Sentences with phrase «good epidemiology studies»

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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.

«If you have a depressed mother, you ought to do everything you can to get her better, because there's a double effect,» says study author Myrna Weissman, a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.

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).

«It wasn't my life mission to prove or disapprove ADE,» says molecular biologist Eva Harris of the University of California, Berkeley, who started the study to better understand dengue epidemiology and pathology.

Professor George Davey Smith, Director of the MRC IEU and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Bristol, added: «We are used to seeing conflicting studies purporting to show that something is either good or bad for our health.

Nevertheless, says lead study author Isabelle Deltour of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, «The Nordic countries are a good model for studying the association» due to broad early adoption of the technology and thorough medical records.

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.

Human epidemiology studies in populations in different geographic locations, as well as clinical and molecular studies, show that Merkel cell polyomavirus causes Merkel cell carcinoma.

Cardiovascular advantages associated with the Mediterranean diet are well - known but now the Italian study, conducted by a team of researchers at the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention led by Giovanni de Gaetano, reveals that such benefits are strongly influenced by the socioeconomic position of people.

«Cancer survivors need healthy social connections, and to the best of our knowledge this is the first published study to quantify social networks of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors compared to their peers,» said I - Chan Huang, Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, who led the study.

Dr Eric Rimm, senior author on the study and a Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, said: «As well as improving sexual health for middle - aged men, there is another important benefit linked to heart health.

«It's well established that psoriasis is associated with an increased risk for other comorbidities like chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, but we don't yet understand how the severity of psoriasis impacts future risk of major health problems,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn..

«This program reaches an extremely vulnerable population at an extremely vulnerable time with the best treatment available for opioid use disorder,» said study co-author Dr. Josiah «Jody» Rich, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Brown University and director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital in Providence.

Dr Rebecca Lacey, Research Associate in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and lead author of the study, said: «Our study suggests that it is not parental divorce or separation per se which increases the risk of later inflammation but that it is other social disadvantages, such as how well the child does in education, which are triggered by having experienced parental divorce which are important.»

Its comprehensive strategy includes funding for an epidemiology study; a well - characterized cohort recruitment; pathogenesis discovery research; and a Mechanism of Illness grant program that will fund additional research.

«It might be a good idea to pay closer attention to the results of women's previous screenings when deciding at which age it can be discontinued,» says Professor Pär Sparén at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics who led the study.

Researchers in NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) integrate tissue profiling into studies examining the causes of cancer to better understand the process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells (carcinogenesis) and to pinpoint factors associated with risk for developing specific molecular or genomic subtypes.

«We found an independent effect of each, which suggests that doing more of them was better,» says lead study author Sarah Anderson, PhD, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Ohio State University.

«Given that the diets are relatively equal, individuals should choose the diet that they think that they can best adhere to,» said study co-author Bradley Johnston, an assistant professor of clinical epidemiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

«It's not really meaningful to say that saturated fats are good or bad,» said Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, who wasn't involved in the new study.

«This study raises the possibility that dietary flavonoid intake is associated with better cognitive evolution,» wrote lead author Luc Letenneur in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Where Campbell's The China Study is the «grand prix» of nutrition and epidemiology, Robbins's work is the «slam dunk» aggregation of all the studies showing that a highly plant - based diet is the foundation of good health.

The epidemiology of obesity was studied to better understand the risk factors, along with the role of inflammatory markers and risk for hypertension.

These include the latest clinical studies on emerging developments in renal medicine and the highest level of original research studies in therapy and epidemiology of acute and chronic kidney failure, as well as their translational aspects and genetic basis.

Several studies were done related to child development research and one of the recent studies published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health found that shared parenting serves best when it comes to the children's health.

Based on a 2015 Swedish study published in the international Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, researchers found that teenagers living in a shared parenting household did better than those living with single parents.

According to a study published earlier this year in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, kids fare better when they are able to split their time between both of their divorced parents.