Sentences with phrase «family history study»

The familial aggregation of common psychiatric and substance abuse disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey: A family history study

A family history study of neuropsychiatric disorders in the adult siblings of autistic individuals

Interestingly, findings of a family history study suggest that elevated risk for anxiety disorders in the children of anxious parents appears to be largely confined to mothers [48].

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Across the nation, more women are attending college than men, and according to a CNBC article and research from the Institute of Family Studies, 2015 marked the first time in history that wives were better educated than their husbands.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and edustudies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and eduStudies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

In fact, the role of the family loomed so important with most of the respondents that, as Dr. Albert Solnit of Yale's Child Study Center put it, people cherish their families and family history «even when their experience has been less than perfect.»

While my family isn't Jewish, we do a lot of Old Testament studies with our children and being able to incorporate some of these meals during our history lesson is OUTSTANDING!

Importantly, however, the study's conclusions on sugar and diabetes should be viewed cautiously given that the underlying model failed to consider the potential impact of solid fats — such as butter, cheese and lard — or factor for family history.»

8 February 2013 Media Statement Australian beverage industry responds to French study on consumption of artificially and sugar sweetened beverages and incident type 2 diabetes According to the World Diabetes Federation, ultimately the major risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes is lifestyle factors, including obesity and sedentary behaviour, as well as family history, age -LSB-...]

1 May 2015 Media Statement Australian beverages industry responds to Cambridge University study linking soft drinks and diabetes «Leading health organisations, including the World Diabetes Federation, agree that the known risk factors for type 2 diabetes include lifestyle factors, such as obesity and sedentary behaviour, as well as family history, age and ethnicity — not -LSB-...]

Another study conducted at the University of Minnesota included 137 families with a documented history of child maltreatment.

In 1999, only 17.2 % of the PPE forms in one high school study asked questions about exercise - related cardiac symptoms, a previous diagnosis of a heart murmur or high blood pressure, and about family history of heart attack before age 50 or sudden cardiac death (three main components of the cardiac history portion of the PPE recommended by the AHA);

A study published in 2010 indicated a lower rate of celiac disease in families with a history of this disease when gluten was introduced to the baby between 3 and 7 months of age.

Studies show that ADHD affects almost three times as many boys as girls, and there's often a family history of the condition.

Specific activities might include studying a globe — or making one from papier - mâché — to learn where the continents are, creating simple time lines to get a sense of history, or giving a short talk on what part of the world each child's family comes from.

Take Your Kids to Church Several scientific studies have found that teens involved in religious activities are half as likely to have substance abuse problems, even if they have a family history of alcoholism.

This particular meta - study reported that breastfeeding provides up to a 28 % decrease in risk of developing breast cancer at any age (pre - or post-menopausal) for women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007).

Another study by some of the same authors found that babies — particularly those with a family history of allergies — who were fed a larger variety of solid foods at 4 months developed fewer skin allergies than those fed a smaller variety at 4 months.

In general, even in a family with a strong history of food allergy, there is no reason to wait until the baby is older before introducing highly allergenic foods, and some studies suggest that it may even be helpful to introduce these foods early.

Most of these studies examined eczema in the first 2 years of life in infants with a family history of allergic disease.

This week the BMJ finally retracted a Chandra study it published in 1989 based on research he conducted for Mead Johnson: «This concluded that mothers with a family history of allergy should use hypoallergenic (hydrolysed) formula feed if they were not breast feeding.»

Or this study which shows that if you have a family history of breast cancer, breastfeeding for just 3 months can cut your chances of getting breast cancer by 50 % and be just as beneficial as taking breast cancer preventing medication for FIVE years?

Some parents worry endlessly about developing food allergies, but new studies have shown that waiting till 6 months probably won't reduce the risk much unless you have a family history of allergies.

Aug. 10, 2009 — Women with a family history of breast cancer who have ever breastfed reduce their risk of getting premenopausal breast cancer by nearly 60 %, according to a new study.

«For women with a family history of breast cancer, this suggests an extra benefit [of breastfeeding] is, it may reduce the risk of breast cancer,» says Alison Stuebe, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the lead author of the study.

Co-author, Prof Paul Barrett, of the Natural History Museum, says: «This study radically redraws the dinosaur family tree, providing a new framework for unravelling the evolution of their key features, biology and distribution through time.

