Sentences with phrase «cause less disease»

Not exact matches

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Prions, which are malformed proteins, may be alive or not; but the more or less reproduce — and are the cause of mad cow disease.

As coeliac disease causes your digestive system to work less effectively, severe cases can sometimes lead to a critical lack of nutrients in your body.

Actually, LOTS of people argue that plant - based protein is superior because it is healthier / less likely to cause disease compared to animal protein.

In some people, coeliac disease can cause the spleen to work less effectively, making you more vulnerable to infection.

It can sometimes be caused by adhesions, PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) or even through childbirth, although these factors are less common.

Mom is less likely to get breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, and heart disease (the leading cause of death for women).

Unfortunately, the ointment doesn't prevent ophthalmia neonatorum caused by chlamydia (another sexually transmitted disease), which is more common today but less serious.

There is consistent evidence of a protective effect of exclusive breast feeding against diarrhoeal disease in the first 4 — 6 months of life.4 Likely causes are the immune properties of breast milk and less exposure to pathogens in contaminated milk, food, bottles, or teats.5 Contamination and inadequate sterilisation pose less of a problem in developed than developing countries, and this explains the greater protection of breast feeding in developing countries where poverty, poor hygiene, and infectious diseases are common.

Organic cotton is known to be toxin free therefore by using such material you can ensure that your child suffers less from various diseases caused by toxins.

While many hailed NYC City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's Twitter confession that she has a potentially cancer - causing sexually transmitted disease, others were less enthusiastic.

While many hailed City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's bizarre social - media confession that she has a potentially cancer - causing sexually transmitted disease, others were less enthusiastic.

Lead - author Assistant professor Anna - Sofie Stensgaard from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, explains, «Today, we know less about where disease - causing organisms occur, than the global distribution of most mammals, birds and even ants.

Claims that sugar caused heart disease had much less empirical and expert support.

The two main causes of death for the cyclists were neoplasms (32.2 %), and cardiovascular diseases (29 %), both occurring less frequently than in the general public (SMRs of 0.56 and 0.67 respectively).

«This highlights an important paradox: although men are less likely to be infected, when they are infected, it's typically by fitter viruses that initially, at least, cause a more severe disease.»

Tobacco, obesity, diabetes, high alcohol intake and a family history of pancreatic cancer are all recognised risk factors for the disease, but explain less than 40 % of cases and important causes of the increasing trends yet have to be identified.

Much less clear, however, is what causes people to develop the disease in the first place.

At time of writing, the virus had not become more severe, causing mild disease in most sufferers but making a small number — probably less than 1 per cent — extremely ill.

Many people today still live in poverty and suffer from diseases caused by poor sanitation, contagion, and malnutrition that were much less common in the Paleolithic.

Alzheimer's disease, however, is a less obvious target for such a treatment, because what causes this form of dementia is unknown.

In contrast, infection with the closely related bacterium Salmonella enterica Thyphimurium is usually limited to the gut and causes less serious diarrheal disease.

«We compared the ability of RSV and parainfluenza virus (PIV3)-- another common virus in children that causes much less severe airway disease — to infect and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway.

In other words, given the high level of know - how needed to use disease as a weapon to cause mass casualties, the United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists.

The purple tomatoes were also less susceptible to one of the most important postharvest diseases, grey mould caused by Botrytis cinerea.

Ian Keymer, a retired MAFF vet from Norfolk who has studied fluctuations in red squirrel populations, says parapox is less likely to kill grey squirrels because it only causes disease in animals under stress, caused by food shortages for example.

«People may tell you their opinions and make claims,» he adds, «but even though we have a tremendous amount of information on West Nile stockpiled, we still don't really understand why it causes more or less disease year to year.»

Less than a decade ago, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis was first identified, a disease characterized by inflammation of the brain that causes acute psychiatric symptoms including psychosis.

The skinny on fat: Too little is more dangerous than too much Overweight people are at no greater risk than normal - weight folks of dying from heart disease or cancer and are actually less likely to fall prey to some other causes of death, such as accidents and Alzheimer's, according to freshly analyzed data on 2.3 million adults 25 years and older as of 2004.

Astroviruses are not usually deadly, but the new data suggest that they are less discriminating with regard to what they infect than researchers had thought, raising the possibility that different strains could trade genetic material in monkey hosts and give rise to new forms that might cause more serious disease in people.

A third study showed that similar injections into normal mice caused some of the neurodegeneration typical of Parkinson's disease and the mice became less agile.

Ground - breaking research has found that introducing «friendlier» less - potent strains into a population of disease - causing microbes can lead to increased disease severity.

Microbes found in sewage that can cause disease in humans and marine organisms are far less common in these areas than elsewhere.

The authors note that with a median length of a physician visit of less than 15 minutes, there is little time to address the root causes of many chronic diseases, such as poor nutrition and physical inactivity.

Many scientists believe that disease - causing mutations are easier to find in genetically homogenous populations, such as Iceland's, whose genomes have less «noise» than those of more diverse societies.

It also shows some overlap between the genetic causes of COPD and those of the less common but severe disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

Wildfires are a source of an especially problematic type of air pollutant known as PM2.5 («particulate matter» less than 2.5 microns in diameter), which can become lodged in lungs and cause or exacerbate a wide array of health problems such as asthma and heart disease.

In spite of mismatching, cord blood cells cause less graft versus host disease (GVHD) than adult cells.

Although the IL - 15 plus retinoic acid combination leads to inflammation and tissue damage in those at risk for celiac disease, the authors suggest that for those who are less genetically susceptible, the same combination could help enhance vaccines against several bacterial infections that cause diarrheal diseases.

July 24, 1997 New device permits less invasive approach to leg surgery The University of Chicago Hospitals is one of three medical centers in the United States using a new device, developed by Baxter Healthcare Corp., to restore blood flow to the leg for patients with advanced peripheral vascular disease, the leading cause of amputations in the United States.

A study from an international research team finds that familial hypercholesterolemia — a genetic condition that causes greatly elevated levels of LDL cholesterol throughout life — accounts for less than 2 percent of severely elevated LDL in the general population but also increases the risk of coronary artery disease significantly more than does elevated LDL alone.

Compared to those who watched less than two hours of TV per day, people who watched four hours or more were 80 % more likely to die from heart disease and 46 % more likely to die from any cause.

Thanks to new technological advances, the test is now widely used to diagnose numerous cardiovascular conditions, including congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, and the extent of heart muscle damage caused by heart attacks (some of which may go unrecognized with less sensitive technology).

A study of more than 22,000 people with coronary artery disease found that cutting diastolic pressure (the bottom number) to less than 70 doubled the risk of dying from heart attack, stroke, or other causes.

One study found that heart disease patients who exercised and had positive attitudes were 42 percent less likely to die of all causes during a five - year follow - up period, compared to patients who were negative and didn't exercise.

Because you stretch and compress all areas of the body, yoga stimulates the elimination systems, helping remove waste products that can be causing fatigue, disease and a less - than - desirable libido.

Women who eat more white bread, white rice, pizza, and other carbohydrate - rich foods that cause blood sugar to spike are more than twice as likely to develop heart disease than women who eat less of those foods, a new study suggests.

By Denise Mann MONDAY, April 12, 2010 (Health.com)-- Women who eat more white bread, white rice, pizza, and other carbohydrate - rich foods that cause blood sugar to spike are more than twice as likely to develop heart disease than women who eat less of those foods, a new study suggests.

People in the DCCT who kept their glucose levels as close to normal as possible were 50 % less likely to develop retinopathy, an eye disease that can cause blindness, than their counterparts who did not.