Sentences with phrase «researchers suggest linking»

Researchers suggest the link is at least in part caused by inflammatory prothrombotic effects.»

Researchers suggest a link between high exposures to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins and furans with reproductive and / or developmental disorders and immune system effects.

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Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

Though there's no way to link the rise in stress to any single factor, some researchers have suggested that isolation because of technology and a lack of community could be contributing to the problem.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Researchers also suggest that permissive parenting is linked to other risky behaviors such as drug use and other forms of misconduct.

The new findings suggest that group dynamics tamp down individual personalities, and the researchers say it is the first time that such suppression has been explicitly linked to an underlying cause: the need to conform when faced with a risky decision.

Researchers have previously suggested that extreme weather in the midlatitudes might be linked to climate change's impacts on the Arctic (SN Online: 12/2/11), particularly the dramatically decreased sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean.

Preliminary work by other groups, similarly made up of both biomedical researchers and microbial ecologists, suggests that imbalances in the microbiome might also be linked to allergies, diabetes, and obesity.

Interfering with the biological pathways that link eating to parasite rhythms — perhaps through diet, or drugs that manipulate the process — could reduce both the severity and spread of malaria infection, researchers suggest.

Still, computer simulations suggest that about a third of the recent drought's severity could have been caused by elevated temperatures linked to climate change, the researchers found.

German researchers suggest that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are linked to an increase in extreme weather events

The researchers note that these data do not allow them to draw a conclusive causal link between occupational status and individualism, but they do suggest that the other factors examined were unlikely to account for rising individualism.

Although infertility is suggested as a reason for the link, the number of children is not a direct marker of fertility, the researchers noted.

Though the researchers say the link between religion and magnanimity may seem surprising given that news headlines so often focus on terrorist attacks and other atrocities committed in the name of religion, their results suggest that for most people, the influence of religion may be more positive than what is often portrayed in the media.

In contrast to what researchers believed in the past, their study showed that rhinovirus is linked to pneumonia and death even without any other co-existing infections, strongly suggesting that the so - called mild virus can be dangerous all on its own.

«This study suggests a link between PTSD and cardiovascular health,» said lead researcher Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the department of medicine at Emory University and chair of the department of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health.

A new study confirms that thunderstorms are linked to outbreaks of asthma, and researchers suggest that the storms» airflow patterns are to blame rather than other contenders such as thunder, electrical activity, or rain.

Researchers found no link between PTSD and well - documented heart disease risk factors such as a history of hypertension, diabetes or obesity, suggesting that the disease may be due to physiologic changes, not lifestyle factors.

Already, researchers have linked noncoding DNA to Crohn disease, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, and other disorders, suggesting that enhancers could be targets for medical manipulation.

The high prevalence of OSA the study found in these cognitively normal elderly participants and the link between OSA and amyloid burden in these very early stages of AD pathology, the researchers believe, suggest the CPAP, dental appliances, positional therapy and other treatments for sleep apnea could delay cognitive impairment and dementia in many older adults.

That may be one reason why this lively centenarian has an extraordinary memory for someone her age, suggests a recent study by researchers at Northwestern University highlighting a notable link between brain health and positive relationships.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that an analysis of survey responses and health records of more than 10,000 American adults for nearly 20 years suggests a «synergistic» link between exercise and good vitamin D levels in reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

In their current PNAS paper, the multidisciplinary team of Rodó, Burns, Dan Cayan, PhD, a climate researcher at UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography and co-authors in New York, Barcelona and Japan, say the new evidence suggests that the most likely cause of KD is a «preformed toxin or environmental molecule» originating from northeastern China, possibly related to Candida, which has been linked to Kawasaki - like coronary artery vasculitis in mouse models.

Although researchers have known that nitrites and nitrates at high doses can cause cancer in lab animals, de la Monte's results suggest that long - term, low - dose exposure to the compounds may be linked to chronic diseases in humans.

When comparing the scan results for brain activity before treatment and after a year of stimulation, the researchers found that there were changes in the regions linked to anorexia, suggesting that deep brain stimulation was able to directly affect the related brain circuits.

