Sentences with phrase «conditions than a disease»

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Rare diseases are conditions affecting less than 200,000 people in the US and less than five (5) in 10,000 according to the definition adopted by the European Medicines Agency.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

If these parameters were needed to define a god, should he exist, would you not say that with all of the suffering and death and disease in the world, that the existence of god through the condition of our species would be more readily disproved than anything?

Would you take a medicine from someone who refuses to give you any evidence that it works, or even that it doesn't actually hurt you more than the condition you're trying to fix, or even prove that your «disease» is even real?

Well, the truth is, the cow industry is inhumane, (the overcrowded transportation conditions alone lead to to great suffering, severe cruelty and broken limbs), unhealthy (cows are pumped full of hormones, adrenalin from the fear from when they know they will be killed and anti-biotics — because the unhealthy conditions they live in promote infection and disease) and inefficient (cows must be fed 3 times the edible human grain than their bodies produce in meat).

A lesion is any abnormal tissue, which could represent a polyp, an ulcer, or a miriad of other conditions other than coeliac disease.

Potential subjects were accepted into the study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results in screening blood or urine samples.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

Dietary fiber does more than contribute to what we delicately refer to as «regularity» — it also aids in digestion and can play a role in preventing heart disease and colon cancer, among other conditions.

But, other than those three, Wenger must also make sure the rest of the squad is in tip top condition, and one worrying position for Gooners is the left - back spot, with Nacho Monreal approaching 30 and his backup Kieran Gibbs suffering the English disease of injuries and inconsistency.

There are many complications that have presented through the years in accordance with the erra, to which is no fault of the mother butbthe conditions in which she lived, there are far more diseases and illness's these days than ever before, far more reasons for a women to most deffinatly seek medical help for her birth, to ensure her and her baby» s health, but that defiantly does not include all women, none of us havebthe same problems or complications.

This does not reflect poor hygiene or a disease condition but is a frequently occurring phenomenon that bothers mom and dad more than the baby.

Newborns are routinely given a vitamin K shot as a precaution against hemorrhagic disease, a rare (less than 2 %) condition in which the baby suffers internal bleeding.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, those children who live with chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes are five times more likely to be hospitalized than their healthier counterparts.

having other family members with a «history of premature death (sudden or otherwise), or significant disability from cardiovascular disease in close relative (s) younger than 50 years old or specific knowledge of the occurrence of certain conditions (eg, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, Marfan syndrome, or clinically important arrhythmias)».

Some look toward shifts in demographics since the 1970s — especially with more moms being older than before and more likely to have conditions like obesity, diabetes or heart disease — to explain why things have changed since then.

Other than alcohol, caffeine, medication, some herbs, and fish high in mercury, unless you or your child have known allergies, sensitivities or a condition like celiac's disease, there is no real reason to limit your diet.

Excess health care costs totaling more than $ 4 billion must be paid by the U.S. health care system each year to treat otitis media (middle ear infection), gastroenteritis (infection or irritation of the stomach and intestines), and necrotizing enterocolitis (an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants) â $ «childhood diseases and conditions preventable or reduced by breastfeeding.

In Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life, he concludes that old age is a privilege to be savored, rather than a disease to be cured or a condition to be denied.

Doctors later found that Duersonhad a condition in common with more than 20 other dead football players in the U.S.: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE, a degenerative disease linked to impulsive behavior, depression and dementia.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

The same systems don't deny prisoners medications for other medical conditions, however, but the attitude persists that addiction is a moral failure, rather than a disease.

The mice, described in this month's issue of Nature Genetics, also may provide a quick way to screen potential drugs for the disease, a disabling condition that afflicts more than a third of U.S. women over the age of 60.

The study has produced more than 20 publications examining a range of complex human conditions, including cardiovascular disease, breast and lung cancer, and type I and II diabetes.

The researchers also found that the risk of dementia was higher in veterans with TBI who also had depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or cerebrovascular disease than in those with either TBI or these other conditions alone.

Some applications are closer to the clinic than others, but regenerative medicine is beginning to show utility in treating spinal cord injuries, cardiovascular disease, juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's disease, wound repair, bladder dysfunction, liver and kidney disease, and joint / cartilage damage, among other conditions.

