Sentences with phrase «epidemiology group»

Lead author Dr Diego Rada Fernandez de Jauregui is part of the Nutritional Epidemiology Group (NEG) at Leeds, and the University of the Basque Country in Spain.

New research led by the Nutritional Epidemiology Group (NEG) at the University of Leeds found a significant correlation...

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In a study of flu - related deaths between 1997 and 2007, published by the American Journal of Epidemiology, a group of researchers found that mortality was more common in men than women across multiple age - groups, regardless of underlying conditions.

There are only a couple of studies that have looked at the epidemiology of heading in these age groups, and thankfully, these studies have suggested that heading is not a very frequent activity for most children, especially in recreational leagues.

Members of the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group: Helen Bedford, Neville Butler, Tim Cole, Catherine Peckham, Lamiya Samad and Suzanne Walton, all at Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK.

From the * Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology; † Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ‡ Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; § Departments of Public Health; ‖ Pediatrics; ¶ Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

But lead author Dr. Valerie Flaherman, an assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF, focused on this group since other data suggests that infants who lose this much are more likely to lose more weight; when babies drop 10 % of their birth weight, pediatricians become concerned that the infants may be at risk of other health problems.

One research group needed 20,000 samples for a study of the epidemiology of common diseases.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

In the United States, more men than women died from flu - related causes from 2007 to 2010 across several age groups, researchers reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2013.

«We would expect to see less disparity in hypertension rates across racial groups due to equal access to health care and equitable social and economic status; however, black, non-Hispanic service members remained disproportionately affected,» said Army Colonel William Corr, the deputy director of AFHSC's division of Epidemiology and Analysis.

«The results supply the foundation for detailed research into lung diseases and clarification of the association between genetics, lung function and susceptibility to respiratory disorders,» reports Prof. Dr. Holger Schulz, head of the Pulmonary Epidemiology research group at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU).

Professor Paolo Boffetta (MD), the Annals of Oncology associate editor for epidemiology and Director of the Institute of Translational Epidemiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York (USA), commented: «These results are extremely important in showing that reducing cancer mortality can be achieved: priority should be given to research in cancers with unfavourable trends, such as pancreatic cancer, and in reducing cancer mortality disparities, both between countries (Central / Eastern versus Western Europe), and within countries, for example, between socioeconepidemiology and Director of the Institute of Translational Epidemiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York (USA), commented: «These results are extremely important in showing that reducing cancer mortality can be achieved: priority should be given to research in cancers with unfavourable trends, such as pancreatic cancer, and in reducing cancer mortality disparities, both between countries (Central / Eastern versus Western Europe), and within countries, for example, between socioeconEpidemiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York (USA), commented: «These results are extremely important in showing that reducing cancer mortality can be achieved: priority should be given to research in cancers with unfavourable trends, such as pancreatic cancer, and in reducing cancer mortality disparities, both between countries (Central / Eastern versus Western Europe), and within countries, for example, between socioeconomic groups.

The working group headed by Professor Joerg Hasford of the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometrics and Epidemiology at LMU Munich is responsible for the methodology, data coordination and statistical evaluation of the Pre-POINT and Pre-POINTearly studies.

«The real tragedy is that children are exposed to these traumatic experiences in the first place,» said Shakira Suglia, Sc.D., the writing group chair for the statement and an associate professor of epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

The NCD - RisC group works closely with World Heath Organization (WHO) through a collaborating centre on surveillance of noncommunicable diseases and epidemiology at Imperial College London.

A cross-campus group of faculty and staff from the University of Michigan's Department of Human Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatics, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and the Institute for Social Research contributed to the papers.

The study, published in the July issue of the journal Epidemiology, offers benefits over typically used randomized clinical trials, as such studies are often too small to identify rare side effects or may be performed in a group of patients who do not take other types of medications or have other conditions that could skew the drug's effect in a broader group following approval.

The meta - analysis of findings from 15 studies by the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium found that around a quarter of the European population is short - sighted but it is nearly twice as common in younger people, with almost half (47 per cent) of the group aged between 25 and 29 years affected.

If there's no safety net of healthcare available that emphasizes preventive care, then these disparities in the onset of the risk factors are likely to persist,» said Mercedes Carnethon, Ph.D., the writing group chair and associate professor of preventive medicine (epidemiology) at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

Ute Kraus and colleagues of the Environmental Risks research group led by Dr. Alexandra Schneider at the Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) at Helmholtz Zentrum München have now studied the effects of exposure to our everyday background noise.

Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin praises the Wellcome group's work for combining the genetic analysis with «classical gumshoe epidemiology,» but isn't convinced by the authors» bottom line.

In a Policy View published in The Lancet Neurology journal, a group of leading experts on the epidemiology of dementia state that the number of people with dementia — both new cases and total numbers with the disease — in some Western European countries is stabilising despite population aging, in direct contrast to the «dementia epidemic» reported in some recent studies.

