Sentences with phrase «disease than some forms»

Therefore it is no less a disease than some forms of cancer.

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NF is more common than cystic fibrosis, huntingtons disease and forms of muscular dystrophy combined!

So Mister Jeffress thinks that the eschatological prediction of doomsday on May 21 is more damaging to Christianity than the prediction of «rapture» preached by Southern Baptists which will teleport born again Christians to heaven while God brings all forms of natural disasters, disease, suffering, and evil upon the rest of mankind.

Trans fats have been directly correlated to a host of diseases, currently the American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that less than 1 % of energy intake should be in the form of trans fatty acids.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

An analysis showed that kids with a specific low range of anti-dengue antibodies had around a 7 1/2 times higher risk of developing the most severe form of the disease than those who had either no antibodies or a high amount.

Researchers have tested a preliminary form of a vaccine against the disease, which is spread by the bite of the mosquito and kills more than 600,000 people each year.

The newly reported tests on more than 8000 tonsils and appendixes extracted from people between 1995 and 1999 revealed one positive result for the presence of the mutated prion protein believed to cause the human form of mad cow disease.

But more work needs to be done, and at least one major question needs answering: Do people with relapsing - remitting MS have a different set of gut bacteria than people with the primary progressive form of the disease?

The study evaluated 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis than other forms of this disease.

By age 80, more than 50 percent of men will develop prostate cancer but not all will have the aggressive, deadly form of the disease.

Rather than looking at what distinguished two forms of retinitis pigmentosa, or RP, a progressive blinding disease, they looked for what they had in common: specifically, what genes were expressed at the later stages of disease.

The allergic form is most common and affects more than 4 million people worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

While the disease can take many forms, recent advances have better characterized how lymphoma cells proliferate and interact with other cells and tissues, leading to the development of powerful, targeted therapies with fewer side effects than traditional approaches.

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.

Among those taking a sauna 4 - 7 times a week, the risk of any form of dementia was 66 % lower and the risk of Alzheimer's disease 65 % lower than among those taking a sauna just once a week.

More than 40 illnesses known as amyloid diseases — Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and rheumatoid arthritis are a few — are linked to the buildup of proteins after they have transformed from their normally folded, biologically active forms to abnormally folded, grouped deposits called fibrils or plaques.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

Research presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2014 used a newly designed test for K: B fusion to show that point mutations lead to a more dangerous form of the disease than does K: B fusion.

Researchers also found that those with any form of traumatic brain injury were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease an average of two years earlier than those without traumatic brain injury.

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.

Professor Patrizio Lancellotti, chair of the ESC EACVI / HFA Cardiac Oncology Toxicity Registry, said: «Patients with some forms of breast cancer are at greater risk of dying from heart disease than from cancer.

Half of the mice studied, belonging to a genetic line that suffers a form of Crohn's disease were more affected than the remaining half of mice, which belong to a healthy mouse line.

This year, more than 186,000 men — mostly over age 65 — will be diagnosed with this form of cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md; some 28,000 men lose their battle with the disease each year.

There are two forms of drug - resistant tuberculosis important to public health — multidrug - resistant tuberculosis is resistant to more than one of the first - line drugs for the disease, whereas extensively drug - resistant tuberculosis is additionally resistant to fluoroquinolones and at least one of the second - line injectable tuberculosis drugs.

This disorder, which can cause more severe symptoms than adult forms of the disease, typically is diagnosed before age 6.

Astroviruses are not usually deadly, but the new data suggest that they are less discriminating with regard to what they infect than researchers had thought, raising the possibility that different strains could trade genetic material in monkey hosts and give rise to new forms that might cause more serious disease in people.

Mild cognitive impairment sets in at a median age of 44 in people carrying the mutation, and full - blown dementia at 49, decades earlier than is common with the more typical sporadic form of the disease.

A vaccine would be especially effective in people who have never been exposed to the disease before, or who lost their childhood immunity by leaving malaria - stricken areas, Lanar says, because these groups are more vulnerable to very severe forms of the illness than those who are partially immune.

LONDON — Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's largest biomedical research charity, today announced more than # 4 million in support for a pioneering, and potentially controversial, IVF treatment that could prevent some forms of muscular dystrophy and other diseases caused by defective mitochondria, the energy - generating organelle in cells.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of degenerative dementia, affecting more than 5 million Americans.

Brian Madeux, the first patient in what will be a small clinical trial has a mild form of the disease, but nevertheless has had more than two dozen operations as a result, AP reports.

The researchers found that bacteria forming part of a cluster were more likely to be taken up by human cells and to survive in them than the microbes without close relatives; the cluster strains also caused more severe disease in mice.

Men with BRCA1 / 2 mutations who develop prostate cancer tend to develop these cancers at an earlier age than average and may develop more aggressive forms of the disease.

They do not appear to live any longer than the rest of us, which is a caution for anyone extrapolating effects from mice, and have a variety of medical issues associated with their form of dwarfism, but may be resistant to some forms of age - related disease.

Patients with metastatic melanoma, or melanoma that has spread to other parts of the body, often have a poor prognosis, and while some forms of immunotherapy — treatments that boost the body's immune system to fight disease — are promising, response rates are less than 35 percent.

Diffuse scleroderma is characterized by a lower survival rate than other forms of the disease, and no curative pharmacological treatment options have been developed to - date.

But one third of people with dementia have a disease other than Alzheimer's, so studying the shape of tau in other forms of dementia will be important to help discover drugs for those conditions.

Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia that affects nearly 5.5 million Americans, and although scientists know more about it now than 50 years...

The mutations that cause the disease make a protein called PABPN1 longer and stickier than normal, and the mutated protein appears to form clumps in muscle cells.

Assist disease control by providing up - to - date geographical information about known and newly - emerging forms of drug resistance, by examining genetic variation in the context of how whole pathogen genomes are evolving rather than as fragmentary information about individual genetic changes or polymorphisms.

Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia that affects nearly 5.5 million Americans, and although scientists know more about it now than 50 years ago, there is still much they are trying to uncover.

The huntingtin protein, which in its mutant form causes Huntington's disease, is difficult to study because it forms clumps rather than neat crystals.

Low Cholesterol May Shrink Risk for High - Grade Prostate Cancer Men with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high - grade prostate cancer, an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study.

«The NFT is thought to be more closely related to memory decline than other forms of aging - related pathologies, but there are still very few genes that have been implicated in the accumulation of this key feature of Alzheimer's disease and other brain diseases.»

Half - Matched Transplants May Cure More Than Cancer Bone marrow transplant researchers showed that half - matched (haploidentical) bone marrow transplants can cure sickle cell anemia, a painful and debilitating blood - forming disease that primarily affects African - Americans.

DR. CORSON: That is a little bit outside of my focus area, since we focus on the wet form of the disease, but I know there are some very exciting research projects coming out of a number of different centers in terms of understanding the underlying biology of the dry form of the disease, which has been a little bit harder to figure out than with the wet form.

Unlike most forms of the disease, it's slow - growing, and while it can be fatal, in most cases it's indolent enough that men are more likely to die of other causes than the cancer itself.

Critical limb ischemia, the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), causes more than 100,000 leg amputations in the United States each year.

Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, affects more than 20 million people in the U.S. Researchers estimate that one in three children born this century will get diabetes at some point in their lives.