epidemiology

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...of breast cancer, said Dr. Michael Thun, who heads epidemiology research at the ACS. According to Grant, this association between fat intake and breast cancer may reflect the effect of diets high in animal-based foods and alcohol, and low in plant products and fish.However, Thun pointed out, studies designed to ...

Heavy Drinking Raises Risk of Liver Cancer

...r. According to Dr.Francesco Donato,a professor of epidemiology and public health, at the University of Texas, the quantity of alcohol consumed is the most important determinant of the risk of having liver disease due to alcohol.// Drinking a large amount of alcohol for a few years is a risk-taking behavior, whe...

Eat Like a Greek for Good Health

...Trichopoulos, a professor of cancer prevention and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.// As far back as the 1960s, scientists found low rates of coronary heart disease and certain cancers in Greece and other countries in the Mediterranean region. Trichopoulos and his colleagues, working with sci...

Intensive Care Patients More At Risk From Kidney Failure

...blished in the latest edition // of the JAMA. The epidemiology and outcome of acute renal (kidney) failure (ARF) in critically ill patients in different regions of the world have not been well understood, according to background information in the article. Researchers from Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia...

Women and Black Patients have less chances to survive a Heart Attack

...arino, M.D., associate professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Emory University. "Differences in treatment were not explained by patient age, risk factors or other clinical characteristics that might differ between patients. We simply could not determine the reasons for these differences." Saif Rathore, a thi...

High-Vegetable & Fruit Diet Reduce The Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer

...," said Elizabeth A. Holly, PhD, UCSF professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and senior author of the study. "Finding strong confirmation that simple life choices can provide significant protection from pancreatic cancer may be one of the most practical ways to reduce the incidence of this dreadful disease....

Endemic Encephalitis in India can be controlled by early vaccination

...ttempts to forecast, anticipate and understand the epidemiology of diseases and pass on the information to relevant districts.” Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, Health Minister had asked the researchers to test the quality and efficacy of the Chinese Vaccine and is planning to vaccinate all the people in endemic districts...

‘Miracle’ HIV Cure Claim Under Scrutin

...ely eradicated. Grulich, head of the center’s HIV epidemiology and prevention program, says the fact that Stimpson has tested negative for antibodies after previously testing positive is almost unprecedented. He said that the initial headlines were about cure, but reversion to HIV-negative (antibody) status does...

Price Of Alcohol Does Not Influence Consumption

...s affected," he said. Raul Caetano, professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas, said that the there are alcoholic beverages at different levels of price, and when you implement taxation, what happens is that the individuals who are able to purchase the alcoholic beverages that were more expensive just...

Inflammation May Indicate Heart Problems

...lead author Rachel Wildman, Assistant Professor of epidemiology at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Leukocytes are commonly known as white blood cells. 'Leukocyte count can be assessed using an inexpensive routine test. Our data call for future research to examine whether th...

“Corridors Project” To Concentrate On HIV Prevention Programmes In Inda

...medical microbiology, and Canada Research Chair in epidemiology and global public health at the university. "Until now, most of the HIV prevention programmes in India have been urban-focused and geographically static, and there are important prevention gaps in high-risk rural areas," he said. --Edited IANS...

Blood Pressure Levels Across The Globe Show Surprising Drop

...said Tunstall-Pedoe, a professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, in Dundee, Scotland. "There is a greater dimension to blood pressure and its control than simply a prescription of medication. We showed that low blood pressure and mid-blood-pressure readings came down as much...

Angina Risks Pronounced In Women over 45

...tray symptoms of angina. University of London’s, epidemiology and public health department’s Professor Harry Hemingway, studied that nearly two women out of every 100 in the 45 and above, age group, portray angina as the first sign of heart disease. The study also pointed out the difficulty in diagnosing angina...

Can Enforcing Bicycle Helmet Laws Avoid Head Injuries?

...t legislation are flawed, argue four professors of epidemiology from Canada and the US. They challenge her interpretation of the data she presents and point to several independent studies showing a protective association between wearing bicycle helmets and head injuries. They also refer to studies showing a red...

Arsenic in Drinking Water Predisposes Children To Lung Cancer in Later Life

...the study's lead author, Allan Smith, professor of epidemiology at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. "I sometimes ponder the improbability that drinking water with concentrations of arsenic less than one-thousandth of a gram per liter could do this, and think that I've got to be wrong. But our years of worki...