Fungai Chanetsa, PhD is the Scientific Review Officer for the Kidney Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes (KNOD) in the population Sciences and epidemiology Integrated review Group, Center for Scientific Review.

The article, which is authored by an interdisciplinary group of scientists from the fields of economics and banking, ecology, epidemiology, physics, computer science and sociology argues that applications of complex networks, agent - based models and laboratory experiments offer great potential to better grasp complex financial economic systems.

«Clinicians treating children with heart defects can help educate parents regarding infective endocarditis and its prevention, particularly in the highest risk groups identified in this study,» said Dinela Rushani, co-author of the study from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University.

Dr. Fabian Leendertz, Group leader, Epidemiology of highly infectious diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin.

He is guest fellow at the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London and was previously the leader of the research group «DYNAmic Modeling of Stem Cell Organization» at the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig.

The families were ascertained from multiple sites, including contributors to the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), and the neurology working group of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium (CHARGE).

This year's group of 15 Hottest Researchers each contributed to at least 10 Hot Papers, covering key areas such as genetics, cardiology, epidemiology and cancer research.

Kate is now a Postdoctoral Development Fellow in the Pathogen Genomics group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, working on the molecular epidemiology of enteric pathogens.

The China, Oxford and Virginia Commonwealth University Experimental Research on Genetic Epidemiology (CONVERGE) project on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) sequenced 11,670 female Han Chinese at low - coverage (1.7 X), providing the first large - scale whole genome sequencing resource representative of the largest ethnic group in the world.

The Area of Genomic Medicine is devised as a scientific production structure which will preferably include research groups centred on work in the area of genetic epidemiology of some of the main public health problems (cancer, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, rare diseases, etc.).

Researchers publishing in the International Journal of Epidemiology state that mediterranean diet is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk but this relationship is confined to higher socioeconomic groups.

«Cancer is a major burden for all racial and ethnic groups in San Francisco, but the impact falls disproportionately upon specific racial and socioeconomic groups, causing persistent disparities,» said first author Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD, professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and associate director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

«While we expected we might find the associations to be weaker in the healthy lifestyle group, we did not expect them to completely disappear,» said Mingyang Song, MD, a research fellow in the Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit and Division of Gastroenterology, in a press release.

The new study, which appears in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, included nearly 1,200 melanoma patients in Minnesota and a cancer - free control group.

One of these studies from Uruguay and published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention in 2003 found a 300 % increased risk of esophageal cancer for the mate drinkers within a group of approximately 800 adults.

The Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition wrapped up its first year by awarding $ 50,000 college scholarships to two high school students from a group of 60 finalists, juniors and seniors who had won regional and state competitions involving nearly 600 entries nationwide.

In addition to the literature review, focus groups and interviews were conducted with hospital staff, family caregivers and animal - assisted therapy handlers, to glean vital information regarding childhood cancer epidemiology and treatment, the well - being of patients and families who are affected by childhood cancer, the applications of AAT for various populations in need, the state of AAT effectiveness research, and the considerations that need to be made when incorporating therapy animals into clinical settings.

Graduate Group in Epidemiology, and Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.

The Wellcome Trust presented Silent Signal — a group exhibition of new animated works that explores the science of genetics, cell biology, immunology and epidemiology.

Although the world's attention continued to focus on the IPCC's Working Group I, which addressed the physical science, increasing funding and attention went to the other two Working Groups, which addressed the likely impacts of climate change and the policies needed to mitigate the damage, recruiting experts in fields ranging from epidemiology to economics.

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At the end of December 2001, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics generated a new randomization sequence with 2 study groups (using randomization blocks of size 8 within location) and relabeled the remaining unused study boxes.

Collaborators The following are members of MySweetHeart Research Group (including the authors of the present article), listed in alphabetical order: Ruben Barakat, PhD, Professor (Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte - INEF, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; [email protected]), Alexandre Berney, MD, Professor (Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; [email protected]), Pascal Bovet, MD MPH, Professor (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; [email protected]), Jenni Brand - Miller, AM, FAIFST, FNSA, Professor (School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia; [email protected]); Arnaud Chiolero, MD PhD, Senior lecturer (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal Canada; Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Switzerland; [email protected]), Stefano Di Bernardo, MD, Lecturer (Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Woman - Mother - Child Department, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; [email protected]), Adina Epure, MD (Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Woman - Mother - Child Department; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; [email protected]), Sandrine Estoppey, M.Sc.

Meta - analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group.

Phase II: Individual questions were edited and redundant questions were eliminated by a focus group consisting of 10 experts of child and adolescent psychology (n = 3), epidemiology (n = 2), biostatistics (n = 3) and medical sociology (n = 2).

Diabetes Control and Complications Trial / Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (DCCT / EDIC) Study Research Group

Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group, Child Health, School of Clinical Medical Sciences