Sentences with phrase «at doses larger»

At doses larger than that, it can potentially be problematic.

There are also questions about its safety when taken on a long - term basis: Selenium can lead to a loss of hair and nails at doses larger than 1 milligram.

Not exact matches

Also honored were James Cone, who offered impassioned reflections on praxis and the experience of the oppressed, and Chung Hyun Kyung, the Korean professor who had caused such a stir at the Canberra meeting of the World Council of Churches, who again called for the fusing of liberation thought with indigenous shamanism and a large dose of romantic naturalism.

It tastes sweet at first, but large doses deliver stomach aches.

Even if conditions in the children's homes are chaotic and stressful, Educare's directors believe, the large dose of responsive care they experience each day at the center will allow them to transcend the potential ill effects of that instability.

For example, babies that weren't breastfed at the time of gluten introduction were more likely to get large doses of gluten in the form of flour - based formula.

Every dose of vaccine is important to protect not only your child, but the community at large from infectious diseases.

Help may be on the way for those suffering from these or other ocular ailments in the form of a contact lens that sandwiches medicine between two layers of polymer film and administers large doses of medication at constant rates over extended periods.

As a pain specialist at a large teaching hospital, Mao frequently encounters patients who can't find relief from increasing opioid doses and who tell him that their pain has become worse — diffuse, nagging, and harder to pinpoint.

«Randomized trials have confirmed the value of radiation dose escalation for prostate tumors, and the potential benefits of larger radiation doses in fewer fractions, are expected to increase the therapeutic efficacy for men with prostate cancer,» said Anders Widmark, MD, a professor of radiation sciences at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and lead author of the study.

Even at the time of the sampling, the agency reported, residents could be exposed to large doses of contaminants for brief «peak» periods.

In a series of short - term placebo - controlled trials, researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel found that large doses of inositol — 12 to 18 grams a day — helped alleviate depression, panic disorder, and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

However, a higher number of studies looked at indirect comparisons and in those cases tetracycline appeared to have larger benefits than doxycycline, norfloxacin and trimethoprim - sulfamethoxazole, while single dose azithromycin shortened the duration of diarrhea by over a day compared to ciprofloxacin and by half a day compared to erythromycin.

And because the drug isn't very good at binding to its GABA - AT target, patients must take large doses, which in turn can lead to retinal damagat binding to its GABA - AT target, patients must take large doses, which in turn can lead to retinal damagAT target, patients must take large doses, which in turn can lead to retinal damage.

These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making in civil nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias in the vicinity of the plant.

All six of them quickly fell seriously ill with multiple organ trauma, even though the stuff had worked well on rabbits and monkeys at doses up to 500 times as large.

This is the first study to look at the effects of a lower daily dose — equivalent to the amount of resveratrol found in one large (approx. 250 ml) glass of red wine — comparing it with a dose 200 times higher.

Lloyd - Jones's editorial is based on a large new study published in the journal that looked at adults, ages 50 to 80, with cardiovascular disease who took extended - release niacin (vitamin B3) and laropiprant (a drug that reduces face flushing caused by high doses of niacin) to see if it reduced heart attack and stroke compared to a placebo over four years.

The patent - pending technology, which uses detectors at the heart of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN alongside world - first radiation - hard CMOS imagers, will reduce dose uncertainties from several centimetres to just a few millimetres.

Muir Woods National Monument, CA Marvel at the redwoods — renowned as the tallest trees in the world — but also take a moment to taste the clover - shaped redwood sorrel that makes up much of the ground cover and has a surprisingly citrusy flavor (though it's toxic in large doses).

The only previous study looking at this was much smaller, and rather than picking out all patients with doses greater than 107 % and randomising them, it only included women with larger breasts who are already known to be more likely to have regions of dose above the upper limit.

It is poisonous but only at relatively large doses; in rats it killed half of the animals tested at concentrations above 825 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.

«This study, one of only a few large studies to have follow - up beyond five years, demonstrates that patients who have head and neck cancers and who are being treated with radiation therapy alone have improved local - regional control and no increase in late toxicity when radiation therapy is delivered twice a day in two smaller doses which we call hyperfractionation,» said Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FASTRO, lead author of the study and professor of radiation oncology, otolaryngology and hematology / medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Although some people do not get their children vaccinated, and such children are at least eight times more likely to get the disease than those who receive all five recommended doses they are not the driving force behind the large scale outbreaks or epidemics, says Pawloski.

I had concerns about the effects on my health: I had been warned that large doses could probably kill those at particular risk by inducing a heart attack.

The idea, explained Sandra Banack, a researcher at the Institute for Ethnomedicine, is that large doses of L - serine may be able to «outcompete» low levels of BMAA in the body, preventing it from becoming incorporated into proteins.

