Sentences with phrase «disease burden from»

This suggests that people were dying younger before the Black Death arrived — probably because of famine and an increase in disease burden from other pathogens.

To test this idea, the researchers statistically analyzed the relationship between Lynn and Vanhanen's 2006 data and 2004 data on infectious disease burden from the World Health Organization, which measures potential years of healthy life lost to premature death and illness as a result of 28 infectious diseases, including malaria, hepatitis, and tetanus.

Not exact matches

The countries that bear the greatest burden of disease from pollution are also those that are rapidly expanding economically.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

We are bringing together fiscal policy, development, and health leaders from around the globe, including Ministers of Finance, to address the enormous and growing health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in lower and middle income countries (LMICs).

To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free by education from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades for human emancipation and happiness.

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 predicted that sugar sweetened drink consumption contributes a relatively small amount to UK population morbidity (28000 disability adjusted life years) compared with low fruit and vegetable consumption (1130000 disability adjusted life years).59 Using revenue from a sugar sweetened drink tax to reduce the prices of fruit and vegetables is a potential mechanism for further improving population health.60

«The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, from where the quoted study has obtained their data, suggests that in Australia the biggest causes of mortality or poor health include factors such as obesity, smoking, poor diet and low physical activity.

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Saraki, a trained medical doctor, stated that in order to reduce the burden on the nation's healthcare system, Nigeria must begin to push for preventive strategies to curb the spread of diseases and to stop citizens from falling sick.

«There might not be a huge burden of disease from heat - related illness right now in your community,» says Jeremy Hess, an emergency medicine physician and public health researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, with less developed regions suffering a disproportionate burden from the disease.

The Goldilocks alcohol figure is not likely to be the same in all parts of the world, since disease burdens differ from place to place.

The stated goal of the tax policies is to increase life expectancy as well as to reduce the burden and cost of illness from diet - related diseases.

«Our study shows simply adding one of our available cardiac imaging resources may more accurately predict a patient's risk or diagnose their disease, also giving us an opportunity to prevent them from experiencing a future cardiac event and possibly save more lives from the burdens of cardiovascular diseases.»

Globally, the burden of disease from TB in 2010 ranked 13th overall, ahead of drug use, suicide, diabetes or any kind of cancer.

«These patients had a lower disease burden and were treated earlier in the course of their disease, which distinguishes it from other studies,» Gill said.

To figure out not only how many people die from specific diseases but also how much each disease affects people's quality of life, researchers in 1992 first estimated what's called the global burden of disease.

Professor Gideon Hirschfield, also of the University of Birmingham, said: «It is clear that there is a rising burden of liver disease, particularly from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

In «The Economic Burden of Asthma in the United States, 2008 - 2013,» researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, the most comprehensive source of data on health care use, expenditures, payment source and health insurance coverage in the U.S.

The research, which provides an update for 2014 on the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Europe, shows that death rates from CVD (diseases of the heart and blood vessels) vary enormously.

Around the world, innovative genomic - medicine programs capitalize on singular capabilities arising from local health care systems, cultural or political milieus, and unusual selected risk alleles or disease burdens.

Treatments targeted to enhance brain neurotrophic factor signalling could improve memory functions in Alzheimer's disease even though they don't alter brain amyloid burden, according to recent research from the University of Eastern Finland.

Infectious disease burden again came out on top, although temperature and distance from sub-Saharan Africa explained some of the variation as well.

While death rates from the acute phase of cardiovascular events have decreased, the disease burden remains high in the increasing number of survivors, which is especially important for those affected at a young age.

Just one in 20 people worldwide (4 · 3 %) had no health problems in 2013, with a third of the world's population (2 · 3 billion individuals) experiencing more than five ailments, according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2013, published in The Lancet.

Preliminary findings from PREVAIL III, a study of Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors being conducted in Liberia, indicate that both Ebola survivors and their close contacts have a high burden of illness.

The GBD 2013 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators analysed 35,620 sources of information on disease and injury from 188 countries between 1990 and 2013 to reveal the substantial toll of disabling disorders and the overall burden on health systems from 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries, as well as 2337 health consequences (sequelae) that result from one or more of these disDisease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators analysed 35,620 sources of information on disease and injury from 188 countries between 1990 and 2013 to reveal the substantial toll of disabling disorders and the overall burden on health systems from 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries, as well as 2337 health consequences (sequelae) that result from one or more of these disdisease and injury from 188 countries between 1990 and 2013 to reveal the substantial toll of disabling disorders and the overall burden on health systems from 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries, as well as 2337 health consequences (sequelae) that result from one or more of these disorders.

