Sentences with phrase «age than a disease»

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Women who die of heart disease are six times more likely than other women to have been bereaved in the past six months — and heart disease among widowers under 45 has been found to be ten times the rate among married men the same age.

And in some ways it is easier to dramatize some rare, grim disease in a TV story than it is to depict the relative banalities of old age.

Or is death at age five from a genetic disease worse than death from a nuclear bomb?

In a study that examined food intake patterns and risk of death from coronary heart disease, researchers followed more than 16,000 middle - aged men in the U.S., Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Greece and Japan for 25 years.

Children with inflammatory bowel disease may not grow as well as other kids their age and puberty may happen later than normal.

Research shows that gluten introduction should occur no later than 7 months of age, and late introduction (as well as early introduction, before 4 months) has been shown to increase the risk of celiac disease.

Finally, on September 30th, the New York Times reported on a telephone survey of over 1,000 former NFL players conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and commissioned by league which found, alarmingly, that former players were being diagnosed with Alzheimer's or similar memory - related diseases at a rate 19 times higher than the normal rate for men aged 30 through 49.

In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that United States emergency rooms see more than 200,000 children up to age 14 each year for playground - related issues.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends 0.4 mg (400 micrograms) of folic acid per day for women of childbearing age, so make sure your multivitamin has at least this much; most prenatal vitamins will have more than this.

Here's a statistic that every parent needs to know: According to the Centers for Disease Control, drowning is responsible for more deaths among children ages 1 - 4 than any other cause except birth defects.

After 1995, less than 50 % of children diagnosed with celiac disease were under 10 years old, and the average age at diagnosis had risen to about 8.5 years of age.

According to one study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood found that among babies who had experienced prolonged crying at a very young age (either from colic or other causes) had an average IQ at five years old that was nine points lower than the control group.

If that statement confuses you, just remember that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long recommended that «household contacts and out of home caregivers of children less than 6 months of age» should get a flu shot each year.

Also, infectious diseases until the age of 6 months were more present in infants for whom there was no information about breastfeeding (50 %) than for those for whom there was information (44 %).

During emergency situations, disease and death rates among babies and children are higher than for any other age group; and the younger the child, the higher the risk, leaving babies under six months most vulnerable.

When logistic models were stratified by the presence or absence of hypertensive disease, only maternal age older than 34 years (odds ratio [OR], 1.4; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.0 - 2.0), pregnancy - associated plasma protein - A of the 95th percentile or less (OR, 1.9; 95 % CI, 1.2 - 3.1), and alpha fetoprotein of the 95th percentile or greater (OR, 2.3; 95 % CI, 1.4 - 3.8) remained statistically significantly associated for abruption.In this large, population - based cohort study, abnormal maternal aneuploidy serum analyte levels were associated with placental abruption, regardless of the presence of hypertensive disease.

Furthermore, a child who is obese by age 12 has more than a 75 percent chance of becoming an obese adult, at risk for Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, hypertension, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, asthma and certain cancers.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

But according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, accidental death rates dropped among all age groups in 2009, the latest year for which data is available — except among babies younger than 1 year.

During emergency situations, disease and death rates among under - five children are higher than for any other age group; the younger the infant the higher the risk.

The studies published from 2007 and on seem to show that introducing allergenic foods between 4 - 6 months of age may actually be better sooner rather than later and may provide protection against atopic disease (eczema or asthma for example).

Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

He emboldens a passage that says «The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer».

«By extension, it is to reduce the disease burden and mortality rate of children who are less than the age of five years», he said.

In Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life, he concludes that old age is a privilege to be savored, rather than a disease to be cured or a condition to be denied.

Researchers studied HIV positive individuals, ages 30 to 50 years, who did not have osteoporosis, had no history of immunological disease other than HIV, had serum vitamin D and calcium levels within the normal range, and normal CBC and blood chemistry profiles.

Children with MS, however, have a higher relapse rate than adults with the disease so the researchers decided to analyse the potential impact of diet in this age group.

This means that by taking an over-the-counter medication, people can ward off a disease that, according to Alzheimer's Disease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 ordisease that, according to Alzheimer's Disease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 orDisease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 or older.

Can it tell us whether we're more likely than others to get aging - related diseases like heart disease, cancer, or a stroke?

But Blaser told New Scientist: «More than 90 per cent of people with H. pylori never get ulcers or stomach cancer and anyway these diseases only occur after reproductive age, so they do not effect natural selection,»

But the treated 70 - to 79 - year - olds had 19 more heart disease cases and 13 more strokes per 10,000 women annually than women of the same age taking a placebo.

The task also revealed an additional memory impairment unique to those with very mild Alzheimer's disease, indicating the changes in cognition that result from Alzheimer's are qualitatively different than healthy aging.

People with very mild Alzheimer's disease did worse overall on the task than those in the healthy aging group, who, in turn, did worse than a group of young adults.

Even more than other types of cancer, melanoma is a disease of aging, with older patients more frequently diagnosed with the disease and having a worse prognosis.

When researchers study centenarians, people who live to be 100 or older — as Barzilai and his colleagues have been doing at Albert Einstein for more than a decade — they find that these well - aged individuals are certainly not immune to chronic diseases, but they get them later in life.

Women who begin menopause before age 46 or after 55 have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of more than 124,000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative, a large national trial aimed at preventing disease in postmenopausal women.

«It is particularly good news for the large number of affected patients that if they are in good medical care and have survived breast cancer, they do not need to be more worried about deadly heart diseases than women at the same age without breast cancer.»

Rather than getting heart disease or cancer in our fifties or sixties and needing expensive treatments and drugs to keep us alive (if they do) until we're 75, we will age more slowly.

The FDA review of the medications began after a report by the Centers for Disease Control in January found that, between 2004 and 2005, more than 1,500 children under the age of 2 had wound up in emergency rooms after taking over-the-counter cough and cold medicines.

The mice, described in this month's issue of Nature Genetics, also may provide a quick way to screen potential drugs for the disease, a disabling condition that afflicts more than a third of U.S. women over the age of 60.

Overwhelmingly, scientists favor treatments that will slow aging and stave off age - related diseases rather than simply extending life at its most decrepit.

By age 80, more than 50 percent of men will develop prostate cancer but not all will have the aggressive, deadly form of the disease.

However, although people are living longer, they are not necessarily healthier than before — nearly a quarter (23 %) of the overall global burden of death and illness is in people aged over 60, and much of this burden is attributable to long - term illness caused by diseases such as cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, heart disease, musculoskeletal diseases (such as arthritis and osteoporosis), and mental and neurological disorders.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

Meanwhile, rates of Type 2 diabetes in older adults are higher than other populations, as about 20 percent of Americans over the age of 65 suffer from the disease.

Results indicated that after correcting for lung disease as well as other factors that can contribute to ROP risk such as gestational age, there is still a higher risk of ROP in steroid - treated infants than in those infants not treated with steroids.

The disease tends to strike older people — more than 11 percent of Americans over the age of 80 have AMD, and the risk of getting advanced AMD is nearly 30 percent for those over the age of 75.

More than one quarter of children with two copies of a high - risk variant in a specific group of genes develop an early sign of celiac disease called celiac disease autoimmunity (CDA) by age 5.

They found that the age of smokers who die from cardiovascular disease is, on average, five and a half years younger than people who have never smoked in their lives.