Did You Know That 50% Of Deaths Due To Cancer, Can be Prevented?

...igned to take what we know about breast cancer and epidemiology and turn it around in a way that might allow prevention." To quote his advice, "if there's cancer under the age of 50, breast or colon, that might warrant referral in cancer-risk counseling. That would be the starting point." Breast cancer cases ...

Is There A Strong Link Between Fluoride In Tap Water And Bone Cancer?

... developing for a rare bone cancer. Douglass is an epidemiology professor at Harvard’s School of Dental Medicine. He is paid to work as an editor of the Colgate Oral Care Report, a newsletter supported by the toothpaste maker. The results of the study were published online in a Harvard-affiliated journal. This ...

Virus Causing Kaposi's Sarcoma Discovered

... framework for integration of the cell biology and epidemiology of this clinically important virus." About NIAID & NIH- NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health. NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other sexually tra...

Adolescents Who Indulge In Unhealthy Dieting At Increased Risk For Obesity

...ark-Sztainer, Ph.D., study author and professor of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota. "A change in lifestyle is needed to prevent obesity and eating disorders in this population." The researchers arrived at these conclusions after a longitudinal study of over 2,000 youngsters. They...

Fat Content In McDonald’s & KFC's Foods Varies From Country To Countr

...fat, Harvard School of Public Health nutrition and epidemiology scientists said. Epidemiologic evidence suggests the death number could be as high as 100,000 a year. Experts suggest that the safe level for trans fats is zero. Starting in January 2006, food manufacturers are required to label the content of tran...

Vioxx Not Safe Even For Short Term Use

...30 days. Linda Levesque, assistant professor of epidemiology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario said that it is highly dangerous for the first time users and they might suffer an attack in as little as two weeks. Merck is the fourth-biggest U.S. drug maker. It withdrew Vioxx in 2004 when the drug was p...

Caffeine Therapy May Help Protect Lungs Of Premature Babies

...bara Schmidt, a professor of paediatrics, clinical epidemiology and bio statistics at McMaster University Medical Center, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada the studies lead author explained that in this study they tested a treatment that has been in use for quite some time. Though studies on this had been conducted in...

Daily Intake Of Alcohol Reduces Heart Disease In Men Than Women

... several caveats in mind, writes Annie Britton, an epidemiology expert, in an accompanying editorial. For instance, the Danish participants were middle-aged and therefore presumably at a greater risk of heart disease. The low response rate also means that extremes of drinking may not have been captured. Finally...

Recd Number of Abstracts Submitted for Sci Cong on Osteoporosis

...d osteoporosis; osteoporosis diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology and health economics issues; pregnancy, infancy and osteoporosis; and osteoporosis in men.. See IOF WCO http://www.osteofound.org/wco/2006/index.php Daily media briefings during IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis:...

Breast Cancer Mortality Rate is Higher Among Black Women

...basal-like,' said Millikan, associate professor of epidemiology at the UNC School of Public Health, a UNC Lineberger member and principal investigator of the Carolina Breast Cancer Study (CBCS). The CBCS, one of the largest black breast cancer databases in the United States, is a population-based case-control s...

US Teens turn Wiser to Risky Behavior

...ding to Dr. Glenn Flores, professor of pediatrics, epidemiology and health policy at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, ‘I think this is a sentinel indicator for us to say there's something wrong with the childhood we're giving to our Latino kids,’ Flores also added. ‘We could have a very troubled fut...

Erectile Dysfunction Linked with Smoking and Obesity – Study Report

...ow at HSPH, and Eric Rimm , associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at HSPH, surveyed 22,086 healthy subjects between the ages of 40 and 75 from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study who reported good or very good erectile function and no major chronic disease before 1986. Among the participants, 17....

Women Benefit From Decaffeinated Coffee

...ernal Medicine. Pereira, an associate professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Minnesota, said that coffee plays a vital role in the regulation of blood sugar. Pereira said that coffee is rich in antioxidants and hence protect the pancreatic cells which produce insulin. Though other studi...

