Sentences with phrase «classified as a disease»

In fact, an equal number of babies experience problem reflux that requires treatment but is not classified as a disease.

The authors note that Alzheimer's has been classified as a disease for the past 40 years.

Obesity, which is medically classified as a disease, is defined as «increased body weight caused by an excessive accumulation of body fat».

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Because those who fly on jet airplanes frequently face higher exposure to cosmic radiation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies airline crew members as radiation workers.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of maternal deaths in the United States is probably up to three times as high as the number reported in our national statistics because not all maternal deaths are classified as pregnancy - related on the death certificate.

In that case, certainly one would classify one's inability to cure the disease as a drawback.

In 2015, the World Trade Health Organization classified processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen, citing scientific evidence that processed meats such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausages, and some deli meats can increase risk of a variety of diseases, including diabetes, multiple cancers, and respiratory illnesses.

The idea of classifying suicidal tendencies as a disease is being taken seriously.

Individuals were classified as high risk for Alzheimer's if a DNA test identified the presence of a genetic marker — having one or both of the apolipoprotein E-epsilon 4 allele (APOE - e4 allele) on chromosome 19 — which increases the risk of developing the disease.

The low dose required for infectivity and the severity of the disease it causes had led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to classify F. tularensis as a Category A bioterrorism agent, and to track tularemia cases nationwide, according to Dr. Brook Peterson, a senior scientist at the UW School of Medicine who also participated in thedisease it causes had led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to classify F. tularensis as a Category A bioterrorism agent, and to track tularemia cases nationwide, according to Dr. Brook Peterson, a senior scientist at the UW School of Medicine who also participated in theDisease Control and Prevention to classify F. tularensis as a Category A bioterrorism agent, and to track tularemia cases nationwide, according to Dr. Brook Peterson, a senior scientist at the UW School of Medicine who also participated in the study.

Despite being classified as rare disease, public awareness is very high, fueled by celebrity patients like Stephen Hawking and culminating in last years» Ice Bucket Challenge, the first charity campaign with global impact.

In 2015, over 36,000 people died from gunfire, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with roughly two - thirds of those deaths being classified as suicide.

The ironclad notion that obesity leads to disease and early death is wrong: In a 2005 report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the CDC showed that people classified as overweight live longest, with the moderately obese achieving longevity comparable to that of people at «normal» weights, and acknowledged that this finding «is consistent with other results.»

Examiners recorded caries experience at the surface level using modified ICDAS criteria and classified children as being caries - free, having restored or untreated disease.

Of the women, 19 percent were classified as healthy, 14.7 percent had prevalent disease, 23.2 percent had incident disease, 18.3 percent had a mobility disability (using crutches, a walker or a wheelchair or a limited ability to walk) and 24.8 percent died.

As regulators struggle to classify faecal transplants, people are doing it themselves to ease symptoms of colitis, Parkinson's disease and even autism

Because all NETS are classified as rare diseases by regulatory authorities in the EU and the US, there are few drugs available to treat these patients.

Inherited retinal diseases are among the leading causes of incurable blindness in humans as well as in dogs, where most of these conditions are classified as progressive retinal atrophy (PRA).

It starts by classifying a story's topic as either a world problem (disease and poverty, for example) or a social good (health care and education).

The paradigm established by Goldstein and Brown classifies research into three categories: basic science research, disease - oriented research, or patient - oriented research.1 Goldstein and Brown define patient - oriented research as research conducted by investigators who «shake the hand of the patient during the course of the research.»

The Ministry of Health and Welfare wants to repeal the 1907 Leprosy Prevention Law, which classifies the disease as incurable and contagious.

So established is the link between extra pounds and illness that last year the American Medical Association voted to classify obesity itself as a disease.

Dartmouth geneticists instead rely on the information contained in the PHPN's topology to automatically classify traits and diseases by their shared genetic mechanisms, such as common genes or pathways.

AUTISM groups are divided on a controversial plan by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to classify wandering as a medical symptom.

Diseases like leishmaniasis often are not tracked rigorously in this country and are classified as neglected, unlike vector - borne illnesses like Lyme disease that are monitored.

And for most of the diseases the researchers studied, people who were classified as low - risk based on their genome still had a risk that was more than half that of the general population — thus, lower than average, but not exactly null.

New studies suggest that such diseases should be classified among disorders caused by the infectious particles known as prions.

Of the 980 patients analyzed, 211 (21.5 %) were classified as intermediate risk, 109 (11.1 %) had baseline PSA greater than 10 ng / ml and 133 (13.6 %) had GS 7 disease.

Unfortunately, antibiotic - resistant Y. pestis strains have been isolated from plague patients and can be engineered for use as a bioweapon, which is concerning since Y. pestis is classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a Tier - 1 select agent.

Seventy - five percent of these cases are classified as high grade serous type, and they show more advanced disease at diagnosis and are more aggressive.

Prize4Life is planning another challenge, this time to seek new ways to classify patients according to disease characteristics, such as genetic features that may correlate with cognitive deficits.

While Legionnaires» disease is typically associated with Legionella pneumophila strains classified as «serogroup 1,» the majority (16 out of 18) of strains isolated from Flint residences were closely related serogroup 6 Legionella pneumophila strains, according to the article published in mBio.

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

ALS and FTD have been classified as belonging to the same family spectrum diseases, where hexanucleotide repeat expansions (HRE) of GGGGCC in C9orf72 is a key genetic cause player.

Osteoarthritis (or OA, also called «wear and tear arthritis») in the past has been classified differently from a disease such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) which is characterized by system - wide inflammation and autoimmune responses which attacks joint tissue.

In addition, only about 200 of the diseases classified as rare have approved treatments.

It is classified as a distinct primary cardiomyopathy with a genetic etiology and may be an isolated finding or may also be associated with other forms of structural congenital heart disease (Jenni et al., 2001).

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

These 100 protein families were then used as a «training set» to build a machine learning classifier that could classify the remaining 9,900 protein families in diseased versus healthy states.

Even though Alzheimer's is classified as a degenerative disease, the immune system plays a significant role in the disease process.

Remember, the FDA classifies a dietary supplement as «not intended to treat, prevent, or cure disease.»

In fact, researchers have found that certain drugs promote a bacterial environment within the gut that despite not being classified as pathogenic, can still promote arthritic symptoms in autoimmune diseases (3).

Torea Rodriguez: As opposed to a specific disease, and so while there's — I don't know — there's over 135 classified autoimmune diseases, it's probably even more now and that all of those are just what's known to us right now.

Some of the gluten - sensitive people included in Dr. Fasano's study had minor intestinal damage (classified as Marsh 1 or 2), but that damage had different biomarkers than those seen in celiac disease.

A Guide To Recognizing A Hashimoto's Flare - Up Hashimoto's disease, a condition classified as an autoimmune disease, is one of the most common illnesses in the United States that causes the general adult population to suffer from a condition known as Hypothyroidism.

Celiac disease is defined generally as an autoimmune response to intestinal tissues upon gluten exposure, as well as overall activation of the immune system Various labs classify celiac disease using different criteria, including genetic testing and intestinal biopsy.

(Despite classifying stomach cancer as a «Western disease,» by the way, China actually has far higher rates of this disease than any Western nation.

MORE THAN 80 This is the total number of diseases that are classified as «autoimmune.»

It is classified as atopic, which means that there is a genetic tendency for allergies to be the cause of a disease.

Researchers found that those carbs classified as high by the glycemic index, instead of the traditional classification of either «simple» or «complex» were better predictors of cardiocascular disease risks