Sentences with phrase «large study led»

Most recently, sugar in the diet has also been implicated in cardiovascular disease deaths: A large study led by Dr. Hu reported last year that adults who had the highest intake of sugar — consuming 25 percent of daily calories as sugar — were nearly three times more likely to die of heart disease over a 14 - year period, compared with those whose sugar intake was less than 10 percent of calories.

The so - called trust hormone, oxytocin, may not improve the symptoms of children with autism, a large study led by researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found.

People with stage III colon cancer who regularly eat nuts are at significantly lower risk of cancer recurrence and mortality than those who don't, according to a new, large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center.

Whereas the reasons for the effect remain unclear, a large study led by Devanand suggests «safety and nutritional issues associated with the loss of smell» — the inability to smell smoke, for example, and lack of interest in food from loss of taste — could be contributors.

These signatures, presented in the March 20, 2018 issue of Analytical Chemistry, could be confirmed by a larger study led by teams at the Université Paris Descartes, INSERM, AP - HM and AP - HP (Hôpital Européen Georges - Pompidou).

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Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company.

«We can now generate extremely large numbers of these embryos and study them in detail,» lead researcher Dr. Nicolas Rivron told the BBC.

Wallerstein replies that this is a hypothesis - generating study that can lead to further investigations of other groups - such as ethnic groups in which the extended family plays a larger role, or same - sex couples.

The church bulletin described a large number of small group Bible studies, all led by men.

The «Berlin» type of excellent theological education, which 1 comprises the two distinct enterprises of Wissenschaft and «professional» education for ministry, came to dominate Protestant theological education in North America by the middle of the twentieth century, in large part in the wake of a series of major studies of theological education that were widely read and sometimes led to significant reforms.

In one large study, replacing butter with margarine led to a drastically increased risk of death from heart attacks (24).

Dr Yvonne Harrison, who led the study, said many mothers felt that it would be unsafe to leave a baby outside today, but putting the infant in front of a large window rather than in the darkened nursery was an alternative.

Colon cancer test Non-invasive, virtual colonoscopies — which involve a CT scan of the lower body — are as effective as standard colonoscopies at detecting large and medium - size polyps that can lead to colon cancer, according to the largest and most definitive study to date on the controversial technology.

From studies on socio - economically disadvantaged children in large urban areas — kids who are so hungry that they eat paint and dirt, and whose homes are crumbling around them, exposing layers of lead paint.

«For this large cohort of women who planned midwife - led home births in the United States, outcomes are congruent with the best available data from population - based, observational studies that evaluated outcomes by intended place of birth and perinatal risk factors.

This study, which examines nearly 17,000 courses of midwife - led care, is the largest analysis of planned home birth in the U.S. ever published.

The Chicago Zoological Society (CZS), which manages Brookfield Zoo, is taking the lead in the largest - ever, multi-institutional study of how physical habitat, environmental enrichment, and animal training impact the welfare of cetaceans in zoos and aquariums worldwide.

From the Department of Environmental Protection, documents and records being sought include studies showing whether New York City is aware that large construction projects that involve the replacement of lead service lines could lead to spikes in the presence of lead in tap water.

The single largest number of dead zone reports came from the Hudson Valley (970) led by 597 dead zones in Sullivan County, according to the non-scientific study.

But local governments and green groups bitterly oppose the measure, citing concerns over reduced payments to their localities and school districts, a lack of comprehensive study and how the program might change under future administrations — all of which would lead to a larger tax burden for local taxpayers.

«Certainly, medical school, residency, Ph.D. training, all those kinds of advanced degrees are set up with a lot of expectations, and by and large the people that are doing them are driven,» says Deborah Goebert, a psychiatrist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and lead investigator of the study.

The reserve is one of the largest in the world and has been heralded as a huge success, but this study, led by conservation biologist Leah Gerber of Arizona State University in Tempe, highlights one possible down - side to the reserve.

Milovancev notes that future, larger studies that categorize results by factors that might influence tumor - free margin length — such as tumor grade and location — are likely to lead to more refined preoperative surgical planning.

Researchers began this work at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which led to a large - scale, multi-year study in connection with the Plikus Laboratory for Developmental and Regenerative Biology at the University of California, Irvine.

