Sentences with phrase «cause organ disease»

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Old age can cause the tetramers to disintegrate into aggregates called amyloids, accumulating in various organs and causing diseases.

Not only does sugar degrade your teeth (like your parents and dentist always said it would) but it damages your internal organs like drugs and hard liquor, causing problems like fatty liver disease, heart disease, and diabetes?

Infertility can often occur because of damage to the reproductive organs caused by disease or injury.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it, causing inflammation that often results in serious damage to bones, joints and tendons, and can also affect internal organs like the heart, eyes and lungs.

The herpes virus typically does not cause major health problems until the immune system is compromised — after an organ transplant, by AIDS or another disease that affects the immune system, or in older age.

Payne keyed in the symptoms, and the computer program suggested a handful of potential conditions, including a rare disease called amyloidosis, in which abnormal proteins build up in the body, interfering with normal organ function and causing nerve damage.

«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

Untreated gonorrhea can cause widespread organ damage, pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility.

Over 6 million people in West and Central Africa suffer from the disease, which causes pain crises, widespread organ damage and early mortality.

Attacking its victim's white blood cells, E. chaffeensis causes a disease called ehrlichiosis, characterized by fever, malaise, body aches, and, if left untreated, organ failure.

When sickle cell disease progresses, it can delay puberty and cause acute and chronic complications, including debilitating pain, life - threatening infections, damage to vital organs, and stroke.

The investigators suggest that the premature loss of estrogen caused by the oophorectomy may affect a series of aging mechanisms at the cellular and tissue level across the whole body leading to diseases in multiple systems and organs.

Projects range from the development of artificial organs and advanced diagnostics to groundbreaking cancer treatments and understanding the fundamental causes of disease.

The yellow fever vaccine is itself a living virus that can replicate inside the body and, in very rare cases, cause a disease in which the vaccine virus proliferates in multiple organs, often leading to death.

This causes an accumulation of sugar (glucose) in the blood, which can have severe long - term consequences for organs, including the kidneys, where it can lead to diabetic kidney disease.

The team tested AC1903 in a rat model of kidney disease caused by hypertension and saw the same results: The treatment preserved kidney podocytes and prevented the organs from failing, even in advanced disease.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital have found the cellular origin of the tissue scarring caused by organ damage associated with diabetes, lung disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and other conditions.

The researchers are now in discussions with a pharmaceutical firm about screening for drugs that might target and shut off these fibrosis - causing stem cells in cases of chronic organ disease.

There, in about a third of victims, they damage the organs for decades before causing potentially lethal heart disease.

Our work has implications for two human genetic diseases, which are caused by mutations in the ATP7B and ATP7A genes and lead to copper overload in the liver (Wilson Disease), due to the failure to excrete copper into the bile, and copper deficiency in many organs (Menkes Disease), due to the failure to deliver intestinal copper to the blood.

His research contributions have enhanced an understanding of how these viruses enter into host cells and cause organ - specific disease.

One of the most serious classifications of this disease is known as diffuse scleroderma wherein the «sclerosis» (hardening of the tissue) occurs in the internal systems of the body, causing damage and widespread scarring to the skin as well as to various internal organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart and gastrointestinal organs.

Hormonal signaling ensures this organ - to - organ communication, and defects in this endocrine regulation in humans often cause diseases including obesity and diabetes.

Hormonal signaling ensures this organ - to - organ communication, and the failure of endocrine regulation in humans can cause diseases including obesity and diabetes.

Ideally, the researchers found that the best targets were genes or proteins primarily expressed in one specific tissue, so the drug treats the disease at its core, without interfering with other, healthy tissues or organs, and thus causes fewer side - effects.

The FLI investigates the molecular causes for these aging - associated changes with the goal to uncover new approaches for therapies aiming to preserve the functioning of the body's own stem cells and organs thereby reducing the risk of diseases and cancer during aging.

He understands and treats the body as one integrated system rather than a collection of independent organs, in order to identify and address the root causes of disease.

My husband, Richard, spent ten years in and out of the hospital with complications from vascular Ehlers - Danlos syndrome, a rare and life - threatening connective tissue disease that causes spontaneous ruptures of arteries and hollow organs.

Although there are many different types of autoimmune diseases and they can affect many different organs, at their core they are all similar in that they are an immune response caused by systemic inflammation that leads your body to attack itself.

This chronic autoimmune disease, which has tricky symptoms and strikes women much more often than men, causes the body to mistakenly attack its own organs.

Excess iron can cause damage to these tissues and organs and increase the risk of disease.

Extra fat cells deep in your abdomen (aka visceral fat) generate adipose hormones and adipokines — chemical troublemakers that travel to your blood vessels and organs, where they cause inflammation that can contribute to problems like heart disease and diabetes.

Excess fructose consumption may cause high blood cholesterol and triglycerides, increased blood pressure, increased insulin resistance, fat build - up around the organs, and increased risk of fatty liver disease (14, 15, 16, 17).

It is also very effective at burning belly fat, the harmful «visceral» fat that builds up around the organs and causes disease (19, 20).

Valine may help treat liver and gallbladder disease, as well as damage to these organs caused by alcoholism and drug abuse.

But in due course of time, when the level of toxins increase, it can spread to the organs and cause diseases.

Conventional medicine, as you called it earlier, was created in response to mainly acute disease where you have a single cause and single effect, and now medicine is trying to adapt to this now environment of chronic disease, which is driven by lifestyle, it's multi-systemic, it's across many different organs, and so that linear model of thinking doesn't really work.

Acceleration of the aging process of all organ systems in our body, including the skin, causing an increased risk of degenerative disease and inflexible, wrinkled, sagging skin.

Cardio seems to be particularly effective at reducing the dangerous belly fat that builds up around your organs and causes metabolic disease (103, 104).

Once it enters the blood stream, it can get accumulated in any specific organ or tissue causing disease.

Your gut is the organ most exposed to disease causing factors.

However, chronic and uncontrolled inflammation can cause damage to cells, tissue and organs and result in a range of diseases from autoimmune diseases like Celiac Disease and rheumatoid arthritis, to obesity and heart dDisease and rheumatoid arthritis, to obesity and heart diseasedisease.

Sugar is the main cause for heart disease, diabetes and obesity, and causes many other organ dysfunctions, so if you really want to improve your health and get fit for life, you should forget about it!

Abdominal fat, also called visceral fat or belly fat, is the fat that tends to lodge around your organs and cause inflammation, diabetes and heart disease.

Coconut oil can prevent and even reverse liver disease caused by a variety of toxic agents such as alcohol, bacteria, drugs, and chemicals.27 It does the same for other organs in the body such as the intestines, colon, kidneys, and pancreas.28 - 30

The molecular structure of thyroid tissue is almost identical to that of gluten and therefore the immune system may start sending antibodies not only against gluten proteins but against proteins found in different organs causing autoimmune diseases.

Valine has successfully been used to treat gallbladder and liver disease along with damage to those organs caused by alcoholism and drug use.

Eat the organs... Eat grass fed (so the fat profile does not cause oxidation) not grain fed, and don't cook on high heat denature get the product... And eat plenty of green stuff... And for crying out loud saturated fat is not the devil... It's the simple carbs that cause high triglycerides and heart disease... And yes Martha, whole grain is begging for whole pre diabetes based on your genetic preponderance for such a thing.

-- Avoid gluten (wheat products, etc.) as it may cause the immune system start sending antibodies not only against gluten proteins but against proteins found in different organs causing autoimmune diseases such as IBD that usually follows IBS.

Belly fat is dangerous as it entwines itself around the internal organs causing all kinds of damage, and in many cases can be the trigger for diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.