Sentences with phrase «disease symptom control»

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There's no cure for coeliac disease, but switching to a gluten - free diet should help control symptoms and prevent the long - term consequences of the condition.
While the media continues to blame parents, out - of - control parents are much more a reflection of the deep structural problems in today's youth sports; a symptom of the disease, not the disease itself.
Land encourages older children to attend asthma - oriented camps to learn more about the disease and how to control and prevent the symptoms.
According to statistics kept by the Centers for Disease Control, in 2007, girls» soccer players reported 29,167 concussions, second only to football players.And, a study published in the Jan. 2011 edition of theJournal of Athletic Training said female athletes experience more physical long - term symptoms than male athletes.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in 10 women have symptoms of postpartum depression, and it can absolutely affect your sex drive.
While everyone experiences PTSD differently, anxiety, depression, flashbacks, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, and persistent mental health and interpersonal problems are all possible symptoms, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explained.
For infants who had been weaned, information was not collected on the types of food they were weaned onto, but data were available on consumption of foods in the 10 days prior to symptoms in cases (interview in controls), but none were significantly associated with diarrhoeal disease (data not shown).
Although there is no cure for asthma, people with the disease can lead active lives and can control their symptoms through management of conditions that trigger asthma attacks and medical treatment.
Exposure to secondhand smoking can cause a vast array of health and respiratory symptoms and issues in young children, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, including coughing, wheezing, breathlessness, and acute lower respiratory infections.
There is no cure and current treatment methods only help control some of the symptoms without slowing down the disease itself.
The medication also treats many of the symptoms associated with the disease such as tremors and poor muscle control.
About half the controls were healthy; the other half had diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and neuropathies, which sometimes present with ALS - like symptoms.
Healthy controls had an average of 0 percent protein clumps in their skin samples, while those with transthyretin amyloidosis but no symptoms had an average of 0.4 percent protein clumps and symptomatic patients with the disease had an average of 26.3 percent protein clumps.
«As particular strains are associated with particular habitats, hosts, and disease symptoms, this work will help us understand why particular symptoms occur in particular areas and help us to target control efforts more efficiently,» the authors say.
In his famous piece, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, Parkinson described a number of patients with key symptoms of the neurological condition, such as involuntary tremors and diminished muscle control, and several decades later the disease was named after him.
The many possible clinical symptoms include loss of motor control, muscle weakness, heart disease, diabetes, respiratory problems, seizures, vision and hearing problems, diabetes and developmental delays.
They found that breast cancer incidence rose 25 percent from the early 1980s to the early 1990s — a period when an increasing number of women were getting mammograms and also undergoing hormone therapy to control menopause symptoms and prevent chronic disease.
Also recruited were 26 healthy controls, also split nearly evenly between the sexes and about the same ages as the other group, with no clinical history of Lyme disease symptoms and no antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi that would indicate past or current infection.
The study reports that Alzheimer's Disease and type 2 diabetes are so closely related that drugs currently used to control glucose levels in diabetes may also alleviate the symptoms and progression of Alzheimer's dDisease and type 2 diabetes are so closely related that drugs currently used to control glucose levels in diabetes may also alleviate the symptoms and progression of Alzheimer's diseasedisease.
Generally, most of the 42,000 Americans who report Salmonella infection annually ride out the gastroenteritis symptoms of diarrhea, fever, stomach cramps and vomiting for four to seven days, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Recent estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that around 10 percent of adults in the United States currently suffer from clinical depression — depression that consists of symptoms such as disruptions in eating, sleeping, and concentration patterns, lack of interest in daily activities, and consistently feeling like a failure.
They took advantage of the fact that some people with Parkinson's disease get electrodes surgically implanted in their brain stem to control their symptoms.
For comparison, the study will also include healthy controls and people who have recovered from Lyme disease, which can cause similar symptoms.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ebola has an incubation period of 2 to 21 days and kills 50 to 90 percent of those infected within two weeks of the onset of symptoms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that men who have traveled to a Zika - endemic region use condoms for six months, regardless of whether they have had symptoms of Zika infection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says more than 9 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes and an estimated 50 percent of people with diabetes have some form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage caused by high levels of blood sugar, although not all have symptoms.
A chemical found in plants could reduce the symptoms of a rare muscle disease that leaves children with little or no control of their movements.
