some epidemiological studies have raised concern about possible cardiovascular risk, dementia or even, paradoxically, fracture.
Epidemiological surveys backed by laboratory studies suggest that eating soya products can lower the risk of both prostate and colon cancers.
Dr Kristensen recommends that an inter-disciplinary approach be taken to address this, «by combining epidemiological data from human studies with more experimental research on models, such as rodents, it may be possible to firmly establish this link and determine how it happens, so that pregnant women in pain can be successfully treated, without risk to their unborn children.»
The IOM committee examined all major epidemiological studies to see whether people exposed to SV40 - contaminated vaccine have a higher risk of developing cancer.
«This is a timely contribution about one of the most important, if not the most important risk factor for liver cirrhosis globally, because our overall knowledge about drinking patterns and liver cirrhosis is sparse and in part contradictory,» said noted expert Jürgen Rehm, PhD, Director of the Social and Epidemiological Research Department of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto.
An epidemiological model of schistosomiasis suggested that the increase in snail population from this typical amount of fertilizer would jack up the risk of transmission to humans by 28 %.
To do that, they used a set of equations — recently updated based on the most recent epidemiological research — describing how exposure to air pollution affects a person's risk of dying from various diseases.
For instance, epidemiological studies revealed a striking correlation between the food supply of grandfathers and an increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in their grandchildren.
Michele Carbone, senior author on the study, states «further research is needed, including epidemiological, geological, mineralogical and health - based personal exposure studies in order to characterize the residential and occupational history of the malignant mesothelioma cases we studied, to highlight the highest risk areas within Clark and Nye counties, to identify the type of fibrous minerals and their precise distribution throughout Nevada, and to identify the activities responsible for the release of fibers in the air, which may be the cause of some of the malignant mesothelioma in this region.»
Several epidemiological studies suggest that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega - 3 fatty acid found in fatty fish, might reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Microglia are activated during Alzheimer's disease progression and may mediate an initially protective inflammatory response, a notion that is also supported by epidemiological studies linking mutations in the TREM2 gene to increased risk of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
This increased risk of neurodevelopmental diseases had been discovered many years ago in epidemiological studies and confirmed in mouse models.
Moreover, many people don't apply the proper amount of sunscreen, forget to reapply and missed to apply on all exposed areas resulting in sunburn and increased risk of melanoma,» said Reza Ghiasvand, a PhD candidate at The Department of Biostatistics and a member of the research group «Epidemiological Studies of Lifestyle and Chronic Diseases.»
The report comes from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS), a multicomponent epidemiological and neurobiological study of Army suicides and their correlates sponsored by the U.S. Army and funded under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH / NIMH).
The evidence for cigarette smoke's impact on childhood cancer has been contradictory — some epidemiological studies indicate no added risk, while others show a clear increase for leukemia and lymphomas.
This linear no - threshold (LNT) dose - response relationship has been used to extrapolate the risks of low doses of radiation from epidemiological studies that were done following exposure to much higher doses of radiation (e.g. survivors of the atomic bombings).
Until now, underlying mechanisms linking noise to elevated cardiovascular risk have rarely been explored in epidemiological studies.
To examine whether physical workload is a possible risk factor for RA, information on different types of self - reported exposure was analysed from a population of 3,680 RA patients and 5,935 matched controls included in the Swedish Epidemiological Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis (EIRA).
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.
Past epidemiological studies have found a link between the amount of time spent cooking over woks and the risk of lung cancer.
For this reason, WHO also uses clinical and epidemiological data when making risk assessments.
Epidemiological studies show that diabetic patients have increased risk of depression, anxiety, age - related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.
«A number of epidemiological studies have suggested that taking antacid medicines in pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of asthma in the offspring.
Classic risk factors such as smoking, obesity and high blood lipids do not explain all clinical and epidemiological features of CVD.
Professor Maughan's research uses epidemiological methods to explore early risk factors for psychiatric disorders; to examine developmental continuities in mental health across the life course; and to identify mechanisms that make for continuity and change.