Sentences with phrase «more long term studies»

He urged more residents to get their blood tested so that more long term studies can be undertaken.

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A large, long - term study of male smokers found that those who regularly took Vitamin A were more likely to get lung cancer than those who didn't.
For more about millennials» opinions of employee loyalty and long - term goals, as well as the importance of health care and working for an ethical company, check out the infographic below and Bentley University's study.
Earlier studies have suggested the effects of calorie - labeling at fast - food restaurants are minor at best, but there was a hope that the long - term impact would be more substantial.
But for investors who study the forces that govern stock prices long term, the outlook was no more upbeat after the election than it was before — and it was far from terrific.
But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.
«There need to be many more studies tracking the long - term effects of prolonged and repeated sessions of tDCS,» Price says.
While alcohol is often associated with a poorer memory, the study explained that, «alcohol blocks the learning of new information and therefore the brain has more resources available to lay down other recently learned information into long - term memory.»
Academic research on the benefits of mindfulness is still in short supply since the movement is new, but there are studies that show the long - term impact stress has on the brain, and more specifically the hippocampus.
If you think this isn't important, bear in mind that long - term studies show that working 11 or more hours a day at least doubles the risk of depression.
Actually, people in studies who showed «more rapid and greater initial weight loss» also have «lower body weight at the end of long - term follow - up,» the researchers write.
According to a study from Northwestern University and Redeemer University College in Ontario, Canada, those who trust their partners are more likely to be in long - term, successful relationships.
The gist of these studies is this: Over time, investors who buy and hold long - term investments, and specifically low - cost index funds, earn more money than investors chasing the latest investment trend.
While smaller - company stocks tend to be more volatile than the stocks of larger firms, studies indicate that their average long - term returns have been greater.
When it comes down to it, in a stock market that is feeling more uncertain and volatile than it has in several years, and when income vehicles are priced at a premium, there's a certain wisdom (or at least well - studied prudence) in considering a slightly lower dividend in exchange for the potential for greater stability and long - term return.
Mintz does cite one study showing that «serious social, emotional or psychological problems» are 2.5 times more frequent in the long term among children of divorced parents, but the citation is buried in a footnote.
«Clinical studies have shown that when you reach 10 or more treatments, you will see more long - term effects or benefits,» Lafferty said.
Long - term studies have shown that secure individuals are more likely to be outgoing, popular, well - adjusted, compassionate, and altruistic.
«Nothing is more important than the attachment relationship,» says Alan Sroufe, who, together with colleagues, performed a series of landmark studies to discover the long - term impact of a secure attachment.
«In five years, our study will be complete and we will know much more about the longer - term effects,» Badger said.
When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)
But until more studies are done or the long - term effects of marijuana use and breast feeding are known, I say better safe, than sorry.
«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.
In studies tracking children over the long term, such babies have ended up with better outcomes than their more laid - back peers — if they were raised by sensitive, responsive parents (Stright et al 2008; Pluess and Belsky 2010).
The long - term study of more than 3,000 men and women in Copenhagen found that those who were breastfed for 7 to 9 months averaged IQ scores that were 6.6 points higher at age 27 than adults who were nursed for 1 month or less.
In fact, helping her learn to manage her cravings may have a long - term benefit: Two recent studies in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that preschoolers who had trouble waiting several minutes to get candy or other treats were significantly more likely to be overweight by their preteen years.
Long - term studies show that the more involved fathers are after separation and divorce, the better.
So he and his colleagues analyzed data on 10,623 males who were enrolled in a long term health study as teenagers and have been followed for more than 20 years.
Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27
In my 40 years of studying the long - term effects of what parents do to help their children turn out well, AP kids generally are more: empathetic and compassionate, relate better to people, are easier to discipline, and are just nicer to be around.
Mothers reported more symptoms of psychological distress24, 25 and low self - efficacy.26, 27 And, although mothers report more depressive symptoms at the time their infants are experiencing colic, 28,29 research on maternal depression 3 months after the remittance of infant colic is mixed.30, 31 The distress mothers of colic infants report may arise out of their difficulties in soothing their infants as well as within their everyday dyadic interactions.32 The few studies to date that have examined the long - term consequences of having a colicky child, however, indicate that there are no negative outcomes for parent behaviour and, importantly, for the parent - child relationship.
According to statistics kept by the Centers for Disease Control, in 2007, girls» soccer players reported 29,167 concussions, second only to football players.And, a study published in the Jan. 2011 edition of theJournal of Athletic Training said female athletes experience more physical long - term symptoms than male athletes.
Long - term studies, conducted over the course of a season or several years, also have the potential to provide more information on the sports and practices that are most susceptible to head trauma.
More resources and studies are needed in this area to study long term impact of injuries.
They found that milk from women who'd been lactating for more than a year had significantly higher fat and energy content, but they acknowledge that «the long - term effects of such high fat intake have not been studied».
Maybe the effects are different or more long term than this 3 - 6 month study suggests.
Studies show that household income for women and children is more likely to drop below the poverty level immediately following a divorce, 13 declining by as much as 50 percent and causing substantial reductions in earnings capability and long - term wealth.14 Compared with children in intact families, children of divorced parents:
The premise of this study was to explore the attitudes of health professionals in the USA towards long - term breastfeeding, and then to show them an educational display to promote more positive attitudes and knowledge towards the idea.
Studies also show that paid leave helps women breastfeed more successfully and for longer periods of time, enabling both mom and baby to reap the powerful long - term health benefits of breastfeeding.
Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.
He urged more residents to get their blood tested so that more long - term studies can be undertaken.
This is the finding from Understanding Society, a long term study of 40,000 UK households, which asked more than 2,000 10 - 15 year olds how frequently they stayed out past 9.00 pm without their parents knowing where they were.
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.
«More long - term studies are required to ensure that the results can be confidently translated into clinical practice, however, the science at this point in time is compelling and should not be ignored.»
Their study, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, documents a coral bleaching event in the Caribbean in minute detail and sheds light on how it changed a coral's community of algae — a change that could have long - term consequences for coral health, as bleaching is predicted to occur more frequently in the future.
A new study of long - term snow monitoring sites in the western United States found declines in snowpack at more than 90 percent of those sites — and one - third of the declines were deemed significant.
The amount of evidence will continue to expand as more countries implement standardized packaging and as studies assessing the longer - term effects of the Australian policy become available.
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.
«Several studies demonstrate that pre - and postoperative sleep disturbances worsen pain and, more importantly, predict the onset of long - term postoperative pain.
They were following up on the results of a long - term study from the Harvard School of Public Health that had suggested yogurt, more than any other food, helped to prevent age - related weight gain.
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