Sentences with phrase «disease states associated»

The pharmacist is responsible for the reviewing, compounding, dispensing and monitoring of medication therapy for infants, pediatric and adolescent patients which includes dosing variations, nutritional needs and disease states associated with the various age groups.
The ecRNAs, they say, are fundamental regulators of DNA methylation patterns in the adult brain through interaction with DNA methyltransferase enzymes, and the ecRNAs may offer a promising future therapeutic avenue to treat neuropsychiatric disease states associated with changes in DNA methylation, as they report in the July 7 issue of Nature Communications.

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Dark Chocolate A Penn State - led review of the available evidence from 66 published studies, supports the view that consuming flavonoid - rich chocolate, in moderation, can be associated with reduced risk for cardiovascular disease.
or more of garlic powder every day may reduce aortic stiffness as people age, while separate studies at the State University of New York at Albany have found that people who eat garlic exhibit a lower incidence of stomach cancer, have longer blood clotting times, and lower blood lipid levels (a factor associated with reduced risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease)....
Previous research has shown the adverse health effects associated with suboptimal breastfeeding cost the United States $ 14.2 billion annually (2011 dollars) in pediatric disease, including the costs of 911 child deaths.4
These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.
Senator Betty Little of Queensbury, who helped organize the forum, said the state legislature will create a task force to study tick - borne illness, and that she believes legislation should be passed to introduce more funding for disease research, and to require health insurance companies to cover treatments associated with symptoms of Lyme and other diseases.
Janet Stout, director of Special Pathogens Laboratory in Pittsburgh and an associate professor of research at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, has studied Legionnaires» disease for 30 years and called the idea of legislation from the state and the pending City Council legislation «unprecedented.»
Dr. Alan Sanders, President and Partner of Upstate Infectious Diseases Associates, LLP in Albany, NY, joins Al Cardillo, the Executive Vice President of the Home Care Association of New York State, to discuss infectious diseases and sepsis.
«Understanding how wounds can be healed is believed to be very important and a potential therapeutic avenue for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease,» said Dr. Tim Denning, associate professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State.
As of 11 May, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had confirmed 503 «travel - associated» cases of Zika in the United States, 10 of which involved sexual transmission.
The chronic state of low - level inflammation seen in many elderly individuals (sometimes called «inflamm - aging»), is associated with diseases such as cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as susceptibility to infections, especially pneumonia.
Infants younger than 6 months are at greatest risk of disease, hospitalization, and death and account for more than 90 percent of all pertussis - associated deaths in the United States.
«Our findings suggest that PRMT5 is a possible prognostic factor and therapeutic target for glioblastoma, and they provide a rationale for developing agents that target PRMT5 in this deadly disease,» says co-corresponding author Robert A. Baiocchi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and a hematologist at the OSUCCC — James who is also collaborating on an Ohio State effort to develop a PMRT5 inhibitor.
Doctors at three leading research institutions and the American Diabetes Association report that treating patients with prediabetes as if they had diabetes could help prevent or delay the most severe complications associated with this chronic disease, which affects about thirty million people in the United States.
«Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of mortality in wild and captive pandas but scientists understand very little about their digestive process,» says co-author Ashli Brown Johnson, state chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathostate chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathoState University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathology.
«The common perception that Zika is associated with a very mild clinical course compared with dengue or chikungunya was not borne out in this small cohort,» states Dr. Andrea Boggild, Clinical Director, Tropical Disease Unit at the University Health Network, University of Toronto and Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
«This knowledge is crucial for developing new treatments for not just Parkinson's disease, but also for addiction, ADHD and bipolar disorder, as all of these diseases are associated with some type of disorder in the function of the dopamine neurons, and specifically in the dopamine transporter,» states Kopra.
The use of statins may not be associated with lowering risk for Parkinson's disease, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Worrisome is that already in the state of prediabetes hyperglycemia is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia and cancer.
«Very few studies have investigated Alzheimer's disease pathology in chimpanzees, the species closest in phylogeny and most genetically related to humans,» said senior author Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., associate professor and interim chair of anthropology at Kent State.
«We know dysregulation of a protein enzyme called multifunctional CaM kinase II plays a role in disrupting sodium channel function in cardiac disease, but it was a matter of determining how this occurred and whether we could we prevent it for therapeutic benefit,» said Hund, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at The Ohio State University.
