Sentences with phrase «disease severity»

For these patients, of varying weight and with different degrees of disease severity, viewing these images caused much the same reaction as in healthy subjects.

The new finding might one day lead to the development of a vaccine that could reduce disease severity in people with type A blood.

Proper plant spacing to provide adequate air movement around plants helps reduce disease severity.

We are also interested in using the results of our research to help predict disease severity and response to therapy.

We will use these data to determine whether any mutation (s) in the virus genome affect disease severity.

More research is needed, however, to determine if disease severity is related to the bacteria found on wild bats.

In addition, there has not been any evidence to show that following a specific diet or taking dietary supplements reduces or improves disease severity.

A patient's sex remains the best indicator for liver disease severity.

The impairment could be related to global disease severity in addition to local brain injury.

The authors note that antibodies against NA remain the only identified predictor of disease severity, according to previously reported trial data.

A recent study in mice found just a single session of exercise before catching flu reduced disease severity, although regular exercise beforehand worked even better.

Gibson, A.K., et al., «Polyparasitism Is Associated with Increased Disease Severity in Toxoplasma gondii - Infected Marine Sentinel Species.»

Based on these data, we present first evidence that mobility patterns measured by passive monitoring correlate with disease severity as measured by clinical gold standards.

More physicians are now measuring TSI - thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins — to assess Graves» disease severity as well.

It is hoped that biomarkers of SMA disease severity will help drug developers evaluate response to treatment in a quantitative, unbiased manner.

«US pediatric hospitals vary greatly in costs, practices for children with asthma: Matching patients by disease severity and other characteristics may offer clues to improving hospital practice.»

Overall, demographic and disease severity variables did not account for a large amount of variance in the criterion measures, ranging from 3 % for internalizing behaviors to 5 % for state anxiety and externalizing behaviors.

S. Stefanie, H Bettina, Nilges M, Schroeder S, Hoelich A, Keletzl H, Spooren W, Ostrowitzki S, Hanania T, Sendtner M, Metzger F. Functional improvement in mouse models of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by PEGylated insulin - like growth factor I treatment depends on disease severity.

After controlling for disease severity, the researchers not only found more than a three-fold increase in costs among those who increasingly do not take their medications as directed.

In contrast, saliva extract did not influence disease severity and symptoms in naïve mice.

Limitations of the study include that people with severe Parkinson's disease were not included, which could affect the ability to detect an association between disease severity and caffeine levels.

The readout of infection is viral load and not disease severity — the two don't always go together.

In addition, they show that there is statistical support for antibodies contributing to disease severity during secondary dengue infections.

• M. Bhandari, Texas A&M University, third place for Assessing Wheat Foliar Disease Severity Using Ground - and Aerial - based Remote Sensing Systems.

«While inulin, and perhaps other fermentable fibers, can ameliorate low - grade inflammation and associated metabolic disease, it also has the potential to exacerbate disease severity in response to inducers of acute colitis.»

We also know that adopting a more healthful diet can moderate disease severity, too.

It was the work of the North America CF Gene Modifier Consortium, which brought together dozens of investigators from the United States and Canada to identify which regions of the genome are associated with lung disease severity in almost 3,500 CF patients.

In this study LiverMultiScan was superior for grading disease severity and excluding people at increased risk of disease progression, compared to the other tests evaluated.

«Smoking constitutes a major risk factor not only for disease susceptibility but also disease severity in patients with AS,» said lead author Professor Servet Akar from Izmir Katip Celebi University Faculty of Medicine,?

The team also demonstrated that 1H - NMR can indicate disease severity: They accurately assigned another 76 patients to one of three categories — mild condition (one artery affected), moderate (two arteries in trouble), and major (all three coronary arteries clogged).

Additionally, upstream methylation status predicts disease severity more accurately than repeat length alone.

HA and NA antibody levels considered together may be a better predictor of whether someone develops mild - to - moderate influenza disease — and the severity of their symptoms — than either factor alone, but this study suggests that NA antibodies are the stronger factor for determining disease severity, the authors conclude.

«Mosquito saliva increases disease severity following dengue virus infection.»

To unravel exactly how ADAR1 is connected to disease severity at a molecular level, the researchers transferred multiple myeloma patient tissue to mice, creating what's known as a xenograft or «humanized» model.

However, using the new CISP score, the system could tell whether the patients had level 1 or level 3 Parkinson's, using a particular disease severity scale.

Outcomes depended upon disease severity before treatment, oncologist Jae Park reported April 3 at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting.

These findings can help to identify disease severity and teach us how to take better care of our patients,» noted senior author David Binion, M.D., visiting professor of medicine, clinical and translational science and co-director of the IBD Center at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

They choose a model, the K / BxN serum transfer model, in which disease severity can be precisely controlled, which allowed them to test the hydrogel in animals with different degrees of arthritis severity.

Thus, in vitro enhancement assays lacked the ability to predict flavivirus disease severity in the rhesus macaque model.

They expected that the overall disease severity would decrease because of the presence of the pacifist strain.

The three H5Nx strains are genetically similar but cause different disease severity in birds.

Not only were Miconazole and clobetasol able to stimulate the differentiation of stem cells into mature oligodendrocytes, most importantly, these drugs stimulated the formation of new insulation (myelin) and reversed disease severity in animal models of MS.. While not all adult tissues in our body contain stem cells, this approach may change the way MS is managed.

Of interest is that those given live virus and then challenged with live virus two months later exhibited an infiltrative disease severity comparable to the PBS and vaccinated groups despite no detectable virus on day two, again suggesting some degree of infection may have occurred earlier.

A similar decrease in time to mortality was seen following NP396 immunization (Fig. 1B), indicating that increased disease severity occurs with CD8 T cell memory against multiple epitope specificities.

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered a key mechanism that protects mice from developing a human disease of aging, and begins to explain the wide spectrum of disease severity often seen in humans.

This disease is caused by tri-nucleotide repeat expansions in the gene DMPK, which incompletely explain the large variation in disease severity observed in patients.