Sentences with phrase «different than any other diseases»

Not exact matches

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

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.

Chronically - ill cancer patients have different exercise limitations than their healthy counterparts and other concurrent diseases and high symptom burden add challenges in how best to study and implement physical activity programs in lung cancer patients.

That variety cropped up in a different part of the brain than the other strains, and it also produced clumps of proteins akin to the amyloid plaques found in sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a fatal brain disease of unknown origin that usually affects those over age 55.

But the new data showing that a large fraction of epigenetic signatures of ethnicity reflect something other than ancestry suggests that abandoning the idea of race and ethnicity altogether could sacrifice a lot of valuable information about the drivers of differences in health and disease between different communities.

The panel concluded, among other things, that yoghurt and cheese have a different and more beneficial effect on bone health, body weight, the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, than would be expected on the basis of their saturated fat and calcium content.

While we know that other donor characteristics can influence the risk of the patient developing Graft versus Host disease or other complications, more research is needed to determine how important different donor factors are on outcomes other than patient survival.»

There are lots of different HD mice available, and because every case of HD is caused by the same basic genetic mutation, it may be that «our» mice will turn out to be better than those of other diseases, at predicting success in human patients.

Nuclear medicine is also different from other imaging procedures in that it determines the presence of disease based on biological changes in tissue rather than changes in anatomy.

Healing, on the other hand, is a restoration of wholeness — not the level of wholeness before the diagnosis, but a restoration of wholeness that is new, different, and comparatively better than before the onset of disease.

He states that, other than for people with celiac disease, «there is no role for «gluten - free» foods beyond the occasional indulgence, since the metabolic effect of these goods is little different from eating a bowl of jelly beans.»

When you eat the glucose, there are different effects than if your liver makes it, namely it circulates for hours and leads to a spike in insulin and leptin, that circulates for hours, that over time will contribute to insulin and leptin resistance... that ultimately contributes to metabolic chaos resulting in chronic diseases of aging including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, autoimmune disease, cancer, and others.

This fat is different than fat in other parts of a person's body — and is an early indicator of heart disease and diabetes.

Well according to the December issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, dairy fat is different in its make - up than other industrially produced trans fats found that are found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, which have been linked to higher risk of heart disease.

Dogs with health conditions, such as diabetes, obesity, anal sac disorders, pancreatitis, kidney disease and other problems, may have different nutritional requirements than average adult dogs.

Dr. Elizabeth Colleran, who owns two cats - only clinics in Chico, CA and Portland, OR, says that cats «have different diseases, nutrition requirements, and pathways than other species.»

Every dog and cat are different and some are more prone to dental disease than others — Therefore periodic dental exams and regular cleanings are important to maintain your pet's good health

However, in other breeds with a propensity for joint disorders and types of cancer different than those prevalent in Goldens, spaying and neutering may increase the risk for those breed - specific disease tendencies.

Preventative Blood Work — Every animal is different, and some pets handle pain and discomfort better than others, which means that your pet could be hiding the signs of a disease or serious illness.

The course of prcd - PRA disease in the golden retriever is based on a limited number of clinical cases however we have no reason to expect a different pattern than what is observed in most other breeds — i.e. that clinical symptoms are likely to be apparent to veterinary ophthalmologists by the time the dogs are 4 - 6 years of age.

Pet vaccinations in the San Francisco area are no different than any other place in the country, except for the fact that San Francisco is a densely populated area, where animal diseases can spread easily.

The present study illustrated that certain subpopulations of the purebred dog population were more likely to display certain conditions while other subpopulations were not statistically different than mixed - breed dogs in terms of disease prevalence.

States frequently require that researchers studying genetic diseases, HIV / AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases have different authorization and privacy controls than those used for other types of research.

Critical Illness: Critical illness is different than other common diseases.