Approximately 15 million, or one in 50 American adults, are morbidly obese, which is associated with more than 30 diseases and conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obstructive sleep apnea, hypertension, asthma, cancer, osteoarthritis and infertility.

«This creates entirely new conditions for our understanding of what happens inside the brain and for the development of more effective treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's disease and chronic pain conditions than can be achieved using today's techniques,» concludes Jens Schouenborg.

Certain conditions affect one sex more than the other, he notes, so «if the genetics of a cell affects the progress of a disease, it might suggest specific causes or treatments for disease.»

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

People with type 2 diabetes are at greater risk of serious liver disease than those without the condition, new research has shown.

«It is clear that the cost of delivering care to those patients with musculoskeletal conditions is considerably higher than those with other diseases.

Interestingly, musculoskeletal conditions had a larger impact on health care costs than any other diseases, whether occurring alone or as co-morbidity.

When two diseases were present in an individual, neither of which were musculoskeletal conditions, their healthcare costs were two times higher than a healthy person.

Analyses of such variants, compiled from cataloging the genes from more than 60,000 people, are already offering doctors helpful insights into diseases such as schizophrenia and some heart conditions.

«Urinary 8 - oxoGsn may reflect the real condition of our bodies better than our chronological age, and may help us to predict the risk of age - related diseases,» concludes Cai.

Because the conditions are rare, they may go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for longer periods than better - understood diseases.

Women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome — the most common hormone disorder in women of reproductive age — face a heightened risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, mental health conditions, reproductive disorders and cancer of the lining of the uterus than healthy women, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Between 1993 and 2003, more than 360 new medicines, biologics, and vaccines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat more than 150 diseases and medical conditions.

The U.S. spends more on lower back and neck pain than almost any other health condition, excepting diabetes and heart disease — topping $ 87 billion in 2013, according to an analysis of national health records conducted last year.

Women who have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a common hormone condition that contributes to infertility and metabolic problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, tend to have less diverse gut bacteria than women who do not have the condition, according to researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with colleagues at Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poland and San Diego State University.

A review of a major provincial health database in Australia revealed that people there who contracted any bacterial gastrointestinal infection were 57 percent more likely to develop either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, another chronic bowel condition, than people born in the same place and era who had not had such infections.

For many of the conditions, the rates differed for men and women with MS.. For men with MS, the rate of high blood pressure was 48 percent higher than for men without the disease: 22 percent of men with MS versus 15 percent of men without MS.. For women with MS, the rate was 16 percent higher than for women without the disease: 14 percent of women with MS versus 12 percent of women without MS.

An analysis of medical costs associated with atherosclerotic lower extremity peripheral artery disease, a dangerous condition in which a buildup of plaque in the arteries restricts blood flow to the legs and feet, found that health care costs in one year were $ 18,000 higher in smokers with the condition than non-smokers with the condition.

The study, which published today in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, is the first to link psoriasis severity to an increased risk of death using an objective measure of disease severity — called Body Surface Area (BSA)-- rather than treatment patterns, such as whether or not a patient was receiving oral, injectable or phototherapy treatment for the condition.

In a new study of more than 125,000 pregnant women in Sweden, researchers found that the risk of hepatobiliary cancer and immune - mediated and cardiovascular diseases later in life is higher in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) than in women without this condition.

Low - grade inflammation, a condition more prevalent than IBD, was shown to be associated with altered gut microbiota composition and metabolic disease and is observed in many cases of colorectal cancer.

Just 20 conditions make up more than half of all spending on health care in the United States, according to a new comprehensive financial analysis that examines spending by diseases and injuries.

Marijuana abusers were excluded if they had a history of substance abuse or dependence (other than marijuana and nicotine), history of other psychiatric or neurological diseases, medical conditions that might alter cerebral function (i.e., cardiovascular, endocrinological, oncological, autoimmune diseases), current use of prescribed or over-the-counter medications, and / or head trauma with loss of consciousness for more than 30 min.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicdisease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.