Most people are unaware they have prediabetes especially because there are often no discernible symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The technique is currently used to target the brain circuits involved in Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and tremors, where it has been shown to be highly effective in controlling symptoms.
«In young and middle - aged adults, our findings suggest that early detection and treatment of mild - to - moderate sleep apnea is warranted in order to prevent future cardiometabolic disease,» said lead author and postdoctoral scholar Yun Li, MD. «Given the stronger association of sleep apnea with metabolic abnormalities in this age group, emphasis should be placed on yearly monitoring of indices of metabolic symptoms and lifestyle interventions, such as weight control, healthy diet, regular exercise, and stress management.»
According to a recent survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 8 to 19 percent of women reported having frequent postpartum depressive symptoms, and up to 8 percent of pregnant women reported having depression, according to findings published in 2012 in the Journal of Women's Health.
AUTISM groups are divided on a controversial plan by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to classify wandering as a medical symptom.
This interaction explains how major HSF symptoms arise when mutation of the CMG2 gene disrupts the ability of the CMG2 protein to control the levels of collagen VI, which then over-accumulates and produces the painful and disfiguring symptoms of the disease.
Nonetheless, because low - density infections without disease symptoms are expected to become increasingly common as countries improve malaria control, ultra-sensitive tools such as these will likely be critical for malaria surveillance and for monitoring the progress of malaria control and elimination programs.
«Blocking TWEAK activity, alone or in combination with other treatments, may sufficiently control skin inflammation to clear up the debilitating symptoms and restore quality of life in severe cases of those diseases
The researchers then looked to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data and found that the annual dip in gestation length closely aligns with the time when the most patients visited the doctor for flulike symptoms.
«For prevention, where a drug is given before the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease appear, and likely over longer periods of time, bexarotene is not likely a viable therapeutic because of this known toxicity unless dosing is carefully controlled and patients are closely monitored.»
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms — which usually set in four to six days after infection and last up to 10 days — include high fever; pain behind the eyes; muscle, joint and bone pain; excruciating headaches; mild bleeding; nausea; and vomiting.
Recently, scientists have uncovered many of the molecules in the pathway that control the switch from fetal to adult hemoglobin, opening the door to new therapies; if you could prevent the switch from happening, or reverse it, and let people with sickle cell disease use fetal hemoglobin for life, that should reduce symptoms.
«Both physical functioning and quality of life are severely affected, and while many treatments are used to relieve symptoms and try to get the disease under control, this largest set of placebo - controlled information to date clearly shows that improvement can result for patients.»
A fraction of the FTD patients show symptoms consistent with ALS, a disease in which the nerve cells that control the muscles, in the brain and spinal cord, are affected.
Other Gladstone scientists are investigating the network of brain cells that controls movements to figure out how its dysfunction leads to the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Previous history of myocardial infarction within 1 year prior to study entry, uncontrolled hypertension or uncontrolled arrhythmias • Pulmonary disease (e.g. COPD, asthma, etc) that is not controlled (moderate to severe symptoms) with current medication • Active, uncontrolled bacterial, viral, or fungal infections, requiring systemic therapy
In a study of early - stage Alzheimer's, Jacobus Jansen of the Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands and his colleagues studied people aged 59 to 85 who were in early stages of Alzheimer's disease alongside a control group of people who didn't have Alzheimer's symptoms.
Many neurological disease symptoms worsen over time, making the primary goals of treatment the control of symptoms and slowing the progression of the disease.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease of aging, whose most obvious symptoms — tremors, gait disorders, and a «mask - like» facial appearance — involve the loss of fine motion control.
In a randomized, double - blind, sham - controlled study, Benninger and colleagues (2011) examined the safety and effectiveness of intermittent theta - burst stimulation (iTBS) in the treatment of motor symptoms in Parkinson disease (PD); iTBS of the motor and DLPFC was investigated in 8 sessions over 2 weeks.
Researchers at Rockefeller University believe they've now linked an important plasma - based protein called Factor XII to Alzheimer's, which could one day help control symptoms of the disease.
«Veterinarians need to recognize the symptoms of the disease, and with the lack of a vaccine in the United States, practicing strict biosecurity and good sanitation procedures on the farm are important for prevention and control of this deadly disease,» Meng added.
The most devastating aspect of Parkinson's disease may not be its debilitating symptoms, which rob its victims of their ability to control their own movement.
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