Sentences with phrase «early disease process»

Overall, the authors have documented an accelerated and early disease process for Alzheimer's in highly exposed Mexico City residents.

This cutting edge technology points to possibilities of visualizing early disease processes such as arthritis, cirrhosis, cancer, and atherosclerosis.

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Specifically, the process allows early approval of a drug to treat a serious or life - threatening disease based on clinical data.

awanderingscot, what if very early in the process they realize that teh baby will be born with a terrible genetic disease that will ensure it dies as a child and only after a short life of horrible suffereing.

The early Christians were learning what Christians today believe, that God was in the process of revealing his message to them; and, the message is: the end will come soon enough; we will be judged for everything we have done while in the body; that only God through Christ's death on the cross can atone for our sins; and, we should remain vigilant and be prepared for the end — whether that comes in the form of natural death, through cancer, car accidents, coronary heart disease or some other form.

Paleo experts took note of our modern - day behavior and thought, if obesity and disease rates are rising as quickly as processed foods are flying off shelves, maybe we should go back to our roots and eat like our early ancestors did?

But designing drugs gets tricky if researchers are not sure which, if any, of those problems actually drives disease, and which act earlier or later in the process.

Next, Ubogu and his team looked at an animal model of AIDP where they were able to block CD11b early in the disease process.

«People are commonly getting cardiovascular disease and cancers normally associated with the aging process, just at earlier ages,» he says.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

A specific genetic marker influences response to therapy in the early stages of RA; a link thought to be due to the gene activating a cell - signalling protein involved in the inflammatory disease process.

Motor neurons in the brain are not lost until the final stages of the disease, but starting very early in the process they appear to exist in a dysfunctional form.

«However, these pharmacological and surgical treatments address the patient's symptoms, such as to improve mobility functions in the early stages of the disease, but the treatments can not slow down or stop the disease process,» Prof Kim explains.

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

«Interrupting Parkinson's disease: Treating with antioxidants early in disease process may halt degeneration and improve neuronal function.»

Intervening with an antioxidant early in the disease process may break the degenerative cycle and improve neuron function in PD, the study showed.

However, these results do not exclude the possibility that the early dietary modification may affect the latter phase in the disease process and so prevent the actual illness.

«With this study, we have gained new knowledge about the disease processes in the brain in the early initial stages of the disease development.

If we are going to develop protective therapies for Alzheimer's, we have to aim to do it earlier in the disease process.

An initial clinical trial of simvastatin in people with early - stage MS showed reductions in brain lesions, suggesting an effect on the underlying disease process.

These findings demonstrate that the vascular effects of sleep apnea are reversible if treated early in the disease process, suggesting that we might be able to mitigate the long - term risk of chronic exposure to OSA.»

Researchers believe that this inhibitory process caused by an overabundance of alpha - synuclein is what occurs in the early stages of Parkinson's disease, before morphological changes such as the loss of function and death of neurons begins.

«These results suggest that inflammation in mid-life may be an early contributor to the brain changes that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia,» said study author Keenan Walker, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «Because the processes that lead to brain cell loss begin decades before people start showing any symptoms, it is vital that we figure out how these processes that happen in middle age affect people many years later.»

«Because we have shown that mutated forms of alpha - synuclein, which are associated with early onset familial forms of Parkinson's Disease, affect this process, we also now know that this is a function that may be impaired in people who carry these mutations.»

Mark Albers uses the olfactory system of mice and humans to help understand the early events of neurodegeneration in order to find ways to intervene early in the disease process before symptoms appear and distinguish early pathologic events from changes produced by aging.

Scientists are exploring ways to identify biomarkers for PD that can lead to earlier diagnosis and more tailored treatments to slow down the disease process.

Many of the current drugs being explored act to stop the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain which mean they may need to be given early in the disease process.

The investigators are now testing whether treatment with TSA earlier in the disease process will work better than the delayed treatment in this study.

Loss of NEU1 also accelerated the disease process in mice bred to mimic early - onset Alzheimer's in humans.

There were also early signs of processing abnormalities which may give rise to heart disease and diabetes.

In the early stages, most patients still have a good understanding of their disease process and what's going on, and they understand the decisions they face going forward.

The idea is that inhibiting Aβ formation to reduce growth of Aβ - based plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients may be therapeutic, although it isn't yet clear how early in the disease process such an intervention would need to be employed to be effective.

A fast track «Hot Start» process was implemented to launch the European Bank for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (EBiSC) to provide early release of a range of established control and disease linked human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines.

But the authors of the new study do link stress - reduction techniques with improved immunity: «Added immune control of disease processes, particularly early — when patients were recovering from surgery and receiving adjuvant cancer therapies — may have occurred with the declining stress.»

Heart disease can be identified at its earliest stages and measures can be taken to stop and reverse the process.

However, each generation is becoming more and more susceptible to disease earlier in life that were once reserved for the elderly, largely due to the 100 % processed - food diet many of us grew up on.

It also tends to act in the body's production of IL - 10 if it is taken during infection, downregulating the levels of other cytokines and necessary, but if taken early in the disease process, it inhibits viral upregulation of IL - 10 and increases antiviral cytokine production and activity.»

All this evidence overwhelmingly shows that a strict Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle offers the lowest rates of disease and early death as compared to any diet that includes animal products and processed foods.

Autoimmune disease can be detected with various biomarkers, four to five years before you actually have clinical symptoms, so the key is to catch the process early before the damage is done.

During and after a detox, it becomes much easier to refrain from junk food and processed foods as the cravings cease, and early markers of disease return to normal.

A shorter life span has also been associated with untreated celiac disease, early puberty, consumption of processed meats and fish, kombucha tea, and eating just one egg a day has been found to shorten our lifespan (see also here, here, here).

The blood test when used in conjunction with a veterinary exam will help to identify more dogs at an earlier stage in the disease process that need to be referred to a cardiologist for a diagnostic work - up.

Therefore, their cats do not receive health exams or preventative care, which could help to catch disease processes early on, or prevent them from beginning in the first place.

In early studies, we have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of the CT pneumocolonography procedure in normal dogs, but it is important that we learn to accurately interpret the imaging findings for a wide variety of disease processes in clinical patients so that our CT diagnoses are accurate.

Remember, regardless of how diligent you are, there is a likelihood your pet will need a procedure at some point in their life — unfortunately, some pets need them every year — but routine care slows the process of dental disease and facilitates discovery of dental issues at a much earlier stage of disease.

While behavior changes are not always a sign of disease, if a disease process is affecting your pet, the earlier we find out, the better.

However, some newer interventions may allow reversal of early arthritis or at least slowing of the disease process.

The challenge is making a PPID diagnosis at an early stage in the disease process so owners and veterinarians can begin managing the disorder sooner.

In some breeds (Boxer, Doberman pinscher), screening with a 24 hour ECG recording (Holter monitor) may be able to identify animals early in the course of the disease process so that they can be removed from the breeding population, if they are potential breeding animals.