Sentences with phrase «early risk marker»

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.

Not exact matches

Multiple genetic markers have been identified for celiac disease, but many genetically susceptible individuals tolerate gluten and never develop symptoms, leading to speculation about other risk factors, including early childhood nutrition.

«Parents, educators, and therapists should consider insomnia to be a risk marker for alcohol use, and alcohol use a risk marker for insomnia, among early adolescents,» writes Rutgers - Camden researcher Naomi Marmorstein in the study, published recently in the journal Addictive Behaviors.

In early 2000 they decided to fund a project to develop methods to first prioritise those species at greatest risk, and then to identify those where DNA markers (characterised differences in DNA used for identity) were not currently available, but could be of potential use in enforcement cases.

The search for neurobiological markers that precede atypical trajectories is important in infants with a high risk for developing autism - related disorders because early recognition allows for early intervention and mitigation of difficulties later in life.

Using data from a randomized trial of 206 men treated with either radiation or, radiation and six months of hormonal therapy, researchers compared early markers of prostate cancer death to identify men at risk of dying early.

«We want to also investigate whether these two enzymes can serve as an early warning system, a marker of pancreatic cancer risk, in patients with pancreatitis,» Dr. Storz says.

Mental illness, he adds, has too long been regarded as simply mental: «Identifying the biological markers and risk for mental illness in early childhood may ultimately have a huge impact on human and economic health.

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.

It is possible that early life adversity and stress lead to persistent increase in levels of IL - 6 and other inflammatory markers in our body, which, in turn, increase the risk of a number of chronic physical and mental illness.»

There has been a lack of reliable markers, early indicators and risk factors associated with pancreatic cancer, but this new way of differentiating between healthy and malignant tissue offers hope for earlier diagnosis and treatment.»

«From a risk and prevention perspective, difficulty forming close relationships early in adolescence may now be considered a marker of risk for long - term health difficulties,» Allen explains.

«And pediatricians may want to be on the look - out for early development in girls as a marker of risk.

Lüdde and his colleagues believe it is plausible that an altered bacterial profile could also be a risk factor or an early disease marker for heart failure.

A better understanding of the neural determinants of changes in fluid intelligence is therefore necessary for improving our understanding of healthy cognitive aging, and may aid the development of early markers for individuals at risk of rapid decline.

To establish and conduct the highest quality collaborative translational and clinical research program investigating risk assessment, risk reduction interventions, cancer risk and early detection markers, and cancer screening

Impaired penile microcirculation may serve as an early marker of endothelial dysfunction, indicating higher cardiovascular risk.

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.

Some important studies include: • Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men (1976) • Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise (1982) • Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: The need for early emphasis (1994) • Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a low fat, vegetarian diet (1999) • The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity (2005) • A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes (2006) • A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial (2009) • Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (2011) • Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in type 2 diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet (2012)

Increased CRP levels, which correlate inversely with insulin sensitivity, have been found in individuals with polycystic ovarian syndrome and may be a marker of early cardiovascular risk in these women.

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.

Assessment of simple risk markers for early mortality among HIV - infected patients in Guinea - Bissau: a cohort study

Unlike family instability and dysfunction, which fall under the jurisdiction of child welfare agencies, LD can be identified and addressed within the school system and may serve as an early marker of social and developmental risk.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10