Sentences with phrase «which studies populations»

An interesting stat from 2004, in a report by National Transfer Accounts, which studies populations and economic change and is based at Berkley University in California, said that Nigerians spent more than they earned until they were 32.

Not exact matches

The IARC acknowledges the difficulty of determining causality, but their report concludes that, «the consistent associations of colorectal cancer with consumption of processed meat across studies in different populations, which make chance, bias, and confounding unlikely as explanations.»

If you use a nominal 30 % rate and figure the U.S. population at 300 million you get 90 million victims, which statistically corroborates with the number from other studies citing direct reports.

Non-believers make up around 3 - 5 % of the American population (depending on which study you look at) yet they make up less than ONE percent of the prison population.

Others are observational studies which examine data in the whole population.

One should bear in mind that studies of populations show that condom use for contraceptive purposes has a failure rate of 12 \ % [6]- where «failure» means conception, which can occur only once a month, whereas HIV can be transmitted any day of the year.

If the latest study on the subject by UNESCO (in 1953) is still valid, less than 10 percent of the world's population lives in countries the press of which has available to it both the western wire services and that of TASS.

Pew has released the findings of their 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, which shows that among the overall population, the number of people who do not believe in God has increased 3 percentage points.

The article is slightly confusing in that it uses the term «country» in the 6th paragraph to refer to the entire United Kingdom when discussing the Pew study's estimates of the percentage of the population which is Muslim after having previously been discussing only England and Wales in conjunction with the popularity of boy's names.

Using data from clinical food challenge studies, the VSEP has identified reference doses for the common food allergens at which 95 - 99 % of the allergic population are unlikely react (1,2).

The studies were not intended to address questions related to the efficacy of GR2E Golden Rice in helping to address vitamin A deficiency in affected population sub-groups, which can only be adequately addressed following regulatory authorization.

Other Cancers: Several population studies link whole grains with lower levels of inflammation and insulin resistance, which links to cancer development.

The study, which used Growing Naturals» Organic Rice Protein made with Culver City, CA's Axiom Food's Oryzatein, followed a tightly controlled population of seasoned bodybuilders and examined how they built muscle and experienced repair and soreness.

The new study is consistent with studies in adult populations and a 2009 paper presented at the same conference which found that a delay of more than 12 weeks by athletes under the age of 14 in having ACL surgical reconstruction was linked to:

But this doesn't make sense for everything we do in health care, and we know the information we get from randomized controlled trials doesn't always translate well to real life because 1) the restrictions we put on eligibility for studies rarely allows the results to be generalized to the population as a whole and 2) Adherence to the intervention tends to be higher in a randomized controlled trial than in real life which makes the effect seem «better» than it is.

These studies show little difference between epidural and nonepidural (usually opiate - exposed) babies in terms of Apgar score and umbilical - cord pH, both of which reflect the baby's condition at birth.78 However, a large - population survey from Sweden found that use of an epidural was significantly associated with a low Apgar score at birth.79

Planned variation studies, in which program components, content, home visitor training, or dosage of services is varied, can identify core dimensions of implementation that are critical for achieving program impacts, as well as dimensions that could be adapted for different contexts and populations without threatening the program's effectiveness.

New studies should be large enough to include assessment and reporting of impacts by important subgroups to improve our understanding of what works for which populations.

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.

More comparative studies and impact evaluations are needed within countries to determine which strategies are most effective at promoting and supporting EBF with different populations.

Quiz Ref IDOur conclusions are limited by our study population, which was selected from a single cohort from the United States and sampled at a single time point; thus, our findings may not be entirely generalizable to populations elsewhere or to different points in infant development.

Breastfeeding mothers are less tired and get more sleep than their formula or mixed - feeding counterparts which lowers their risk of depression: Dorheim, S., Bondevik, G. et al Sleep and depression in postpartum women: A population - based study.

As it stands, only 40 percent of our population exclusively breastfeeds for three months, which is the timeframe talked about in the study.

