Sentences with phrase «longest population studies»

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According to the study, 95 percent of the population didn't wash their hands long enough to kill infection - causing germs.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

While we have come a long way since Johnson made that historic speech, in 2011, the U.S Bureau of Labor conducted a study and found that 46.2 million Americans (roughly 15 % of the population) lived at or below the poverty line.

This new study found that long - term raw foodists had low levels of the phytonutrient lycopene, compared to the general population.

«Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term,» said lead author Justin Roe of North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre.

Venneman et al 2009 were first to find unqualified proof of this long suspected fact having conducted a populations - based study of 333 infants who died of SIDS between 1998 and 2001 matched in age to 998 «control infants» born 4 to 6 weeks after the case infants.

Such trials should be conducted in varied populations and settings and include longer periods of restricted exposure to pacifiers than have been examined thus far.13 Until such studies can be completed, it is important that breastfeeding support and education be incorporated into prenatal obstetric and early pediatric patient encounters.

There are no long - term research studies on the outcome of children with Selective Mutism as they grow into adulthood, and therefore much of what we believe occurs in adulthood for this population is conjecture by experts with experience in the field.

There are 526,000 immigrants living on Long Island, making up 18 percent of the region's population and 20 percent of the economic output of Long Islanders, according to a study released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute, New Americans on Long Island: A Vital Fifth of the Economy.

A new study says no traces of pesticides were found in lobsters collected in Long Island Sound in late 2014, boosting the belief that warming water temperatures is the main culprit in a huge lobster population decline.

Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».

In the first study evaluating patient - reported cosmetic outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.

Additional studies in larger cohorts will be needed to validate these findings, and more biomarkers will be needed to get the completely accurate set needed to screen the general population with the long term goal of identifying precursor lesions before they become malignant.

But Craig Packer, a biologist at the University of Minnesota who is in charge of a long - term study of the Serengeti lions, believes the population will recover as long as the disease doesn't spill over into the park again.

HIV is widespread in these populations and because strains of the virus are more divergent there than in other regions studied, it is reasonable to believe it has been there longer than elsewhere.

Eighty percent of a population of Burmese long - tailed macaques on an island in southern Thailand use stone and shell tools to crack open seafood, and do so using 17 different action patterns, according to a study published May 13, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Amanda Tan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and colleagues, under an 8 year field project led by Michael D Gumert, also from NTU.

For years, scientists studying lakes and other ecosystems have predicted collapses before they happen, using long - term data on environmental factors and population health.

For the booming moose population of Isle Royale, a key species in the world's longest running predator - prey study on the island, skulls have shrunk by about 16 percent over a 40 - year period.

Since the last American Cancer Society (ACS) breast cancer screening update for average - risk women was published in 2003, new evidence has accumulated from long - term follow - up of randomized controlled trials and observational studies of organized, population - based screening programs.

«Dementia, including the most common form Alzheimer's Disease, and related neurodegenerative conditions are dramatically rising in frequency as people live longer and our population ages,» says study lead Professor Robert Richards, from the University of Adelaide's School of Biological Sciences.

The population study findings, including those from the JACC study, suggest that even the partial inactivation of ANGPTL3 — carriers typically have one mutant copy of the gene and one working copy — may be powerfully protective against coronary artery disease, which has long been one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

A long - term study of life history and government records reveals a disproportionately large set of social costs devoted to a relatively small sector of the population.

Now it's time to do a larger - scale study, particularly in high - risk populations, and follow participants» progress for longer periods, Dong and Raed say.

When researchers like Barzilai have looked for genes that might account for the extreme longevity of the centenarians they study, they have typically found that the genes that stand out in one long - lived population do not do so in others.

«These studies from AAIC 2014 underscore the need to fund larger, longer - term studies in different and diverse populations to enable us to develop helpful «prescriptions» for lifestyle change — for example, which foods to eat and avoid, how much physical activity and what types — and to learn more specifically about how Alzheimer's and dementia risk factors change as we age,» Snyder added.

«Probably the best thing that can come out of [MyConnectome] is inspiring someone to go and do a really great job with a big population of people studied over a long period of time,» says Poldrack.

«In Botswana, we have an incredibly mobile population, and the study went on for a long time,» CDC's Paxton says.

The study outlining the framework, published in the journal Molecular Ecology Resources, focuses on the grey long - eared bat and shows that its populations in Spain and Portugal are particularly at risk as conditions there become too harsh.

The Dark - fly project is the longest - running example of an experimental evolution study where scientists follow a population over many generations.

«Census data gathered by volunteer bird watchers is invaluable for the comprehensively study of long - term changes in bird populations.

Citizen scientists can spend some of those long, lazy summer nights helping researchers study diminishing firefly populations

The study is based on the long - term monitoring of bird populations using the same line transect method.

The disappearance of these species to the area suggests long - term population and ecosystem consequences, the study said.

An earlier study analysing the duration of antipsychotic treatment in the same study population found that the use of antipsychotics in patients with Alzheimer's disease continues for a significantly long period.

The preferences of long - term survivors for receiving health information may change moving forward, but in our study population, more people still prefer information in print versus on the internet.

One study suggests the population of raccoons, opossums, and bobcats have declined significantly in the regions of Everglades National Park where pythons have been established the longest.

The research was conducted as part of the Beaver Dam Eye Study, a long - term population - based cohort study from 1988 to 2013 of nearly 5,000 adults aged 43 to 84 yStudy, a long - term population - based cohort study from 1988 to 2013 of nearly 5,000 adults aged 43 to 84 ystudy from 1988 to 2013 of nearly 5,000 adults aged 43 to 84 years.

Earlier studies in other populations in the Netherlands led by Dr. Lumey examined the long - term impact of famine exposure and identified early gestation as the most critically sensitive period.

Researchers conducted a nationwide, population - based long - term observational cohort study using the Swedish Multi-Generation Register to monitor the risk of nonceliac autoimmune disease, which includes Crohn's disease, type 1 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and ulcerative colitis.

(For the general population of women in the study, the researchers found that long - term exposure to air pollution led to small, but not statistically significant, increases in risk of cardiovascular events.)

The evolution of human populations has long been studied with unique sequences from the nonrecombining, male - specific Y chromosome (see the Perspective by Cann).

A new study suggests that an aggressive reef competitor — the Threespot Damselfish — may have impeded the recovery of Caribbean long - spined sea urchin populations after a mysterious disease outbreak caused a massive die - off of these animals over three decades ago.

However, a new study in eLife has shown that the long - tailed macaques of Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park in Thailand are threatening to drive shellfish populations extinct with their tools.

A variety of studies, many using long - term medical records from large populations, have found that certain experiences affect future descendants» health risks.

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

She said that while previous studies have looked at the 10 - year risk of cardiovascular disease among the homeless population, she felt that was not a long enough period of time to take into account the impact of changed behavior, such as stopping smoking.

Bradshaw and his colleagues recently surveyed studies of 212 vertebrates and found that the typical minimum viable population size required for a species to survive long - term is about 5,000 individuals.

A smattering of studies have linked the condition, known as obstructive sleep apnea, to a host of serious health risks, such as cardiovascular disease, obesity and even accidents — but long - term, population - based data on mortality overall have been lacking.

A long - term study of one population offers a possible explanation for the birds» cheating hearts.

In a long - term, large - scale population - based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to cognitively healthy individuals.