Sentences with phrase «because of abnormalities»

A female may be infertile because of abnormalities in her reproductive organs.

It's not clear how that may have happened, because large deviations in the amount of DNA usually kills fetuses or renders them infertile because of abnormalities in the amounts of various proteins produced or because organisms can not tolerate having extra copies of sex chromosomes.

Not exact matches

There are also a small minority that can not comprehend God simply because of biological (neurological mostly) abnormalities.

Anderson sustained multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the head, in last week's shooting in Aurora, Colorado, but survived in part because of a brain abnormality that wasn't even aware she had.

It's funny because lots of athletes would likely be just as good eating bad as they would eating good because they are genetic abnormalities that are awesome at sports.

This can seem very attractive to patients as they are older because they know there is an increased risk of having chromosomal abnormalities.

But, in fact, most miscarriages occur because of genetic abnormalities in the pregnancy.

Aside from chromosomal abnormalities, miscarriage during the first trimester can also occur because of the following:

Just because a mother experiences miscarriage due to chromosomal abnormalities of the fetus once does not necessarily mean that the problem will happen again.

Problem: Sometimes babies have a hard time latching on because of anatomical mouth problems, like a high arched palate, a tongue that is too large or has a limited range of motion, or abnormalities with the chin, jaw or palate.

60 percent of miscarriages happen because of genetic abnormalities.

So, most of the tri semis or more common ones are easier to diagnose because more than 90 % of time babies have other abnormalities rather than just a one «soft marker» that raises a suspicion for it.

Breech Twins and higher order multiples Previous CS Pre-Eclampsia Placenta praevia Cervical incompetence Previous late stillbirth Previous premature birth Grand multiparty Age under 18 Age over 35 Smoking Drug use Severe mental health issue Epilepsy Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Gestational diabetes Asthma GBS positive Abnormal antibodies Transplant recipient Congenital heart disease Known foetal abnormality Immunosuppressive medication MS Physical disability Intellectual disability Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Previous shoulder dystocia Previous 3rd or 4th degree tear Sickle Cell anaemia BMI under 18 or over 35 at conception Previous massive PPH APH in current pregnancy HIV / AIDS Hepatitis B or C Active TB IUGR Oligohydramnios Polyhydramnios Child previously removed from custody because of abuse Uterine abnormalities such as uterine septum or double uterus Previous uterine surgery for fibroids Chronic renal problems Hypertension Auto immune condition Previous stroke or blod clot Cancer Domestic violence or abusive home Prisoners Homeless women

(borrowed from Dr Kitty) Breech Twins and higher order multiples Previous CS Pre-Eclampsia Placenta praevia Cervical incompetence Previous late stillbirth Previous premature birth Grand multiparty Age under 18 Age over 35 Smoking Drug use Severe mental health issue Epilepsy Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Gestational diabetes Asthma GBS positive Abnormal antibodies Transplant recipient Congenital heart disease Known foetal abnormality Immunosuppressive medication MS Physical disability Intellectual disability Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Previous shoulder dystocia Previous 3rd or 4th degree tear Sickle Cell anaemia BMI under 18 or over 35 at conception Previous massive PPH APH in current pregnancy HIV / AIDS Hepatitis B or C Active TB IUGR Oligohydramnios Polyhydramnios Child previously removed from custody because of abuse Uterine abnormalities such as uterine septum or double uterus Previous uterine surgery for fibroids Chronic renal problems Hypertension Auto immune condition Previous stroke or blod clot Cancer Domestic violence or abusive home Prisoners Homeless women

The supine sleep position does not increase the risk of choking and aspiration in infants, even those with gastroesophageal reflux, because they have protective airway mechanisms.8, 9 Infants with gastroesophageal reflux should be placed for sleep in the supine position for every sleep, with the rare exception of infants for whom the risk of death from complications of gastroesophageal reflux is greater than the risk of SIDS (ie, those with upper airway disorders, for whom airway protective mechanisms are impaired), 10 including infants with anatomic abnormalities such as type 3 or 4 laryngeal clefts who have not undergone antireflux surgery.

Because there's only one functioning allele of an imprinted gene, if that copy becomes defective, developmental abnormalities can occur.

«Our research is significant because it has confirmed that abnormalities in serotonin in the brain are most definitely linked to cases of SIDS.

Because hair cells are also critical for the sense of balance, mice with damaged or missing hair cells show balance abnormalities.

Because of a chromosomal abnormality, this gene sometimes fuses with another gene and forms a hybrid, or a gene fusion, resulting in a gene product with an entirely different function, causing cancers.

Feinberg focused on a region on chromosome 11, because a handful of affected patients had abnormalities there, such as DNA that was repeated or deleted.

This pattern of reduced serotonergic neurotransmission matters, because some of the alcohol - induced abnormalities were found in brain regions involved in judgment, self - control and emotional regulation.

Because the abnormality shows up in genetically identical clones, «it's impossible to attack genetically,» an approach often taken when a crop has a bad trait that can be bred out of that variety, says study co-author Robert Martienssen, a plant geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

«I am especially excited about the improvements we observed in cognitive and behavioral dysfunctions because these abnormalities are particularly hard on the kids — and their parents,» said first author Ania Gheyara, MD, PhD, a staff scientist at Gladstone who is also affiliated with the UCSF Department of Pathology.

Medical / physical outcome measures, or biomarkers, include a wide range of tools, from blood - based analyses to neurophysiological and neuroimaging methods such as eye - tracking because eye gaze abnormalities are a common feature of FXS.

