Sentences with phrase «epidemiological studies of the disease»

«There's never been good epidemiological studies of the disease in East Asia,» says Ward.

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Epidemiological studies have observed a negative association between tomato intake and the incidence of cardiovascular disease.

(1) Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual date from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50,302 women with breast cancer and 96,973 women without the disease.

Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50302 women with breast cancer and 96973 women without the disease.

An epidemiological study of PFOA effects in West Virginia communties found a «probable link» between exposure to the chemical and the following illnesses: diagnosed high cholestorol, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, testicular cancer, kidney cancer, and pregnancy - induced hypertension.

Epidemiological studies analyze the distribution and determinants of health and disease conditions.

Predisposition to vascular disease was my focus here, using genetic epidemiological studies to identify novel polymorphisms in a range of candidate genes.

«Based on epidemiological studies, the 9vHPV vaccine could prevent approximately 90 percent of cervical cancer, 90 percent of HPV - related vulvar and vaginal cancer, 70 to 85 percent of high - grade cervical disease in females, and approximately 90 percent of HPV - related anal cancer and genital warts in males and females worldwide,» explained Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer at Moffitt.

For the study, Dorevitch and colleagues estimated the number of recreational waterborne illnesses using data from two large epidemiological studies as well as reports of water - borne disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.

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.

Finding funding for in - depth epidemiological studies of kidney cancer can be difficult, however, because the disease is not as common as other cancers, and not as deadly as gliomas, or liver or pancreatic cancer.

«Epidemiological studies have shown that infectious diseases and inflammation suffered during a life - time can affect the severity of Alzheimer's disease much later in life.

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.

A research consortium bringing together teams from Inserm, the Nancy and Poitiers University Hospitals, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta, USA), and coordinated by the Inserm and University of Grenoble Environmental Epidemiology team (Unit 823), has just published an epidemiological study indicating that exposure to certain phenols during pregnancy, especially parabens and triclosan, may disrupt growth of boys during fetal growth and the first years of life.

Over the last decade, large epidemiological studies have shown that kidney stone formers have an increased likelihood of developing other conditions such as hypertension, chronic kidney disease and heart disease; however, the mechanisms involved are unknown.

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.

The first big advance occurred in the early 1990s, when epidemiological studies revealed that 90 to 95 percent of individuals with the disorder carry a genetic marker associated with autoimmune disease — self - inflicted damage that occurs when the body mistakes its own tissues for a foreign invader and attacks them.

When epidemiological data are scarce, social media and Internet reports can be reliable tools for forecasting infectious disease outbreaks, according to a study led by an expert in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

• An environmental epidemiological study should be performed to determine whether air pollution associated with UNGDO increases the incidence of respiratory illness and cardiovascular disease.

Epidemiological studies show that diabetic patients have increased risk of depression, anxiety, age - related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.

«What we've shown in the monkey model matches a lot of what people have observed in epidemiological studies of humans,» says Emma Mohr, a pediatric infectious disease fellow at UW — Madison and first author on the study with Matthew Aliota and Dawn Dudley, research scientists in UW — Madison's schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health, respectively.

The ambition of I - Stem is to develop a research technology capable of covering all aspects of discovery and development of therapeutic molecules for pre-clinical trials as defined by clinical and epidemiological studies of monogenic diseases, until a candidate molecule is identified for clinical trials.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

Effects of ruminant trans fatty acids on cardiovascular disease and cancer: a comprehensive review of epidemiological, clinical, and mechanistic studies..

Epidemiological studies have shown that broccoli consumption is linked to a reduced risk of coronary heart disease mortality.

However, a retrospective epidemiological study by Fort, et al. showed that teenaged children with a diagnosis of autoimmune thyroid disease were significantly more likely to have received soy formula as infants (18 out of 59 children; 31 percent) when compared to healthy siblings (nine out of 76, 12 percent) or control group children (seven out of 54; 13 percent).

«We know from some very good epidemiological studies,» said Dr. Thompson, «that 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week is clearly associated with improved health outcomes,» including longevity and reduced risk of many diseases.

