Sentences with phrase «link with previous studies»

Our intention is to improve scientific knowledge and clinical practice regarding effective instruction for remediating reading comprehension difficulties for students in the middle grades (grades 4 and 5) and to link with previous studies that begin in grade 6.

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He found the studies linking school breakfast with improved student performance compelling, and brought the idea to his superintendent, who was new to the position in the previous school year.

Nonetheless, state environmental officials downplayed residents» complaints and vehemently disputed local studies that found a link between elevated blood - lead levels among children and the water source switch, until, in October, Snyder conceded the situation had become a «public safety issue» and announced a $ 12m plan to transfer Flint back to its previous supply with the city of Detroit.

«Previous studies have linked intake of high fructose corn syrup sweetened beverages with asthma in school children, but there is little information about when during early development exposure to fructose might influence later health,» said Sheryl L. Rifas - Shiman, MPH, a study lead author and senior research associate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

The previous studies linked a belief in free will in people from Western countries with increased happiness, better work performance and academic achievements and less negative behaviors such as cheating.

The team already suspected there might be a link on the basis of previous studies showing that certain antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, lycophenes or flavonoids, were associated with a reduction in type 2 diabetes risk.

Though this study didn't look specifically at the link between attention and learning, previous research has established that difficulties with attention can stand in the way of greater success in the classroom.

Previous studies of people with Huntington's disease point to a link between low levels of a neurotrophin called brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and symptoms of the disorder.

Previous studies have linked lower emotional complexity with a reduced ability to control one's emotions, and higher incidence of depression.

This finding is consistent with previous studies showing that a stronger susceptibility to disgust is linked with disapproval of gay people.

Previous studies have also revealed a potential link between consuming food with anti-inflammatory properties — such as those rich in omega ‑ 3 fatty acids, fiber, or certain essential vitamins — and lower risk of developing a food allergy.

Researchers found that some of these oscillations are linked with blood pressure, but are generally slower, occurring at lower frequencies, which have been shown in previous studies to be related to oscillations in vascular motion and blood oxygenation.

However, previous studies have also linked the Mediterranean diet with reduced cardiovascular risks, including the Nurses» Health Study, which included nearly 75,000 American nurses who were tracked over a 30 - year period.

Previous studies had linked high genetic diversity within bacterial infections or in cancers with poor outcomes for patients treated with antimicrobial or chemotherapy drugs.

These genes are believed to be essential for the normal function of nerve cells, and previous studies have linked these mutations to problems with synaptic function — how neurons communicate with each other.

Previous studies have also shown brain anatomy differences associated with income, but did not link those differences to academic achievement.

Previous studies have linked both short - and long - term exposure to PM2.5 with increased mortality, through mechanisms such as heart disorders, increased blood pressure, and reduced lung function.

«Previous studies have shown a link between caffeine and a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease, but we haven't known much about how caffeine metabolizes within the people with the disease,» said study author Shinji Saiki, MD, PhD, of Juntendo University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.

«Previous studies have linked increased stress with accelerated onset of metastasis in some forms of breast cancer,» said Michelle L. Halls, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Drug Discovery Biology Theme at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University in Parkville, Victoria, Australia.

In a previous study, Freeman and colleagues demonstrated that orthostatic hypotension is linked to reversible cognitive impairment in patients with a rare neurological disorder called autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy.

Previous studies have linked exposure to disinfectants with breathing problems such as asthma among healthcare workers.

«Previous studies suggest that reducing heart fat is feasible through weight loss or weight management, but these studies only looked at small numbers of people and there have been no clinical trials linking cardiovascular outcomes with heart fat changes due to weight management interventions.

Previous studies have shown that white blood cell telomere length can be predictive of biological aging and is linked with telomere length in other cells in the body.

Previous studies have linked foods with a high glycemic index, a measure of the ability to raise blood sugar levels, to a higher risk of gestational or type 2 diabetes.

Previous research from other studies had linked hearing loss with marked differences in brain structure compared to those with normal hearing, both in humans and animals.

This finding adds to previous studies that have linked acceptable air pollution levels with other complications including cognitive decline and fetal growth development.

