Sentences with phrase «health professor suggested»

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«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

«Research suggests that these community social connections are as important for resilience to disaster is as physical material like disaster kits or medical supplies,» explained Ichiro Kawachi, a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health.

Gil Alterovitz, a Harvard Medical School professor listed in Kogan's email, told The Post that he was introduced to Kogan by a friend he knew from the Harvard School of Public Health, who suggested Kogan offered a potential academic collaboration.

Research recently presented at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting suggests that helping teens learn to count their blessings can play a significant role in positive mental health, says study author Giacomo Bono, a professor of psychology at California State University in Dominguez Hills.

«What we know suggests that sisters play a role in promoting positive mental health,» Brigham Young University assistant professor Alex Jensen, who wrote several studies on sibling relationships, told the Huffington Post.

But lead author Dr. Valerie Flaherman, an assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF, focused on this group since other data suggests that infants who lose this much are more likely to lose more weight; when babies drop 10 % of their birth weight, pediatricians become concerned that the infants may be at risk of other health problems.

«Our results suggest that breastfeeding duration is independently associated with better educational outcomes in middle childhood, especially for boys,» reported Wendy H. Oddy, associate professor at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and University of Western Australia, and colleagues.

«This was the first study to detect the recent TB outbreak in Zimbabwe, and the first anywhere to suggest an association between rising TB incidence and national economic decline in the absence of armed conflict,» said Michael Silverman, assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and senior author of the study.

«Our findings suggest that teens and young adults who seek indoor tanning may be especially vulnerable to developing BCC, the most common form of skin cancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.

Our data suggest that exposure to STAT6 - IP has the potential to modulate long - term responses to allergens and microbial antigens implicated in the development of asthma,» said Brian J. Ward, M.D., a researcher involved in the work and associate professor from McGill University Health Centre, Research Institute in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

«While lifestyle change is never easy, these findings suggest that eating earlier in the day may be worth the effort to help prevent these detrimental chronic health effects,» said Kelly Allison, PhD, an associate professor of psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, and senior author on the study.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical Shealth effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical SHealth and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

That we found any [effect] suggests this is occurring at relatively low levels,» said Wright, an associate professor of pediatrics and environmental health at Harvard.

The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»

«These findings are extremely encouraging and suggest that with sustained commitment to increase the number of people who use combination HIV prevention, it may be possible to achieve epidemic control and eventual elimination of HIV,» said David Serwadda, M.B.Ch.B., M.Med., M.P.H., co-founder of the Rakai Health Science Program and Professor at Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda.

The finding suggests that this type of scan could be used to identify children whose risk was previously unknown, allowing them to undergo treatment before developing depression, says John Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and a professor of brain and cognitive scienceProfessor in Health Sciences and Technology and a professor of brain and cognitive scienceprofessor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.

A University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Professor Robert Nairn and his co-authors have conducted a collaborative study that suggests exposure to trace metals from potatoes grown in soil irrigated with waters from the Potosi mining region in Bolivia, home to the world's largest silver deposit, may put residents at risk of non-cancer health illnesses.

«Our study suggests that short height in children is a possible marker of stroke risk and suggests these children should pay extra attention to changing or treating modifiable risk factors for stroke throughout life to reduce the chances of having this disease,» said senior study author Jennifer L. Baker, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Clinical Research and Prevention at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

«Our findings suggest that despite the insurance expansion under the Massachusetts reform, access to timely outpatient visits to a doctor may not have improved much,,» said Danny McCormick, MD, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, and the study's lead author.

«This study suggests a link between PTSD and cardiovascular health,» said lead researcher Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the department of medicine at Emory University and chair of the department of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Hhealth,» said lead researcher Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the department of medicine at Emory University and chair of the department of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public HealthHealth.

«Our study findings suggest that the majority of young and middle - aged to old adults underestimate the intensity of physical activity that is required to achieve health benefits,» says Professor Jennifer Kuk, School of Kinesiology and Health Schealth benefits,» says Professor Jennifer Kuk, School of Kinesiology and Health ScHealth Science.

and highlighting comments from a professor in OSU's Center for Veterinary Health Sciences suggesting that Pickens had played a role in the decision.

«These results suggest that much of the burden of leukemia worldwide is due to the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency we are experiencing in winter in populations distant from the equator,» said Cedric Garland, DrPH, adjunct professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and member of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

«This suggests that we have to have two conversations,» said co-author Phyllis Pirie, professor of health behavior and health promotion at Ohio State.

