Sentences with phrase «protective effect of smoking»

While the possible protective effect of smoking against PSC seems rather unique to this particular liver disease, coffee consumption has been shown to protect against multiple other liver conditions including liver cirrhosis and liver cancer — and now for the first time also against PSC.

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Guedes, H. & Souza, L. «Exposure to maternal smoking in the first year of life interferes in breast - feeding protective effect against the onset of respiratory allergy from birth to 5 yr.»

For instance, it has been suggested that the physical restraint associated with swaddling may prevent infants placed supine from rolling to the prone position.299 One study's results suggested a decrease in SIDS rate with swaddling if the infant was supine, 182 but it was notable that there was an increased risk of SIDS if the infant was swaddled and placed in the prone position.182 Although a recent study found a 31-fold increase in SIDS risk with swaddling, the analysis was not stratified according to sleep position.171 Although it may be more likely that parents will initially place a swaddled infant supine, this protective effect may be offset by the 12-fold increased risk of SIDS if the infant is either placed or rolls to the prone position when swaddled.182, 300 Moreover, there is no evidence that swaddling reduces bed - sharing or use of unsafe sleep surfaces, promotes breastfeeding, or reduces maternal cigarette smoking.

Our data agrees with that of others, 1223 that suggest that delaying the introduction of formula milk protects against the morbidity associated with respiratory infection, illness, and associated hospitalisations in the first year of life.24 Prolonged breast feeding was only marginally associated with less respiratory illness when examined in a New Zealand birth cohort to 2 years of age, 25 and the Dundee study8 showed a small, yet significant protective effect of breast feeding against respiratory illness at 0 — 13 weeks and 40 — 52 weeks after adjustment for social class, maternal age, and parental smoking.

The focus then moved to the Leeds researchers ESR05 Joanna Pozniak, and ESR06 Sathya Muralidhar, who gave back to back presentations on MYC expression and smoking as modulators of immune response to melanoma and the protective effect of vitamin D receptor (VDR) expression on melanoma survival associated with increased an anti-tumour immune response.

Saturated fat and smoking are detrimental, but vitamin C seems to be protective in relation to the health of populations... The potential effect of changes in saturated fat, vitamin C and the prevalence of smokers can be illustrated as follows.