Sentences with phrase «focused study suggests»

«Depression among young teens linked to cannabis use at 18: Seattle - focused study suggests earlier intervention with depressed youths could reduce rate of cannabis - use disorder.»

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Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

Findings from a Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) study suggest companies» focus on employee retention fell in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

A University of California, Davis study suggests focusing on the present may actually lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

Rather than try to be all things to all people, this study suggests that salespeople should focus on those industries and departments with a positive perception of vendors — and prepare to work harder in industries that don't.

Thereâ $ ™ s lots of material out there that suggests mixing up the groups every year to keep them fresh and focused on a study book or whatever.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

The study of neuroplasticity confirms that when we intentionally and repeatedly focus on «taking in the good» — as neuropsychologist Rick Hanson PhD, suggests — we cause changes in our neurons that shift us away from the innate bias toward always looking for threat.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

Findings from Australian and US studies suggest focusing on men's needs can reduce paternal stress, improve maternal and paternal satisfaction, enhance interpersonal skills and paternal involvement with household tasks (Diemer, 1997; Dellmann, 2004), whilst a study from the UK found that fathers wanted more information given in the antenatal period on parenting, baby care and relationships (Deave and Johnson, 2008).

Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also estimated that 4.3 % of men with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.

The study's authors suggest that efforts to reduce consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behaviour to use appliances more efficiently.

A study of four medical marijuana outlets in California suggests that many of their customers don't fit the profile expected for businesses focused on sick patients.

Discussing a wide range of ideas and empirical studies that support them, West - Eberhard focuses on showing what recent findings in development, physiology, and behavior suggest about the origins of evolutionary novelties.

Studies suggesting cognitive benefits of the Mediterranean diet, which is rich in MUFAs, inspired the researchers to focus on this group of fatty acids.

Researchers are also tracking induced earthquakes in Canada, and the current batch of studies suggests that fracking might be more significant than wastewater disposal for causing earthquakes in that country, according to focus section co-editor David Eaton of the University of Calgary.

But a new study suggests that doctors should also focus on patients who were taking such medicines before their operations.

Based on simulations using real weather data in the Atlantic Ocean, the work was focused specifically on the transport of water from the tropics of the Caribbean to the Iberian Peninsula in Spain, but it suggests a more general way to study the transport of tropical water vapor globally.

The study focused on certain abnormalities with previously suggested links to autism.

Although obesity is considered a risk factor for heart disease, the study results suggest that focusing directly or exclusively on weight loss can be counterproductive by discouraging women from keeping health appointments, further reducing the chances that they will receive appropriate monitoring and counseling.

However, our study also suggests that previously admitted patients, particularly those with prior suicidality, remain at a markedly elevated risk of suicide for years and should be a focus of efforts to decrease suicide in the community,» the article concludes.

The fact that only just over a third of men and women reporting a problem meeting all three criteria had sought professional help in the last year, suggests that a huge number of people experiencing dysfunction are not receiving help — around 1.2 million in the UK and 5.8 million in the U.S. Overall, this study helps demonstrate how the DSM - 5 diagnostic criteria impose a focus on clinically significant symptoms, posing promising applications in both clinical and research contexts.

Studies suggest that more appropriate questions could focus on resilience, by looking at the percentage of households that report having a stable food supply throughout the year and the average length of time for which households in the community have an emergency food supply after a disaster.

«This study suggests that the path to excellence in readmission is a result of an approach that focuses on the patient as a whole rather than on what caused them to be admitted,» said senior author and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines, Jr..

The results of this study suggest that counseling focused only on informing patients about the negative consequences of drug and alcohol use may miss a key aspect of why people are using these substances.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

Previous studies had suggested that meditation does something similar for parts of the brain involved in focused attention.

Shalowitz and colleagues suggest future studies should focus on defining areas with poor clinical outcomes attributed to geographic factors, and creating a comprehensive national, geographically - linked database on the utilization of gynecologic cancer care and clinical outcomes.

