Sentences with phrase «population health professor»

«Sodium intake is only one — and for most people not necessarily a large — factor in chronic hypertension,» says Hillel Cohen, co-executive editor of the American Journal of Hypertension and a clinical epidemiology and population health professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«We recognize the fact that not only do mothers often inadvertently fall asleep with the infant in their bed, but many mothers choose to bed share,» says Lori Feldman - Winter, a co-author of the new guidelines and a professor of pediatrics at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J. «We thought it was prudent to provide guidance on making the bed - sharing arrangement as safe as possible and provide guidance on what populations are most at risk when bed sharing»

«Of all racial groups, American Indian adolescents had the highest rates for using many substances of abuse, and for depression, suicidal thoughts, and attempted suicide,» said Subica, an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

«For women to have timely access to services that can help to save her life she still needs the community, husband and family to be able to provide access and transportation,» explains Grace Kodindo, an assistant clinical professor of population and family health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Hhealth at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public HealthHealth.

A new analysis by American University sociology professor Celine Marie Pascale finds that U.S. news media coverage of the disaster largely minimized health risks to the general population.

«The public health impact of adopting intensive treatment in the right patients is enormous,» says Adam Bress, University of Utah assistant professor of population health sciences.

«Our analysis found that the lowest satisfaction scores were obtained from population - dense regions of Washington, DC; New York State, California, Maryland and New Jersey, and the best scores were from Louisiana, South Dakota, Iowa, Maine and Vermont,» said senior author Randall Holcombe, MD, Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Chief Medical Officer for Cancer for The Mount Sinai Health System.

«About four years ago, there was evidence of a decline in obesity in preschoolers,» said Asheley Cockrell Skinner, Ph.D., lead author and associate professor of population health sciences, who is also a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).

Professor Sir Robert Lechler, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences says: «We can not ignore the significant health challenges facing our society as a result of an aging and growing population, rising obesity levels and environmental and economic change.

Joshua Lee, associate professor of population health and medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center, also participated in the briefing.

Dr. Iwona Rudkowska, a research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, at the CHU de Québec Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations.»

As Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at the University of Oxford, told New Scientist: «If we have learned anything from the low - fat era, it is surely that it is not as simple as one single nutrient.

Dr. Martin O'Donnell, a co-author on the study and an associate clinical professor at McMaster University and National University of Ireland Galway, said: «This study adds to our understanding of the relationship between salt intake and health, and questions the appropriateness of current guidelines that recommend low sodium intake in the entire population.»

Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, adds: «Even with a reasonably large number of studies of anxiety disorder, data about marginalised groups is hard to find, and these are people who are likely to be at an even greater risk than the general population.

«Across neighborhoods of Wisconsin, from the North Woods to the cities, the results are striking,» says Dr. Kristen Malecki, assistant professor of population health sciences at the UW School of Medicine and Public Hhealth sciences at the UW School of Medicine and Public HealthHealth.

«Despite representing only 16 percent of the adult population, adults with mental health disorders receive more than half of all opioid prescriptions distributed each year in the United States,» said Matthew Davis, lead author of the study and assistant professor at the U-M School of Nursing.

«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berhealth care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, BerHealth at the University of California, Berkeley.

«Veterans with PTSD had a very high sleep disorder prevalence of 16 percent, the highest among the various health conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carhealth conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South CarHealth at the University of South Carolina.

«Given that Canada is currently experiencing a rapid growth in the population of foreign - born citizens — one of the highest rates of any Western nation — the mental health status of immigrants and refugees should be a national priority,» writes Dr. Kelly Anderson, an assistant professor at Western University, London, Ontario, and a fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), with coauthors.

Majee, along with Urmeka Jefferson, assistant professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, partnered with a county health agency serving a rural community with a population of 21,500 people; a high percentage of the communities» jobs were low - paying manufacturing jobs, and the population possessed poor education.

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

«These results suggest that much of the burden of leukemia worldwide is due to the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency we are experiencing in winter in populations distant from the equator,» said Cedric Garland, DrPH, adjunct professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and member of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

«Zika is just another example of how populations that reside in these urban slum communities are ignored, neglected and invisible,» said study author Lee Riley, a professor in the Berkeley School of Public Health, who has spent nearly 25 years studying urban slums in Brazil.

«Resistance to antimalarial medication threatens the health of more than half of the world's population,» notes corresponding Paul Roepe, PhD, a Georgetown chemistry professor who authored the study with colleagues at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Kentucky.

DrugPredict was developed by co-first author QuanQiu Wang of ThinTek, LLC, and co-senior author Rong Xu, PhD, associate professor of biomedical informatics in the department of population and quantitative health sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«Across all countries a substantial number of people who inject drugs are living with HIV or HCV and are exposed to multiple adverse risk environments that increase health harms,» says UNSW's Professor Louisa Degenhardt, lead author of the paper reviewing prevalence of injecting drug use and HIV and Hepatitis in this population.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

But the same method also showed a plateau between 2000 and 2002, after which rates climbed again, says Maureen Durkin, professor of population health sciences and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«There had been little known at the population level about detailed aspects of women's sexual pleasure and orgasm,» said Debby Herbenick, lead author of the study and professor at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead ahealth outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead ahealth sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead aHealth and a lead author.

«We need to understand why these differences exist... and figure out how to translate it to the broader population of physicians,» said Dr. Ashish Jha, a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and senior author of the health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and senior author of the Health and senior author of the paper.

«Quebec introduced an insurance - based drug coverage system 20 years ago that was supposed to save taxpayers money,» said Steve Morgan, a professor in the school of population and public health at UBC and lead author of the study.

We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.

«Aging of the population is probably the most important trend, since older adults are more vulnerable to heat - related health effects,» said co-author Patrick Kinney, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, in an email.

«As Hispanics make up an increasingly larger share of the Texas population, it's critical that we consider their needs when developing and implementing policies about health insurance,» said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice's Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medhealth insurance,» said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice's Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medhealth economics at Rice's Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of MedHealth and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

Liu and co-author Yun - Xin Fu, Ph.D., Betty Wheless Trotter Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at UTHealth School of Public Health, examined genomes from nine populations including European, African and Asian ancestries.

There are some methods out there to determine population size, but this new model can provide a more detailed picture,» said Xiaoming Liu, Ph.D., lead author and assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health.

Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents with cerebral palsy only ranked their quality of friend and peer relationships as on average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead author Allan Colver, Professor of Community Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.

In the last few years, new antiviral drugs have made it possible to cure more than 90 percent of the HCV population, says Harrys A. Torres, M.D., associate professor, Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health.

«This program reaches an extremely vulnerable population at an extremely vulnerable time with the best treatment available for opioid use disorder,» said study co-author Dr. Josiah «Jody» Rich, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Brown University and director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital in Providence.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

«This would be a great time to create separated bike and rail lanes,» said Kay Teschke, a professor in UBC's school of population and public health.

Professor Eric Fèvre, Chair of Veterinary Infectious Diseases at the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health said: «Although Laikipia County camel density is low relative to more northern regions of Kenya, our study suggests the population is sufficient to maintain high rates of viral transmission and that camels may be constantly re-infected and serve as long term carriers of the virus.

«As the use of PICCs has grown exponentially in vulnerable populations, caution and close evaluation of risks and benefits is warranted when using the device,» said Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Health System.

«We've always known that electronic dance music party attendees are at high risk for use of club drugs such as ecstasy or Molly, but we wanted to know the extent of opioid use in this population,» said CDUHR researcher Joseph Palamar, PhD, MPH, the study's lead author and an associate professor of population health at NYU School of Medicine.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Hhealth at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public HealthHealth.