Nearly all recent federal government grants available this year are focused on "environmental contributors" and "risk" factors linked to autism, as well as treatment and potential "cures".
Although a number of studies have examined environmental contributors, to date there have been few investigations of biological/genetic factors in this integral population.
Exposure to the endocrine disrupting chemicals perfluoro-octanoic acid (PFOA) or perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) have been suggested as potential environmental contributors, although evidence to support this association is conflicting.
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify individual, social, and environmental contributors (mediators) to individual- and area-level differences in leisure-time physical activity across socio-economic groups.
Re "Unblame the Victim: Heart Disease Causes Vary" (news analysis, Sept. 11), about lessons from Bill Clinton's heart surgery: The willingness to consider and take responsibility for the environmental contributors (like diet and stress) to illnesses like heart disease need not be blaming or judgmental.
Multiple studies surfaced this year suggesting surprising physical and environmental contributors to mental health.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine emphasizes that addiction is not just a behavioral disorder, but that there are neurobiologic, genetic and environmental contributors to it.
Especially, if there is a consideration that the patient's elevated blood pressure may be associated with the anxiety of being in a clinical setting or other environmental contributors.
Recently, episodic or catastrophic events have been described as one of the main environmental contributors to faunal disturbance and thus one of the main potential drivers of deep-sea biodiversity [225], [259].
To define the key environmental contributors offers up possibilities for prevention.
Attention is being paid to identifying environmental contributors to adiposity, including socioeconomic status (SES).