For the new study, Dokholyan's team, including lead author Cheng Zhu, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in his lab, conducted complicated experiments to compare how trimers affect neurons to how larger fibrils affect neurons.

«For decades, conventional wisdom held that large Jupiter - mass planets take a minimum of 10 million years to form,» said Christopher Johns - Krull, the lead author of a new study about the planet, CI Tau b, that will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

However, the researchers say the findings are consistent with a large number of studies linking road traffic noise and hypertension, which is a leading cause of stroke.

«This study focused on one single stressor, ocean acidification, but we must keep in mind that the combination of several stressors, such as ocean acidification and warming could lead to larger impacts on baby corals,» Dr Moya says.

«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.

Research Fellow, Mette Andersen, who led the study, said, «This is the largest population - based study to examine whether levothyroxine treatment for patients with subclinical hypothyroidism can affect their mortality.

«At present, therapy for this large proportion of patients with heart failure is empiric, and there remains a huge unmet need,» said Scott Solomon, MD, director of BWH Noninvasive Cardiology, who also led the core echocardiography lab for the study.

Lead has been studied and regulated for many decades, leading to a large amount of evidence that it reduces children's IQs at low concentrations and contributes to attention disorders and even violent behaviors.

The pregnant mothers were participants in a larger, long - term study of brain development led by Thomason.

Dr. David Cavanagh, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «There is a desperate need for an effective vaccine, which can be made easily in large quantities, to protect against this devastating disease.

«Randomized trials have confirmed the value of radiation dose escalation for prostate tumors, and the potential benefits of larger radiation doses in fewer fractions, are expected to increase the therapeutic efficacy for men with prostate cancer,» said Anders Widmark, MD, a professor of radiation sciences at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and lead author of the study.

According to lead researcher, Prof. Mark Weiser MD: «This is a large study which allows us to put meaningful figures on the risks of developing mental disorders after they have arisen in a brother or sister.

Last spring a research team led by Michael Tippett, associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia Engineering, published a study showing that the average number of tornadoes during outbreaks — large - scale weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1954.

«The impact of large earthquakes in mountain belts is devastating,» commented Luca Dal Zilio, lead author of the study from Geophysical Fluid Dynamics — ETH Zürich.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

A climate scientist studying the cooling effects of various environmentally engineered roofing treatments recently led a tour of a large postal facility's green roof

«This study highlights the importance of confirming the validity of potential biomarkers in a relevant, large animal model and will be useful in the design of future clinical trails,» commented lead investigator Stephen J. Kolb, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.

«Currently a majority of patients undergo colon resections for large polyps that don't harbor any cancer cells, which means in many cases a person's colon is being removed for noncancerous reasons, based on subjective criteria,» said lead study author Emre Gorgun, MD, FACS, FASCRS, a staff surgeon in the department of colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.

The study, «Prevalence of hypertension, awareness, treatment and control in the Hispanic Community,» led by Dr. Paul D. Sorlie of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), sampled 16,400 individuals, making it one of the largest and most rigorous health studies of the Hispanic community.

«Such biases, conscious or unconscious, can make candidate medical treatments look better than they actually are, the authors of the analysis warn, and lead to eye - catching results that can't be replicated in larger or more rigorous animal studies — or in human trials.»

If the association holds up in larger studies, Chatila says, doctors could use the information to sort out which mutation — or combination of mutations — leads to different kinds of allergic diseases.

In one of the largest studies of its kind, a team led by Allan Templeton of the University of Aberdeen, U.K., analyzed records of more than 26,000 women who underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the United Kingdom from 1991 to 1994.

«This vaccine appears to be safe for patients, and elicits a broad anti-tumor immunity — we think it warrants further testing in larger clinical trials,» said study lead author Janos L. Tanyi, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Penn Medicine.

A research team led by Marc Lebeau of the European Center for Upper Mesopotamian Studies and Antoine Suleiman of the Directorate - General of Antiquities and Museums (Syria) began to excavate Tell Beydar, a large mound — or «tell» — rising out of the flat steppes near the Khbr River.

«This pattern in brown bears covers even larger geographic areas than analogous findings from humans, where the Y - chromosomal lineage of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, was spread across much of Asia,» said Tobias Bidon and Frank Hailer, lead authors of the study.

If unobtrusive brain stimulation proves safe and effective in larger classroom trials, the technology could augment traditional forms of study, says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the study.