Thus, our study represents a population for which diet is likely the main source of As exposure.

Of possibly greater relevance are the observations on fasting insulin concentrations, which provide a useful marker of insulin resistance in population - based studies (12).

Two prominent studies find modest effects, in one case estimating that each 1 % increase in the share of migrants in the UK working age population leads to a 0.6 % decline in the wages of the 5 % lowest paid workers, which would mean about 3p less per hour for someone earning just over the minimum wage of # 6.19.

In 2015, he came to the University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus for NPP TESCON programme when I was NDC TEIN president and preached a very terrible message by asking Ghanaians to make sacrifices like the people of Ivory Coast did some years ago and that «a country smaller in size and population compared to Ghana, which had endured bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes.

For example, in his 2011 meta - analytic studies, Hickman recounts that the primordial political cleavage in Kenya maps membership in three ethnic blocs — «Kikuyu / Embu / Mem, Kalenjin / Maasai / Turkana / Samburu, and Luo»; «none of which comprises a majority of the national population».

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

A provocative study published in Science in April 2010 suggests that a change in the bacterial population of the gut contributes to the risk of metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by elevated weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood fat.

«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).

«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

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.

In a case study, they evaluated the «population uniqueness» of patients in a Texas surgical database, which included more than 2.8 million records.

A new series of studies reveals three distinct ways in which virus populations in the male genital tract can arise, paving the way for more refined research into virus dynamics at this crucial transmission site.

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In the study, a tipping point represented the point at which vaccine coverage declines dramatically due to spreading fear, which could cause large disease outbreaks due to a loss of population immunity.

The Sydney Harbour is renowned as a beautiful landmark straddling our thriving city but a new study has shown it is also a source of significant carbon emissions, which requires careful management as the city is poised to double its population by the end of the century.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Horst Thieme studies rapidly reproducing parasitic populations, which, as he notes, «are ideal objects to study the principles of evolution; in turn, it is important to understand these principles to control infectious diseases effectively.»

However, some caution in the interpretation of the results is necessary, as underlined in an accompanying editorial by Salvatore Petta, MD, PhD, of the Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Di.Bi.M.I.S., University of Palermo, Italy, and Giulio Marchesini, MD, of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), «Alma Mater» University, Bologna, Italy., In fact, the study included only an elderly Caucasian population and there were few participants in the no - coffee or no - tea control groups, which limit a straightforward conclusion about the effect of coffee and tea on the liver..

Although the king of the jungle is fairly well studied, most research efforts have focused on individual populations rather than the entire species, which is down to perhaps as few as 20,000 individuals.

Oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy induces early, distinct changes in immune T - cell populations that potentially may help researchers determine which people will respond well to the therapy and which immune mechanisms are involved in the response, a new study suggests.

The population study findings, including those from the JACC study, suggest that even the partial inactivation of ANGPTL3 — carriers typically have one mutant copy of the gene and one working copy — may be powerfully protective against coronary artery disease, which has long been one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

The potential strategy — which targets metabolic pathways that are active only during intestinal inflammation — prevented or reduced inflammation in a mouse model of colitis while exerting no obvious effect in control animals with healthy, balanced bacterial populations, said Dr. Sebastian Winter, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and co-corresponding author of the study published online today in Nature.

In this study, the researchers found that a specific population of immune cells called macrophages have the ability to secrete or produce a protective or healing factor known as Interleukin - 10 (IL - 10), which can interact with receptors on intestinal epithelial cells to promote wound healing.

One of the challenges to drawing conclusions from a study like this one is the lack of exact data on the U.S. postdoc population, which means that the precision of the quoted numbers is probably misleading.

Endocrinologist Charles Wilkinson of the VA Puget Sound and the University of Washington and his colleagues were intrigued by studies that found pituary hormone deficiencies, which affect only 1 percent of the general population, in many people who had had a concussion.