Sentences with phrase «disease in old age»

Avi Roy is the President of the Biogerontology Research Foundation, a UK based charity which supports the application of our knowledge of the mechanisms of ageing to the relief of disability, suffering and disease in old age.

Many years of poor diet and exposure to chemicals may result in disease in old age.

According to the very shocking results of that very long study, «80 % of nuns whose writing expressed negative emotions went on to develop Alzheimer's disease in old age; while, of those whose expressed positive emotions, only 10 % later developed the disease!!!»

People with a gene variant that sharply increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease in old age may show memory impairment earlier than thought — sometimes well before their 60th birthday, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The deterioration in immune function with aging is thought to make a major contribution to the increased morbidity and mortality from infectious disease in old age.

For instance, Westendorp and colleagues published a key study in The Lancet showing that, contrary to the widespread view, high cholesterol concentrations are not a risk factor for heart disease in old age.

Not exact matches

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina shows that loneliness can «vastly elevate» a person's risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer, making it as dangerous to your health as a lack of physical inactivity in youth or diabetes in old age.

And in some ways it is easier to dramatize some rare, grim disease in a TV story than it is to depict the relative banalities of old age.

In language that the medical layman can easily understand, he unflinchingly, unsparingly, and in detail describes the process by which diseases such as heart failure, Alzheimer's, and cancer will eventually kill us all, and, if they do not, old age surely wilIn language that the medical layman can easily understand, he unflinchingly, unsparingly, and in detail describes the process by which diseases such as heart failure, Alzheimer's, and cancer will eventually kill us all, and, if they do not, old age surely wilin detail describes the process by which diseases such as heart failure, Alzheimer's, and cancer will eventually kill us all, and, if they do not, old age surely will.

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

Actually, since cancer is a disease of old age, which kicks in long after most people have done whatever procreating they're going to do, it has zero effect on long - term survivability of the species.

Coeliac disease can appear at any age, and can be seen in children as young as one year old.

According to one study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood found that among babies who had experienced prolonged crying at a very young age (either from colic or other causes) had an average IQ at five years old that was nine points lower than the control group.

The effects of prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding on infectious diseases at older ages in industrialized countries remain to be studied.

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 denieIn 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 deniein 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.

Although Alzheimer's disease is probably the most recognized cause of dementia, HS - AGING also causes serious cognitive impairment in older adults.

An expert panel convened by the Institute of Medicine clarified the cognitive aging process by making a distinction from Alzheimer disease and related dementias, and provided recommendations to enhance cognitive health in older adults.

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.

This means that by taking an over-the-counter medication, people can ward off a disease that, according to Alzheimer's Disease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 ordisease that, according to Alzheimer's Disease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 orDisease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 or older.

Roughly 10 percent of men aged 60 or older who were among the top third in BPA concentrations developed cardiovascular disease compared with roughly 7 percent of similarly aged men with the lowest BPA concentrations, a difference that was statistically significant.

Jim Monti (right) a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Illinois psychology professor Neal Cohen (left), developed a cognitive task that helps differentiate older adults with very early Alzheimer's disease from those experiencing normal aging.

One in nine Americans aged 65 and older has Alzheimer's disease, a fatal brain disorder with no cure or effective treatment.

For example, in the combined hormone therapy trial, treated 50 - to 59 - year - olds had five additional cases of heart disease and five more strokes per 10,000 women annually compared with the same - aged group on placebo.

Facing the specter of Alzheimer's disease, the most devastating and widespread manifestation of brain deterioration in old age, worried baby boomers have inspired whole catalogs of brain - fitness books and services.

Medicare spending for patients with chronic kidney disease aged 65 and older exceeded $ 50 billion in 2013 and represented 20 percent of all Medicare spending in that age group.

Long - term care providers served about 9 million people in the United States in 2014, the majority of which were age 65 and older, according to the Center for Disease Control.

When researchers study centenarians, people who live to be 100 or older — as Barzilai and his colleagues have been doing at Albert Einstein for more than a decade — they find that these well - aged individuals are certainly not immune to chronic diseases, but they get them later in life.

