Sentences with phrase «health index approach»

Dr Dickie added: «Through a unique collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which is funded by the Stroke Association in the UK, the next step is to test the brain health index approach in newly - developed brain scanners, such as the ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner at the University of Glasgow's Imaging Centre of Excellence, and in larger groups of patients.

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Employers and employees should consider new approaches to improve employee health during business trips that go beyond the typical travel health practice of providing immunizations and medical evacuation services, according to Rundle, whose earlier research found that extensive business travel was associated with higher body mass index, obesity, and higher blood pressure.

The new approach, published today in the International Journal of Stroke, can quantify visible brain injury from cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) and brain atrophy by translating the million plus bits of information stored in brain scans into a single measure, the «brain health index.»

Current evidence from studies in rodents and humans suggests that IER is capable of promoting weight - loss and / or favourably influencing an array of cardiometabolic health indices, with equal or greater efficacy than conventional continuous ER approaches.

Additionally, many schools use the School Health Index (SHI) to assess their current approach to supporting student health and welHealth Index (SHI) to assess their current approach to supporting student health and welhealth and wellness.

To explore the second research question, an index of family adversity combined eight different indicators of health risk including low income and maternal depression, using an approach that was similar to a US study (Larson et al. 2008).