Sentences with phrase «cause of a number of diseases»

In fact, many feline health experts are pointing to improper diet as the cause of a number of diseases.

Not exact matches

«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

Brian, Well I suppose I do have a fear about what these fantasy beliefs can do to cause trouble all over the world, as if we don't have enough with real problems of political ills, poverty, diseases and natural disasters; but mostly I am repelled by so many, like eaglemt and the huge number of others like him / her, who preach hell - fire and eternal torment for those who don't regard their unproven beliefs as reality.

The body converts lauric acid into monolaurin, which is believed to have strong antiviral and antibacterial effects that can destroy a number of disease - causing organisms.

The report cited a number of studies which have found saturated fats do not cause heart disease or obesity.

Such standards help eliminate product contamination by any number of microorganisms known to cause dangerous infection and disease in humans.

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. And heart disease is often a silent killer.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the number one leading cause of death in children ages 1 to 19 is unintentional injury.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, smoking is the number one cause of heart disease in women under 50.

Did you know that heart disease is the number - one cause of death for women n the USA?

A number of rare diseases such as congenital syphilis, histiocytosis X, zinc deficiency, Wiscott - Aldrich syndrome, acrodermatitis enteropathica, or Jacquet's dermatitis all cause characteristic diaper rashes.

In NA maternal eart disease is in the top three and is poised to become the number one cause of maternal death.

The risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), an excruciatingly painful bowel disease that is the number two cause of death for preemies, is reduced by 77 % with exclusive breastfeeding.

Respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in children.1, 2 Prospective cohort studies in industrialized countries revealed a prevalence of 3.4 % to 32.1 % for respiratory tract infectious diseases and 1.2 % to 26.3 % for gastrointestinal infectious diseases in infancy.3, — , 8 The risks of these infectious diseases are affected by several factors including birth weight, gestational age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, number of siblings, day care attendance, and parental smoking.3, 5,6,8, — , 20

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

«New York State has made great strides in reducing tobacco use, which is the number one preventable cause of death and disease in the state,» said state Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.

«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.»

Raw sewage and fecal matter result in coliforms in the water that can cause a number of diseases, including those caused by Escherichia coli or E. coli, according to health officials.

In New York City, the five cooling towers suspected of causing the outbreak were cleaned by July 29, before the disease had even peaked, and once that was completed, the number of new cases began to decline.

«Because the number one leading cause of death, not only in Westchester County but in the United States, is heart disease.»

And tobacco use, the number one preventable cause of death in the United States, claims more than 400,000 lives and $ 50 billion in direct medical costs each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But in March, Lichun Tang of China's Beijing Proteome Research Center and colleagues reported using CRISPR / Cas9 to correct disease - causing mutations in a small number of viable human embryos.

EBV causes mononucleosis, and has been associated with a growing number of other diseases.

But a distressing number of showerheads contained significant loads of Mycobacterium avium, a bacterium that can cause nontuberculous mycobacteria disease, or NTM, a pulmonary infection that can feel like an unshakable flu.

Moreover, Images of unvaccinated kids who were sick with diseases prevented by the vaccineactually led to an uptick in the number of people who said they thought vaccines cause autism.

By 2000, 33 million people were infected, 14 million had died, and in Africa it had become the number one cause of death through infectious disease.

But over the last decade or so, the bees have fallen victim to a number of problems like parasites, pesticides, and disease, causing their numbers to dwindle 30 % each year since 2006.

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.

«We need to stop thinking of depression as a disease that causes a number of interchangeable symptoms,» says lead author Dr Eiko Fried from the KU Leuven Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

Infants in particular are susceptible to a number of diseases caused by gastrointestinal bacteria, including sepsis, chronic diarrhea, and necrotizing enterocolitis, an infection of the intestinal lining that is one of the leading causes of death in premature babies.

Other causes of heart failure include systemic processes such as inflammatory diseases, metabolic disorders, endocrine derangements, and kidney disease, which result in an unknown number of cases.

The disease is generally pretty mild — on par with flu — but health workers have recently found that a small number of patients seem to go on to develop an autoimmune disorder that can cause nerve damage and paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome.

Smoking - related disease remains the number one cause of preventable deaths in the UK, killing more than 100,000 people every year, they write.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

As the number of cases of the paralytic disease fall, world health officials have to grapple with a vexing problem: a component of the most widely used polio vaccine now causes more disease than the virus it is supposed to fight

Previous studies have found that cardiovascular disease accounts for 45 percent of deaths of on - duty firefighters nationwide, in contrast to 15 percent of deaths among those with conventional occupations, with heart attack being the number one cause of death.

Inflammatory arthritis includes a number of autoimmune diseases of the joints — including rheumatoid arthritis and lupus — and in many cases is caused by a type of inflammation called type III hypersensitivity.

«MHCI levels are altered in the Alzheimer's brain, and altering MHCI levels in mice disrupts memory, reduces synapse number and causes neuronal insulin resistance, all of which are core features of Alzheimer's disease,» Boulanger said.

I'm just reducing the number of antibodies that might be causing this disease.

Cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death in the Western world, with heart failure representing the fastest - growing subclass over the past decade.

Kozai explains, «Dysfunction in glial cells has been implicated as a cause and / or major contributor to an increasing number of neurological and developmental diseases.

They explain that, although atherosclerosis is widely thought to be a disease caused by modern lifestyles, CT evidence of atherosclerosis has been found in the bodies of a substantial number of mummies from various locations.

«Fecal microbiota transplants improve cognitive impairment caused by severe liver disease: Fecal microbiome transfer significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations compared to standard of care treatment.»

When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.

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«In this study, we were able to observe the existence of microscopic disease and low numbers of bacteria, which would be difficult to «see» in humans but could possibly be the cause of the variable and nonspecific symptoms that are characteristic of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome.

Having too many repeated elements in the gene sequence causes the disease and an increasing number of repeats leads to earlier onset and increased severity of the disease.

While it is well known that some individuals within the same community may be exposed to a different number of mosquito bites, very few studies have been carried out to measure the causes of that heterogeneity, or variance, to understand its impact on the control of vector - borne diseases in a way that is relevant to decision making.

Indoor tanning is currently estimated to cause about 419,000 cases of skin cancer every year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — almost double the number of cases of lung cancer linked to smoking.

But if even a small number of mutant mitochondria are retained after the transfer — a common occurrence — they can outcompete healthy mitochondria in a child's cells and potentially cause the disease the therapy was designed to avoid, experiments suggest.