Sentences with phrase «best marker of disease»

«Tau aggregates to form the hall - mark tangles of Alzheimer's disease and serves as the best marker of disease progression.

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Think of people declining to get tested for the genetic markers of a hereditary disease, or a smoker whose cigarette packs might as well have that warning from the Surgeon General printed in invisible ink.

As well, many other gene markers for grain - mediated injury have been described, thus placing many into the category of gluten intolerant, but not truly having celiac disease.

FACT: Diagnosis of coeliac disease starts with blood testing, in which doctors study the series of antibodies that provide a good marker of tendency to have the illness.

Household income has been shown to interact with child growth in Brazil.21 A US study of diarrhoeal disease found no interaction between breast feeding and household income.8 Household income, like social class, may not be a good marker of transmission risk.

Now with an extensive and diverse collection of representative apple genomes, thorough and careful analyses have allowed Fei's group to distinguish important genetic markers that will greatly aid breeders in their quest for better apples — be it for disease resistance, shelf - life, taste, or even size.

«It's good to see this type of study advance, as we desperately need noninvasive and low - cost markers for Alzheimer's disease,» Hendrix says.

Indeed, low birth weight, a marker of impaired fetal development, is associated with increased everyday levels of inflammatory markers as well as greater risks of heart disease, diabetes, depression and schizophrenia in adults.

In future studies, the team plans to use the model to better understand how microbes, host factors and inflammatory markers interact to produce the hallmarks of inflammatory disease in the intestine.

Two proteins, which have not previously been linked to pre-eclampsia risk, were shown to be at least as good a predictor of disease risk as the current best marker, placental growth factor,.

«Our ability to pinpoint CRP levels as being significantly elevated before and after postoperative delirium onset establishes CRP as a risk marker, as well as a disease marker, for delirium,» said Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, co-first author of the study, along with Simon Dillon, also of BIDMC.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

People have realized that in order to better diagnose diseases like cancer, he says, you need information from a variety of sources, whether it's fluorescence imaging, optical imaging or biochemical markers.

Replicating Venter's $ 70 million technological feat is too costly for most of us, and it's not clear what good it would serve to know that, like Venter, one has a genetic marker for wet earwax — or Alzheimer's disease, which can't be prevented or cured.

Our diets can also change our metabolism as well as the levels of circulating factors (hormones, lipids, etc.) which may be markers for disease risk.

SRM - MS analysis will permit us to directly use small - sized samples, such as the individual CSF samples, enable verification of marker candidates that currently do not have available antibodies (hence not amenable to conventional analyses such as ELISA or Western blots), and provide robust statistical analyses on individual candidate markers or combinations of them to determine which would make the best biomarker (s) for a particular disease condition.

«There are few good biological markers for this disease and miRNA could help unravel many of its complexities.»

Even further, studies on high - fat diets show that increased consumption of saturated fat has beneficial impacts on cardiovascular disease risk markers, including decreasing the level of triglycerides, fasting glucose, blood pressure, as well as increasing HDL cholesterol blood levels.

«Finding this association with a strong marker of Alzheimer's disease risk reinforces the idea that being underweight as you get older may not be a good thing when it comes to your brain health,» he added.

Excess testosterone also tends to negate the benefits of testosterone supplementation, which include better mood, increased energy, clearer thinking, increased muscle mass and improved heart disease and diabetes markers.

It has been seen to improve diabetes and high cholesterol in a number of clinical studies, as well as improve risk markers of cardiovascular disease and even constipation.

The claim: That eating for your blood type makes it easy to lose weight, have more energy and avoid chronic diseases from autoimmune disease to heart disease to cancer, because the ABO markers are a sign of your ancestral lineage and what you might be best adapted to eat.

Telomere length is arguably the best marker of biological age, and shorter mean telomere length, usually measured in your white blood cells, is associated with increased risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, dementia, and premature death (2).

«Given the high content of certain specific polyphenols in the juice blend, the increased antioxidant protection [in the body] after consumption of the juice blend, and the anti-inflammatory capacity in vitro, further research is warranted to evaluate whether juice blend consumption may provide reversal of risk markers in subjects with conditions such as arthritis, obesity, chronic viral diseases, cardiovascular disease and compromised cognitive function, as well as other conditions associated with chronic inflammation,» wrote lead author Gitte Jensen from Holger NIS Inc., a contract research laboratory.

Before attempting to treat any intestinal, immune, or other disease through a restrictive dietary change, a stool test may be the best way to begin, to look at markers that indicate how well the gut is actually functioning, and to assess the diversity of the gut microbiota.

An elevation of lysozyme or calprotectin (biomarkers of inflammation, some labs may use one or the other marker) is an indication of intestinal inflammation, and it may be an indication of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease), but may be found in celiac patients as well.

But, given «the capacity of [methionine restriction] to decrease the rate of [free radical] generation in internal organs, to lower markers of chronic disease, and to increase maximum longevity, ironically converts such «disadvantage» into a strong advantage and [it] fits well with the important role of [beans] in healthy diets like the [traditional] Mediterranean diet.

Hopefully, as breeders take advantage of the MRI procedure for their breeding stock, we may be able to have a better grasp of the disease; however, in talking with respected breeders the world over, we have found that most believe that we will not eradicate the disease until we find a gene marker.

These abnormalities tend to cluster in the same individuals.18, 19 Evidence shows that the clustering of metabolic risk markers in adulthood is associated with elevated risk of developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia in later life.18, 20 Importantly, depression, inflammation, and the clustering of metabolic risk markers frequently co-occur in the same individuals, and their co-occurrence is associated with the greatest disease risk.20, 21 To improve life quality in aging populations, it is critical to gain a better understanding of the origins of these 3 age - related - disease risks.