Researchers derived data from the Harvard Aging Brain Study, an observational study of older adult volunteers aimed at defining neurobiological and clinical changes in early Alzheimer's disease.

[Bryan James et al., «Life Space and Risk of Alzheimer Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age»]

In recent years, between 71 percent and 85 percent of flu - related deaths have occurred among people 65 years of age and older, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

«My hope has always been with the study that we would learn much more about how to get lots of people to live to older age in good health and markedly delay their disability and age of onset of diseases...,» Perls said.

Such physical activity leads to a higher metabolism and better circulation, reducing the risk of conditions and diseases common in older age such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and strokes.

«This means knowing the ensemble of its genes and being able to manipulate or mutate them in a variety of ways to better understand aging and diseases of old age,» says senior author Dr. Anne Brunet, professor of genetics at Stanford School of Medicine, who has made the genetically engineered fish available to the entire research community.

Researchers found several risk factors for stroke, both in the immediate postoperative period and up to two years after, including previous stroke, peripheral vascular disease (narrowing or obstruction of arteries), valve surgery and age 65 years or older.

Muscle loss is now seen as a cause - not a consequence - of disease and frailty in old age.

The trial enrolled 1,500 men and women ages 18 and older with no reported history of Ebola virus disease at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia from Feb. 2 through April 30, 2015.

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.

Meanwhile, rates of Type 2 diabetes in older adults are higher than other populations, as about 20 percent of Americans over the age of 65 suffer from the disease.

Most research looks at aging in older people, but the seeds of age - related diseases are planted decades earlier — that's why these researchers believe it's crucial to study aging in the young.

Obesity and a bigger waist size in older women are associated with a higher risk of death, major chronic disease and mobility disability before the age of 85, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

In the most comprehensive study ever on the impact of smoking on cardiovascular disease in older people, epidemiologist Dr. Ute Mons from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) analyzed 25 individual studies, compiling data from over half a million individuals age 60 and oldeIn the most comprehensive study ever on the impact of smoking on cardiovascular disease in older people, epidemiologist Dr. Ute Mons from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) analyzed 25 individual studies, compiling data from over half a million individuals age 60 and oldein older people, epidemiologist Dr. Ute Mons from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) analyzed 25 individual studies, compiling data from over half a million individuals age 60 and older.

Jari A. Laukkanen, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, and coauthors investigated the association between sauna bathing and the risk of SCD, fatal coronary heart disease (CHD), fatal CVD and all - cause mortality in a group of 2,315 middle - aged men (42 to 60 years old) from eastern Finland.

«Increasingly, researchers are asking whether there is an age - related decline in autophagy and if it's connected to diseases that occur more frequently in older individuals,» says Malene Hansen, Ph.D., professor in the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at SBP.

Although cancer certainly can and does strike young people, it is, by and large, a disease of aging — and the leading cause of death in Americans between 60 and 79 years old.

In the U.S., about 5 percent of adults 65 to 74 have Alzheimer's, and nearly half of those age 85 and older may have it, according to figures of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

The mean age of the K: B fusion population was 7.4 years old, compared to 15.2 years old in the non-K: B population; 73 percent of the K: B PAs were found in the cerebellum, whereas 78 percent of the non-K: B PAs were found elsewhere; and non-K: B PAs were much more likely associated with co-occurrence of the disease Type 1 Neurofibromatosis, which can lead to the formation of additional tumors.

Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common cause of dementia and affects as many as 5.1 million Americans age 65 and older in the U.S., may triple in the next 40 years.

Research out of the nationwide REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study looked at 5,566 workers age 45 and older identified that those in sales, office support or service occupations have more risk factors for heart disease and stroke than workers in management and professional jobs.

The new technique, which yields cells resembling those found in older people's brains, will be a boon to scientists studying age - related diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

The reduced melatonin expression researchers had already associated with aging, and the accompanying loss of circadian rhythms, may underlie the increased risk of virtually all diseases in older adults.