Sentences with phrase «leading public health risks»

A recent study of leading public health risks ranked ambient fine particle pollution ninth among all risk factors in 2010, contributing to 3.7 million deaths in 2012.

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«If smokers switch to electronic cigarettes or other products that can be shown to cut the risks to their health, this could lead to a big improvement in public health,» said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of U.K. health charity Action on Smoking and Hhealth, this could lead to a big improvement in public health,» said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of U.K. health charity Action on Smoking and Hhealth,» said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of U.K. health charity Action on Smoking and Hhealth charity Action on Smoking and HealthHealth.

The risks of medical marijuana laws are important to convey, said lead author Deborah Hasin, of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York.

«BRAC seeks to experiment on improving quality at local health facilities: Data show that obstetrical care at public facilities in Uganda is very weak, leading to high maternal mortality and risks to newborns.

Beyond the financial impact food fraud can lead to serious public health risks and damage brands.

«Making cycle helmets compulsory would be likely to have an overall damaging effect on public health, since the health benefits of cycling massively outweigh the risks and we know that where enforced, helmet laws tend to lead to an immediate reduction in cycling,» policy coordinator Chris Peck said.

With the scope of the health risks still unclear, a class - action case against New York City, in connection with the failure to conduct lead inspections in public housing, is now being prepared by a lead lawyer for families suing over lead poisoning in Flint, Mich..

But unless evidence clearly shows that e-cigs pose a public health risk, the Welsh Liberal Democrats will continue to lead the opposition in Wales on any restrictions on their use.

«Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time,» said Leah E. Cahill, Ph.D., study lead author and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass..

Middle - school children who consume heavily sweetened energy drinks are 66 % more likely to be at risk for hyperactivity and inattention symptoms, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found.

Efforts to undermine the Clean Water Act and other federal initiatives must be strongly opposed, and I have led the charge against legislative proposals to roll back important clean water protections that may benefit some special interests, but risk public health and will damage the broader U.S. economy.

This research from the Department of Public Health, Policy and Social Sciences adds to the growing body of evidence that suggests baby - led weaning does not pose a choking risk, as long as those foods known to be a choking risk to babies are avoided.

«The chemicals produced by cooking meats at high temperatures induce oxidative stress, inflammation and insulin resistance in animal studies, and these pathways may also lead to an elevated risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Gang Liu, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

«Our findings support recommendations of increasing the intake of a variety of nuts, as part of healthy dietary patterns, to reduce the risk of chronic disease in the general populations,» said Marta Guasch - Ferre, PhD, lead author of the study and research fellow at the department of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Tobias Kurth, Head of the Institute of Public Health (IPH) at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has now been able to establish the following: female migraine patients have a higher risk of stroke or heart attacks than women without migraine.

The researchers argue that adopting such a policy could lead to significant public health risks.

Dr Louise Lafortune, Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, explains: «Anxiety disorders affect a lot of people and can lead to impairment, disability, and risk of suicide.

As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to leave office, a commentary by a leading bioethicist analyzes his controversial public health policies and concludes that he is an urban innovator who created a new paradigm of public health, «reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat.»

«When we examined the associations of the three food categories with heart disease risk, we found that healthy plant foods were associated with lower risk, whereas less healthy plant foods and animal foods were associated with higher risk,» said Ambika Satija, ScD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the study's lead author.

«The emergence of A H7N9 influenza in March 2013 posed a public health threat both locally and internationally because of the risk for airborne transmission,» said K.Y. Yuen, MD, FRCPath, a lead author of the study.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

«People have a hard time seeing research related to health risks as legitimate if done with a corporate partner,» said John Besley, lead author and an associate professor who studies the public's perception of science.

Data collected during a long - term health study provides additional evidence for a link between increased risk of cancer in individuals with advanced gum disease, according to a new collaborative study led by epidemiologists Dominique Michaud at Tufts University School of Medicine and Elizabeth Platz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Kimmel Cancer Chealth study provides additional evidence for a link between increased risk of cancer in individuals with advanced gum disease, according to a new collaborative study led by epidemiologists Dominique Michaud at Tufts University School of Medicine and Elizabeth Platz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Kimmel Cancer CHealth and Kimmel Cancer Center.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communHealth - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communhealth educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communities.

High blood pressure is a leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke and is also a significant public health burden, costing the United States about $ 110 billion in direct and indirect costs in 2015, according to American Heart Association estimates.

We believe that genetic variation is an important factor contributing to this risk or resilience,» said senior author Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who leads the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute.