«The findings from this trial are very encouraging to those of us who have spent many years working on vaccine candidates to protect against dengue, a disease that is a significant burden in much of the world and is now endemic in Puerto Rico,» said Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D., of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

From 2000 to 2006, Frenk served as the minister of health in Mexico, and that nation performed the first country - level burden of disease assessment.

«The high disease burden, particularly amongst young and elderly populations in poor to middle income countries, could potentially be addressed by further investment in research,» says Dr Stuart Clarke from the University of Southampton's Faculty of Medicine, who is leading the study.

But with half the country's disease burden stemming from lifestyle, «the constant battle against illness and disease... has to include behavioral and social factors as well.»

The authors note that, although their model is based on the best available data, the data for Russia and India was scaled up from regional data and may not represent the true national disease burden.

An estimated 627,000 Indians die prematurely each year from outdoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease project.

They point to direct effects resulting from rising temperatures and changes in the frequency and strength of storms, floods, droughts, and heat - waves — as well as to less direct impacts, such as changes in crop yields, the burden and distribution of infectious disease, and climate - induced population displacement and violent conflict.

In the last decade, the global burden of disease has shifted from communicable disease to non-communicable disease, including heart disease.

The majority of research investment comes from high - income countries, whereas the highest burden of infectious disease is in the developing world.

Sure enough, when the researchers examined the brains of PD patients, they found more cells exhibiting signs of senescence than in people without the disease — and especially astrocytes, as they had expected.7 This was true even after matching patients for age, meaning that PD subjects had even more senescent astrocytes in their SNcs than is typical for people their age (ranging in this case from 50 — 92 years at autopsy)-- and remember, aging already drives an increase in the burden of these cells as compared with young people, even in those who have yet to develop Parkinson's disease.7

Both recent experience with immunotherapy for clearance of Aβ in AD, and their own (and Prothena's) experience with AS - clearing immunotherapies in animal models, indicate that in order to be effective as disease - modifying agents when administered alone, therapies that remove proteinaceous aggregates from the brain must be initiated in the early clinical or even preclinical stages of the disease, before the burden of other forms of aging damage becomes entrenched.

The Health and Retirement Study consists of older volunteers sampled from urban and rural areas across the U.S., while the Southern Community Cohort Study focuses on African Americans in the South, particularly areas that have a disproportionately high burden of disease.

Being diagnosed with a «progressive and incurable» neurological disease at the age of 23 has been my greatest burden but also my greatest gift because of the juicy life lessons I have learned through the daily and sometimes menacing struggles of living with, treating and healing from a debilitating and disabling disease.

# 6 The Health Care Burden Tax: Aside from the aforementioned soda consumption is also implicated in osteoporosis and heart disease.

If we have any hope of lessening the burden of preventable diseases, it will have to come from the top - the physicians.

Under pressure from the international community and new scientific knowledge, such as preventing dialysis for a minimum of two years by repeated intravenous lead detoxification [87], the realization that low doses of toxic metals leading to an increased body burden [88] are a significant contributing cause of many disease states is finally becoming recognized.

Diseases of old age: Alzheimer's, heart disease, diabetes, dementia and cancer are the result of oxidative stress coming from poor lifestyle, poor diets and mental - emotional stress.Cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, excess sugar and salt, processed foods containing chemicals create a chemical and heavy metal burden on the body responsible for diseases of old age.It is possible to avoid all the illnesses.

Farm workers have higher rates of many cancers, and increasing numbers of studies are starting to link a higher body burden of pesticides (from all sources) with Parkinson's disease.

This is very alarming because research has shown many health problems that result from this level of toxic burden including obesity, chronic fatigue, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, infertility, and various hormone imbalances, allergies, behavioral / mood disorders, neurological conditions, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, among many others.

alarming because research has shown many health problems that result from this level of toxic burden including obesity, chronic fatigue, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, infertility, and various hormone imbalances, allergies, behavioral / mood disorders, neurological conditions, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, among many others.

Simply put, most people suffering from chronic health conditions are dealing with a high toxic burden that is overwhelming the body's natural defenses and triggering symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease, cancer and cardiovascular issues.

A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that significant adversity during childhood (e.g., from abuse or neglect, exposure to violence, deep and persistent poverty, and / or the cumulative burdens of racial or ethnic discrimination) can contribute to lifelong problems in learning, behavior, and chronic health impairments such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes cancer, and depression, among many others.