Sentences with phrase «disease studies conducted»

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The studies conducted in the late 60s that suggested fat intake was a greater risk factor for heart disease than sugar consumption were actually funded by the Sugar Research Foundation, according to a new analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Kleck just learned that almost immediately after the publication of his study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that receives more than $ 11 billion of taxpayer money every year, conducted its own study of the matter.

Many say that the antioxidant action provided by superfoods protects against cancer and heart disease, among a host of other ills — while others point out that few carefully controlled studies have been conducted.

PETA — whose motto reads, in part, that «animals are not ours to eat» — notes that going vegan reduces diners» chances of developing heart disease by a whopping 32 percent, according to a large - scale study conducted by Oxford University.

A similar meta - study was conducted and published in May of 2013, analyzing the existing medical literature regarding dietary fats and heart disease in the journal Advances in Nutrition.

Many people are also unaware of what compounds are available in coconut oil as no extensive studies have been conducted as in the case of olive oil which has been established as lowering the risk of coronary heart disease through the phenolic anti-oxidants it contains.

This current study conducted in Nigeria looked at the pathogenic role of cadmium (Cd) and its exposure in the induction of dyslipidemia implicated in the development and increasing incidence of cardiovascular diseases, and explored whether polyphenolics isolated from virgin coconut oil (VCO) could prevent Cd - induced dyslipidemia.

A pilot study was conducted using 30 volunteers and the results proved that Active Manuka Honey might have a therapeutic role in treating gum disease and periodontal disease.

Two authors of the study, Cynthia Kupper, CEO of the Gluten Intolerance Group and a registered dietitian diagnosed with celiac disease, and Laura Allred, Ph.D. and GIG's Regulatory and Standards Manager, join Jules on the show to discuss the impetus for the study, how the study was conducted, study results and what this means for celiacs and others sensitive to gluten as they search for safe gluten free products.

A new research study conducted by the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) shows that beers labeled «gluten - removed» may indeed not be safe for those with celiac disease.

A new research study conducted by the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG), the leader in the certification of gluten - free products and food services, indicates that beers labeled «gluten - removed» may not be safe for those with celiac disease.

They even fund research scientists at prestigious universities to conduct studies and write policy papers that are skewed toward saying that their products don't contribute to diabetes, heart disease, obesity etc..

One of the most important and influential studies of the long - term effects of childhood stress and trauma is the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, which was conducted in the 1990s by Robert Anda, a physician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Vincent Felitti, the founder of the department of preventive medicine at Kaiser Permanente, the giant health - maintenance organization based in California.

STD's / HIV the study was conducted in Africa and since then has been shown to be extremely flawed, studies on STD / HIV contraction in regards of circumcision status have been conducted in the UK Australia New Zealand Puerto Rico and even one conducted by the US navy and it showed circumcision status had no effect in the contraction of the diseases.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study conducted in the 1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together with Kaiser Permanente asked adults about ten categories of trauma experienced in childhood: three categories of abuse, two of neglect, and five related to growing up in a «seriously dysfunctional household».

The Infant Feeding Practices Study II is a longitudinal study of new mothers and their infants conducted by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from May 2005 to June Study II is a longitudinal study of new mothers and their infants conducted by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from May 2005 to June study of new mothers and their infants conducted by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from May 2005 to June 2007.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, part of the Public Health Service, reported to the city and the Elmhurst Park District that a study it conducted concluded that «methane migration from the park poses a potential health threat via fire and explosion «and inhalation to residents to the north and east of the site.

The panel recommends that the further use of implants be limited for reconstruction only and that women receiving the implants participate in scientific protocols and that epidemiologic studies be conducted to assess the risk of autoimmune disease.

According to studies that were conducted by the American Academy of Periodontists, if you have a gum disease, then your chances of having an underweight or a premature baby is four times more likely as compared to a woman who has healthy gums.

The effort by Bennington College to conduct a more comprehensive survey of residents took shape after the New York Health Department released the results of its cancer study in June that found the rates of the disease in the village of Hoosick Falls are not extraordinary.

A far - reaching study conducted by scientists at Cincinnati Children's reports that the Epstein - Barr virus (EBV)-- best known for causing mononucleosis — also increases the risks for some people of developing seven other major diseases.

«Infectious disease disaster planning among Missouri schools does not appear to have progressed much over the last four years since a similar nationwide study was conducted, and most Missouri schools are not meeting many national and professional organization recommendations and guidelines,» state the study's authors.

A similar study was performed by the same team in 2008 using older data from a survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

For the study and to quantify the socioeconomic burden of this disease, the researchers conducted a web - based survey (674 out of 956 individuals completed the survey) to characterize the patient and caregiver experience with FTD - related resource use, health - related quality of life, and per - patient annual costs.

