Sentences with phrase «risk in a large cohort»

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Last week, we posted to the site a group of four articles about a peer - reviewed study in the Journal of Neurosurgery showing that football helmet design affected concussion risk among a large group (or what scientists call a «cohort») of college football players.

Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.

An UpToDate review on «Planned home birth» (Declercq and Stotland, 2015) stated that «Large cohort studies using intent - to - treat analysis of midwife - attended, planned, out - of - hospital birth of low - risk women in developed countries have reported reduced rates of cesarean birth, perineal lacerations, and medical interventions, and similar rates of maternal and early perinatal morbidity and mortality compared to planned hospital birth.

The research involved the largest population cohorts comprehensively examined to date for an association between breast feeding outcomes and place of birth in low risk pregnancies.

«For this large cohort of women who planned midwife - led home births in the United States, outcomes are congruent with the best available data from population - based, observational studies that evaluated outcomes by intended place of birth and perinatal risk factors.

In conclusion, never or curtailed lactation was associated with an increased risk of incident maternal hypertension, compared with the recommended ≥ 6 months of exclusive or ≥ 12 months of total lactation per child, in a large cohort of parous womeIn conclusion, never or curtailed lactation was associated with an increased risk of incident maternal hypertension, compared with the recommended ≥ 6 months of exclusive or ≥ 12 months of total lactation per child, in a large cohort of parous womein a large cohort of parous women.

In the largest of these, out of a cohort of 1.75 million Danes, being born in Copenhagen was associated with a 2.5-fold greater risk of schizophrenia than being born in rural areaIn the largest of these, out of a cohort of 1.75 million Danes, being born in Copenhagen was associated with a 2.5-fold greater risk of schizophrenia than being born in rural areain Copenhagen was associated with a 2.5-fold greater risk of schizophrenia than being born in rural areain rural areas.

Several large cohort studies of medical x-ray technicians and nuclear industry workers suggest a slight increase in cancer risk at exposures below 100 mSv, Shore says.

Its long - term monitoring of a large group, or cohort, of people in a Massachusetts town has yielded landmark results on everything from the link between cholesterol and heart disease to the genetic risk of stroke.

«Our analysis of three large U.S. cohorts including persons in whom diabetes has been diagnosed shows those who were at target levels for HbA1c, blood pressure and LDL to have substantially lower risks for cardiovascular disease than persons with diabetes who were not at target levels for such factors,» Wong said.

Unlike other solid tumors, there has been limited progress in understanding the contribution of genetic risk factors to the development of uveal melanoma, researchers say, primarily due to the absence of comprehensive genetic data from patients as the large sample cohorts for this rare cancer type have not been available for research.

The aim of this new study was to determine whether 2D: 4D was associated with the risk of severe knee or hip OA requiring total joint replacement in a large cohort study.

For this population - based research, investigators pooled data from large cohort studies conducted in Asia and included demographic and risk factor information collected in seven Asian regions from the early 1960s through the late 1990s (although most of the studies enrolled participants after the mid-1980s).

Surprisingly, we found the same signature in large cohorts of women without the BRCA1 mutation and it was able to predict breast cancer risk several years before diagnosis.»

Protein biomarkers for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes risk in two large community cohorts [read more...] Now accepting nominations!

Friday, Oct. 20, 5:30 - 5:50 p.m., South Hall B, South Building Featured Plenary Abstract: The contribution of rare variants, polygenic risk, and novel candidate genes to the hereditary risk of breast cancer in a large cohort of breast cancer families N. Li, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, et al

The LEAP study, designed and conducted by the ITN with additional support from FARE and led by Professor Gideon Lack at Kings College London, is the first randomized trial to prevent food allergy in a large cohort of high - risk infants.

Yet the reduction in LDL cholesterol from reducing saturated fat intake seems to be specific to large, buoyant (type A) LDL particles, when in factit is the small, dense (type B) particles (responsive to carbohydrate intake) that are implicated in cardiovascular disease.Indeed, recent prospective cohort studies have not supported any significant association between saturated fat intake and cardiovascular risk Instead, saturated fat has been found to be protective.»

However, the point estimates suggest that prebiotic consumption, especially GOSs, might be associated with a lower risk of depression; therefore, it would be of great interest to replicate these analyses in a cohort with a larger number of incident cases of depression to increase the statistical power.

A 2016 study published in The BMJ looked at a large cohort of women and found that those who ate four or more servings of potatoes a week had a higher risk of blood pressure compared to women who ate potatoes less than once a month.

The pill also increases your risk for inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease; in fact, two large prospective cohort studies of American women linked oral contraceptive use with Crohn's.

In a large cohort of 21,930 Finnish men, there was a significant inverse association between Dietary Fiber intake and CHD, with a multivariate rela - tive risk of 0.84 for men in the highest quintile of intake (34.8 g / d) com - pared with the lowest quintile of intake (16.1 g / d)(Pietinen et al., 1996)(Table 7 - 2In a large cohort of 21,930 Finnish men, there was a significant inverse association between Dietary Fiber intake and CHD, with a multivariate rela - tive risk of 0.84 for men in the highest quintile of intake (34.8 g / d) com - pared with the lowest quintile of intake (16.1 g / d)(Pietinen et al., 1996)(Table 7 - 2in the highest quintile of intake (34.8 g / d) com - pared with the lowest quintile of intake (16.1 g / d)(Pietinen et al., 1996)(Table 7 - 2).

In this study, the researchers investigate whether consumption of fruits and vegetable with a higher fiber content or lower glycemic load is more strongly associated with a healthy weight than consumption of fruits and vegetables with a lower fiber content or higher glycemic load by analyzing data on weight and diet changes among US men and women enrolled in three large prospective cohort studies set up to examine risk factors for major chronic diseaseIn this study, the researchers investigate whether consumption of fruits and vegetable with a higher fiber content or lower glycemic load is more strongly associated with a healthy weight than consumption of fruits and vegetables with a lower fiber content or higher glycemic load by analyzing data on weight and diet changes among US men and women enrolled in three large prospective cohort studies set up to examine risk factors for major chronic diseasein three large prospective cohort studies set up to examine risk factors for major chronic diseases.

Fuchs and colleagues (1999) prospectively examined the relationship between Dietary Fiber intake and the risk of colon cancer in a large cohort of women.

A study conducted in 2000 examined the relationship between the HEI and the risk of major chronic disease (cardiovascular disease and cancer), using the large cohorts in two ongoing studies at Harvard (nurses and health professionals).

CONCLUSIONS High total and animal protein intake was associated with a modest elevated risk of type 2 diabetes in a large cohort of European adults.

Since the WCRF report, Luo et al [59] studied the association between the drinking coffee and the risk of pancreatic cancer in a large population - based cohort study in Japan and concluded there was no increased risk of pancreatic cancer with coffee intake.

Having been a part of two failed efforts to bring a form of IR to my own school, I sense that this video is aimed in large part at their own school staff as a means to encourage reluctant colleagues to take a risk and join the cohort.

Methods In a large cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (n = 14541 pregnancies), we aimed to (i) investigate the relative influences of parental postnatal depression and marital conflict on child outcomes and to attempt to determine the pathway (s) of risk; (ii) investigate the impact of two types of antenatal stress (parental depression and marital conflict) on child outcomes; and (iii) determine the relative contributions of antenatal and postnatal risk.

Recently, a research team from Denmark performed a large population - based and register - based prospective cohort study to shed further light on this compelling issue.13 Researchers included only singleton births in a 10 - year period, and excluded conditions associated with an increased risk of ASDs (eg, congenital rubella syndrome or some genetic disorders in parents).