Sentences with phrase «large epidemiologic»

Unfortunately, such studies with large epidemiologic samples over many years are difficult to organize and even more difficult to finance.

In a large epidemiologic study, children aged 11 years with reading disorders were 3 times as likely to exhibit some acting - out behavior problems.

Researchers, led by Ralph Hingson, Sc.D., director of the NIAAA Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, analyzed data from two waves of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), which is a series of large epidemiologic surveys that examine alcohol use and its co-occurrence with drug use and related psychiatric conditions.

Not exact matches

Epidemiologic research shows that human milk and breastfeeding of infants provide advantages with regard to general health, growth, and development, while significantly decreasing risk for a large number of acute and chronic diseases.

For example, this could support large - scale epidemiologic studies or remote pharmacological trials,» said senior and corresponding author David L. Kaplan, Ph.D., Stern Family Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts School of Engineering.

Then we briefly describe some of the epidemiologic characteristics and recent genomic advances associated with four particular infectious diseases - Ebola, pandemic influenza, hepatitis B and tuberculosis - that have large - scale public health consequences but differ in terms of ease of transmission, chronicity, severity, preventability and treatability, factors which affect a range of ELSI issues.

Our findings of decreased all - cancer risk with improved vitamin D status are consistent with a large and still growing body of epidemiologic and observational data showing that cancer risk, cancer mortality, or both are inversely associated with solar exposure, vitamin D status, or both (1 — 10, 12 — 18, 26).

Epidemiologic research is of increasing importance in the era of large scale genomics and databases, where large numbers of patients must be accumulated to study subtle individual effects that translate into large population effects.

Until we know more about the validity of in vitro methods, it is not recommended that they be used in clinical or epidemiologic research applications or for food labeling purposes because of the potential for large over - or underestimates of true GI values.

In large prospective epidemiologic studies, both the glycemic index and the glycemic load (the glycemic index multiplied by the amount of carbohydrate) of the overall diet have been associated with a greater risk of type 2 diabetes in both men and women.

Further observational and epidemiologic studies are necessary to confirm this preliminary finding and to extend it to larger representative groups of people and a wider range of dietary schedules.

Recent epidemiologic evaluation shows both urban & suburban dogs are at high risk & that small & large breed dogs are at similar risk.

The Relationship Between Postpartum Depression, Domestic Violence, Childhood Violence, and Substance Use Epidemiologic Study of a Large Community Sample Dennis & Vigod (2013) Violence Against Women, 19 (4) View Abstract Describes a study determining the contribution of interpersonal violence and substance use to the prediction of postpartum depressive symptomatology.

Epidemiologic studies exploring associations between family functioning and adolescent weight are few in number [28 — 31] and our results extend this research by examining this association in a large, nationwide sample.