Murderers who kill intimate partners and family members have a significantly different psychological and forensic profile from murderers who kill people they don't know, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that examined the demographics, psychiatric history and neuropsychology of these individuals.

«Use of steps one to three triage criteria is not sufficient for identifying intracranial hemorrhage and death or neurosurgery for older patients who suffer head trauma,» said the lead author of the study, Daniel K. Nishijima, MD, MAS, of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, Calif. «While we wait for other studies to confirm our research, we strongly urge patients to make their medication history available and known to their families and EMS providers, especially for situations that may arise where they can not speak for themselves.

Links between inherited genes, environment and violence are already bolstered by family histories and twin studies, she says.

Kranzler notes that the taste differences identified in this study could serve as protection against alcoholism but some people with a family history may also have alterations in taste characteristics that put them at increased risk of the disorder.

Another study, conducted by Barbara Weber and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, screened 263 breast cancer patients for BRCA1 mutations and asked them about their family history of breast and ovarian cancers.

The researchers found that only 16 % of women with a family history of breast cancer had BRCA1 mutations, compared with the 45 % found in previous studies.

The study, which compared each model's success in Caucasian women with those of Asian descent (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese), also raised important questions about the effect of race on cancer development: When Caucasian and Asian patients with similar family histories of breast and ovarian cancer were compared, the Asian women had higher rates of genetic mutation, although the rates of these cancers for Asians have traditionally been lower.

M. Dominique Ashen, Ph.D., C.R.N.P., a nurse practitioner in the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins and another study leader, says that a traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease involves checking blood pressure, cholesterol levels and weight; evaluating for diabetes; taking a family history; calculating the 10 - year risk of having a cardiovascular event; and asking about lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exercise.

Gabrieli and colleagues studied 27 high - risk children, ranging in age from eight to 14, and compared them with a group of 16 children with no known family history of depression.

In the study, the researchers found distinctive brain differences in children known to be at high risk because of family history of depression.

In about 10 percent of all patients with pancreatic cancer, it is possible to find a family history, according to the study background.

No country requires them to enroll in studies or make available their DNA and family histories, but over the years most twins have been eager to help.

Christian Rabeling, an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, says that although the study furthers our understanding the evolutionary history of the Formica genus, the family tree included less than 10 % of the 175 known species, a major limitation.

The study (Pre-POINT) was performed between 2009 and 2013 in Germany, Austria, the United States, and the United Kingdom and enrolled children age 2 to 7 years with a family history of type 1 diabetes.

«Our research is one of the few studies looking at this relationship and while further analysis in a larger study is needed, it could provide valuable information for those with family history of colorectal cancer and those working on prevention.»

«Many studies have shown family history to be an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk.

For evidence, Stearns and colleagues turned to the Framingham Heart Study, a classic source of family history data.

Kenwrick assesses the likelihood of an inherited cause by studying the family's genetic tree and medical history, interpreting existing pathology or genetic reports from cancer patients in the family, and offering genetic tests if particular genes seem to be the likely culprits.

Adds Dr. Patrick Jodice of Clemson University, an expert in reproductive energetics who was not involved in the study, «When we examine life history traits we tend to see commonalities within taxonomic families, but Rizzolo et al. demonstrated that within the Gaviidae, Red - throated Loons appear to be quite unique.

Among the factors driving their new study, Vogelstein said, was that cancer often strikes people who follow all the rules of healthy living — not smoking, eating a healthy diet and exercising, for example, and with no family history of the disease — prompting the pained question, «Why me?»

The study — the biggest of its kind in the UK - found that traumatic life events were the single biggest determinant of anxiety and depression followed by a family history of mental illness and income and education levels.

«Our results suggest that hospitals and policy makers should limit in - hospital formula introduction and consider family history and demographics to reduce racial and ethnic breastfeeding disparities,» said Madeleine Shalowitz, MD, a Director at NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute and co - investigator on the study.

In the new study, researchers calculated genetic scores from over 30 genes for more than 3000 children with no family history of type 1 diabetes but with gene variants known to convey type 1 diabetes risk and who participated in the TEDDY prospective cohort study.

The study, published this week in Science, also makes a controversial claim: that heightened surveillance of families with a history of abuse may have biased some studies taken as evidence for the cycle of violence.