Sentences with phrase «early markers of disease»

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.

«Our study shows that lipofuscin in the retina and in blood cells could serve as an early marker of disease,» said Green, medical director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center and director of the UCSF Neurodiagnostics Center.

«We already knew that the buildup of fibrin appears early in the development of MS — both in animal models and in human patients, so we wondered whether thrombin activity could in turn serve as an early marker of disease.»

Not exact matches

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

Compared to eating earlier in the day, prolonged delayed eating can increase weight, insulin and cholesterol levels, and negatively affect fat metabolism, and hormonal markers implicated in heart disease, diabetes and other health problems, according to results from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

It is unknown whether delirium can be treated to improve prognosis in critically ill patients, or whether it is a marker of organ dysfunction or systemic disease and an early sign that complications are likely.

Although tau imaging is still in its earliest stages, Ryan hopes that such imaging will accelerate drug development and that finding a blood - based biomarker for Alzheimer's to reveal risk (much like cholesterol serves as a marker for cardiovascular risk) will change the field dramatically in terms of how doctors can diagnose the disease.

«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.

As a result, the emphasis in early development is on understanding the molecular underpinnings of disease and developing markers for therapeutic effects.

«Our findings show that a specific genetic marker (known as allele * 2 of the HS1, 2 A enhancer region) influences not just disease activity in RA patients, but also response to therapy in the early stages of their disease,» said lead investigator Dr Gabriele Di Sante of the Institute of Rheumatology and Related Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.

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.

A detailed understanding of how TSPO binds to such markers opens up novel paths for diagnostic imaging and could constitute an important step along the way to early detection of such diseases and inflammations.

In this regard, intense research efforts are being channelled into finding new biological markers that can provide information about the different stages of the disease and allow its early detection, and thus facilitate its management.

«We believe that HO - 1 is a very early marker of metabolic disease,» says Esterbauer, whose team reports its findings today in Cell.

Researchers at the Ludwig - Maximilians - University, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), and the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD) in Munich, Germany, have identified a brain inflammation marker in patients at early asymptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease.

The first big advance occurred in the early 1990s, when epidemiological studies revealed that 90 to 95 percent of individuals with the disorder carry a genetic marker associated with autoimmune disease — self - inflicted damage that occurs when the body mistakes its own tissues for a foreign invader and attacks them.

Some markers may represent early fingerprints of disease.

The research team was particularly interested in children who had a headache — a strong marker of the early disseminated form of the disease — or pain and swelling of the knee, a strong marker of the late form of the disease.

This means that samples can be taken before the clinical debut of a disease, to identify markers of value for early diagnosis, improving the scope for curative treatment,» says Ulf Landegren, Professor of Molecular Medicine at Uppsala University and member of SciLifeLab Faculty.

Although there is currently no technology that allows early diagnosis of the disease, a number of putative markers have been identified: their detection after diagnosis would be a useful tool to monitor the evolution of the tumor during treatment, providing valuable prognostic information on response to a given therapy.

Abstract: Background: The Loewenstein - Acevedo Scale for Semantic Interference and Learning (LASSI - L) is a novel cognitive test that measures recovery from proactive semantic interference, which may be an early cognitive marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

REVEAL IV is the first translational genetics study to focus upon the situation where mild early symptoms of a disease (phenotype) and known genetic risk marker (genotype) information can be used together to produce more imminent risk projections.

«Protein markers are an exciting tool for diagnosis and early detection of diseases, but protein levels may vary due to many different factors.

Background: The Loewenstein - Acevedo Scale for Semantic Interference and Learning (LASSI - L) is a novel cognitive test that measures recovery from proactive semantic interference, which may be an early cognitive marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Gladstone and UCSF scientists show that lipofuscin in the retina and in blood cells could serve as an early marker of certain neurodegenerative diseases.

It's potential as a biomarker of disease and an early objective marker of treatment response is genuine but still to be realized.Resting - state functional magnetic resonance imaging has made some strides in the clinical realm but significant advances are required before it can be used in a meaningful way at the single - patient level.

Non-overweight individuals in their late 60s, 70s, and early 80s who have no outward symptoms of Alzheimer's are more likely than their heavier peers to have biological markers (or biomarkers) of the disease, the study found.

Much more impressive evidence also was published to show that the early stages of heart disease, atherosclerosis, and its predictive serum cholesterol marker, were increased much more by dietary protein than by dietary fat, especially the protein in animal - based foods.»

While I completely agree with delaying grains as long as possible because the digestion is immature early on, research actually shows that people who carry the genetic markers for celiac (not all carriers will actually develop celiac - there appear to be environmental conditions that contribute to its development) are least likely to develop the disease if gluten is introduced around 6 months of age in small quantities.

A 38 - year - old male with metabolic syndrome who had the APOE4 gene, considered a marker for developing Alzheimer's, who was already experiencing early stage memory problems and had a family history of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), was placed on a ketogenic diet combined with high - intensity interval training (HIIT) for 10 weeks.

Thermography, with its non-radiation, non-contact and low - cost basis has been clearly demonstrated to be a valuable and safe early risk marker of breast pathology, and an excellent case management tool for the ongoing monitoring and treatment of breast disease when used under carefully controlled clinical protocols.

Foundational research on homocysteine as a marker for inflammation and early development of heart disease.

Interventions targeting modifiable risk factors (eg, smoking, inactivity, and poor diet) in adult life have only limited efficacy in preventing age - related disease.3, 4 Because of the increasing recognition that preventable risk exposures in early life may contribute to pathophysiological processes leading to age - related disease, 5,6 the science of aging has turned to a life - course perspective.7, 8 Capitalizing on this perspective, this study tested the contribution of adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood to 3 adult conditions that are known to predict age - related diseases: depression, inflammation, and the clustering of metabolic risk markers, hereinafter referred to as age - related - disease risks.