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The global incidence of obesity has more than doubled in the last 35 years!

Women in poor countries have the highest global incidence of poverty of any demographic group, along with the worst health conditions, the least access to education, and the highest likelihood of being victims of violence.

The monitor developed at Bath promises a truly calibration - free approach, an essential contribution in the fight to combat the ever - increasing global incidence of diabetes.»

Not exact matches

The British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have been tracking global trends that show inequality is linked to the higher incidence of ill - health for everyone, not just for the poorest among us.

The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

Given that global incidence rates of overweight and obesity are on the rise, particularly among children and adolescents, it is imperative that current public health strategies include education about beverage intake.

«In view of the large number of people who consume processed meat, the global impact on cancer incidence is of public health importance.»

This review examines three areas of study — one, the biological pathways of alcohol - linked breast cancer; two, the epidemiological risk relationship between drinking and breast cancer; and three, the global burden of breast cancer incidence and mortality that is attributable to drinking — with a focus on light drinking.

Dr. Hommel led a group of researchers in studying 99 patients between the ages of 2 and 21 with IBD, a chronic medical condition whose incidence rates are growing worldwide and has been considered an emerging global epidemic.

Finally, an estimate of the burden of alcohol - attributable breast cancer incidence and mortality by means of a Population - Attributable Fraction methodology (using data on alcohol consumption from the Global Information System on Alcohol and Health, and data on cancer incidence and mortality from the GLOBOCAN database) showed that an estimated 144,000 breast - cancer cases and 38,000 breast - cancer deaths globally in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, with 18.8 % of these cases and 17.5 % of these deaths affecting women who were light drinkers.

Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer death and can be considered a global lethal disease because incidence and mortality rates are nearly identical.

First, the global AIDS community needs to determine the geographic distribution of HIV transmission and to identify those geographic areas with the highest incidence.

«The Burden of Cancer in Developing Countries: A Global Health Council Report on the Cancer Advocacy and Learning Institute,» published in June of 2010, documents both the incidence of the disease and a set of policy solutions.

To the list of predicted outcomes from global warming, researchers have added a particularly troubling possibility in recent years: increased incidence of disease.

«The results of this study found no significant difference in the incidence and severity of AMS between prophylactic dosing of acetaminophen and ibuprofen,» noted the study's lead investigator Buddha Basnyat, MD, from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Himalayan Rescue Association and the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, UK, and his co-investigators.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a computer simulation that helps predict under which circumstances a new short - course treatment regimen for drug - resistant tuberculosis could substantially reduce the global incidence and spread of the disease.

«We have the tools at this moment to further decrease incidence of new infections, but we need to apply these tools more effectively to reach the undiagnosed and untreated mothers,» Fogarty Director, Dr. Roger I. Glass, and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, wrote in a foreword to the supplement.

In a new strategic plan for measles for 2012 to 2020, the organization set the goal of reducing the incidence of measles to less than five cases per million by 2015 and establishing a target date for the global eradication of measles by then, as well.

A new global map of malaria incidence suggests that 50 % more people are suffering from the disease than previously thought.

However, the vast majority of study participants also associated global warming with risks wholly contrary to scientific evidence, such as an increase in the incidence of skin cancer.

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There is relatively little consensus about how climate change will affect the incidence of persistent drought at global and regional scales, in large part due to the uncertainties discussed above.

5/15/2008 Moores UCSD Cancer Center Study: Global View Shows Link Between Vitamin D Status, Breast Cancer Using newly available data on worldwide cancer incidence, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine have shown a clear association between deficiency in... More...

Global air travel ensures the worldwide dispersal of the viruses in infected passengers and rate of increase of global incidence has brought it second only to malaria as a mosquito - borne diGlobal air travel ensures the worldwide dispersal of the viruses in infected passengers and rate of increase of global incidence has brought it second only to malaria as a mosquito - borne diglobal incidence has brought it second only to malaria as a mosquito - borne disease.

It's the tie that binds and while the global average temperature is the defining metric, the increasing incidence of heat waves and longer lasting extreme heat is how the world will experience it.

11/14/2007 Moores UCSD Cancer Center Study: Global View Shows Link Between Endometrial Cancer & Vitamin D Status Using newly available data on worldwide cancer incidence, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have shown a clear association between deficiency in exposure to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B (UVB... More...

Even though the incidence of drug counterfeiting is very hard to estimate, it is certainly a global problem.

Perhaps worldwide melting of glaciers by global warming will increase the incidence of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, as well as increasing the intensity of hurricanes.

This kind of expansive and groundbreaking research is needed to develop interventions that limit the global rise in disease incidence, and it brings us closer to finding cures for Crohn's disease.»

Goats produce about 2 % of the global milk supply; people who consume goat's milk cite a lower incidence of allergies and digestive complaints.

Moreover, «the findings of this study do not support that climate change, a rise in global temperatures, increases the incidence of diabetes in Canada or worldwide,» he said.

This research is mainly based upon knowing the reasons of these unfortunate incidences in human society at global scale.

Reliable, global data on crime is difficult to come by, but the State Department tracks the incidence and causes of American deaths abroad.

For example, a rise in global mean temperature will almost certainly lead to an increase in the incidence of record high temperatures.

The dramatic global geographic expansion and the increased incidence of epidemic dengue coincided exactly with urban growth and globalization [6].

We question the accuracy of the malaria maps used to make this comparison (based primarily on temperature and demography) because in our own work we have observed poor correlation between earlier versions of these global malaria maps and actual malaria incidence data at the regional level (see Olson et al. 2009).

While of course global warming will probably intensify the incidence and severity of some natural phenomena, earthquakes will not be one of them.

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

The document also provides short synopses of the status of the climate in different regions, and describes the impacts of continuing and increasing global warming on the regions, including increased incidences of extreme weather events, as well as the loss of lives and livelihoods caused by these events.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healGlobal Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healGlobal Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healglobal partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Go ahead and show us on any of the following: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Antarctic Sea Ice Extent OHC Sea level Rise Rate Global Temperature Drought Incidence Hurricane Activity Tornado Activity Glacial Melting Like my mother use to tell me «Do something useful»

If the incidence of extreme droughts like this were to increase, temperate ecosystems could become carbon sources with the potential to accelerate global warming, as has been anticipated for the tropics.

On the contrary, the incidence of hurricanes in the US has actually decreased markedly since the global warming scare began:

The Global Humanitarian Forum folded before the World Health Organisation's recent announcement that incidences of malaria — one of the diseases the GHF predicted would increase with global warming — had fallen dramatically sinceGlobal Humanitarian Forum folded before the World Health Organisation's recent announcement that incidences of malaria — one of the diseases the GHF predicted would increase with global warming — had fallen dramatically sinceglobal warming — had fallen dramatically since 2000.

Likewise on a global scale you have stronger heating near the equator than higher latitudes due to the curvature of the earth and the angle of incidence of the suns rays causing differential heating from the equator to the poles.

The global warming connection to increasing incidence of what biologists call «harmful algal blooms» has yet to be established.

According to several leading climate scientists and public health researchers, global warming will lead to higher incidence and more intense versions of disease.

I'm hoping that this blog may illuminate the scientific foundations of the claim that global warming will increase the incidence of extreme weather events such as the Pakistani floods or the Russian heat wave.

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Changes in Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC), Behavioral Problems Inventory (BPI), and Clinical Global Impression (CGI) at end of treatment compared with baseline; incidence of adverse events throughout study.