Sentences with phrase «greatest number of diseases»

«If we want to treat the greatest number of diseases, we need to figure out how to get these molecules inside the cells of patients — not just increasing the number of target cells but also hitting tissues other than the liver,» says Anderson, who co-founded a company called CRISPR Therapeutics to pursue those goals.

With life expectancies stretching, many of us have come to see prevention as a sensible route to living a greater number of disease - free years (see graph).

However, just like humans, they can suffer from a great number of diseases that can affect their quality of life directly.

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Data from a number of other studies, including the Nurses» Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow - up Study also report greater risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and metabolic syndrome, which is related to diabetes and cardiovascular problems, for consumers of artificially sweetened beverages.

It's estimated that by 2050, the number of people over the age of 65 with Alzheimers will triple, making the disease's casualties a great concern for the future.

Behind that statistic is a far higher number of babies who became sick with diarrhoea, respiratory and other diseases because of the greater risks associated with feeding on formula or other substances, rather than breastfeeding.

«New York State has made great strides in reducing tobacco use, which is the number one preventable cause of death and disease in the state,» said state Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.

«We used it as an indirect measure of fat quality and found that lower numbers were linked to greater heart disease risk.»

Nanodrugs, drugs attached to tiny biocompatible particles, show great promise in treatment of a number of diseases, including cancer.

Said Dr. Martin Gilbert, Wildlife Health Cornell Carnivore Specialist with Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine: «As carnivore numbers decline, they face a greater risk from chance events like outbreaks of disease.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

This Dutch cross-sectional study of 8,904 people assessed how the number of diseases an individual has impacts on their total health care cost, and which combinations of diseases have the greater impact on cost.

Understanding the function of non-kidney calcitriol production and its connection to inflammatory diseases, ranging from multiple sclerosis to arthritis, is of great interest to a number of biomedical researchers, who would like to know whether and how vitamin D could potentially be used to treat these diseases.

However, this study could not tell whether the unhealthy reaction to mental stress in these participants eventually translated into greater numbers of heart attacks or other indicators of worsening heart disease.

The map at the left depicts the number of months where there is a greater than 97.5 percent chance of disease transmission by the mosquito Aedes albopictus, based on the model.

«A number of studies have shown that having few teeth, possibly as a consequence of earlier gum disease, is associated with a greater risk of developing dementia.

Even though cancers account for a relatively small share of all disease in developing countries, the actual number of cases is greater than in the industrialised world because of the larger populations, says Indraneel Mittra, an oncologist at the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in Bombay.

A 2016 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows that while the number of teenage tobacco users has declined, the number of teenagers who use electronic cigarettes is greater than those who use conventional cigarettes.

Vaccines are used to offer protection against a number of diseases and so ensuring their effectiveness is important, and a study published in the journal Vaccine has reported that flu vaccines given in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by antibody levels) response than those given in the afternoon.

Aware that malaria is the disease that causes most harm to the greater number of nations of the Continent,

This approach may also be applicable to a number of rare genetic diseases caused by splicing defects, including ataxia telangiectasia, congenital disorder of glycosylation, and Niemann - Pick disease type C. Although the three DMD studies referenced here represent a great step forward for CRISPR gene therapy, it's important to realize that DMD is a simpler case than other genetic diseases we'd like to treat with CRISPR.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

Although great strides have been made against smoking, «there are still 40 million smokers in the U.S., so we can continue to expect large numbers of cancer deaths and heart disease as a result,» he pointed out.

While it is true that smoking is the greatest risk factor for lung cancer, there are a number of other ways that you can contract this disease.

And so, no surprise, this recent study found that «High dietary [saturated fat intake] was significantly associated with a greater number of periodontal disease events.»

This condition is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes.It affects a great number of people, and prevalence increases with age.

In any case, no study has ever offered direct proof that soy can prevent heart disease and in most of the major studies in which cholesterol levels were lowered through either diet or drugs, a greater number of deaths occurred in the treatment groups than in controls, deaths from stroke, cancer, intestinal disorders, accidents and suicide.

