Sentences with phrase «in population studies»

The method developed in the study may one day replace less reliable food logs used in population studies on the connections between diet and cancer.

The purpose of this study was to review and describe the existing trauma measures used with adult refugees in population studies.

But there was no evidence of romantic kissing in Central America, and no ethnographer working with Sub-Saharan African, New Guinean or Amazonian foragers or horticulturalists reported any evidence of romantic kissing in the populations they studied, according to the research.

Dairy intake is associated with lower blood glucose and blood pressure in the population studied, though no causal relationships can be made due to the cross-sectional design.

Regular use of aspirin and NSAIDs — nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — seems to reduce colorectal cancer risk in population studies.

Rather than look at the overall number of DNA changes, Harris focused on the frequency of changes in each kind of DNA base in the populations she studied.

More than 90 percent of people tested in population studies had detectable levels of BPA and compounds produced when it is metabolized by the body in their urine.

These genetic variants accounted for approximately 10 percent of childhood - onset DCM cases in the populations studied.

In the population studied by UI researchers, 59 percent of crime victims did not report their initial victimization to police.

«By taking into account the large amount of data presented and the scarce information available up to date, we are convinced that it will open a new perspective in the research of mitochondrial DNA - related diseases, as well as in population studies, and evolutionary and forensic field,» concludes research director Maria Pilar Aluja.

Importantly, unlike many connections seen in classic loss - of - function studies, the gene - gene and gene - phenotype links identified in population studies were robust and translated well across populations and species.

There's a good reason why it would be difficult to replicate Campbell's results in another population study: today, virtually no populations follow the eating patterns he found there during his study.

This deficit is stunning in that dietary fiber has been protectively associated in population studies with the risk of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and various cancers as well high cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugars.

Temperament traits have been found to be related to child psychopathology in population studies, even after correction for possible item overlap in questionnaire measures used to assess temperament and child problem behavior [8, 38].

Caregivers of the children recruited in the population study completed the CBCL for ages 2 — 3 or ages 4 — 18 [33], as this study was conducted before the new CBCL versions were available.

The quadratic term for effortful control was included because both low as well as high levels of effortful control have been found to be associated with child internalizing problem behavior in population studies.

«In the populations we studied, about 7 percent of people carried two copies of the variant and about 38 percent of people [carried] one copy.»

In the population study, questionnaires were available of fathers and mothers, but only mothers» reports were used in the current study for comparison with the referred group.

In population studies, there is consistent evidence that high levels of negative affectivity and more fine - grained traits within this dimension (such as frustration, sadness, fear and low levels of soothability) predict both externalizing and internalizing problems in infancy, preschool age, and school age [7, 22, 23, 24, 25].