Sentences with phrase «disease onset often»

There are at least three unique challenges hampering brain disease management: relative inaccessibility, disease onset often preceding the onset of clinical symptoms by many years and overlap between clinical and pathological symptoms that makes accurate disease identification often difficult.

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These newer studies are beginning to uncover the reasons why men are much more susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and ALS; why autism, dyslexia, stuttering and early onset schizophrenia are three to four times more prevalent in boys; and why attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is diagnosed 10 times more often in boys.

Olfactory dysfunction is commonly associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and is often a measurable sign of these diseases prior to the onset of their cardinal symptoms.

«It is well recognized that food intake is implicated in many chronic health issues including obesity, diabetes and heart disease, and diet is often a target of treatment to prevent the onset of these conditions,» commented the researchers Alyssa Lundahl and Timothy D Nelson of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, and Basel, SWITZERLAND, August 18, 2000 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq / Easdaq: DCGN) and F.Hoffmann - La Roche announced today that scientists at deCODE have successfully mapped a novel gene that contributes to the occurrence of the common form of Alzheimer's disease (often referred to as late - onset Alzheimer's).

Our first liver therapeutic development program is for methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a serious and often life - threatening rare liver disease; it is primarily a pediatric disease with onset in early infancy.

«People with Parkinson's disease often show signs of depression before the onset of significant movement problems, so it's likely that the neural imbalance in Parkinson's is also responsible for some behavioral changes associated with the disease,» said Dr. Kreitzer, who is also an assistant professor of physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated.

What's particularly worrying is sufferers may not be aware they have the disease, as the onset is often slow and can show little symptoms.

Traditional bloodwork, such as standard lipid panels or glucose testing, often fails to adequately capture a patient's health risks before the onset of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, rheumatic states, and other chronic conditions.

Fibrocystic breast disease often becomes painful and the benign tumors swell with the onset of menstruation.

Because hemangiosarcoma tumors most often in develop in internal organs, frequently, there are few or no obvious symptoms before the onset of severe clinical signs of disease.

Dogs and Cats age much more quickly than humans and the gradual onset of disease in seemingly healthy pets often goes unnoticed.

Most often, the disease is recognized by the onset of a heart murmur, which can be recognized during a routine physical exam.

Acquired, or adult onset heart disease in cats often occurs in middle - aged to older animals due to wear and tear on the heart structures, but can also result from an injury or infection

Hyperthyroid cats are rarely presented to the veterinarian for behavioral signs, Perhaps because aggression is primarily wen when the cat is restrained, we as a profession are more likely to experience this aspect of the disease than the cats» owners, Treating the underlying thyroid problem generally resolves the behavioral problems however, and because onset is often insidious, it is only after the endocrine imbalance has been addressed that the owners appreciate the deterioration in their animal's behavior.

Since changes made by Cushing's disease are quite gradual in onset and are often believed to be a result of simple aging, many dogs are not diagnosed until the disease is advanced.

Juvenile onset carries a fair to good prognosis, since the flawed immune system is usually age related, and clinical disease will often abate with age.

This wide range in onset has made the disease extremely difficult to predict or eliminate; affected dogs are often bred before the owner realizes they will develop the disease.

Clinically affected dogs are often young (3 - 18 months of age) and present with poor weight gain, progressive peripheral neuropathy including ataxia, leg crossing, tremors and paresis which worsens with exercise.Behavioral changes, blindness, dementia, anorexia, cachexia, urinary incontinence and muscle weakness affecting all four limbs are usually present in terminal stages of the disease with death occurring 2 - 6 months after onset of clinical signs, necessitating euthanasia.

Often dental disease is a gradual onset, and some people mistake it as their pet getting «grumpy» in old age.

However, much like human diseases, the gradual onset of symptoms may often go unnoticed.

The Sudden onset of the disease often makes an owner think that a cat has been poisoned.