Sentences with phrase «through population studies»

Yet it is well - established through population studies in Canada, the U.K. and Western Europe that the risk of developing schizophrenia is higher in immigrants and their children than non-immigrants.

Not exact matches

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

Ongoing projects include studies of gene - environment interactions and adverse pregnancy outcomes, as well as informed medical decision making demonstration projects in Medicaid maternity populations and within HealthWise, the nation's largest source of health information materials distributed through healthcare networks.

These practitioners go through extra courses of study and are more fully trained to treat the prenatal population.

This multi-country, population — based cohort study in eleven sites in South Asia and Sub - Saharan Africa identified 278,154 pregnancies and followed them through pregnancy, birth and postnatal period to determine the burden, timing and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths.

With respect to potential sources of bias in the study sample, the initial cohort through which these women were identified is a self - selected population and may not be representative of all women who use fluoxetine during pregnancy.

However, some recent studies support the hypothesis that an additional effect of postnatal exposure through breastfeeding is likely.20 We have observed in the infants of this population that those who breastfed increased their concentrations of organochlorine chemicals during the first weeks of life (N. Ribas - Fitó, submitted for publication).

Recruitment of populations was via self - referral, media advertisement or fliers in 44 studies; through health professionals or organisations in 10 studies and in 3 studies there was no information on recruitment.

«Future studies are needed to determine if the effect of this intervention is sustainable through the first 6 to 12 months of life, and if this intervention can significantly reduce the incidence of sleep - related death in large populations over time.»

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.

To enable talented, early - career scholars combining biomedical science and population health to participate actively in the IOM study process, promoting the linkage of public health and medicine — both scientifically and through practice and policy.

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

Through a variety of «high tech» approaches, including the isolation of monoclonal antibodies from single B cells and ultra-deep sequencing of shifting viral populations over more than three years of infection, the researchers studied one woman who developed potent broadly neutralizing antibodies.

The TOPCAT trial also presented the opportunity to study cardiac structure and function in this population through an echocardiography sub-study in 935 patients, which demonstrated a high prevalence of abnormal cardiac structure in these patients.

The population - based observational study using patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Medicare database focused on 41,275 men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer between 2004 and 2007 and observed through 2009.

«This study provides the first good evidence, with a large and diverse population of students, that such exposure through undergraduate research has dramatic benefits for all students, substantially improving both graduation rates in STEM and overall graduation rates.

After nearly two decades of studying the rise of cooperation in populations, Nowak sees the entire world through the prism of the prisoner's dilemma: He is always looking at the tension between cooperation and defection.

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.»

«While Massachusetts safety - net hospitals (many of which are minority - serving) received large cuts in payments with the idea that other hospitals would assume the care of previously uninsured patients, this study demonstrates the importance of securing the future of safety - net and minority - serving hospitals through policy - based interventions to assure the continued care of vulnerable and underserved patient populations.»

So our focus will be to study the genome through the transcripts in biological systems, to understand the genetic architecture of Pan-Asian populations, and finally to focus on the intersect between genomics and human medicine.

Newer studies gauging the odds find that for «Oumuamua's detection to not be an astronomically unlikely fluke, there must be a sizeable population of such objects continuously passing through our solar system.

Blue eyes have their hue because of a single genetic mutation that occurred fewer than 10,000 years ago in one individual and swept rapidly through the European population, according to a study published in the journal Human Genetics in January.

Now researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University have found that removing predatory fish such as coral trout and snapper, through fishing, causes significant changes to the make - up of the reef's fish populations.

The study population included all Olmsted County, Minn., residents older than 20 years from 1984 through 2011, comprising approximately 140,000 people, of whom 83 percent were non-Hispanic white and socioeconomically similar to the general Midwestern U.S. population.

Dr Al - Khalili said: «Even through these patients are classified as low risk, the incidence of ischaemic stroke in our study population is neither negligible nor ignorable and it carries a relatively high mortality.»

Heterogeneity in a bacterial population that arises through a mechanism of biased partitioning of drug efflux pumps, as we identified in our study, could be a stepping - stone on the path of bacterial populations towards antibiotic resistance.»

