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