«We've been targeting traditional risk factors in public health campaigns for many years,» said Susan Cheng, M.D., M.P.H., study lead author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. «We wanted to take a look at how well we've been doing over time at keeping these risk factors from causing heart and vascular disease — both by preventing the risks from occurring and by minimizing their effects when they do occur.»

«Our results, based on in - depth interviews with seniors and their caregivers, add to a growing body of evidence that this decline in dementia risk is a real phenomenon, and that the expected future growth in the burden of dementia may not be as extensive as once thought,» says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the U-M Medical School, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

Among pregnant women infected with HIV, the use of antiretroviral (ARV) medications early in pregnancy to treat their HIV or to prevent mother - to - child transmission of HIV does not appear to increase the risk of birth defects in their infants, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Dr Rebecca Lacey, Research Associate in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and lead author of the study, said: «Our study suggests that it is not parental divorce or separation per se which increases the risk of later inflammation but that it is other social disadvantages, such as how well the child does in education, which are triggered by having experienced parental divorce which are important.»

«Autism spectrum disorders are lifelong conditions for which there is no cure and limited treatment options, so there is an urgent need to identify any risk factors that we could mitigate, such as pollution,» said lead author Evelyn Talbott, Dr.P.H., professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health.

Eating more whole fruits, particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples, was significantly associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers.

To help provide accurate estimates of long - term risks, a team led by Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, studied information on 133,824 living kidney donors from 1987 to 2015, as reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

«Public health officials, legislators and clinicians should continue efforts and allocate resources to further decrease environmental lead exposure to children in all communities at risk.»

Prenatal exposure to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in drinking water may increase the risk of stillbirth and placental abruption, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher.

«We believe the mother's immune response to HSV - 2 could be disrupting fetal central nervous system development, raising risk for autism,» says lead author Milada Mahic, a post-doctoral research scientist with the Center for Infection and Immunity and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the child, according to a study led by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

The findings suggest that athletes who don't receive immediate treatment for concussion risk further insult to the brain and may take longer to recover, said Breton Asken, the study's lead author and a student in the neuropsychology track of the clinical psychology doctoral program at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, part of UF Health.

«We found that genetic susceptibility to BD can increase the risk for suicide attempt, but only among those who also have experienced traumatic stress such as bullying, sexual abuse, and domestic violence,» said lead author Holly Wilcox, PhD, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

deCODE has identified key variations in the sequence of the genome conferring increased risk of major public health challenges from cardiovascular disease to cancer, and employs its gene discovery engine to develop DNA - based tests to assess individual risk of common diseases; to license its tests and intellectual property to partners; and to provide comprehensive, leading - edge contract services to companies and research institutions around the globe.

Even with corrosion control, Edwards said the continued use of lead pipes throughout the country poses a constant public health risk.

Public interest in possible health threats posed by EDCs is on the rise, leading to development of federal and state policies designed to regulate or mediate perceived EDC health risk.

February 6, 2004 Gene encoding FLAP also confers risk for stroke; discovery pinpoints common biological mechanism underlying two of the world's biggest public health challenges In a paper published in the online edition of Nature Genetics, a deCODE - led team of...

Kilpatrick is lead author of another paper in this issue on «Conservation of biodiversity as a strategy for improving human health and well - being,» in which he examined the evidence linking biodiversity to disease risk and outlined the steps needed to develop biodiversity conservation into a public health control strategy.

«Any red meat you eat contributes to the risk,» said An Pan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study, published online Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.Eating a serving of nuts instead of beef or pork was associated with a 19 % lower risk of dying during the study.

«People who maintain the leanest body shape have the lowest risk of dying prematurely,» said lead researcher Dr. Mingyang Song, a research fellow in the departments of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston.

«The association is significant in that it's real, but that doesn't mean it's not a very low risk,» says lead author Madelyn S. Gould, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and public health at Columbia University, in New York.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) released a 68 - page report detailing the potential of artificial food dyes to contribute to hyperactivity in children, increase cancer risk and lead to other health problems.

Our two leading killers are to a large extent preventable by appropriate diet and lifestyle modifications, such as eating these vegetables, which when consumed regularly, may lower the risk of premature degenerative diseases and improve public health.

Prof Jennie Brand - Miller is leading the work program responsible for communicating and exploiting the findings of PREVIEW to convert new knowledge into strategies to reduce the risk of diabetes, including web - based lifestyle interventions for the public and collaborations between food industry and health professionals on development of innovative products and ingredients.