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EPIDEMIOLOGIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to epidemiology
Example:
epidemiological studies
Synonyms:
epidemiologic; epidemiological
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
epidemiology (the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease)
Derivation:
epidemiology (the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease)
Context examples:
A professional organization that develops and promotes uniform data standards for cancer registration; provides education and training; certifies population-based registries; aggregates and publishes data from central cancer registries; and promotes the use of cancer surveillance data and systems for cancer control and epidemiologic research, public health programs, and patient care to reduce the burden of cancer in North America.
(North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, NCI Thesaurus)
Epidemiologic studies will usually clearly identify occupational carcinogens but in experimental studies or analyses of carcinogenic mechanisms, a judgment must be made as to whether the primary means of exposure is occupational and thus requires selection of SIC 28; for example, one could be exposed to benzene in various settings, but the most frequent exposure risk would be occupational.
(Occupational Carcinogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)
Biochemical epidemiology incorporates the collection of biologic specimens in epidemiologic investigations, which can be analyzed by laboratory techniques to gain better insights into specific environmental and genetic determinants of disease, precursor states, and the pathogenic mechanisms.
(Biochemical Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)
They also carry out programs of education in biometric and epidemiologic principles and methods for the vision research community as well as providing biometric and epidemiologic assistance to National Eye Institute intramural and extramural staff and to vision research workers elsewhere.
(Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, NCI Thesaurus)
The study is conducted in Suffolk, Nassau, and Schoharie counties in New York and in Tolland County, Conn. It includes more than 10 studies: epidemiologic studies, family breast and ovarian cancer registry, laboratory research, and the creation of a new research tool, a Geographic Information System.
(Long Island Breast Cancer Study, NCI Thesaurus)
Realized through an orderly sequence of measures from genetic, epidemiologic, behavioral, social, applied, and surveillance cancer research to the development and implementation of effective interventions, and monitor and analysis of cancer trends in all segments of the population.
(Cancer Control, NCI Thesaurus)
Research conducted with human subjects or on material of human origin in which an investigator directly interacts with human subjects; includes development of new technologies, study of mechanisms of human diseases, therapy, clinical trials, epidemiologic, behavior, and health services research.
(Clinical study, NCI Thesaurus)
The Familial Cancer Risk Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with clinical genetic expertise, data on familial genetic syndromes, germline mutations and cancer modifier genes; access to a database of genotyped probands with hereditary cancers; and clinical specimens with correlative epidemiologic data from subjects with genetically verified hereditary cancer.
(Familial Cancer Risk Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Collaborative and interdisciplinary genetic epidemiology investigations designed to identify and evaluate the interactions of genetic and epidemiologic risk factors leading to cancer susceptibility in individuals, families and populations, and factors influencing the rate of increase with age in cancer susceptibility.
(Interdisciplinary Studies in the Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)
