Sentences with phrase «disease study involved»

The heart disease study involved 21,076 people with heart disease and 63,014 people who did not have heart disease.

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There's also a South Korean study from a few years ago involving more than 25,000 people, which found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee each day was associated with having fewer of the early warning signs of heart disease.

Some of the marketing material highlighted in Lion's cross claim includes: «A2 will improve human health through the consumption of a2 dairy milk products», «studies suggest that milk containing only the A2 type of protein may benefit you and your family if you're concerned with certain allergies, immune function or digestive wellbeing» and «there is significant evidence to suggest that beta casein A1 may be a primary risk factor for heart disease in adult men and also be involved in the progression of insulin dependent diabetes in children... Beta casein A1... is the most powerful risk factor ever discovered.»

While only about one half of 1 percent of Americans actually suffer from celiac disease — which involves damage to the intestines that has been related to gluten — the number of people who are following gluten - free diets far outstrips that number, perhaps out of a public belief that a gluten - free diet is generally healthier, according to a 2016 study published by the American Medical Association.

Methods: This randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled, prospective follow - up study involved 90 coeliac disease patients in remission randomized to consume glucose syrups, maltodextrins or placebo for 24 weeks.

«Her results suggest that, for certain types of infections, formulation of an antibiotic that creates an alkaline environment at the source of infection could be effective,» says associate professor Bryan Davies with the university's Center for Infectious Disease, who was not involved with the study.

A related paper, involving Svendsen, his colleague Gad Vatine, PhD, and a team from University of California, Irvine, published the same day in the journal Cell Reports, used a similar approach to study Huntington's disease.

«I think it awakens the possibility of gene therapy for neuropsychiatric diseases,» says Husseini Manji, a senior investigator at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development in Titusville, N.J., who was not involved in the study.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

Bryden, who studies combustion — wood, in particular — got involved with clean cookstoves in 1998 after learning about the range of the injuries and diseases stemming from unhealthy cooking practices.

Scientists have shifted from studying single molecules to investigating large complexes of interacting biological macromolecules involved in processes such as metabolic pathways, gene expression, and development of disease.

He added that many immunologists involved in fighting bioterrorism also study bacterial and viral immunology and explore infectious diseases.

«The search for treatments that slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases has gradually shifted from ameliorating symptoms to finding agents that reduce the progression of the disease,» said Gary Lynch, PhD, who studies neurodegeneration at the University of California, Irvine, and was not involved with this study.

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

An accurate diagnosis can be difficult early in the disease, says immunologist Paul Arnaboldi of New York Medical College in Valhalla, who was not involved in the study.

«This study demonstrates that the road to a mitochondrial disease diagnosis is typically long and hard, involving visits to numerous clinical specialists, conflicting diagnoses, and repeated and sometimes painful and invasive testing,» says Michio Hirano, MD, the paper's senior clinical author and chief of the Neuromuscular Division at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

The study involved laboratory cell lines of human leukemia and mouse models of the disease.

The neuroprotective effects of nicotine were studied in a randomized clinical trial involving 67 subjects in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, where memory was slightly impaired but decision - making and other cognitive abilities remained intact.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

The study, published in the October edition of the journal Neurotherapeutics, found that the drug, AT2101, which has also been studied for Gaucher disease, improved motor function, stopped inflammation in the brain and reduced levels of alpha - synuclein, a protein critically involved in Parkinson's.

Sheba Meymandi, a professor of medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, and the director of the Center of Excellence for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chagas Disease who was not involved in the study, had a different take on the results.

Modern geographers and cartographers are involved in diverse projects: tracking fleets of vehicles or products, helping customers locate a Dunkin' Donuts, modeling environmental scenarios such as oil spills, and studying the spread of 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.

«It seems to be real,» said Ronald Jandacek, a metabolic disease specialist at the University of Cincinnati who was not involved in the study.

This mechanism may be involved in many more diseases,» explains study's co-author, Dr. David Rosenblatt, a scientist in the Child Health and Human Development Program at the RI - MUHC and holder of the Dodd Q. Chu and Family Chair in Medical Genetics in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University.

The study results, published in Science Translational Medicine, raise questions about the possible transmissibility of prion diseases via medical procedures involving skin, and whether skin samples might be used to detect prion disease.

The NIAID study involved 31 nasal samples from patients with CJD and 43 nasal samples from patients who had other neurologic diseases or no neurologic disease at all.