In addition, population declines are now occurring on study areas in southern Oregon and northern California that were previously experiencing little to no detectable decline through 2009.

The study also sheds light on how the first Americans dispersed through the continent; Reich found that populations along the coast showed far more genetic diversity than those living in the interior of the continent.

That means the animals move through the corridors and breed with other populations, says study author Stephen Mech, now a conservation biologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

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).

«Ensuring older individuals have optimal vitamin D levels may be a way to boost immune function in this population, but this needs to be confirmed through additional studies.»

This study compared data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER) of the National Cancer Institute, a population - based registry collecting cancer incidence and survival data from 18 geographic areas through the United States, with data from the USIDNET registry.

Thus, as Americans have expanded their sexual repertoire, as an October study from The Journal of Sexual Medicine highlighted, prevalence of HPV can sweep quickly through a population — especially one that is unprotected by a vaccine or consistent condom use.

Our hope is to find more objects like this, possibly even more distant ones, to better understand this population of extreme dusty galaxies and especially their relation to the bulk population of galaxies at this epoch,» said Joaquin Vieira, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Campaign and member of the SPT team whose study of SPT - discovered galaxies is funded through NSF's Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants program.

For a study forthcoming in The Condor: Ornithological Applications, authors David Nelson of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Todd Katzner of the U.S. Geological Survey (formerly West Virginia University), and colleagues traced individual eagles» movements through isotopes in their feathers to identify their breeding areas and to assess the population's migratory connectivity.

Kleb is a research assistant for an ongoing study tracking the spread of respiratory viruses through a student population.

Meanwhile, Esvelt and his colleagues are studying the CRISPR gene - drive system in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to learn more about what happens to a population as engineered DNA is passed down through generations, accumulating mutations as it goes.

We are testing new payment and service delivery models focused on prevention and population health, such as our Million Hearts initiative, through the CMS Innovation Center,» says Dr Patrick Conway, another study author and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, in Baltimore, USA.

Professor Sherwin, of the UNSW School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the advantageous mutation then spread rapidly through the population, with the proportion of birds carrying Haplotype H increasing from 17 per cent to 47 per cent during the five years of the study.

Now, a new genetic study traces those ancient populations from their first foray all the way through European contact, which may have been even more cataclysmic for indigenous populations than researchers thought.

City tree population and species composition figures were generated through an analysis of 1,385 study plots located across the state.

Although the initiative reached a limited geographic population, the HER Salt Lake team hopes to take this study further to increase access for women through provider training and stocking at community health centers and rural clinics.

In a new study reported online today in Science, the researchers showed that they can infect A. stephensi with Wolbachia, that the infection is passed down through at least 34 generations, and that it can take over entire populations in cages.

So far, animal studies have shown that it's possible to push ES cells through the stages necessary to become beta cells, but the process is extremely inefficient: sometimes only 1 in 1 million in a cell population will develop in the right direction.

-RRB- are the main risk group in Russia, but «our studies show that HIV is being spread from this group through the so - called bridging population» — people who are sexual partners of IDUs but not IDUs themselves — to the general population by the heterosexual route, Dukhovlinova says.

In our study, 2 of 81, or 2.5 % of random adult blood donors exhibited borderline titers of neutralizing antibody to TMAdV, indicating either a low prevalence of TMAdV in the human population or cross-reactivity to a related virus (although no evidence of cross-reactivity was found with HAdV serotypes 1 through 35).

In more recent years, Mark has been involved in an ongoing study of population genetics with box turtles, in collaboration with scientists at Princeton University, and has worked with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to guide his students through the process of peer review for the online neuroscience journal Frontiers for Young Minds.

The quantitative analysis of molecule interactions in bioimaging is key for understanding the molecular orchestration of cellular processes and is generally achieved through the study of the spatial colocalization between different populations of molecules.

Through studying population genetics, we can evaluate historic accounts with a more accurate understanding of Passenger Pigeon ecology.

A study of ancient skulls found in Brazil reveals that human migration occurred in Americas through two waves of human population.