Sentences with phrase «diseases than the general population»

Individuals with Down Syndrome are more likely to develop early - onset Alzheimer's disease than the general population.

But patients who had neurological infections had a higher risk of dying of some other diseases than the general population.

A new review published online today in the scientific journal Addiction has found that dental patients with substance use disorders have more tooth decay and periodontal disease than the general population, but are less likely to receive dental care.

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These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

Antipsychotic drugs are initiated in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) more frequently than in the general population — already 2 - 3 years before the Alzheimer's diagnosis, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

Another explanation is ascertainment bias, meaning that first - degree relatives and spouses are likely to seek medical advice or undergo celiac disease testing more often than the general population.

This enabled the researchers to study the activities of more than 3,600 adults representing the general U.S. population, including 383 adults with chronic kidney disease.

And for most of the diseases the researchers studied, people who were classified as low - risk based on their genome still had a risk that was more than half that of the general population — thus, lower than average, but not exactly null.

National guidelines for sodium intake recommend less than 2.3 grams daily for the general population and less than 1.5 grams for people with co-morbidities including cardiovascular disease, kidney disease or diabetes.

Researchers in Norway analyzed more than a decade's worth of tuberculosis cases and found that infected immigrants pose little risk of spreading the disease to the general population.

An international study of more than 3.2 million people with severe mental illness reveals a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease compared to the general population.

This new study is the largest ever meta - analysis of SMI and cardiovascular disease, including over 3.2 million patients and more than 113 million people from the general population.

A study from an international research team finds that familial hypercholesterolemia — a genetic condition that causes greatly elevated levels of LDL cholesterol throughout life — accounts for less than 2 percent of severely elevated LDL in the general population but also increases the risk of coronary artery disease significantly more than does elevated LDL alone.

People with type - 2 diabetes are more likely than the general population to develop cardiovascular disease and have lower levels of heart - protective HDL cholesterol, the authors note.

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

They found that the prevalence of EoE in subjects with celiac disease is 10x higher than the general population in the majority of the studies.

[3] The likelihood of intestinal lymphoma is 77 times higher in celiac disease patients than in the general population.

Epidemiological studies tell us that vegetarians have a lower risk of heart disease — about 24 % lower — than the general population.

Thus, celiac disease is more prevalent in patients with inflammatory myopathies than in the general population.

And, this is even more important because people with celiac disease suffer from this situation, known as IgA deficiency, about 10 to 15 times more frequently than people in the general population.

It is most obviously demonstrated with the increased chance (five to seven times higher than the general population) for people with chronic inflammatory diseases.

Celiac disease is a far more common condition among the general population of the United States than is commonly realized.

Researchers in Sweden looked at more than 29,000 people who were diagnosed with biopsy - proven celiac disease between 1969 and 2007 and found 54 of them had committed suicide, indicating a suicide rate that's moderately higher than that in the general population.

What is very well known is that those that suffer from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses are at higher risk than the general population for cardiometabolic diseases, such as high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, etc..

Patterson explains, «Having sex with strangers does not put people in the sex trade at any greater risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease or infection than the general population» — although having a greater number of partners in general does increase the associated STI risk — and she notes that prostitutes are often very familiar with safer sex practices as their jobs depend on it.

As we know, the incidence of autoimmune disease is higher in Beardies than in the general dog population.

It is a relatively uncommon disease in the general cat population, probably affecting fewer than one percent of the cats brought to a veterinarian's office for treatment.

So the risk is your puppy has a higher chance of inherited disease and behavior problems than the general population.

(Remember that the 17 % of dogs and 5 % of cats found to have congenital heart disease in that report is vastly greater than that among the general dog and cat population of California.

Human societies like this were once just a few thousands and we want a larger population than this to maintain any level of technology, and general security against disease epidemics.

The elderly are even more prone to slip and falls than the general population; the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention indicates that one in every three adults, age 65 and older fall each year.

These risk factors for heart disease are being found at an earlier age than in the general population, according to research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Ten years ago, many professionals saw this type of coverage as more of a luxury than an important piece of protection; however, given the change in health insurance and the increased maximum out of pocket expenses and rising numbers of uninsured members of the general population, protecting yourself against the financial exposure of a serious illness or disease is more important than ever.

Between 31 % and 45 % of people with coronary heart disease suffer from clinically significant depressive symptoms, and 15 % — 20 % of them meet criteria of major depressive disorder which is roughly threefold higher than in the general population.13 It is now well established that depression is related to the incidence of CVD and is also an independent risk factor for cardiac morbidity and mortality.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

Hospitalisation for ischaemic heart disease for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males was double the rate, and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females four times the rate, than for the general population.