Sentences with phrase «disease predisposing»

The medical history of your pet should be also taken under considerations since the availability of old, but serious or current chronic diseases predispose the epilepsy condition, too.

Which disease predisposes a dog to heat stroke?

Kidney disease predisposes a cat to retinal damage from enrofloxacin..

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They were later subdivided into subtropical race 4 (STR4) and tropical race 4 (TR4) to distinguish the strains that need predisposing factors to cause the disease from the ones that don't.

So, since genetics may play a small part in predisposing people to certain illnesses, should we all just throw in the towel and succumb to these degenerative diseases?

This recipe makes it EASY to stop the gut wrecking emulsifiers and gums ubiquitous in our foods that cause inflammation (IBD in mice predisposed to that disease) and in normal immune system mice, metabolic syndrome.

Most of the foods that industry currently provide are very high in salt, fat, and sugars and are therefore more likely to cause cardiovascular disease and predispose to cancer than healthier alternatives.

Additional human studies are needed to explore how individual differences in maternal breast milk composition could predispose to intestinal inflammatory conditions, such as allergic disease.

It is characterised by inflammation and scaling of the skin, accompanied by a greater risk of contracting some type of metabolic syndrome, predisposing patients to pathologies, such as obesity, diabetes or cardiovascular diseases.

«Acute repeated spikes in blood sugar that you see with each dose of this drug have long - term impacts — and can predispose patients to the development of insulin - resistance Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,» said David Wright, associate professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences and corresponding author of the paper.

This in turn predisposes to the development of disease.

In another study, Wilen notes, mice genetically predisposed to have Crohn's disease developed symptoms of that disease after being infected with norovirus.

This breakthrough in Alzheimer's research could open new avenues for the design of therapeutics and pave the way for early detection by helping healthcare professionals identify those who are predisposed to the disease.

«Inactivity may diminish life expectancy not only by predisposing to aging - related diseases but also because it may influence the aging process itself.»

Coeliac disease or celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder of the small bowel that occurs in genetically predisposed individuals in all age groups after early infancy.

«We discovered that there were two types of HLA (HLA - DQ2 and HLA - DQ8) which predispose a person for celiac disease,» explains Professor Sollid.

The authors anticipate that health care providers will use the early - detection biomarkers to test for their presence and levels in blood from pancreatic cancer patients and blood drawn from individuals with a high risk of developing pancreatic cancer, including those who have a first - degree relative with pancreatic cancer, are genetically predisposed to the disease, or who had a sudden onset of diabetes after the age of 50.

«There are also genetic mutations that predispose individuals to develop colon cancer in early adulthood — and these individuals have been found to develop intestinal inflammation even before the appearance of their neoplastic disease,» he says.

When the researchers transferred gut microbes from the twins into mice predisposed to develop a disease similar to MS, they found that after 12 weeks, three times as many mice receiving bacteria from MS patients developed brain inflammation as those receiving microbes from healthy donors.

In the past few years, two studies were launched to find out whether drugs that shrink plaques can halt the onset of the disease before symptoms appear in those genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer's.

The scientists transferred the twins» gut bacteria to mice predisposed to develop a disease that mimics MS. Twelve weeks after the transplant, about 40 percent more mice with gut microbes from a twin with MS developed brain inflammation compared with mice that got gut microbes from a twin without disease.

Genetic factors can contribute to the degree of longevity in at least two important ways: An individual may inherit certain genetic variations that predispose him or her to disease that decreases longevity; other gene variants may confer disease resistance, thereby increasing it.

These findings could include genetic variants that would predispose patients and their family to a variety of conditions including other cancers, Alzheimer's, and cardiovascular disease.

Clinicians could then prevent the disease by placing teenagers predisposed to this epigenetic change on a birth control pill regimen, preventing the possibility of retrograde menstruation in the first place, Bulun said.

Fat can also be stored around and in the arteries causing arteriosclerosis, a stiffening of arteries predisposing people to high blood pressure, heart disease and strokes.

«This study may serve as a starting point for future research on how other inflammatory diseases may predispose patients for increased metastasis.»

The Duke scientists first examined the retinas of young rats that were genetically predisposed to an eye disease which causes progressive blindness similar to a disorder called retinitis pigmentosa in humans.

To investigate how this might contribute to disease, immunologists Nora Sarvetnick, Cecile King, and their colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, studied mice predisposed to type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune disorders.

As Finnish geneticist Leena Peltonen wrote in a recent review, «The enthusiasm regarding the use of population isolates for the identification of predisposing genes for common, polygenic diseases has turned to a silent drudgery.»

«Celiac disease is caused by gluten in genetically predisposed people, but bacteria in our gut could tip the balance in some people between developing the disease or staying healthy.»

The preclinical study looked at the effect of DHA on lupus lesions in the lungs and kidneys of female mice that were already genetically predisposed to the disease.

The findings provide insight into the biological pathways that may predispose an individual to disease and could ultimately lead to the development of new therapeutic avenues to treat the five major psychiatric illnesses.

Some Mendelian disorders are known to predispose patients to certain complex diseases, but these co-occurrences have thus far only been studied on a small - scale basis.

This enables them to study the mechanisms by which certain genes can predispose an individual to a particular disease.

According to the «common disease / common variant» theory, it's not necessary that the diseases themselves be old, just that the alleles, the predisposing variants, are old.

Splitting the cow's milk proteins in a formula doesn't prevent the start - up of the disease process of type 1 diabetes in predisposed children, shows a large international study.

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

Low birth weight may predispose children to asthma, but by itself it doesn't cause the disease.

Perhaps DNA damage from subtle but common variations in the WS gene may predispose people to vascular disease, cataracts and diabetes, even if they don't suffer from a full - blown form of the disease.

The authors pointed out that earlier studies have indicated that the higher risk of overgrowth seen in newborns of obese women may predispose these infants to obesity and cardiovascular disease later in life.

Yet despite achieving some encouraging results in animal models of MS, drugs that block the activity of TNF tend not work in patients with MS.. In fact, they usually make symptoms worse, and they may even have caused the disease in people predisposed to it, says Fugger.

Individuals with the insomnia - linked genes also appeared predisposed to depression, obesity and cardiovascular diseases.

Medical analysis of your genome could tell you what diseases you were genetically predisposed to; in some cases that knowledge would be actionable, meaning that you could take steps against contracting those diseases.

Scientists have debated whether these responses to good or bad times early in development are adaptive adjustments to their environment — reflecting that infants have a window of time early in life when they can fine - tune their developmental trajectories — or whether early deficiencies in nutrition and stress simply predispose these infants to more disease as adults.

The more salt the kidney must excrete, the more calcium it loses, exacerbating osteoporosis in older women and predisposing younger women to the disease by depleting calcium stores.

Researchers have discovered early blood markers in people genetically predisposed to develop Huntington's disease, a mysterious neurodegenerative disorder.

An explosion of recent studies in both animals and people suggests that resident microbes can influence susceptibility to diseases from HIV to asthma, predispose to obesity across generations, and tinker with how the body responds to drugs.

«Although obesity and alcohol use predispose a person to acid reflux requiring antacid medication, many patients with chronic liver disease take gastric acid suppressive medications without appropriate indication.

Our big - brained babies are difficult to deliver at birth, our backs ache from upright walking, and our long lives predispose us to cancer and other diseases.

They also tested five healthy women with a family history of breast cancer and mutations on the BRCA1 gene, which predisposes to the disease.