Sentences with phrase «health outcomes over»

Our searches revealed no population - based studies examining partner effects as related to PMQ, age, and global health outcomes over time.

An analysis of the health outcomes over twenty years from those in the massive U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) documented a 20 percent greater incidence of heart attacks among those on low - salt diets compared to normal - salt diets.

Recently the health outcomes over 25 years were compared from a large database from the Harvard School of Public Health in subjects eating a healthy (whole grains, fruits and vegetables, nuts, legumes, teas, coffee, and vegetable oils) versus an unhealthy (juices, sweetened beverages, grains, sweets, fried potatoes) plant - based diet.

Researchers analyzed health outcomes over an average of five years of follow - up.

Besides being inexpensive to maintain, Drosophila flies have short lives, which allows researchers to track health outcomes over an animal's entire life span.

Moreover, the study only measured dietary behaviors at the very beginning of the study, yet makes conclusions about health outcomes over 12 years.»

Not exact matches

A common retort by the industry is that rates of the health outcome studied - whether it's asthma or preterm birth - are lower in fracking areas than in areas without fracking, or that the rate of the outcome is decreasing over time.

To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

«At what point does the right to put a view - whether from industry, health or consumer groups - become a right of veto over unfriendly outcomes?

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder David Papps, said achieving environmental outcomes based on cultural protocols of Traditional Owners will inform environmental water management and over time will add to the ongoing health of environmental assets.

Perinatal events can result in associated longer term health and broader societal costs, as shown by the size of damages paid in obstetric litigation cases, which represent a substantial cost to the NHS.27 Follow - up over weeks or longer to monitor recovery, or a future assessment of the outcomes for mothers and babies at a later date, would act as a vehicle for estimating costs and consequences beyond the perinatal period and shed more light on long term cost effectiveness.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

That sounds so much better than keeping a hundred pregnant women over the course of a year, with all the negative health outcomes and petty humiliations it entails.

A new study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact on Hospital Outcomes in the Context of Affordable Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare patients aged 65 and over.

The concept of fatalism as it relates to health asserts that individuals perceive themselves to have limited control over what happens to their health and that health outcomes may be determined by fate.

Shared decision making (SDM) has been studied over recent decades as a method for improving provider - patient communication and partnership, with improvements seen in satisfaction, adherence and health outcomes.

«We did not see statistically significant differences between hatha yoga and a control group (health education) at 10 weeks, however, when we examined outcomes over a period of time including the three and six months after yoga classes ended, we found yoga was superior to health education in alleviating depression symptoms.»

How do social inequalities express themselves in terms of objectively measurable health outcomes, over a very long time?

What is now urgently needed, say researchers, are precise studies linking food, hormone levels and cancer outcomes, such as the EPIC project — the continuing European collaboration that will link diet to the health of 400 000 Europeans over a decade or more («Britain's deadly diet», New Scientist, 11 May 1991).

Women over the age of 65 face numerous barriers to good health: an increased risk for obesity, greater struggles against poverty and higher rates of asthma with worse health outcomes.

While not harmful, screening adults over 65 doesn't appear to result in better health outcomes, according to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Severe health effects have been observed in populations drinking arsenic - contaminated water over long periods, and research has established that drinking water contaminated with arsenic causes skin cancer and several internal cancers such as lung, bladder, and kidney cancer, as well as cardiovascular disease and other adverse outcomes.

«These findings show convincingly that, while there has been a considerable increase in assisted reproduction cycles over the past 20 years, this has been accompanied by a significant improvement in health outcomes for these babies, particularly for singleton babies.

Although sleep apnea and other conditions can make for low - quality sleep, which can then also lead to heart disease, Mehra suggests that there is ample data that show people who began as normal weight and healthy but did not get enough sleep, over time developed worse health outcomes.

By studying access to care and health outcomes for five years after health reform took effect in Massachusetts, the authors also were able to distinguish how access to care and health outcomes changed over time.

Using data from a sample of 2,615 active duty military families, living at designated military installations with a child ages 3 - 17, a group of researchers led by Dr. Patricia Lester, of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, examined the impact of FOCUS on behavioral health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and child pro-social behavior over two follow up assessments.

Significantly increasing the chance of adverse health outcomes, preeclampsia accounts for over $ 2.18 billion of health care expenditure in the first 12 months after birth.

The RI - MUHC supports over 500 researchers, and over 1,200 students, devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental, clinical and health outcomes research at the Glen and the Montreal General Hospital sites of the MUHC.

