Sentences with phrase «getting a disease later»

Some of that research was to see what the probability was of myself also getting the disease later in life.

Not exact matches

«We got involved in biotech in the late 90's when two of our children were diagnosed with a rare genetic disease... at the time there was nothing,» said Crowley «So we really focused as parents initially on what could we do to help drive science to a cure.

Advocates and survivors of the disease continue to encourage men to get properly tested before it's too late.

Due to their disease and the prejudice against such disease, they can not get married, and the married ones have had to get divorced, because their symptoms appear years later.

Breastfeeding can also reduce the chances for some women of getting diseases such as breast or ovarian cancer later in life.

The latest immunization schedule recommended for kids by the Centers for Disease Control, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, states that by the time children in the United States start kindergarten, they should get:

Because vaccines work by protecting the body before disease strikes, if you wait until your child gets sick, it will be too late for the vaccine to work.

When I expressed concern she mentioned that research has shown that babies you get fat from breast milk actually have extra protection against obesity and related diseases later in life.

«This one - time test will bring the disease out of the darkness and get thousands of New Yorkers lifesaving treatment before it is too late.»

Latest figures from Prostate Cancer UK has found that 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime showing the widespread prevalence of the disease.

After its latest battle with H1N1, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee recommended in February that everyone six months and older get the annual vaccine, a step that should improve immunity against future pandemics as well as seasonal cycles of the flu.

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.

«Depressed men with prostate cancer are diagnosed with later stage disease, and get less effective therapies.»

Essentially, it is time for us to wake up and realize that a major problem we now face is unprecedented levels of neurological disease, not just the earlier dementias and thinking of the USA — «when America sneezes, Europe gets cold a decade later.»

When I was a medical student in the late»60s, I'd ask women I saw in hospitals with breast cancer why they thought they got the disease.

When researchers study centenarians, people who live to be 100 or older — as Barzilai and his colleagues have been doing at Albert Einstein for more than a decade — they find that these well - aged individuals are certainly not immune to chronic diseases, but they get them later in life.

We will still get these chronic diseases, but 10 or 20 years later, shortening considerably the time we spend in hospitals and nursing homes and the money we, and society as a whole, have to spend on health care.

Alzheimer's is an agonizingly slow process, so by the time we get to study the disease itself during its late stages, all kinds of things have gone on that may be just consequences of disease rather than causal.

Charles DeCarli, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center and an author of the study, said it is a wake - up call that, just as people can influence their late - life brain health by limiting vascular brain injury through controlling their blood pressure, the same is true of getting a handle on their serum cholesterol levels.

Getting Alzheimer's drugs to market requires long and costly clinical studies, which some experts say have failed thus far because experimental drugs were tested too late in the disease process.

The first people to be treated with a gene therapy had ADA - SCID, also called «bubble boy disease», and some later got leukaemia, probably because the virus carrying the new genes also switched on cancer genes.

Like all prion diseases, CJD has a very long incubation period, but once it gets going it rages through the brain, destroying all tissue in its wake and typically killing people from their late 40s onwards.

On the other hand, 70 — 80 % of patients with heart failure show signs of a previous CVB infection but have no history of viral heart disease, raising the possibility that even a mild earlier infection makes them more vulnerable to get heart disease later on.

Since many of those patients are likely to be given the drugs at later stages of their disease, much of this cost is likely unavoidable, even if it gets delayed.

But there's another group of PD symptoms, termed the «non-motor symptoms» (NMS) of PD, that gets far less attention, even though NMS begin to manifest earlier in the disease, are harder to treat with current therapies, and include some of the most crippling features of living with the later stages of PD.

If they do develop the neurological disease, they get diagnosed 11 years later than their moderately fit counterparts.

For many patients we're catching it to late or their disease is too aggressive and people really losing functional vision from glaucoma, whether it's their peripheral vision or even eventually their central vision, it's very motivating to be able to take note of the fact that we've got patients in these tough situations losing vision to glaucoma and then to be able to go back to the lab and to hook up with great collaborators and really try to attack the problem scientifically.

Be encouraged too: The patients and doctors weve spoken with, who know the disease from both sides, agree that it's never too late to get started.

In the latest issue of Lenny Letter, Dunham and several other women get real about the mental, physical and emotional affects of the disease.

To get the best care and the right treatment, patients should find a primary care physician or dermatologist who has experience treating the disease and is up - to - date on the latest treatments.

Research shows that teens who don't get enough rest have higher cholesterol, blood pressure and body weight, which makes them high risk for heart disease later in life.

Getting lean and sexy is just the «bonus» — countless studies across the world have shown that women who exercise with weights can also reduce the incidence of bone diseases later in life (osteoporosis is just one of these diseases).

I did come across very informative medical website on the procedure listing many positives to the procedure, some of which include, «Prevents infections under the foreskin... Decreases the risk of getting some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) later in life, including HIV.

Dr. Wahls began studying the latest research on autoimmune disease and brain biology, and decided to get her vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids from the food she ate rather than pills and supplements.

About 9 months ago, i camd to Costa Rica to continue to heal my body, mind and spirit after dealing with late stage Lyme disease and the Plethora of antibiotics I took for over a year... just to get out of the drain I was circling.

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Catching a disease earlier rather than later, though, can ensure your pet will get appropriate treatments to get him well again or at least keep the disease from progressing and making your pet sicker.

I remember seeing absolutely healthy dogs getting kennel cough vaccine and coming back a few days later with actual symptoms of the disease.

Spayed / Neutered pets: 0 % chance of getting some of these diseases if altered early in life (5 - 9 months), less likely to have other problems if altered later in life.

Ticks get very active in late spring and summer, and they can carry several diseases including lyme disease.

Whether your dog gets into mischief that lands him in the emergency room or develops a disease later in life that takes you both by surprise, your dog's medical care can cost you at any point in their life.

The disease can appear at a late age and some dogs get such a mild case that no one really ever diagnoses it, that it is difficult to gather firm figures.

In the later stages of human kidney disease, when some physicians believe that truly low protein diets are advisable, some physicians and nutritionists attempt to get around the dangers of low protein by supplementing the patient's diet with amino acids that have been enzymatically oxidized into keto (C =O) amino acids.

Enemy armies might march armies around your empire, but they don't actually do anything, save your main foes, the Femorians, who might infest a village with a disease, which can usually be cured through a quest which I will get to later.

Turner got an incredibly bad press in these later years; he was often mocked and derided, with even a devoted admirer, in the shape of John Ruskin, describing his work by 1846 as «indicative of mental disease».

Writ large in scrawling loose paint and charcoal, Bernstein's wry engagement with text — Uncle Sam Balls Vietnam and Gets V.D. not V.C. (Venereal Disease not Viet Cong)-- evoked the crude gonzo aesthetics of artists such as R. Crumb and Wally Hedrick, presaging the later linguistic permutations of raconteurs like Jean - Michel Basquiat and Raymond Pettibone.

Some life insurance companies will be better for a person with diabetes, while another life insurance company may be better for someone who is genetically - prone to getting heart disease later on in life.

If you develop some disease or illness, it could prevent you from getting coverage later in life, or make the coverage too expensive.

Like if you get really sick later and you, God forbid, get diagnosed with some kind of disease that will require more insurance, you can't like change it later and be like, «Oh, actually, I want to elect for more coverage.»

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