The Immunochip for fine - mapping is an important tool for conducting genome - wide association studies of the genetic components of disease.

In genetic studies conducted by gene researchers at the University of Helsinki, the gene defect causing the disease was found in the COL7A1 gene.

The study is one of a series of studies being conducted at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute on the effects of coronary artery calcium on heart disease.

To investigate this, the authors conducted a study involving participants of Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Re-lease Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial (published in The Lancet in 2007 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008), with its cohort described by the authors as being generally representative of people with diabetes in developed countries such as Australia, New Zealand, China and nations of Europe, and also including China, a developing country.

For example, the results of one study, known as UPLIFT, one of four large - scale studies conducted in 2008, demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of a drug called Spirivain about 6,000 patients with respiratory disease.

Based on these points, Dr. Canli suggests a major research step would be to conduct large - scale studies with depressed patients, controls, and infectious - disease related protocols to determine the association or causal nature of infectious disease and depression.

The study, the most comprehensive analysis ever conducted of RNA molecules in human saliva, reveals that saliva contains many of the same disease - revealing molecules that are contained in blood.

The studies not only point to the future possibility of specific microRNAs as a treatment for colorectal cancer, but also to the importance of external metabolic events conducted outside the cancer cell in the progression of the disease — factors that could someday be targeted to help slow metastasis, or even block it entirely.

«We hope the ongoing scientific and clinical research being conducted through the International PSC study group will help improve the outlook for those currently suffering at the hands of this disease»

In the course of a study conducted throughout Germany, medical professionals have compared different treatment methods for Neuromyelitis optica, an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system.

Caucasian and Hispanic children who undergo lung transplantation appear to be at greater risk for developing chronic kidney disease, or CKD, according to a small retrospective study conducted at Texas Children's Hospital.

Previous studies of their effectiveness in patients with end - stage renal disease produced mixed results, leading researchers to conduct the review of records of all U.S. patients who had initiated peritoneal dialysis from 2007 to 2011.

Most animal studies of the disease are conducted with laboratory mice that have been genetically engineered and bred to model ALS, but for this research, investigators used rats with ALS because they more accurately portray the disease's variable course in humans.

Researchers at MGH ITA conduct studies in clinical economics, cost - effectiveness, and quality of life issues for diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease.

The researchers now want to conduct follow - up studies to optimise the use of IgEnio — currently patients have to have IgE antibodies removed from their blood for a morning approximately once a week during the pollen season — and to test its use for treating inflammatory skin diseases, in which IgE antibodies are also implicated.

The researchers conducted their studies in mice because patients with mutations in the STIM1 gene and that of the channel it activates, ORAI1, are extremely rare and often too sick to study due to chronic infections and lymphoproliferative disease.

The USF team believes these novel ketone supplements may be effective in other disorders besides cancer and is conducting ongoing studies to test their potential use in wound healing, epilepsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease, glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT1) deficiency syndrome, and exercise performance.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Researchers conducted a nationwide, population - based long - term observational cohort study using the Swedish Multi-Generation Register to monitor the risk of nonceliac autoimmune disease, which includes Crohn's disease, type 1 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and ulcerative colitis.

Researchers conducted a population - based perspective birth cohort study of 7,046 pregnant women, and categorized subjects into three groups: negative anti-tTG (control), intermediate anti-tTG (just below the clinical cut - off point used to diagnose patients with celiac disease) and positive anti-tTG (highly probable celiac disease patients).

A prior study by this group, which was also conducted in concurrence with the Beijing Olympics, demonstrated that pollutions levels were linked to physiological changes that increase risk for cardiovascular disease, and that these same air pollution reductions resulted in improvements in several risk factors

Preliminary findings from PREVAIL III, a study of Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors being conducted in Liberia, indicate that both Ebola survivors and their close contacts have a high burden of illness.

For this study, the researchers used data from a population of patients with both diabetes and chronic kidney disease (stage 3 and 4) enrolled in follow up studies conducted by Dr. Krolewski and his team at the Joslin Diabetes Center and followed for four to 15 years.

«Once we've shown that this can safely be used in human patients with pulmonary hypertension — and we've got a clinical trial in progress right now — we'll be able to conduct studies of inhaled NO delivered in ambulatory settings, including patients» homes, to treat chronic pulmonary hypertension, right - sided heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.»

With grant support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wintemute had been conducting a retrospective cohort study looking at whether handgun buyers with prior misdemeanor convictions are more likely than those without a criminal history to be charged with new crimes, particularly those involving firearms and violence.

Given these connections between hormonal or reproductive life events and rheumatoid arthritis in women, researchers conducted an observational study to investigate the association of menopause with functional status in women with the disease.