Sentences with phrase «lead study author»
The phrase "lead study author" refers to the person who has taken the most responsibility in conducting and overseeing a particular study. They are usually the main individual responsible for designing the study, collecting and analyzing data, and writing the research paper. Full definition
«This study shows there is a gender disparity in cardiac outcomes for patients undergoing bariatric surgery,» said lead study author Dr. John Morton, director of bariatric surgery at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, Calif..
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«This disease takes a huge emotional toll on its sufferers, like chronic pain,» said lead study author Dr. Jonathan Silverberg.
Retinal infarction may provide an opportunity in preventing stroke, explained lead study author Alexander Merkler, M.D., a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.
It seems that the answer is no,» said lead study author David H. Douglass, a physicist specializing in climate at the University of Rochester.
But these improved survival benefits are limited among African - Americans with colon cancer,» says lead study author John M. Carethers, M.D., John G. Searle Professor and Chair of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.
«With our data, I think we can say with confidence that bariatric surgery prior to total joint replacement is not a harmful recommendation,» said lead study author Alexander McLawhorn, MD, MBA, an assistant attending orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
«It's a somewhat controversial view, but we think Voyager has finally left the solar system, and is truly beginning its travels through the Milky Way,» said lead study author Mark Swisdak, an astrophysics researcher at the University of Maryland.
«Historically, when treating early lung cancer with radiotherapy, progression at the site of the primary tumor was the most common failure resulting in suffering and death,» said lead study author Robert Timmerman, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
«The key message is, avoid mosquito bites because there is no dengue vaccine or specific treatment,» said Rachel Lowe, lead study author from the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences in Spain.
We found there are a lot of values that come into play,» says lead study author Sarah T. Hawley, Ph.D., MPH, professor of internal medicine at Michigan Medicine.
«These glaciers will keep retreating for decades and even centuries to come and we can't stop it,» said lead study author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «A large sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has passed the point of no return.»
«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).
«We see that mammals and birds are better able to stretch out and extend their habitats, meaning they adapt and shift much easier,» lead study author Jonathan Rolland, a postdoctoral research fellow at Canada's University of British Columbia, said in a statement.
«People usually think of it as negligible, but for us it is not,» says lead study author James Chin - wen Chou, a postdoctoral research associate at NIST.
«This is one step in measuring and understanding the interactions between light and molecules, which we hope will eventually lead to more efficient conversion of sunlight to electrical and other usable forms of energy,» said lead study author Paul S. Weiss, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry who holds UCLA's Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences.
«Our study strengthens the clinical association between intestinal permeability and NASH, although we were unable to identify a mechanism,» said lead study author Jay Luther, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital.
«If you compare [Ubx] to many other related genes, you can see that they share certain regions in their sequences, which suggests that their function might be regulated like this gene,» remarks lead study author Matthew Ronshaugen.
«The strong impact of ocean onto Antarctic ice sheet dynamics, or the knowledge that we have about it, is reinforced by our study,» said lead study author Hannes Konrad of the University of Leeds in an interview with E&E News.
«Adults with an autism spectrum disorder tend to have difficulties with social communication, which may interfere with them having a successful job interview,» said lead study author Matthew J. Smith, a research assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
«Our findings suggests two independent phenotypes of recurrent wheezing in young children: one that is dependent and one that is independent of RSV lower respiratory infection,» said lead study author Hiroyuki Mochizuki, MD, PhD, professor and chairman of pediatrics at Tokai University in Japan.
«To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess whether insecticidal bait alone works to reduce cockroach exposure in homes with any subsequent benefit in asthma outcomes,» said lead study author Felicia Rabito, associate professor of epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
«We would recommend being selective when indicating patients for injection, and limiting use of injections to people unlikely to undergo knee replacement in the near future,» said lead study author Nicholas Bedard, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
«Our data demonstrate that increases in the number of primary and revision knee and hip arthroplasties have been driven predominately by increased procedural rates, as opposed to population demographics,» said lead study author Jacob M. Drew, MD, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
«We show that, even in women with no symptoms of miscarriage, a single blood test for kisspeptin more accurately predicted the risk of miscarriage compared with the hCG [human chorionic gonadotropin] levels that were measured at the same time,» said lead study author Ali Abbara, MBBS BSc MRCP, clinical research fellow in the Department of Investigative Medicine at Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
They form naturally but their number and severity have significantly increased in the recent decades, said lead study author Andrew Altieri.
