Sentences with phrase «disease scale ranging»

After six months, participants were rated by clinicians on a Parkinson's disease scale ranging from 0 to 108.

Not exact matches

Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

Validating this original concept, we previously demonstrated that PGD - derived hES cells and their derivatives, which express the causal mutation implicated in the Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1), offer pertinent disease - cell models, applicable for a wide systemic mechanistic analysis ranging from functional studies at the cellular level to a large - scale drug screening.

Then we briefly describe some of the epidemiologic characteristics and recent genomic advances associated with four particular infectious diseases - Ebola, pandemic influenza, hepatitis B and tuberculosis - that have large - scale public health consequences but differ in terms of ease of transmission, chronicity, severity, preventability and treatability, factors which affect a range of ELSI issues.

Our aim is to develop a multi-scale mathematical model (ranging from the molecular to the organ scale) of the liver tissue that can predict alterations of organ function consequent to molecular perturbations and disease states.

Use of breed - specific ranges for the vertebral heart scale as an aid to the radiographic diagnosis of cardiac disease in dogs.

Additionally, the publication aims to highlight the full range climate - related health issues and risks (i.e. nutrition, NCDs, air pollution, allergens, infectious diseases, water and sanitation, extreme temperatures and weather, etc.) where health decision - making can benefit from climate and weather knowledge at historic, immediate, seasonal, or long - term time scales.

Climate change is causing large - scale changes in the environment, increasing the likelihood of the emergence or reemergence of unfamiliar disease threats.284 Factors include shifting ranges of disease - carrying pests, lack of immunity and preparedness, inadequate disease monitoring, and increasing global travel.

Youths were also asked how likely they thought it was that in the next 6 months they would engage in a number of risk activities (smoking marijuana, selling drugs, delivering drugs, getting HIV infection, drinking alcohol, getting sexually transmitted disease, using cocaine, getting pregnant or getting a girl pregnant, sniffing glue, having sex, using a condom, or having a infant) along a 5 - point response scale ranging from very unlikely to very likely.