Study author, Wendy Macdowall, Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our results suggest we need a broader framing of sex education in schools that addresses the needs of both young men and women, with a move away from the traditional female - focused «periods, pills and pregnancy» approach.

The co-authors suggest that future studies looking to find and study possibly habitable planets around short - term binary stars should focus on those with longer orbital periods than about 7.5 days.

The analyses are highlighting the tangled paths of spider evolution, bringing into focus the complexities of spider silk and venom, and suggesting molecular - based ways to study these animals» behaviors.

The study, published in the journal Emotion, suggests that it is easier to ignore negative images than positive ones when we are focusing on other things.

Study authors suggest that breaking the cycle of transmission of drug - resistant TB requires a greater focus on infection control efforts — while also maintaining global programs to quickly detect and effectively treat all people with TB.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

Although there is anecdotal evidence that suggests shorter adults wait longer for lung transplantation, this is the first study to the researchers» knowledge of an analysis that focuses on the impact of short stature on waiting time and waiting list mortality.

«Our study suggests that these efforts should consider time of day and also focus on increasing lower - intensity physical activity and reducing inactivity.»

The initial findings of the study nevertheless suggest that this enzyme may have other, as yet unknown, functions, so the scientists focused on the consequences of a deregulation of MOCOS synthesis.

Importantly, our study suggests that, by focusing research exclusively on adults, it is likely that we will underestimate the number of species vulnerable to decreasing levels of oxygen in the marine environment.»

«There's something about our brains that makes it possible to take advantage of the things you've already paid attention to and to keep paying attention to them,» even when you are focused on something else, suggests Melissa Baese - Berk, a linguist at the University of Oregon and a co-author of the study.

The study, which is the first detailed assessment of public and charitable funding to UK researchers focusing on bacteriology and antibiotic research, suggests that present levels of funding for antibiotic research in the UK are inadequate, and will need to be urgently increased if the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance is to be tackled effectively by UK researchers.

However, he said the degree of difference in earnings suggested the horizontal stratification in education across field of study appears to be more consequential than the usual focus on vertical stratification, which refers to the earnings gap between levels of education.

Looked at another way, the CDC study suggests that parents of overweight and obese kids should focus on weight loss, not salt reduction.

And, while not the focus of the study, early evidence suggests the MRI probe improves memory, too, by binding to the toxins to render them «handcuffed» to do further damage.

A study conducted by researchers at LSU Health New Orleans suggests that age is an important factor in the association between cancer and sugar - sweetened beverages and recommends that intervention programs to reduce consumption of added sugar be focused on lower socio - economic status, young males, as well as cervical cancer survivors.

«The results of the study suggest a need to focus on new ways to treat the underlying causes of agitation and confusion in the elderly,» said lead author Mark Olfson.

«These findings suggest that focusing on genes with conserved expression levels among primates may be helpful in identifying promising candidates for disease - association studies,» the researchers write.

That's about 2000 years earlier than suggested by previous studies focusing on a different, more selective set of genes known as the exome, but it's in line with recent archaeological findings that point to distinctly Tibetan permanent settlements appearing between 3600 and 5200 years ago, Yang says.

«Currently, there is a lot of focus on the use of antibodies transferred passively or through a vaccine to prevent infection in infants, however this study cautions against that and suggests that broadly neutralizing antibodies may actually aid in enhancing transmission from mother to child,» added Sagar, an attending physician in infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center.

«Some studies suggested that exosomes harbored the potential to regulate cancer cell metabolism, but most research had focused on the exosomes that were produced and emitted by cancer cells themselves.

And although the study focused on this particular star — known as WD 1425 +540 — the fact that its planetary system shares characteristics with our solar system strongly suggests that other planetary systems would also.The researchers observed WD 1425 +540 with the Keck Telescope in 2008 and 2014, and with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014.