«Although many people may be reluctant to immediately go to a doctor, all bites to the hand should receive medical care,» said orthopaedic surgeon and lead study author Stephen A. Kennedy, MD. «And while routine antibiotics are not necessarily recommended for other bite wounds, they are recommended for a bite to the hand to reduce the risk of infection and disability.»
«Endophthalmitis remains one of the most devastating complications faced by patients, and the most challenging for ophthalmologists to treat,» said lead study author Ronald C. Gentile, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chief, Ocular Trauma Service at NYEE.
«The hope is that ZPF217 could be used to maintain supplies of therapeutic stem cells,» said lead study author Martin Walsh, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Structural and Chemical Biology, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Remarks lead study author W. James Gauderman of Keck: «Considering the enormous costs associated with childhood asthma, today's public policy toward regulating pollutants may merit some reevaluation.»
«Many of the fungi most commonly detected in stool samples are also present in food or in the mouth,» said lead study author Thomas A. Auchtung, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
«There is no clear benefit for weight loss, and there's a potential association with increased weight gain, diabetes and other negative cardiovascular outcomes,» lead study author Meghan Azad tells NPR.
«The larger effects among younger smokers are particularly concerning,» wrote lead study author Professor Susan Busch.
In an interview with ABC News, lead study author Laura Padilla - Walker says, «Even if there is a little bit of fighting, as long as they have affection, the positive will win out.
«We wanted to find out whether there are certain factors influencing the risk of developing postpartum depression that may be avoided to improve women's health both physically and mentally,» said lead study author Jie Zhou, M.D., of Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.
«Purported benefits of HEMS are derived from enhanced crew expertise and decreased time to deliver seriously injured patients to trauma centers,» said lead study author Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, FACEP, of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «However, by shifting to a new protocol that increased ground transports and decreased air transport for less critical patients, we improved patient outcomes while saving the state considerable money.
«These patients have complex profiles before they come to the ER, and even more complicated needs once they get there,» said lead study author Leonard C. Gray, MD, PhD, of the Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
«Under the microscope, eggs from reproductively young and old animals may look identical, but the environment in which they are growing is completely different,» said lead study author Francesca Duncan, executive director of the Center for Reproductive Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
«It's often thought that kids don't do well because they're dumb, and there's nothing we can do about it,» says lead study author Clancy Blair, associate professor of human development and family studies at Pennsylvania State University.
«That supports the hypothesis that syphilis — or some progenitor — came from the New World,» said lead study author Kristin Harper, an Emory molecular genetics researcher.
«A common fallacy is that schizophrenia can be treated as a single disease,» says NYU Langone psychiatrist and lead study author Dolores Malaspina, MD. «Our biologically driven study begins to answer longstanding questions in the field about why any two people diagnosed with schizophrenia may have drastically different symptoms.
«Our study elucidates previously unexplored intercellular signals by which gut microbiota regulate the mucosal immune system to prevent disease,» said lead study author Yoshiyuki Mishima, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
«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.
This is quadruple what we had thought,» says lead study author Maria Papaleontiou, M.D., assistant professor of metabolism, endocrinology and diabetes at Michigan Medicine.
For starters, the fish that both mammals eat tend to be found together, «with the dolphins preying on kahawai and the whales preying on the much larger kingfish,» says lead study author Jochen Zaeschmar, a graduate student at Massey University in New Zealand.
This research also sheds light on which patients we should watch more closely,» said lead study author Anja Mehnert, PhD, a professor of psychosocial oncology at the University of Leipzig in Germany.
«This important work is a major breakthrough, after 100 years of relying on chlorine to sanitize foods and drinking water, and may explain the many unrecognized or untraceable disease outbreaks relying on the gold standard of culture recovery,» said lead study author Bill Keevil, PhD, chair in environmental healthcare within Biological Sciences and head of the Microbiology Group at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
«Sepsis is a killer and notoriously difficult to identify accurately in children, which is why this alert is so promising,» said lead study author Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE, of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, Pa. «Identifying the rare child with severe sepsis or septic shock among the many non-septic children with fever and tachycardia in a pediatric ER is truly akin to finding the proverbial «needle in a haystack.»