Sentences with phrase «said lead study»

They form naturally but their number and severity have significantly increased in the recent decades, said lead study author Andrew Altieri.

«Since more than 70 percent of shipping traffic takes place within 250 miles of the coastline, this is a significant health concern for coastal communities,» said lead study author Daniel Lack, a researcher with the NOAA - supported CU Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences based at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder.

«Some parts of lower Manhattan are only 1.5 meters [5 feet] above sea level,» said lead study author Jianjun Yin, a climate modeler at Florida State University.

«Warming in California has made it more probable that when a low precipitation year occurs, it occurs in warm conditions and is more likely to produce severe drought,» said lead study author Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford.

«We are very confident that livestock emissions were being underestimated,» said lead study author Kevin Wecht, an atmospheric chemist at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

The new study is important because it shows that drought is a better predictor of spruce beetle outbreaks in northern Colorado than temperature alone, said lead study author Sarah Hart, a CU - Boulder doctoral student in geography.

It seems that the answer is no,» said lead study author David H. Douglass, a physicist specializing in climate at the University of Rochester.

«A high - calorie protein breakfast, medium - sized lunch and small dinner is a proven successful strategy for weight loss, improved satiety and reduced glucose spikes throughout the day in people with obesity and Type 2 diabetes,» said lead study author Daniela Jakubowicz, MD, professor of medicine at Tel Aviv University.

Nirupa Matthan, Ph.D. «Glycemic index values appear to be an unreliable indicator even under highly standardized conditions, and are unlikely to be useful in guiding food choices,» said lead study author Nirupa Matthan, Ph.D., scientist in the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA.

«We hope these findings will help clinicians and health systems care for people with substance use disorders, with mental health conditions, and with both — and focus suicide prevention efforts accordingly,» said lead study author Kipling Bohnert.

«This study shows there is a gender disparity in cardiac outcomes for patients undergoing bariatric surgery,» said lead study author Dr. John Morton, director of bariatric surgery at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, Calif..

«This means that there is light at the end of the tunnel,» said lead study author Carol DeSantis, according to the Washington Post.

«It's a somewhat controversial view, but we think Voyager has finally left the solar system, and is truly beginning its travels through the Milky Way,» said lead study author Mark Swisdak, an astrophysics researcher at the University of Maryland.

«I think we're at the start of an exciting journey of drug discovery for a new class of antithrombotic therapies,» said lead study author Stephen Holly, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

The results suggest that assessing baseline QoL in women with PRR - ROC might help identify which patients are unlikely to benefit from palliative chemotherapy, said lead study author Felicia Roncolato, MBChB, FRACP, of St. George Hospital in Sydney, Australia, on behalf of the Gynecologic Cancer Intergroup Symptom Benefit Group.

Based on our findings, the occurrence of cancer is much higher in adults over 75 years of age compared with the proportion of patients in this age group who enroll in clinical trials,» said lead study author Bindu Kanapuru, MD, medical officer in the Division of Hematology Products, Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who presented the results at the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, held December 9 — 12 in Atlanta.

The use of these chemo - free drugs allowed us to obtain good results in relapse / refractory setting, in particular in Hodgkin disease, with a good toxicity profile,» said lead study author Ombretta Annibali, MD, PhD, who is with the Department of Hematology at University Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, Italy.

It also supports our belief that in the future, one might be able to use this approach for replacement of cells lost or malfunctioning due to other more common diseases of the retina,» said lead study author cell biologist Jason Meyer, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in the School of Science at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.

«Of course, before the landing of the Luna 2 robotic spacecraft in 1959, there was concern that the Moon might be covered in low - density dust into which any future astronauts might sink,» said lead study author and Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson.

«Our society attributes the weight gain and lack of exercise at mid-life (approximately 30 - 60 years) primarily to poor lifestyle choices and lack of will power, but this study shows that there is a genetic program driven by an overactive enzyme that promotes weight gain and loss of exercise capacity at mid-life,» said lead study author Jay H. Chung, Ph.D., M.D., head of the Laboratory of Obesity and Aging Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH.

«These glaciers will keep retreating for decades and even centuries to come and we can't stop it,» said lead study author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «A large sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has passed the point of no return.»

The observed upward trend in associated infections is likely to continue, and aging water distribution systems might soon be an additional reservoir of costly multidrug resistance,» said lead study author Elena Naumova, Ph.D., professor at the Friedman School and Director of the Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Disease at Tufts University.

«We wanted to better understand how NSQIP could be used to drive quality improvement efforts in our hospital,» said lead study author Amber Trickey, MSc, PhD, a surgery epidemiologist and biostatistician at Inova Fairfax Hospital.

Because multiple symptoms common with blast traumatic brain injury are also seen with growth hormone and testosterone deficiencies, perhaps treating these hormone deficiencies will help improve the symptom burden and quality of life for these veterans,» said lead study author Jeffrey S. Taylor, MD, endocrinology fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia.