Developmental Delays in Infants Linked to DDT

...ng to study author Brenda Eskenazi, a professor of epidemiology and maternal and child health at the University of...tional Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' epidemiology branch said that while DDT appears hazardous to some animals, DDT's health effects on humans are sti...

Higher Risk for Cervical Cancer Seen Among Women Infected with Multiple HPV Types

...anco, Dr.PH., leader of the study and professor of epidemiology and oncology, and director, division of cancer epidemiology at McGill University. Like previous studies on HPV in cervical cancer, the new research found that...

Physical Activity of any kind to Prolong Life

..." Co-researcher Dr. James Everhart, chief of the epidemiology and clinical trials branch of the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases said, "We were quite surprised to find this effect with a relatively small number of participants, When we started talking about it, maybe 10 year...

Study finds Smoking Mortality Higher Among Lower Economy Class

... Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Researchers used an innovative, indirect method to estimate the contribution of smoking to mortality risk. The lung cancer deaths occurring in the different study groups were used as a guide to the respective proportion...

Age and Socioeconomic Factors Are Strongest Determinants of Sunburn

...ia in Philadephia and co-author of the report "The epidemiology of sunburn in the U.S. population in 2003," studied the prevalence of and risk factors for sunburn in the United States using the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS). A random samp...

Risk Of Premature Death In Obese Adolescents

...ank B. Hu, an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health says, “This study underscores the importance of childhood obesity which not only has health consequences for children, but increases the risk for death in adulthood." But another report, published in the same ...

Using Multivitamins Before And After Conception Averts Preeclampsia

...odnar, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH). "At this time, multivitamin use makes little apparent difference in preeclampsia rates for women who are overweight before pregnancy. Even so, the results suggest that regular m...

Waxing And Waning Of Dengue Epidemics Attributed To Cross-Immunity

... of the most important issues in public health and epidemiology in general." "Until now, it's been very much a single-host, single-pathogen type of framework," Rohani said. "Now with avian influenza being very much on everyone's mind, we're beginning to realize that the genetic diversity of infectious agents is ...

Measles: No Measly Threat!

... Kim Mulholland, a professor of infectious-disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the only way to protect the children is to immunize as many children as possible....

Autopulse Would Reduce the Mortality Rates in Rural Victoria

...nior lecturer at Monash University's department of epidemiology and preventative medicine, it was found that more number// of rural people of heart attacks than their counterparts who live in urban areas. Statistics show that heart disease mortality rates in rural areas are 30 % higher in men and 21 % higher in...

"DES Daughters" Have High Risk Of Breast Cancer

...y's lead author, Julie Palmer, Sc.D., professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health. She said an estimated one to two million women in the U.S. were exposed to DES, which was frequently prescribed to women from the 1940s through 1960s to prevent miscarriages. The ongoing study sug...

Unhappy With Looks, Teens Can Indulge In Binge Eating

... Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., lead author and professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. "Instead, they use weight control behaviors that put them at a higher risk for obesity and poor health down the road. With this in mind, interventions with teens should strive to boost self-conf...

High Blood Sugar Increases Dementia Risk

...nter and a professor of psychiatry, neurology, and epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco. “We were interested in what this measurement would tell us about a group of women with and without diabetes who were followed for four years. Nobody has really looked at that before.” The glycosylated...

Dr. Scott Hammer Authors Two New Guidelines for HIV Treatment

... and NewYork-Presbyterian. He is also professor of epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. In the nearly two decades since the advent of antiretroviral therapy for HIV, 21 new agents in five drug classes have been approved; potent combination therapy has become a worldwide standard of care; ...

Aspirin May Reduce Risk Of Enlarged Prostate

...wouldn't recommend that, partly because this is an epidemiology association study, so we haven't proven causality here," said St. Sauver. "We'd like our finding to be replicated by another group to make sure this wasn't a total fluke." RAS...

Salad Contains Nutrients In Optimum Level

...om salad," said Lenore Arab, visiting professor of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health and co-author of the study with L. Joseph Su, assistant professor at the LSU School of Public Health. "The findings endorse consumption of salad and raw vegetables as an effective strategy for increasing intake o...

Moderate Consumption Of Nuts Could Prevent The Risk Of Heart Disease

...ain. Professor Elio Riboli, professor of cancer epidemiology at Imperial College, London said, 'You could say that a modest consumption of nuts contributed to reducing myocardial infarction. He did however stated that “But there is no point sitting in front of the TV, being obese and having high blood pressure...