Currently and in the near future, resources such as the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment and Health; the UK Biobank; the VA Million Veteran Program; and others are making available genetic data linked to comprehensive EHR - based clinical outcomes and traits on over a million people.

This triennially organized joint meeting of medical physicists, biomedical engineers and adjoining health care professionals is a unique opportunity to liaise with your professional colleagues from all over the world, learn and share your knowledge, and discuss the latest research outcomes and technological advancements as well as new ideas in both medical physics and biomedical engineering field.

One baby was born premature, but all four children «were shown to have normal health and developmental outcomes» at follow - up visits over the next seven years.

Director Lee Fulkerson says, «To me, the take - home message of Forks Over Knives is that people can have control over their own health outcoOver Knives is that people can have control over their own health outcoover their own health outcomes.

Instead, studies have to rely on people's self - reported drinking amounts, which can be over - or underestimated, and they can't always control for outside factors that may affect drinking habits, health outcomes, or both.

Over the past fifty years, researchers observed increases in endocrine - sensitive health outcomes.

But until then, I can only pray that more doctors read Chapter 3 in Mind Over Medicine and realize how much their behavior affects not just how patients feel, but their health outcomes.

This is the largest analysis so far of the existing evidence on the relation between dietary magnesium and health outcomes, which includes data from over 1 million individuals across 9 countries.

27 Studies cited by the 2010 DGAC Report demonstrate varied metabolic responses to lowered dietary saturated fat, with certain subpopulations exhibiting adverse rather than improved health outcomes.3 Two recent comprehensive meta - analyses indicate that saturated fat is not linked to heart disease.28, 29 In fact, in a definitive review of forty - eight clinical trials, with over sixty - five thousand participants, the reduction or modification of dietary fat had no effect on mortality, cardiovascular mortality, heart attacks, stroke, cancer, or diabetes.30 Yet, avoiding saturated fat remains a cornerstone of national dietary guidance.

The idea behind the company he founded, True Health Diagnostics, was to wrap a health management business around a strong diagnostics platform that tracks patients longitudinally, over time, to help them navigate to the best care plan and outHealth Diagnostics, was to wrap a health management business around a strong diagnostics platform that tracks patients longitudinally, over time, to help them navigate to the best care plan and outhealth management business around a strong diagnostics platform that tracks patients longitudinally, over time, to help them navigate to the best care plan and outcomes.

In conclusion, whether fasting actually causes improvements in metabolic health, cognitive performance, and cardiovascular outcomes over the long term; how much fasting is actually beneficial; and where the threshold of hormesis resides (i.e., a balance between long - term benefit from fasting compared with harm from insufficient caloric intake) remain open questions.

Through 2007 - 2008, the researchers tracked outcomes for over 19,000 men and women whose heart health was assessed at age 45.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

In this chapter, the authors used existing or new models that describe observed relationships between climate variations, either over short time periods or between locations, and a series of health outcomes.

McCrae's and Costa's early landmark findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging showed that individual differences in personality traits are stable over time and predictive of important life outcomes such as health and coping, leading to a strong resurgence of the entire field of personality psychology in the 1980s and the establishment of the five - factor model as the dominant paradigm for personality.

Specifically, our study examines whether certain combinations of population health activities lead to improved health outcomes when implemented over time by community organizations.

«Assuming a causal association, then marriage counseling for couples with deteriorating relationships may have added benefits in terms of physical health over and above psychological well - being, though in some cases ending the relationship may be the best outcome.»

In comparing the birth cohorts from 1958 and 1970 we investigate whether differences in the relationship between indicators of childhood disadvantage and development and adult health outcomes for these two cohorts are evidential, given the changes in health policy and provision and in social, demographic and economic conditions in Britain over the life course of these two birth cohorts.

Gains made by the Early Start series in health, child abuse, parenting, and behavioral and related outcomes at 36 months were sustained over the 9 - year follow - up period.

It is common for fathers» potential contributions to children's outcomes to be overlooked in child health - related parenting research, 14 perhaps because researchers assume either that parenting is similar across mothers and fathers or that fathers» parenting does not add anything to children's outcomes, over and above the contribution of mothers.

Community controlled health service delivery commenced on the premise that to achieve the best health outcomes for our people, we need to provide comprehensive services, not just your average primary care services, and consequently there has been much attention across the sector to build and strengthen this approach over time, with great outcomes.