Cardiovascular diseases affect a great number of people.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women and women with PCOS are at a much greater risk for developing atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

Then, from about 1985 to 2005, a great number of clinical trials were conducted on the theory that vitamin supplements prevent chronic degenerative diseases, like cancer.

From the latest and greatest predictor of heart disease to the connection between the sunshine vitamin and chronic ailments, we've given you the tools to interpret your personal numbers even beyond the consultation that comes with Baseline.

Even more surprising: The number of people with gluten intolerance is 6 times greater than the number of Americans who have celiac disease, making non-celiac gluten sensitivity a serious health problem — largely mishandled by conventional medicine.

A few good places to start are his articles on why low carb diets aren't a great plan if you're training a lot, using caffeine to boost athletic performance, the optimal number of sets for muscle growth, and why cholesterol does not cause heart disease.

This will ensure that you will substantially increase the number of antioxidants and other protective factors in your diet which provides greater protection from free radical damage; considered by many to be one of the leading causes of aging and degenerative diseases.

The Great Cholesterol Myth explains that cholesterol numbers are actually very poor indicators of heart disease.

Women with higher density have a greater risk of developing cancer because they have more glandular tissue, which involves a larger number of cells that can fall victim to the disease.

In addition to causing appetite craziness, sleep deprivation has been tied to a number of health problems, including weakened immunity, and a greater risk of type 2 diabetes, depression, and heart disease.

Patterson explains, «Having sex with strangers does not put people in the sex trade at any greater risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease or infection than the general population» — although having a greater number of partners in general does increase the associated STI risk — and she notes that prostitutes are often very familiar with safer sex practices as their jobs depend on it.

The requirements for a CHIC number have been tailored to meet the needs for Swedish Vallhunds based on inherited diseases that are of the greatest concern and for which some screening test is available.

This can potentially result in higher parasite numbers in the horse, with a greater likelihood of disease.

These conditions are different depending on the breed and although some of the diseases can not be controlled, a great number of them can be.

Behavioural problems are the greatest threat to the owner - dog bond... Behavioural issues, not infectious diseases, are the number one cause of death for dogs under three years of age.»

There are a number of studies and findings in the attachment that illustrate problems with mandatory spay / neuter laws:  Fewer people license their pets, resulting in fewer animal control dollars and greater risk and even incidents of rabies and other diseases from animals whose owners fail to comply with licensing and vaccination requirements. The burden of a mandatory law like this falls on low and moderate income pet owners, and many will opt to surrender their pets rather than comply.

Protocols may be written for disease treatment, milking, calving, newborn calf handling, feeding, breeding and great number of other tasks that need to be performed on farms every day.

Forests with a greater number of species grow at a faster rate, store more carbon, and are more resistant to pests and diseases, according to a six - nation study of European woodlands.

He argues convincingly that their numbers were far higher than previously thought; that, contrary to the Rousseauian picture of the isolated «noble savage» roaming the virgin forests with bow and arrow, the Indians practiced a great deal of intensive land and forest management, both in the temperate forests of North America, and in the tropical ones of Central America and Amazonia; and that, the genetic homogeneity of the Indians made them almost universally vulnerable to European diseases, particularly those that originated with the livestock that the Europeans brought with them (and to which the Europeans had relative immunity).

Even though certain degenerative diseases, such as cancer, osteoporosis, and arthritis, may exacerbate a spinal cord injury, and a quarter of individuals involved are inebriated at the time of the accident, a great number of such events are the result of negligence, recklessness, or even malice.

Second, as the severity of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage, maltreatment, and social isolation increased, the number of age - related - disease risks at age 32 years also increased; that is, each adverse childhood experience independently predicted a greater number of age - related - disease risks at age 32 years in a dose - response fashion (Table 3, panel 2).

First, all of the established developmental risk factors — namely, family history (both depression and heart disease), low birth weight, and high childhood BMI — predicted a greater number of age - related - disease risks at age 32 years (Table 3, panel 1).

Third, even after taking into account the effects of (1) established developmental risk factors and (2) concurrent circumstances and behaviors such as low SES, smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet at 32 years of age, each adverse childhood experience still predicted a greater number of age - related - disease risks at that age (Table 3, panels 3 and 4).