The Daily Struggle with Salt

...ucing salt. Dr. Michael H. Alderman, professor of epidemiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx said, “There are a variety of effects that can happen with lowering sodium, some of them negative, so I don’t think we should be just considering the one effect of lowering blood pressure.’’ O...

Fatty Fish consumption may reduce Kidney Cancer risk

...tantial," said Eugenia Calle, director of analytic epidemiology for the American Cancer Society. "There is very little published on this topic -- it may be the only study to look at fatty fish and kidney cancer."The study was published in the Sept. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "P...

Eating Soy Protein Helps Control Cholesterol

... health. Kristi Reynolds, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and a team of Tulane colleagues analyzed data from 41 different studies on the effects of isolated soy protein on blood cholesterol levels. The studies analyzed by the team were all rand...

Contraceptive Patch Carries Risk of Blood clots

...studies are conflicting, the results of the second epidemiology study support FDA's concerns regarding the potential for Ortho Evra use to increase the risk of blood clots in some women." Dr. Daniel Shames, the acting deputy director of FDA's Office of Drug Evaluation in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Resear...

Alcoholics Anonymous: A Blessing For The Addicted

... studies in the department of community health and epidemiology at Dalhousie University, "alcohol is a leading [contributor to the] global burden of disease, and homicide is just one of a number of negative consequences of its consumption. Given this link, any policies or intervention that reduce or remove alcoho...

Bacterial Protein Shows Promise in Treating Intestinal Parasites

...ors of the study and a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology & public health at Yale School of Medicine. “We believe that Bt crystal proteins not only meet, but exceed these essential criteria.” The discovery is particularly relevant to global health, because of concerns about the potential emergence of resi...

Salad Is Even Healthier Than You Thought

...tional status,' said Dr. Lenore Arab, professor of epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health and lead researcher of the study, titled “Salad and Raw Vegetable Consumption and Nutritional Status in the Adult US Population". 'Just one salad daily helps to satisfy the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which ...

One in 523 Children and Adolescents Have Diabetes

...Ronny A. Bell, Ph.D., M.S., associate professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and a SEARCH co-investigator. It is the first look at the burden of diabetes in youth of all major racial and ethnic groups. In a report in the October issue of Pediatrics, study investiga...

Colas can cause bone loss in old women

... to bone fractures. Katherine Tucker, director of epidemiology at Tufts University, and her team of researchers have reported their findings in the latest issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. They analysed dietary questionnaires and bone mineral density measurements at the spine and three diffe...

Simi Valley Nuclear Meltdown Effects Greater than Suspected

...niversity of North Carolina associate professor of epidemiology and co-chairman of the Santa Susana Field Lab Advisory Panel, which commissioned the studies said, "What’s critical here is that people have been exposed here unwillingly and without their knowledge.""To reduce people’s anxiety, we need more informat...

Outbreaks of Whooping Cough Contributed by Vaccine Exemptions

...to Dr. Daniel A. Salmon, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and the study's senior author this trend is one reason why the current study was undertaken. All U.S. states require children entering school to have proof they've received standard vaccinations, th...

Eating Fish has more Benefits than Risks

...c," said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an instructor in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author of a review published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute supported the study. Another study was carried out by the Instit...

Pulmonary Hypertension Discriminates by Race, Gender

...operating with a very limited understanding of the epidemiology of IPAH, and that understanding is now changing." Dr. Davis and colleagues reviewed data from the United States National Center for Health Statistics from the years 1994 to 1998 for deaths, in which the underlying cause was IPAH. The age, gender, r...

A Salad a Day Keeps the Doctor Away This Winter

...tional status,” said Dr. Lenore Arab, professor of epidemiology at UCLA’s School of Public Health and lead researcher of the study. “Just one salad daily helps to satisfy the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which recommends eating two and a half cups of vegetables each day for a 2000-calorie diet.” Thou...

Twin Cities Residents Get Exercise Through Personal Lifestyle Activities

...Lyn Steffen, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. "But, people can help fill the gap by participating in physical activities that are part of a daily routine, such as walking their dog, climbing steps, walking, yardwork, an...