Sentences with phrase «from epidemiology studies»

To extend novel observations generated from epidemiology studies to translational studies with direct clinical relevance.

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In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day for cancer.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

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.

There are lots of good studies in the West on breastfeeding and immune function but I wanted to stay away from Western psychology and epidemiology papers in my post because of their over-reliance on the children of urban, white, and educated parents (an unrepresentative sample).

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

Thomas Smith, who studies the epidemiology of malaria at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel, says it may be premature to say exactly what the efficacy is based on this early data from the trial, which is still ongoing.

The population - based observational study using patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Medicare database focused on 41,275 men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer between 2004 and 2007 and observed through 2009.

Dr David Carslake, the study's lead author and Senior Research Associate from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol, said: «An alarming increase in obesity levels across the world which have risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to a recent Lancet study, create concern about the implications for public health.

In order to assess whether an improved diet could reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African - American women, Qin analyzed the diets of 415 women with ovarian cancer and 629 control patients, using data from the African - American Cancer Epidemiology Study, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United StStudy, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United Ststudy of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United States.

«Pancreatic cancer is really unique and different from other cancers,» said study co-author Ka He, chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington.

The UTMB study analyzed 64,507 cervical cancer cases collected from 1973 - 2009 by the National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program.

The study examined 328 patients with cervical cancer and 1,312 controls, matched on age and decade, who enrolled in a hospital - based case - control study drawn from 26,831 patients who received treatment at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and completed the Patient Epidemiology Data System questionnaire between 1982 and 1998.

«These are extremely important findings for those who are suffering from high blood pressure,» said Andrew Mente, lead author of the study, a principal investigator of PHRI and an associate professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.

For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopstudy, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopStudy on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopstudy were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopause.

The researchers analyzed data collected between 2002 and 2011 from patients in the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a National Institutes of Health - funded medical records pool that makes Olmsted County, Minn., the home of Mayo Clinic, one of the few places worldwide where scientists can study virtually an entire geographic population to identify health trends.

Published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology, a new study of 80,342 participants, including 15,220 current smokers, from the Copenhagen General Population Study has shown that smokers who consume a high amount of tobacco are more likely to weigh study of 80,342 participants, including 15,220 current smokers, from the Copenhagen General Population Study has shown that smokers who consume a high amount of tobacco are more likely to weigh Study has shown that smokers who consume a high amount of tobacco are more likely to weigh less.

«It has been thought that the diarrhea that results from Cryptosporidium infections was causing the dehydration and malnutrition that can lead to stunted growth,» says the study's leader Poonum Korpe, MD, an assistant scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School.

In this study, Dr Deborah Hasin, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical purposes.

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, Jennifer Horney, PhD, associate professor and head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, along with researchers from Texas A&M and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, examined concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before and after Hurricane Harvey in the Houston environmental justice neighborhood of Manchester.

Dr Annie Herbert, from UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare, said: «A huge amount of deaths after adversity - related injury in our study were from suicide or drug or alcohol abuse, which to an extent should be preventable.

The study by Drs. Cande Ananth, Katherine Keyes, and Ronald Wapner in the Departments of Epidemiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, examined data on 120 million births in the United States between 1980 and 2010 from national hospital discharge surveys.

The Mayo study used the Rochester Epidemiology Project medical records database to identify all neurologist - confirmed Parkinson's cases from January 1976 through December 2013 among Olmsted County, Minn., residents.

Data from this study were obtained from the Compressed Mortality File (CMF) administered by the Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Internet - based CDC WONDER, a wide - ranging online data epidemiologic research system.

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.

Adrian Grant, director of the Perinatal Trials Service at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford, one of the two coordinating centres for the trial, says such a study will help to prevent medical and surgical methods from being introduced without thorough testing.

Infections with the intestinal superbug C. difficile nearly doubled from 2001 to 2010 in U.S. hospitals without noticeable improvement in patient mortality rates or hospital lengths of stay, according to a study of 2.2 million C. difficile infection (CDI) cases published in the October issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

Researchers from the Detroit Medical Center (DMC), a seven - hospital system in southeastern Michigan, conducted a large study to understand the epidemiology of CDI readmissions, analyzing 51,353 all - cause discharges between January 1 and December 31, 2012.

