Sentences with phrase «population studies suggest»

Large population studies suggest that getting omega - 3 fatty acids in the diet, primarily from fish, helps protect against stroke caused by plaque build up and blood clots in the arteries that lead to the brain.

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Some studies suggest that for specific populations, like people who have been diagnosed with heart disease or are obese, fitness trackers can motivate them to move more, at least for several months.

The authors of the study suggest, however, that more still needs to be done, as currently only about 60 % of the population has access to the free drugs...

New research from Harvard University actually suggests that attending «religious services» at least once a week will significantly lower your risk of dying over the next decade and a half — and these results have been replicated in enough studies and populations to be considered highly reliable.

I'd love to know where you plucked your figures from, because most scientific studies seem to suggest that the majority (between 60 % and 80 % depending on the study) of the population are actually bise.xual in that they are attracted to members of both se.xes (although a large majority of these people never cross into acting on any same - s.

Several studies suggest that these systemic pesticides have been linked to bee population declines.

A study commissioned by the Canadian health minister suggests that maternal or newborn programmes in Ontario can maintain low caesarean section rates over time, regardless of their size, location, level of care they provide, and population they serve.

However, more recent studies suggest an elevated risk still exists among nonsmokers in Western populations (Carpenter et al 2013).

This suggests that women taking part in the study were not representative of the population being studied.

The post on the Neurologica blog suggests the differences amounts to about 20 babies based on the size of the study population.

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

He also suggested the state evaluate the medical marijuana program and said that Cuomo will likely have to take the study through «baby steps,» so he does not alienate his entire voting population.

«This study suggests that an optimal number of representative might exist» We know that an optimal number must exist, as 1 is too few and the entire population is too many.

«Our study suggests the gaseous fuel for these new stellar populations has an origin that is external to the cluster, rather than internal.»

These studies showing greater genetic diversity in ancient populations suggest it may not be so far - fetched to think that Siberians could have come into contact with people carrying Australasian genes, and then taken those signatures to the Americas over subsequent generations.

Unfortunately, the results of this study suggest that some yellow warbler populations that are most genetically vulnerable to climate change have already been declining over the past half - century, says Bay.

The study, published online in the peer - reviewed Journal of General Internal Medicine, also found no difference in completion of the form by race or ethnicity, suggesting wide acceptance of these orders among California's highly diverse population.

«In our Northern California study population, it does not appear that families use complementary and alternative treatments due to the lack of availability of conventional services, as has been suggested by other research,» Hansen said.

Overall, a number of studies suggest that restrictive alcohol policies have a protective effect on reducing suicide at a general population level.

A provocative study published in Science in April 2010 suggests that a change in the bacterial population of the gut contributes to the risk of metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by elevated weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood fat.

The study also suggested that about 4 percent of local populations have already gone extinct since 1975.

«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

«Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.

Given such variation, as well as the expense and logistical challenges of conducting population surveys, indigenous communities will be important partners in developing workable conservation strategies, such as the creation of new protected areas or harvest quotas, the study suggests.

Dr Allan Debelle, who conducted the study as part of his PhD under the supervision of Dr Rhonda Snook at the University of Sheffield, said these results suggest that mate choice can be an important driver of the evolution of motor performance, «Our research shows that when, at each generation, females are given a choice among several mates performing energetically costly courtship, the motor performance of males in that population can respond to this selection process and progressively improve.»

Oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy induces early, distinct changes in immune T - cell populations that potentially may help researchers determine which people will respond well to the therapy and which immune mechanisms are involved in the response, a new study suggests.

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.

«Overall, the study suggests that all southern populations declined, so demographic compensation alone may not save these populations from extinction.

Professor Thomas Higham said: «Other recent studies of Neanderthal and modern human genetic make - up suggest that both groups interbred outside Africa, with 1.5 % -2.1 % or more of the DNA of modern non-African human populations originating from Neanderthals.

The authors of the study, an international team from Portuguese, Spanish, Catalonian, German, Austrian and Italian research institutions, say their findings suggest that the process of modern human populations absorbing Neanderthal populations through interbreeding was not a regular, gradual wave - of - advance but a «stop - and - go, punctuated, geographically uneven history.»

A new study of twins suggests that attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is strongly linked to genes, and that it is less a clear - cut disorder than an extreme form of a trait, like blood pressure, that varies throughout the population.

For example, a recent study of mitochondrial DNA in northern and southern populations of bison separated by the corridor suggest the passage opened up slightly earlier than the present study posits — 13,000 years ago instead of 12,600 years ago.

«Obesity is a well - established risk factor for breast cancer in the general population and some studies suggest that maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exercising or avoiding obesity may decrease the likelihood of developing cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.»

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

Their results suggested that the chloroplasts of up to 200 plants could be sequenced together and accurately separated by CallHap, significantly reducing the costs of these population genetic studies.

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

«Our study was a population study, so it can't establish cause and effect, but it certainly suggests the hypothesis that lowering pollution levels would reduce the incidence of carotid artery stenosis and stroke,» says Dr. Newman.

«This study suggests that worksite environmental interventions might be promising strategies for weight control at the population level,» said Fernandez.

Studies in Scotland and Wales both suggest that killing foxes leads to a slightly higher breeding population the next year, probably because more foxes move in to contest the vacant area than were there in the first place.

Nevertheless, the study suggests that mosquitoes can be genetically modified to compete in nature with wild populations and spread resistance to the malaria - causing parasite.

«We are particularly interested in genetic variants that are not common in the population (those carried by less than 1 and 20 women) because uncommon variants are not well studied and evidence suggests they may significantly contribute to cancer risk.»

A new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center reviews research that suggests that the risk for developing Alzheimer's disease among older African Americans may be two to three times greater than in the non-Hispanic white population and that they differ from the non-Hispanic white population in risk factors and disease manifestation.

«Our study suggests that the cumulative survival from hatchling to maturity, which may take 30 years, combined with present - day climate effects on mature females, has a greater influence on annual nesting population size than does the exclusive impact of survival during the first year of life as hatchlings,» Saba said.

While the study was relatively small, we believe the data suggest that DBS surgery targeting the fornix can be performed safely in this patient population.

«Our findings in two independent populations that allergic disease is associated with greater severity of COPD suggest that treatment of active allergic disease or avoidance of allergy triggers may help improve respiratory symptoms in these patients, although causality could not be determined in our cross-sectional study,» said Dr. Hansel.

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 study should also help management efforts aimed at protecting these populations because it suggests that the protection of large juveniles and adults should be a priority.

Predictive models suggest the ongoing Zika epidemic may run out of steam after two or three more seasons, but these models do not consider how urban slums and their highly mobile populations affect the disease's dynamics, according to the study.

The study suggests that the mainland populations survived on just a few rocky islands off the South Island's east coast.