IL - 2 has unpleasant side effects if given in large doses, but targeting it at melanoma cells should be less toxic.

However, Steven Hentges of the American Chemistry Council, which represents chemical manufacturers, said in an emailed response that multiple large studies «consistently find no reproductive effects in males or females at any dose remotely close to the levels of BPA to which people are actually exposed.»

The large cosmic ray - induced radiation dose at the surface may also prove problematic for future human exploration of Mars (e.g. Saganti et al. 2004).

The effect of glucocorticoid treatment is most prominent on trabecular bone and is therefore likely to be larger on vertebral bone than on hip bone.3 Glucocorticoids are associated with an increased rate of fracture, and higher doses and longer use of glucocorticoids are associated with higher risks of fracture.4 Compared with patients not taking glucocorticoids, the risk of hip and vertebral fracture among patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and women.4

Response: Despite the small land area of the plant, SMR - 160 will accrete a small fraction of the dose of a large contemporary reactor at its site boundary because of the many dose mitigation features built into its design, viz:

Owing to the large effect of tobacco smoke at low doses, exposure to second - hand smoke in the reference group (never smokers) might lead to underestimation of the relative risk for one and 20 cigarettes per day and consequently dilute the percentage effect of one compared with 20 cigarettes per day.

This herb can help keep inflammation at bay, effectively treating pain and increasing flexibility (note: avoid large doses of ginger if you are diabetic, have heart problems, or bleeding problems; keep your dose to eight 500 mg capsules or fewer.

There's another advantage to the DIY approach, too, at least for a trained professional: While EpiPens are only available in two doses, a syringe allows for customized doses — less for small children and more for larger, heavier adults, for example.

You don't want to go overboard with zinc because too much of it will put you at risk for copper deficiency (large doses of zinc prevent the absorption of copper in the digestive tract).

«This is the first time that we have looked at the impact of large amounts of cacao in doses as small as a regular - sized chocolate bar in humans over short or long periods of time, and are encouraged by the findings,» says Lee S. Berk, DrPH, a researcher involved in the presentation.

Human growth hormone is not to be dosed to people based on their weight — alcohol tolerance and resistance to anesthesia are at times measured that way because a heavier person has a larger volume that can dilute the alcohol / anesthesia before it hits the system in a way to effect changes in the capacity for normal body function — changes that will only last for a set number of hours.

At extremely large doses, vitamin C may also carry the risk of increasing the likelihood of kidney disease.

Second, Warfarin, a vitamin K inhibitor, produces a toxicity profile almost identical to that of vitamin D, but does not increase serum calcium levels.81 Third, one group used vitamin D to produce calcium deposition in the kidneys of chickens at doses that did not lead to hypercalcemia.104 This finding is consistent with a case report of four post-menopausal women who were taking undetermined doses of vitamin D without their knowledge in the form of supplements that appeared to be contaminated with large amounts of vitamin D2: these patients had abnormally high vitamin D levels, three times the calcium in their urine as is normal, and appeared, albeit inconclusively, to have associated bone loss.

My morning bloodsugars were 250, to 350, and I was taking large doses of insulin at meals and bedtime.

On average my HDL runs around 85, my LDL is maintained (with a 5 mg dose of statin and 1000 mg Niacin) at around 90, my LDL particles count is usually around 700, well below the «low» range, my LDL particles are «large and fluffy» (a desirable state that was lost a few years ago when I was on a 20 mg statin dose), my triglycerides are consistently around 30 to 40.

T3 is added at a very low dosage because if you add a larger dose it could cause blood clots, irregular heartbeats, shakiness, and in some cases osteoporosis.

While I think the enthusiasm over Vitamin D is wonderful, I personally do not feel comfortable with the casual way that high dose Vitamin D supplements are being recommended by healthcare professionals and eagerly consumed by an ever expanding public at large.

Think of it this way: if we were to take the speed with which my foot healed and apply it to the speed at which your acne clears, you can expect massive improvements from taking large doses of Camu Camu Powder.

You might also want to split up your dosage and take half in the morning and half at night, if the single larger dose upsets your stomach.

He also claims that the mental effects of steroids follow a continuum, often dependent on how large a dose is used or whether several steroids are taken at the same time.

The optimal approach is to divide the above amount into a larger dose at bedtime and a smaller dose in the morning, or as directed by your healthcare provider.

At the other end of the spectrum, indulging in a large dose of bitters following a particularly gluttonous meal might ease that bursting sensation.

When a person talks on a cell phone or looks at a smartphone display, the eyes receive a large dose of microwave radiation.

Exercise at the cost of great physical stress may backfire; what many think of as behaviors that keep us healthy and increase longevity — running or biking great distances, large doses of «hill repeats» or intervals in the swimming pool — can actually result in the opposite.