Sentences with phrase «earlier stages of the disease lowered»

A multicountry study has found that HIV - infected people who start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at earlier stages of the disease lowered their risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by 96 %.

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The biological molecules increase the sensitivity of the material, meaning it can sense extremely low concentrations of substances, such as antibodies, and thus potentially detect diseases in their earliest stages.

The marker of antigens produced by pancreatic cancer has a low positive predictive value for identifying early stage disease.

People in the study with more severe stages of the disease did not have lower levels of caffeine in the blood, suggesting that the decrease occurs from the earliest stages of the disease, according to David G. Munoz, MD, of the University of Toronto in Canada, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

«This study demonstrates that Prosigna can reliably identify early stage breast cancer patients who have a low risk - of disease recurrence at 10 years, including a substantial proportion of patients with node - positive disease for whom the risk / benefit derived for adjuvant chemotherapy would be at best neutral,» said Dr. Alessandra Cesano, chief medical officer of NanoString Technologies.

The latter result indicates that homocysteine - lowering may have to be targeted at those with early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

A 2014 study out of John Hopkins University reported low thyroid hormone levels were common in young and middle - aged adults with early stage coronary artery disease and blood vessel calcification.

Many veterinarians recommend a low - protein «prescription diet» for cats in renal failure, but there is some controversy regarding protein restriction, especially in the early stages of the disease.

Clinical disease is often mild, but some dogs may develop bruising or bleeding (including nosebleeds), especially during the early stages of infection when platelet counts may be at their lowest.

The preparation for early stage kidney disease is lower in protein than regular canine diets, and that for advanced stage kidney disease has an even lower amount of protein.

In 2012, a study in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association concluded that many recipes that you find on the Internet and in print for kidney disease are too low in balanced, absorbable protein for use in the early stages of kidney failure.

It is very important to keep a close eye on patients receiving insulin because some cats, especially in the early stages of the disease, revert to a normal status (become non-diabetic) and if this is missed, low blood sugar may result, leading to seizures and weakness.