Results of three independent studies suggest a woman's body image is strongly linked to her perception of what she thinks men prefer, said lead researcher and social psychologist Andrea Meltzer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

The researchers also found they could predict which players had depression by examining images of their brains» white matter, suggesting a link between white matter changes and depression.

And the researchers suggest the cyclone shift may be linked to that growth, which is connected to more heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity.

Seven years later, a researcher in Osaka, Japan, suggested a link between that higher glia - to - neurons ratio and Einstein's purported dyslexia.

After analyzing human DNA from several populations around the world and examining primate genomes dating back to the shared ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees, researchers reached a striking conclusion that several gene variants linked to schizophrenia were actually positively selected and remained largely unchanged over time, suggesting that there was some advantage to having them.

A heightened risk of stroke was similarly linked to increasing aircraft noise exposure, but this was not statistically significant, possibly because of the small number of cases involved, suggest the researchers.

The Los Alamos researchers suggested that sterile neutrinos might explain the anomaly by providing an invisible missing link.

Now researchers suggest that this spooky action in a way might work even beyond the grave, with its effects felt after the link between objects is broken.

The study, led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School, suggests that using money to buy free time — such as paying to delegate household chores like cleaning and cooking — is linked to greater life satisfaction.

The researchers suggest that this link may be to do with personality, and say there is some evidence that engineers are more likely to be intolerant of ambiguity, believe society can be made to work like clockwork, and to dislike...

A new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry, by researchers at Cardiff University School of Medicine and the University of Bristol, suggests that there is a spectrum of attention, hyperactivity / impulsiveness and language function in society, with varying degrees of these impairments associated with clusters of genes linked with the risk for ADHD.

On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.

This study is distinctive because the researchers found dramatic differences in the percentage of female sexual and asexual snails (using males» presence as a proxy) and parasite prevalence between sites as close as two football fields apart, «suggesting that these evolutionary links between sex and parasites can operate at a remarkably small scale,» Neiman says.

Lv, Qi and the other researchers suggested that capsaicin, the molecule responsible for the hot sensation in spicy foods by binding to the pain receptors in the tongue and making them feel like they are burning, may be the reason behind the link between chili peppers and longevity.

With climate change deniers saying the cold temperatures contradicted the idea of global warming and some climate scientists suggesting that cold extremes could have a counterintuitive warming link, researchers wondered, «how can we reconcile this idea of global warming with these really extreme cold temperatures?»

Shortly before and after Katrina, several researchers published studies suggesting that more intense hurricanes were linked to rising ocean temperatures.

April 14, 2017 Research suggests bans on trans fats linked to healthier communities People living in areas that restrict trans fats in foods had fewer hospitalizations for heart attack and stroke compared to residents in areas without restrictions, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine and Yale School of Medicine.

Researchers link serotonin production and function to vitamin D and omega - 3 fatty acids, which suggests one way that these important nutrients help the brain function and affect our behavior.

In a 2011 study published in BMJ Open, researchers suggested there might be a link between oral contraceptive use by women, and rising rates of prostate cancer (an estrogen - sensitive cancer) in men, due to the excess estrogen from women making its way into our drinking water.

Because of the link to weight loss, some researchers have suggested that surgery to reduce a person's weight is able to lower their risk for diabetes.

After finding a link between sugar - sweetened beverages and heart disease, researchers at Simmons College in Boston suggested consumers limit their consumption of these beverages.

Yet in several studies, even after researchers took obesity into account, the link between foods and inflammation remained, which suggests weight gain isn't the sole driver.

Based on my research, I suggest that districts consider more systematically tracking information regarding principals and linking this principal data to student information systems so that district or external researchers can examine how principal education and professional experience seem to influence student outcomes and principal retention in their districts.

«The results are promising, suggesting that linked learning is helping kids move toward graduation and be on track to be able to go to a four - year college,» explained Roneeta Guha, lead author of the report and a senior researcher at SRI.