Sentences with phrase «life exposures affect»

3,000 Golden Retrievers are now enrolled in the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study so that researchers can closely examine how early - life exposures affect their health and well - being.

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More than 30 people died, and thousands of lives have been affected by the exposure to radiation.

In light of Father's Day, I wanted to share some information on the harmful effects that could be caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs, and how exposure could be negatively affecting the men in our lives.

In poorer districts, the high concentration of children living in poverty means students come to school with added baggage - hunger, housing instability, exposure to crime and violence - that can affect how well they do in the classroom.

In 2004, Looy and her former Ph.D. advisor Henk Visscher proposed one way this might have played out, bases on fossilized abnormal plant spores found worldwide: volcanic gases — halocarbons like methyl chloride and methyl bromide — destroyed much or all of Earth's ozone layer, boosting UV - B exposure that would have affected life and potentially increased the genetic mutation rates in pollen and spores of plants worldwide.

More and more, researchers are finding that an extra bit of a vitamin, a brief exposure to a toxin, even an added dose of mothering can tweak the epigenome — and thereby alter the software of our genes — in ways that affect an individual's body and brain for life.

Our study shows that after that early programming state, after weaning, and after the lactation period, when we introduced a new type of diet it changed the epigenome in a way that actually affects metabolism and potentially will reduce some of the damage caused by an early - life high - fat exposure,» Pan says.

While earlier research established a link between parental conflict at a single point in time and children's adjustment later in life, Raver and her colleagues saw a need to explore how children may be adversely affected by prolonged exposure to this aggression.

It could take several years to understand how exposure to the oil in early life will affect fish populations that might not mature and be fished for some time.

He also said the importance of critical periods in a child's development may be affected by exposures and living conditions that can lay the foundation for later cancer risk and contribute to social differences in cancer risk.

Quaranta mapped five communities between 1813 and 1968, in an effort to understand how conditions at birth, such as socioeconomic status and exposure to infectious diseases, affect us later in life.

Exposure to pathogens in early childhood may shape how a person lives their life, affecting how early or late they have children, he says.

The new research is part of the National Institutes of Health funded Infant Susceptibility to Pulmonary Infections and Asthma Following RSV Exposure (INSPIRE) study, which seeks to understand how viral ARIs in the first year of life affect future childhood respiratory health.

«How do the social factors in my life affect my resiliency to environmental exposure?»

However, little is known of the effects of oxytocin early in life and how early exposure may affect later social development.

The Expedition 55 crew explored a wide variety of life science today studying how different biological systems are affected by long - term exposure to microgravity.

Some evidence also suggests that arsenic exposure early in life can affect a child's immune system and intellectual development, according to the FDA and background notes from the study authors.

Although there's no definitive proof that phthalates cause problems in humans, «the greatest concern is how early - life exposure will affect male [reproductive] development,» Dr. Carpenter says.

Sadly, children are affected the most because exposure can hinder their development and increase the risk of developing health problems later in life.

High prenatal exposure to BPA can permanently affect a child and damage thyroid function leading to obesity later in life.

Chronic exposure to polluted air from city living can negatively affect more than your lungs.

«Pregnant mothers and children are the most vulnerable populations to be affected by developmental exposures, and the effect of exposures to EDCs may not become evident until later in life.»

Not only can endocrine disrupting chemicals affect developing babies later in their lives, but there's some evidence that they can also affect future generations: one study on rats showed that exposure to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy affects the brain two generations later!

Early - life stressors are known to induce changes in gene expression that set the stage for disease in later life.30 Thus, unfortunately, exposure to mercury in either parent, even prior to conception, can affect the child's own genetic expression.

In a new Education Next article «A Bad Bargain: How teacher collective bargaining affects students» employment and earnings later in life,» Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén of Cornell University present the first evidence that students» exposure to a duty - to - bargain law while in elementary and secondary school lowers future earnings and leads to fewer hours worked, reductions in employment, and decreases in labor force participation.

But exposure to bacteria and viruses in early life affects the immune system.

Upper respiratory infections are more likely to occur under certain circumstances: crowded living conditions (e.g., shelters, catteries), unsanitary conditions (e.g., when poor disinfection or poor hygiene are allowed), or during times of exposure to affected cats where bodily fluids are being exchanged by contagious discharge from the eyes or nose (sneezing).

We want our kids to lead a balanced life and limit their exposure to blue light from screens that can lead to eye strain, but have you ever thought about how digital devices can affect...

Repeated exposure to these chemicals in an unsafe manner could mean risk of developing a serious respiratory condition, one that affects your quality of life.

Mesothelioma is a form of cancer affecting the linings of certain internal body organs of a patient, such as the lungs, heart and chest cavity, and has been linked to asbestos exposure earlier in the life of the patient.

Two other important factor which affects the premium are the lifestyle of the policyholder (smoking / drinking habits) and nature of profession, individual with life risk exposure in the job, will fetch higher premium.

I also offer assistance, understanding, and confidentiality for the unique needs of First Responders / Military; their continued exposure to trauma, life threatening situations, as well as the physical strain of their job can affect not only themselves but their family.

The «selection» perspective Explanations that focus on economic hardship, the quality of parenting, and exposure to stress all assume that the circumstances associated with living in a single - parent household negatively affect children's well - being.

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive lExposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive lexposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

Young children living in poverty are much more likely to experience multiple adverse childhood experiences — including stress, deprivation and exposure to violence — that severely affect all aspects of social emotional, physical, cognitive and language development.

The early programming model proposes that exposure to risk during sensitive developmental periods in early life can affect women's health later.

Regarding cognitive ability, early - life and prolonged exposure to poverty have been found to be particularly detrimental.30, 35,36 The literature points to a multitude of ways in which the parents» financial situation affects children's cognitive ability.35, 37 These include the more direct effects of poverty, such as poor diet, poor housing conditions, poor neighbourhood environment and inferior access to goods and activities that may stimulate cognitive development.

Goodman and Gotlib (1999) proposed an integrative model of the transmission of risk for children of mothers with depressive symptoms, identifying the following mechanisms: (1) heritability of depression, (2) dysfunctional neuroregulatory mechanisms, (3) exposure to negative maternal cognitions, behaviors, and affect, and (4) the stressful context of the children's lives.