High blood pressure during pregnancy is a risk factor for future hypertension and cardiovascular disease, but it's not clear if this increased risk is because these women are more likely to have a family history of heart disease or if elevated blood pressure during pregnancy causes long - term metabolic and vascular abnormalities.

Because aneuploidy and chromosomal abnormalities are commonly observed in cancer, the researchers looked for evidence of DNA damage in the fused clones.

«These results are exciting, because it means we could use an easily accessible blood test to help diagnose people who have the premutation genetic abnormality and identify who is more likely to have problems and begin early treatment,» said study author Kim M. Cornish, PhD, of Monash University in Victoria, Australia.

That's because the compounds have been used to treat peptic ulcers, and there is no indication of finger abnormalities in these patients, he notes.

For all in vivo experiments, we used male mice because they all develop spontaneously pathological and clinical alterations of T2D, whereas females develop the abnormalities late and only a proportion of them develop the alterations.

Researchers said their evidence further strengthens the concept that transportation noise contributes to the development of heart disease risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes because noise is associated with oxidative stress, vascular dysfunction, autonomic imbalance and metabolic abnormalities.

Because Huang's technique has been shown, via an analysis of the very large dataset, to be both more sensitive — able to detect abnormality — as well as more specific (fewer false positives), it could be used to improve cervical cancer screening in developed countries like the U.S.

Although we undertook this study because some of the major symptoms of ME / CFS could theoretically be due to mitochondrial dysfunction, we detected no mitochondrial DNA SNP associations with the major symptom clusters fatigue / post-exertional malaise, cognitive difficulties, autonomic dysfunction, endocrine abnormalities, and pain.

The paper was chosen because it identifies the need for functional identification of chromosomal structural abnormalities.

Because cancer also appears as white on a mammogram, a high degree of breast density can make it difficult to spot tumors and other abnormalities.

«Our results suggest that neuropsychiatric CNVs can be used as an instrument for further study of the cognitive abnormalities that characterize schizophrenia, because whether or not an individual develops this disease is likely related to the expression of these genes,» said Stefansson.

Because of the risk of thrombocytopenia and coagulation abnormalities from SPINRAZA, patients may be at increased risk of bleeding complications.

«We went looking for genomic abnormalities of ALL specifically in Asians because of their unique genetic background and also the paucity of studies focusing on this population despite the fact that half of children with leukemia worldwide are in Asia.

Several targeted drugs (e.g., imatinib [Gleevec ®], dasatinib [Sprycel ®]-RRB- are effective for treating CML because they attack cells with the Philadelphia chromosome, the genetic abnormality that is the hallmark of this type of leukemia.

«After a while I realized that the reason there aren't abnormalities is not that there really aren't any, but because no one's ever actually looked at the brain at the level of resolution they'd have to look to see these abnormalities,» Lichtman continues.

Because the rate of ocular abnormalities is very high in this age group and the retinal lesions differ from other congenital infections described previously in the literature, we hypothesized that a cause and effect relationship between ZIKV infection and ocular abnormalities was possible.

Thus, the mutational signatures more faithfully reported MMR deficiency than sequencing of MMR genes, because they represent a direct pathophysiologic readout of repair pathway abnormalities.

The included birth defects were based primarily on case reports of outcomes occurring in association with Zika virus infection during pregnancy; there is more evidence for some of these birth defects than for others, and a causal link has not been established for all.5,10,12,21 - 27 Because much of the focus to date has been on microcephaly and brain abnormalities, data were summarized in 2 mutually exclusive categories: (1) brain abnormalities with or without microcephaly regardless of the presence of additional birth defects and (2) neural tube defects and other early brain malformations, eye abnormalities, and other consequences of central nervous system dysfunction among those without evident brain abnormalities or microcephaly.

Because MRIs provide more sensitive images of the breast tissue than mammograms, they're more likely to find suspicious - looking — but ultimately harmless — abnormalities in the cancer - free breast.

Many of my clients find their hormone levels are normal, and this just means that their breasts are more sensitive to estrogen and / or less sensitive to testosterone because of estrogen / androgen receptor abnormalities.

These abnormalities can be acquired from exposure to environmental toxins, or from birth because of hormone exposure from the mother's womb.

Yes, the two conditions (bicuspid or other aortic valve defect and weakening of the adjacent segment of the aorta) indeed tend to go together — but perhaps only because of a predisposition to aortic weakening (thought to be caused by hydraulic abnormalities in flow from the diseased valve); perhaps the predisposition need not be fulfilled if the artery and its lining are healthy as a result of adequate diet — just as a genetic predisposition to heart disease in general need not result in actual disease if diet is adequate.

In all, 162 people were enrolled and 130 were randomly assigned; 32 were excluded because of refusal to participate (n = 11) or laboratory abnormalities (n = 21)(Figure 1).

Because the formation of blood clots can lead to life threatening conditions such as a pulmonary embolism, heart attack or stroke it should be standard practice to test for these genetic abnormalities before giving medications that might increase the risk of a potential problem.

Starting right is essential with the general population because many people repeatedly follow the pattern of working very hard, often ignoring muscle imbalances or movement abnormalities, in an effort to whip themselves into shape.

I say «might be,» rather than «will be,» because of randomness in profitability, or, an inability to truly figure out all of the abnormalities and timing differences in a given quarter.