Sentences with phrase «of epidemiology study»

In fact, babies who are born to mothers that delivered a previous child a year prior have triple the risk of developing autism, according to a Journal of Epidemiology study.

Additionally, Ladd - Acosta is pursuing the development of new molecular epigenetic methods and tools to enable the next generation of epidemiology studies, more broadly.

Not exact matches

Scanadu will also have anonymized access to all of its users» health data, which can be used for epidemiology — the study of the patterns of health and disease in defined geographic areas.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

Another study, involving more than 100,000 Americans tracked over 14 years, published this year in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found much the same results.

In a study of flu - related deaths between 1997 and 2007, published by the American Journal of Epidemiology, a group of researchers found that mortality was more common in men than women across multiple age - groups, regardless of underlying conditions.

@Theo Epidemiology is an important field of study.

«Epidemiology is an important field of study.

In response to a study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, American Beverage Association consultant Dr. Richard Adamson, former director of the Division of Cancer Etiology, National Cancer Institute, issued the following statement:

In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day for cancer.

There are only a couple of studies that have looked at the epidemiology of heading in these age groups, and thankfully, these studies have suggested that heading is not a very frequent activity for most children, especially in recreational leagues.

One recent study in the «Journal of Clinical Epidemiology» showed that women who nursed babies for at least 25 months total of their own life had a decreased risk compared to mothers who did not nurse.

A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology notes that preeclampsia is less likely to occur in a subsequent pregnancy the closer it occurs to the first.

Victora, C., Smith, P. et al., Infant feeding and deaths due to diarrhea: a case - control study, American Journal of Epidemiology.

«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Earlier this year, a Columbia University epidemiology professor released a study about the impact of business travel on health, and the results were not encouraging: As business travel increases, so do obesity and body - mass index.

A study in the journal, Epidemiology, reports that babies conceived during winter had a significantly greater risk of autism.

An analysis of 17 studies published in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that breastfeeding reduces a child's risk of becoming overweight as a teen or adult.

According to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, most women (59 percent) experienced an onset of pregnancy symptoms by their fifth or sixth week, while 71 percent reported symptoms by the end of week six and 89 percent by week eight.

Members of the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group: Helen Bedford, Neville Butler, Tim Cole, Catherine Peckham, Lamiya Samad and Suzanne Walton, all at Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK.

From the * Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology; † Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ‡ Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; § Departments of Public Health; ‖ Pediatrics; ¶ Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

«It will be important to see whether these results can be confirmed in future, larger studies and in other populations,» said senior author Thomas Newman, MD, MPH, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF and a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

This study provides the first evidence that early limited formula (ELF) can provide important benefits to some newborns,» said lead author Valerie Flaherman, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF and a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

Role of Breastfeeding Cessation in Mediating the Relationship between Maternal HIV Disease Stage and Increased Child Mortality among HIV - Exposed Uninfected Children Author (s): Fox MP, Brooks DR, et al., Published: 2009 Summary: This study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, analyzed the role of breastfeeding cessation and its effect on mortality of HIV - exposed children.

«Mothers who don't discuss their results with their kids are relatively less satisfied and feel more conflicted,» says Kenneth Tercyak, director of behavioral prevention research at Georgetown Lombardi and lead author of the study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

«If you have a depressed mother, you ought to do everything you can to get her better, because there's a double effect,» says study author Myrna Weissman, a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.

Principal researcher on the study, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Trinity, Dr Lina Zgaga, said: «The key question that this work raises is: «When breastfeeding is so strongly recommended across the board by the medical profession, what causes lower rates of breastfeeding following hospital births?

In addition, structured training in study design, epidemiology, clinical investigation and health policy research is available for fellows interested in systematic pursuit of a career in clinical research or clinical trials.

There are lots of good studies in the West on breastfeeding and immune function but I wanted to stay away from Western psychology and epidemiology papers in my post because of their over-reliance on the children of urban, white, and educated parents (an unrepresentative sample).

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

A 2010 study by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit reported that 65 % of men helped «a great deal» with diaper changing.

Although awareness has increased about sports concussions, little research has been done on middle school athletes, especially girls, noted study co-author Dr. Melissa Schiff, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle.

Epidemiology Community based studies are required to define the relationship of persistent diarrhoea to age, season, infectious agents, morbidity and mortality and to define risk factors for persistence.

Epidemiology studies have linked low sperm counts not only to aging but also to being too fat, being too thin, lack of exercise, excessive exercise, junk food, soda, exposure to toxins in food and air, and use of both prescription and nonprescription drugs, including tobacco and alcohol.

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

I continued working at the interface of science and epidemiology, first with Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, a New Haven - based pharmacogenomics company, where I was involved in the fascinating study of human genetic variation and population genetics.

Missouri schools are no more prepared to respond to pandemics, natural disasters, and bioterrorism attacks than they were in 2011, according to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

Thomas Smith, who studies the epidemiology of malaria at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel, says it may be premature to say exactly what the efficacy is based on this early data from the trial, which is still ongoing.

Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.

In particular, devotees of genetics might want to cede a little ground to their colleagues in epidemiology, who over the past decade have amassed a provocative, interlocking set of studies implicating urban birthplace and migrant status as persistent risk factors.

Compared with 1997 (the first EPIPAGE study), the proportion of infants surviving without severe morbidity has increased by 14 % for infants born between the 25th and 29th weeks and by 6 % for infants born between 30 and 31 weeks» gestation,» explains Pierre - Yves Ancel, leader of the Inserm Obstetrical, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology Team behind the study.

He studied medicine at the University of Rochester in the 1950s but found his niche in epidemiology when he took a job at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Georgia, now the Centers for Disease Control, to fulfil his mandatory military service.

One research group needed 20,000 samples for a study of the epidemiology of common diseases.

«Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate of cervical cancer,» says the study's lead author, Anne F. Rositch, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

«This finding helps confirm that skin barrier proteins are important in Atopic Dermatitis for people of all ancestries,» said lead study author David Margolis, MD, PhD, professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology.

Epidemiology research studies patterns of disease within specific populations.