Lead author of the study, Dr Simone Ribero, a dermatologist from the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology at King's, said: «For many years dermatologists have identified that the skin of acne sufferers appears to age more slowly than in those who have not experienced any acne in their lifetime.

Nechuta and colleagues used data from the Shanghai Women's Health Study, a large, population - based prospective cohort study of about 75,000 women ages 40 to 70, from Shanghai, China, led by Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology CeStudy, a large, population - based prospective cohort study of about 75,000 women ages 40 to 70, from Shanghai, China, led by Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Cestudy of about 75,000 women ages 40 to 70, from Shanghai, China, led by Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center.

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.

Researchers used data from the two countries because they «are the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases and responsible for about one - third of global warming to date,» said Longjian Liu, M.D., Ph.D., lead study author and an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

To investigate the issue, a team led by Tracey Weissgerber, PhD and Vesna Garovic, MD (Mayo Clinic) analyzed information on 919 men and 1477 women from 954 sibships who participated in the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy study, which examined the genetics of hypertension in white, black, and Hispanic siblings.

This study compared data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER) of the National Cancer Institute, a population - based registry collecting cancer incidence and survival data from 18 geographic areas through the United States, with data from the USIDNET registry.

Dr Lavinia Paternoster, Senior Lecturer in Genetic Epidemiology from Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, who initiated the study, said: «This study brought together two European birth cohorts, PIAMA, from the Netherlands and ALSPAC (or «Children of the 90s») from Bristol.

Based on the results published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield», that coordinates a concerted effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.

To use hd - PS, a researcher downloads the program from the Harvard site, connects it to one of the data software packages widely used in epidemiology, and imports to the system a wide range of health information on each study subject, ranging from basics like blood pressure and age to smaller, more esoteric factors like whether the individual saw a doctor in the past six months.

«This research is important because previous studies have shown that a reduction in blood supply to the heart (ischemia) during mental stress doubles the risk of heart attack or death from heart disease,» said Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

A second, unrelated study that analyzed data from a cohort of people with type 1 diabetes in the Pittsburgh area, the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications study (EDC), showed why it is so important to recognize depressive symptoms in people living with diabetes: Those who exhibit the highest level of depressive symptoms are most likely to die prematurely.

«These data are very consistent with earlier findings from EDC which showed that greater depressive symptomatology predicted the incidence of heart disease in this cohort,» said Trevor Orchard, MD, M.Med.Sci., FAHA, FACE, Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine and Pediatrics at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, and the EDC study principal investigator.

The study is the result of a tight collaboration between the Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit at LIH's Department of Population Health and researchers from LIH's Competence Centre for Methodology and Statistics, the University of Liège, the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the Aarhus University in Denmark.

«The holy grail of depression epidemiology is that we want to intervene early to prevent people from having depressive episodes,» says social scientist Stephen Gilman of Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.

Ride - hailing services reduce drunk - driving crashes in some cities, reports a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania this month in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

«Metabolomics is now often used to accompany large genomic cohort studies from biobanks, to correlate genotype and genomic variants with specific phenotypes, to complement nutritional studies monitoring food components or endogenous metabolites, or to support measurements in epidemiology studies,» says Andreas Huhmer, director of proteomics and metabolomics marketing at Thermo Fisher Scientific, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

To identify cases of encephalitis, the study used data from the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a medical records database of all medical providers in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Based on the results published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield» (www.leishield.org), that coordinates a concerted effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.

This population epidemiology study uses data from a Japanese national registry to characterize trends in use of chest compression and defibrillation by bystanders and associated rates of neurologically intact survival among patients with out - of - hospital cardiac arrest.

The study, publishing online January 18 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found elderly women with less than 40 minutes of moderate - to - vigorous physical activity per day and who remain sedentary for more than 10 hours per day have shorter telomeres — tiny caps found on the ends of DNA strands, like the plastic tips of shoelaces, that protect chromosomes from deterioration and progressively shorten with age.

«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.