M. Dominique Ashen, Ph.D., C.R.N.P., a nurse practitioner in the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins and another study leader, says that a traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease involves checking blood pressure, cholesterol levels and weight; evaluating for diabetes; taking a family history; calculating the 10 - year risk of having a cardiovascular event; and asking about lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exDisease at Johns Hopkins and another study leader, says that a traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease involves checking blood pressure, cholesterol levels and weight; evaluating for diabetes; taking a family history; calculating the 10 - year risk of having a cardiovascular event; and asking about lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exdisease involves checking blood pressure, cholesterol levels and weight; evaluating for diabetes; taking a family history; calculating the 10 - year risk of having a cardiovascular event; and asking about lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exercise.

But recent studies in both humans and lab mice have suggested that motor neurons in the brain — the upper motor neurons — may be involved in disease progression, although the extent and significance of this involvement has remained unknown.

The study involved 23 men and women with PD and 14 people without the disease, all 50 years or older living independently in Kelowna.

«One - size treatment for blood cancer probably doesn't fit all, researchers say: Most multiple myeloma studies involve people of European descent, but the disease is more likely to affect African - Americans.»

Further studies of processes in which GTPBP3 is involved will help towards the understanding of human diseases that are linked to mitochondrial DNA expression and to develop new therapies.

The disease model, described in a new study by a UC San Francisco - led team, involves taking skin cells from patients with the bone disease, reprogramming them in a lab dish to their embryonic state, and deriving stem cells from them.

«We hope that the results from this study will enable investigators to test the relevance of the maresin pathway in human disease,» said Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. «Moreover, we hope to better understand resolution biology and its potential pharmacology so that we can enhance our ability to control unwanted inflammation and improve the quality of life.»

Studies using fMRI to investigate visual hallucinations in patients with Parkinson's disease are rare and have been mainly limited to task - based methods using activities that involve visual stimulation or cognitive tasks.

The study involved 3,896 participants who were free of clinical cardiovascular disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (study involved 3,896 participants who were free of clinical cardiovascular disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (Study of Atherosclerosis and who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

«Given the similarities in the molecules and the mechanisms involved in limb development in vertebrates and invertebrates, the fly is a very useful genetic model in which to identify new genes that potentially participate in limb development in vertebrates and their possible association with congenital diseases,» says Ana Ferreira, who has participated in the study.

«Overall,» Dr. Schwartz added, «the study underscores the importance of rational drug design, in which drugs are designed to interact with specific molecular pathways involved in a particular disease.

«This suggests that it was quite a different disease in the Bronze Age from what it was in medieval times,» says Johannes Krause, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who was not involved with the study.

These findings pave the way to studying the participation of JAK / STAT in human development and its possible implications in congenital diseases that involve limb malformation.

In order to further investigate the factors involved, prospective studies should investigate the hormonal changes and recurrent infections and their direct link to the risk of lymphoma, but such studies are difficult to do in rare diseases.

Carson and his colleagues plan future studies involving PET imaging of synapses to research epilepsy and other brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression, and Parkinson's disease.

The effects of sauna bathing on the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia were studied in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD), involving more than 2,000 middle - aged men living in the eastern part of Fdisease and other forms of dementia were studied in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD), involving more than 2,000 middle - aged men living in the eastern part of FDisease Risk Factor Study (KIHD), involving more than 2,000 middle - aged men living in the eastern part of Finland.

The study involved 1,531 men with newly diagnosed, clinically localized prostate cancer, meaning the disease hadn't spread to other parts of the body.

The study involved researchers from the Scottish and Southampton Diabetes and Liver Disease Group.

The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD) involved 1,621 middle - aged men living in the eastern part of Finland.

Scientists studying the commonest of the diseases in the group, scrapie in sheep, concluded decades ago that no virus or bacterium could be involved because infectious material appeared to contain no DNA.

The new study involved 72 patients, all of whom had received at least two prior lines of therapy and whose disease had relapsed and no longer responded to treatment.

An international study involving multiple institutions over six years has shown that immunotherapy can cure Tasmanian devils of the deadly devil facial tumour disease (DFTD).

«Rissman's prior work demonstrated that CRF and its receptors are integrally involved in changes in another AD hallmark, tau phosphorylation,» said William Mobley, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Neurosciences and interim co-director of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study at UC San Diego.