Previous studies have linked sleep problems with such repetitive negative thoughts, especially in cases where someone does not get enough shut eye.

Biochemist Valerie Weaver of the University of California, San Francisco, who led previous studies linking tissue stiffness and breast cancer growth, calls the paper «very important» because it finds a novel mechanism linking obesity with breast cancer.

Dr Richard Byers, who jointly led the research, said: «Previous studies have linked high levels of the BCR - ABL mutation with drug resistance.

To examine the allergy - asthma link, molecular geneticist Tim Howard and colleagues at the Center for Human Genomics at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, took a close look at two genes associated with asthma in previous studies.

The sequence is an on - switch for a protein known as KIT ligand (KITLG); three previous studies have linked SNPs in this region with testicular cancer.

And as a linked editorial by Dr Marie Pedersen, of the Centre for Epidemiology and Screening, University of Copenhagen, highlights, most of these previous studies were unable to take account of potentially influential factors, such as obesity, infections, alcohol, and occupation and stress, all of which have been associated with an increased risk of stillbirth.

In people with cystic fibrosis, higher caloric intake results in better nutritional status which and in previous studies has been linked to improved survival.

A new Duke University study in mice links three previous and, until now, apparently unrelated hypotheses about the causes of schizophrenia, a debilitating mental disorder appearing in late adolescence that affects how people think, act and perceive reality.The brains of people with the schizophrenia show various abnormalities, including faulty neural connections or an imbalance of certain brain chemicals.

Previous studies have shown links between paternal depression and poor behavioural and emotional outcomes in their children, but no large study in the general population (as opposed to a clinical population) has looked at the link with adolescent depression while taking into account maternal depression as well.

Adoptees diagnosed with schizophrenia and ten other disorders that have been considered genetically linked to schizophrenia in previous reports were the focus of the study.

Previous epidemiological studies had linked sugar consumption with metabolic syndrome, but it had been impossible to prove causation from that research.

Previous studies have linked gene expression profiles in bCSCs with a clinical outcome [1, 2], and in this study the authors have extended this out to demonstrate that a DNA methylation profile may promote these changes, and furthermore, that this profile can be effectively used to predict prognosis, and potentially aid the therapeutic decision making.

Previous studies had linked several traits with a lower chance of developing mental disorders.

Data from over 135,000 people show no link between broad faces and antisocial traits, in contrast with previous studies... More

Previous investigations have linked constitutive phosphorylated STATs to cancer progression, however, our study, together with other recent reports indicate that attention should now be expanded to encompass unphosphorylated STATs (Kumar et al., 1997; Chatterjee - Kishore et al., 2000; Yang et al., 2005).

In a large study of U.S. women without previous depression, higher flavonoid consumption was linked with a lower risk of depression, especially among older women.

Although the results haven't always been consistent, previous studies have shown that obesity, unhealthy cholesterol levels, and a lack of exercise in midlife are all linked with an increased risk of dementia later on.

Previous studies have linked even diet sodas to an added risk of type 2 diabetes, but McKeown said the new findings show that diet drinks could provide a bridge to healthier habits for people with prediabetes.

Previous studies have found unusually high rates of mental - function problems in former NFL players (especially those with a history of concussions), while a large body of research has linked being overweight or obese to a higher risk of dementia later in life.

«No previous studies have focused on how variants in women's genes may be linked with hot flashes, and these results were highly statistically significant,» said principal investigator Dr. Carolyn Crandall, a professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at UCLA.

Previous studies have linked a lack of sleep with obesity and even type 2 diabetes; but this is one of the first times researchers have calculated the caloric effect of insufficient Z's.

In fact, a previous study led by the same researcher (Mozaffarian, Am J Cardiol 2006 Jan) found that while eating baked or broiled fish was linked to a slower but more powerful heart beat and lower blood pressure, eating fried fish was associated with heart muscle motion abnormalities, a reduced ejection fraction, lower cardiac output, and higher blood pressure.

First, in many of these studies I listed in the previous section linking elevated zonulin with disease, only a fraction of the patients with the condition showed elevated levels of zonulin.

Previous observational studies indicate that a high ratio of bacteria in the groupsFirmicutesand Bacteroidetes (FB) is linked with increased body weight.