As a result, experts in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University say that a huge number of Americans may be chronically deficient in vitamin E, which could compound the wide range of diseases known to be associated with metabolic syndrome, including heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
As for treatments, the paper states, «Stem cell transplantation may prove to be a viable approach to treat diseases such as suPAR - associated kidney disease
It also underscores the utility of solid - state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for imaging the structures of proteins associated with prion diseases.
The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported that C. neoformans causes more than one million cases of cryptococcosis annually with more than 620,000 attributable mortalities, resulting in approximately one - third of all AIDS - associated deaths [25].
«Very few studies have investigated Alzheimer's disease pathology in chimpanzees, the species closest in phylogeny and most genetically related to humans,» said senior author Dr. Mary Ann Raghanti, associate professor and interim chair of anthropology at Kent State.
He recently moved back to academia as an associate professor in the departments of Neuroscience and Human Genetics & Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, where he continues his basic research and translational efforts in AD using a state - of - the - art experimental and computational toolkit, in collaboration with Drs. Alison Goate and Anne Schaefer within the Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease.
Biomarkers predictive of disease phenotype will be validated using existing, publicly available studies by deciphering microbiome characteristics and commonalities associated with healthy and disease states.
Defined basic principles of how skeletal and cardiac muscle cells adapt to changing physiological demands associated with exercise or disease states.
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging (the «Buck Institute») is the only freestanding institute in the United States that is devoted solely to basic research on aging and age - associated disease.
UNITY is developing a number of therapies intended to selectively eliminate senescent cells and restore tissue to a more functionally healthy state, thereby addressing the underlying causes of age - associated diseases.
These are both normal states for the yeast protein, but when human proteins form amyloids they are usually associated with diseases — especially neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's, as well as rheumatoid arthritis.
They found that nearly half of all the deaths in the United States in 2012 that were caused by cardiometabolic diseases were associated with suboptimal eating habits.
The new mechanism of cooperation reported might be implicated in protection against asthma, allergies and immune - mediated diseases that has been associated with a carrier state,» said Raquel Hontecillas, associate professor of immunology, NIMML co-director, and corresponding author of the publication.
This new associate editor at the Journal of Biological Chemistry investigates the roles of RNA in stress response pathways and disease states.
Various disease states are associated with deregulation of how cells move and change shape, including notably tumor initiation and cancer cell metastasis.
It will be interesting to explore other inflammation states such as obesity, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, psoriasis, and arthritis to determine the importance of RIPK2 in driving inflammation damage and the usefulness of RIPK2 inhibitor 1 to alleviate the clinical symptoms associated with these diseases.
He is best known for his discovery that copy - number variation — a state in which cells have an abnormal number of DNA sections, sometimes associated with susceptibility or resistance to disease — is widespread and significant in the human genome.
Using state - of - the - art proteomics and associated computational methods, the Speicher laboratory is investigating protein changes associated with ovarian cancer, melanoma, cardiac injury resulting from breast cancer therapies, ectopic pregnancy, red cell diseases, and other clinical disorders.
Researchers publishing in the International Journal of Epidemiology state that mediterranean diet is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk but this relationship is confined to higher socioeconomic groups.
In contrast to the findings on low back pain, the new guidelines state that TENS may be useful in treating nerve pain associated with diabetes, which affects up to 70 % of people with the disease.
A longitudinal study of over 500 participants found that dietary phylloquinone (K1) intake was associated with an improvement of cytokines and other markers related to insulin resistance and diabetes.2 This finding further supports the use of vitamin K supplementation in the treatment of other chronic disease states.
«What we are learning is that food is a double - edge sword — it may promote disease, but it may also help prevent many chronic diseases, like colon cancer,» said Jairam K.P. Vanamala, Associate Professor of Food Sciences, Penn State.
Benson's weight put him officially into the «obese» category and brought with it all the associated disease states such as high blood pressure, high inflammation, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, massive amounts of «stress fat» around the belly and chest region, and some serious heart issues.
Once metabolized, it forms adipose fat — the kind of fat that collects around your heart, liver, and digestive organs and is associated with a greater risk of obesity, heart disease, liver disease, cancer, arthritis, and other disease states.
The results of this study clearly state there is «no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of heart disease».
Kansas State University research suggests that eating plenty of foods high in antioxidants helps slow the processes associated with aging and protect against many chronic diseases.
A shift in the microbial community is associated with inflammation... It is interesting that the microbial community is actually changing with the disease state, which indicates that it is either responding to or contributing to the disease state.»»
Paleo Huntress: re: «Campbell specifically states that his data showed that plant fat was associated with disease...» Hmmm.
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