«Our novel results indicate that impulsivity may be a risk factor for uncontrolled eating and excessive weight gain,» said lead study author Christian L. Roth, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the Seattle Children's Research Institute in Washington.

«Historically, when treating early lung cancer with radiotherapy, progression at the site of the primary tumor was the most common failure resulting in suffering and death,» said lead study author Robert Timmerman, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

«We urgently need markers to predict which therapies are going to be effective and which will not be effective in individual patients with advanced prostate cancer,» said lead study author Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD, an assistant professor of oncology and urology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md. «AR - V7 testing may be extremely valuable in guiding treatment decisions for men with hormone - resistant disease in the near future.»

«Handguns account for the majority of childhood gunshot wounds and this number appears to be increasing over the last decade,» said lead study author Arin L. Madenci, MD, MPH.

«This is a promising treatment option that may prove not only to be more effective than chemotherapy alone prior to surgery, it may also be better than chemotherapy and standard radiation,» said lead study author Kimmen Quan, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Most mcr - 1 cases appear to be happening in E. coli, the most common cause of urinary tract infections, said lead study author José R. Mediavilla, MBS, MPH, a research teaching specialist at PHRI.

The new force of nature carries what is called long - range spin - spin interaction, said lead study author Larry Hunter, a physicist at Amherst.

«Our findings show that high - intensity circulating tumor DNA sequencing is possible and may provide invaluable information for clinical decision - making, potentially without any need for tumor tissue samples,» said lead study author Pedram Razavi, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist and instructor in medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York, NY.

We have known about this human and animal pathogen, TB, since ancient times, and it has always been considered something that is transmitted either through oral or aerosol exposure,» said lead study author Kathleen Alexander, DVM, PhD, professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

«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.

A big part of the answer is the body's immune system, said lead study author Micah Luftig, an associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in the Duke School of Medicine, and deputy director of Duke's Center for Virology.

«Many of the fungi most commonly detected in stool samples are also present in food or in the mouth,» said lead study author Thomas A. Auchtung, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

«This study highlights the importance of concussion prevention, long - term follow - up of those with concussion, and the need for future studies to investigate if there are other risk factors for Parkinson's disease that can be modified after someone has a concussion,» said lead study author Raquel C. Gardner, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

«Additional studies should certainly be considered, but we hope that medical professionals will consider the positive potential of honey as a treatment given the lack of proven efficacy, expense and potential for adverse effects associated with the use of DM,» said lead study author Ian Paul, a pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics.

«For patients worldwide, hiding from the sun for fear of debilitating pain is a fact of life, and for the first time we have an effective treatment for those who suffer from this specific porphyria,» said lead study author Manisha Balwani, MD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomics Sciences and Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine.

Among high - birthweight infants, exclusive breastfeeding is a significant protective factor against overweight and obesity,» said lead study author Hae Soon Kim, M.D., of Ewha Womans University College of Medicine in Seoul.

The findings «give us a window into understanding memory and, in particular, the issue of encoding new information into memory,» said lead study author Vladimir Sloutsky, professor of psychology at Ohio State and director of the university's Cognitive Development Lab.

«Of all the children in the sample, 31 percent were exposed to at least one ACE — the most common one being living with a parent or guardian who got divorced or separated,» said lead study author Robyn D. Wing, MD. «What surprised us was that among the children who had been exposed to 5 or more ACEs, 25 percent of parents or guardians reported that their child had an asthma diagnosis — compared with only 12 percent for those with zero ACE exposures.

«We would recommend being selective when indicating patients for injection, and limiting use of injections to people unlikely to undergo knee replacement in the near future,» said lead study author Nicholas Bedard, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Despite these findings, little is known about the risk of nonceliac autoimmune disease in these individuals,» said lead study author Louise Emilsson, MD, PhD, from Oslo University and Primary care research unit, Värmlands Nysäter.

«Previous studies have shown inconsistent findings between sleep - disordered breathing and cognition, which may be due to the different tests used,» said lead study author Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MS, MSW, instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

«To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess whether insecticidal bait alone works to reduce cockroach exposure in homes with any subsequent benefit in asthma outcomes,» said lead study author Felicia Rabito, associate professor of epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

«The higher costs associated with obesity are believed to be largely due to managing comorbid medical conditions linked to obesity, such as diabetes,» said lead study author Hilal Maradit - Kremers, MD, an associate professor of epidemiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn..

«Based on the results of this study, I think very elderly patients, particularly those with few or no comorbidities, should strongly consider the benefits of these procedures,» said lead study author Hiroyuki Yoshihara, MD, PhD, an orthopaedic surgeon at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center and Nassau University Medical Center.

Additional studies are needed to fully understand the health impact of sugar - sweetened beverages and diet sodas,» said lead study author Jiantao Ma, Ph.D., who conducted the analysis as part of his doctoral thesis as a student in the Nutrition Epidemiology Program at the USDA HNRCA and the Friedman School.

«We are beginning to observe that infants from different parts of the world have different patterns of colonization by microbes,» said lead study author Zachary T. Lewis, a postdoctoral fellow.