Displaying items by tag: public health research
Despite fewer drivers on the roads and fewer injuries per accident, fatal crashes in Alabama increased by 26 percent over the three years from 2020 through 2022.
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UAB is one of 15 sites selected by the NIH to study the increasing prevalence of diabetes in youth, specifically in Black and Hispanic minority groups.
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- school of medicine
- oneal comprehensive cancer center
- school of health professions
- department of nutrition sciences
- diabetes research center
- school of public health
- department of biostatistics
- department of health care policy and organization
- public health research
- college of arts and sciences
- department of psychology
The trial will evaluate the effects of low doses of psilocybin on combating demoralization in broader populations.
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Published results show that higher cardiorespiratory fitness in early adulthood produces a lower risk of all-cause mortality later in life. Additionally, retaining good cardiorespiratory fitness through midlife reduces the later risk of death.
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Research funding to UAB from the National Institutes of Health tops $300 million again.
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The clinical trial focused on very young children, who have a more rapid loss of the pancreatic beta cells than do adolescents. The trial was constrained to a low-dose level, but showed safety and tolerability and reduced serum glucagon, a secondary outcome.
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The ASA has announced George Howard, DrPH, as the David G. Sherman Lecture Award winner for his contributions to the stroke field.
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Using data from the REGARDS cohort, UAB researchers found the impact of certain stroke risk factors vary with age.
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The first large multi-ancestry genetics study of osteoarthritis, or OA, has found 10 novel OA-associated genetic loci, and results showed some of the OA-associated regions are robustly found in every population ancestry studied.
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- school of medicine
- department of medicine
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- department of cell developmental and integrative biology
- division of pulmonary allergy and critical care medicine
- school of public health
- department of epidemiology
- department of genetics
- department of biostatistics
- public health research
Published findings from UAB suggest that certain firearm laws in one state were associated with other states’ firearm-related deaths. Additionally, permit-to-purchase laws were associated with decreased firearm-related death rates both within a state and nearby states.
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