There seems to be many epidemiological studies that show vegans and vegetarians dying of the same heart diseases that omnivores die of, but I did not find any studies that prove cause - and - effect with the rates of non meat - eaters and cause of death.

Curcumin: The curcumin spice was first discovered for his brain health benefits when epidemiological studies revealed that regions with a high consumption of curry had fewer reported cases of Alzheimer's disease.

Epidemiological studies tell us that vegetarians have a lower risk of heart disease — about 24 % lower — than the general population.

3) Epidemiological studies of vegetarians, including the largest studies ever done in the UK, USA, and China (yes, the famous China Study), unfortunately do not take refined carbohydrate consumption into consideration as a potential risk factor for disease.

Moreover, the largest and most global epidemiological study, recently published in The Lancet, found that those who ate the largest amount of saturated fats had significantly reduced rates of mortality and that a low consumption of these fats (6 - 7 % of calories, as commonly recommended for people with heart disease) was associated with increased risk of stroke.

While a detailed critique of this study is beyond the scope of this section, suffice it to say for now that the China Study was a) an epidemiological study, and therefore incapable of proving that any dietary factor caused or prevented any health problem; and b) did not take refined carbohydrate into account as a potential risk factor for chronic disstudy is beyond the scope of this section, suffice it to say for now that the China Study was a) an epidemiological study, and therefore incapable of proving that any dietary factor caused or prevented any health problem; and b) did not take refined carbohydrate into account as a potential risk factor for chronic disStudy was a) an epidemiological study, and therefore incapable of proving that any dietary factor caused or prevented any health problem; and b) did not take refined carbohydrate into account as a potential risk factor for chronic disstudy, and therefore incapable of proving that any dietary factor caused or prevented any health problem; and b) did not take refined carbohydrate into account as a potential risk factor for chronic disease.

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.

Most clinical or epidemiological studies comparing people consuming vegetable oils in place of butter or lard claim that they see less heart disease when people switch from the more saturated fats to the polyunsaturated oils.

Looking at all the evidence — from epidemiological studies on diet and health, to biochemical studies on the minute mechanisms of disease — the potential health benefits of taking a standard daily multivitamin appear to outweigh the potential risks for most people.

In some epidemiological studies, moderate coffee consumption was associated with a decreased risk of Parkinson's disease in men [22,78,191].

From their examination of epidemiological studies, they found that saturated fatty acid intake was not significantly correlated with coronary heart disease events or mortality (FAO / WHO, 2009).

However, the recommendation to eat fruit and vegetables to prevent chronic diseases is mainly based on observational epidemiological studies, which leaves much uncertainty regarding the causal mechanism of this association.

The third and most convincing type of evidence that long - term sleep habits are associated with the development of numerous diseases comes from tracking the sleep habits and disease patterns over long periods of time in individuals who are initially healthy (i.e., longitudinal epidemiological studies).

Authors, Harlan and Garton, conducted a meta - analysis of epidemiological studies and found that plant - based diets could reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes by 20 - 25 % 3.

Also known as the China - Cornell - Oxford Project, the China Study was an enormous epidemiological endeavor exploring diet and disease patterns in rural China — a project coined «the Prix of epidemiology» by the New York Times.

The epidemiological and population data, high sibling risk ratio, family and twin studies confirmed strong genetic involvement in the development of Hashimoto's disease.

Interestingly, epidemiological studies show the population of this country has a much lower rate of Alzheimer's disease than Western nations.

~ Resistant starch and «the butyrate revolution» (review — abstract) «Early epidemiological studies indicated that populations that consume a high proportion of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) dietary fibre (DF) in their daily diet suffer less from gastrointestinal diseases, in particular colorectal cancers, than populations that consume diets that are high in fat and protein but low in NSP fibre.

How the Definitions Affect the Interpretation of This Report The reason that a definition of fiber is so important is that what is or is not considered to be dietary fiber in, for example, a major epidemiological study on fiber and heart disease or fiber and colon cancer, could deter - mine the results and interpretation of that study.

A number of epidemiological studies have been conducted to evaluate the relationship between fiber intake and risk of chronic disease.