«Evidence suggests risk for suicide attempts is highest soon after young people are diagnosed with a chronic illness,» said Mark Ferro, a professor in Waterloo's Faculty of Applied Health Sciences.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

The discovery, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests that the widespread practice of throwing away egg yolks to maximize one's dietary protein intake from eggs is counterproductive, said Nicholas Burd, a University of Illinois professor of kinesiology and community health who led the research.

«While we can't guarantee that the partners of patients will not develop oral HPV infections or cancers, we can reassure them that our study found they had no increased prevalence of oral infections, which suggests their risk of HPV - related oral cancer remains low,» says Gypsyamber D'Souza, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

«It's exciting because it suggests that by just manipulating one gene in adult brains, we can boost brain plasticity,» says lead investigator Jason Shepherd, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at University of Utah Health.

These findings suggest that lowering the NAAQS for fine particulate matter will produce important public health benefits, especially among self - identified racial minorities and people with low incomes,» said Francesca Dominici, principal investigator of this study and professor of biostatistics at Harvard Chan School and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative.

Professor Eric Fèvre, Chair of Veterinary Infectious Diseases at the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health said: «Although Laikipia County camel density is low relative to more northern regions of Kenya, our study suggests the population is sufficient to maintain high rates of viral transmission and that camels may be constantly re-infected and serve as long term carriers of the virus.

The findings suggest that price of food alone can impact our perceptions of what is healthy and even what health issues we should be concerned about,» said Rebecca Reczek, co-author of the study and professor of marketing at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Hhealth at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public HealthHealth.

«Given the prevalence of prenatal acetaminophen use and the importance of language development, our findings, if replicated, suggest that pregnant women should limit their use of this analgesic during pregnancy,» said the study's senior author, Shanna Swan, PhD, Professor of Environmental and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

«Our research provides some reassuring evidence suggesting that there is no determinantal effect of infrequent, relatively light use of marijuana on kidney function among healthy adults under age 60,» commented lead investigator Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing preventive cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

«While more research is needed regarding to idea of tanning as an addiction, this study suggests that some people who tan also experience mental health symptoms that warrant further assessment,» said Dr. Erin Bonar, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center and a BGSU alumna.

A couple of theories suggest not, says Marc Boulay, a professor in the department of health, behavior and society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hhealth, behavior and society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthHealth.

«The increase in genetic risk was independent of other known risk factors, suggesting that testing for multiple genetic differences is clinically useful to evaluate risk and guide management,» senior author Dr. Guillaume Paré, an associate professor of medicine at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences in Hamilton, Canada, and the director of the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, said in a statement.

«Our findings suggest that excess weight appears to have different effects on boys versus girls,» says lead author Joyce Lee, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor and pediatric endocrinologist at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and who is also with U-M's School of Public Health.

To spark a change of perspective, take up meditation, suggests Rebecca Erwin Wells, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest Baptist Health.

Research suggests a strong link between excess sugar intake, weight gain, and obesity, and beverages are the largest source of added sugar in the American diet, says Brownell, who is also a professor of psychology, epidemiology, and public health.

The findings suggest a need for mental health services early on, said Ferro, a professor in the University of Waterloo School of Public Health and Health Syhealth services early on, said Ferro, a professor in the University of Waterloo School of Public Health and Health SyHealth and Health SyHealth Systems.

The study also suggests that health insurance should cover services — such as infant - massage classes — that have been shown to strengthen the child - caregiver relationship, says Robin Gurwitch, PhD, a professor of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Professor Davis suggested that the results show that testosterone plays a vital role in women's mental health.

In an article in the Johns Hopkins Health Review, Dr. Mattson, a professor of neuroscience in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has conducted research suggesting that fasting for several days a week might provide a multitude of positive benefits: it could possibly improve mood and memory while protecting against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Most of the nutrients are present in small amounts, however, and while studies have suggested numerous health benefits, few Americans eat avocados on a regular basis, so «it's hard to study avocado comprehensively,» the way many other foods are studied, said Penny M. Kris - Etherton, a professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State University.

Lina Begdache, molecular biologist, registered dietitian - nutritionist and assistant professor for health and wellness studies, was featured in publications such as Newsweek, suggesting that skipping meals is a «mean trick to your body, which is eagerly anticipating breakfast.»

«A lot of the scientific evidence to date has suggested that seeing your parents go through a divorce contributes to your own propensity to experience divorce yourself,» author Jessica Salvatore, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, told Health in a prior interview.