Sentences with phrase «growing number of diseases»

Cat Scratch Disease is among a growing number of diseases in animals and humans.

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The growing number of people who have the disease is troubling, because there are only four approved drugs that treat symptoms of the disease, and several hopeful treatments have failed key studies in 2017.

Globally, over 220 million people suffer from food allergies and most countries report an increase in incidence.26 It is predicted that by 2050 the number of patients affected by allergic diseases in Australia will increase by 70 % to 7.7 million.27 By 2021, the markets for naturally healthy (US$ 291 billion), food intolerance (US$ 42 billion) and organic products (US$ 45 billion) are expected to have grown at up to 4.5 % compound annual growth rate (CAGR).28

New numbers released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that a very small but slightly growing number of women are making the same choice that Jacobs did.

Following the publication of a number of studies highlighting the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, as well as the popularization of the «breast is best» mantra, the number of mothers who exclusively breastfeed their babies is rapidly growing, from 79 percent of new moms in 2011 to 81.1 percent in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Though still quite small, the number of home births is increasing — according to the Centers for Disease Control, it grew 29 percent between 2004 and 2009, to 29,650.

In more recent years, those same 17th Ward neighborhoods on the outskirts of Syracuse University have become the home of a growing number deer, powerful in their own right for eating gardens and carrying ticks that can transmit Lyme disease.

The number of Lyme Disease reported each year is also growing locally.

EBV causes mononucleosis, and has been associated with a growing number of other diseases.

As suicide rates climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood disorder.

Precisely as we humans, every dog is likely to carry genetic predisposition for some inherited disorder, so we expect these numbers to grow as the numbers of tested disease variants, breeds, and dogs further increase, confirms Dr. Donner.

Modafinil is the latest and most touted of a growing number of pharmaceuticals used to enhance cognition and mental performance in people without a diagnosis, disorder, or disease.

The number of cases diagnosed around the world continues to grow incredibly quickly: according to the United States Center Disease Control, cases in that country grew on average by 82 % between 1995 and 2010.

TICKED: The Battle Over Lyme in the South is the result of a three - year investigation of the controversy over Lyme disease diagnosis in the Southern United States, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) do not recognize the disease — but a growing number of scientists and physicidisease diagnosis in the Southern United States, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) do not recognize the disease — but a growing number of scientists and physiciDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) do not recognize the disease — but a growing number of scientists and physicidisease — but a growing number of scientists and physicians do.

Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.

During the active disease stage of JIA, these cells expand, grow in number, re-circulate through inflamed areas of patients» body, and migrate to the connective tissue of patients» joints.

A growing number of epidemiologic studies have suggested an association between sedentary behavior and chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and even death that is distinct from those related to a lack of physical activity.

It is a growing problem: The number of hospitalizations for sepsis more than doubled from 2000 to 2008, reaching more than 1.1 million, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

You report on the growing number of people from the UK, especially those with neurological diseases, going to clinics in Switzerland to end their lives (23 August, p 7).

You report on the growing number of people from the UK, especially those with neurological diseases, going to clinics in...

Cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death in the Western world, with heart failure representing the fastest - growing subclass over the past decade.

For people with celiac disease and gluten - sensitivities, the number of food options in the stores is growing.

Plotting help The Children's Hospital Informatics Program launched HealthMap in 2006 as a way of using the growing number of digital resources — the Internet, RSS feeds and e-mail lists, to name a few — to plot information about emerging diseases worldwide on a Google Map.

A small but growing number of studies now suggest that air pollutants may play a role in diseases of the gut.

When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.

SUICIDE tourism to Switzerland is growing, and it appears that so is the number of people with non-fatal diseases choosing to end their lives.

Higher pollution levels were linked to a higher total number of strokes, and researchers said it reaffirmed the growing evidence that climate change and overall air quality contributes to cardiovascular disease, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2016.

A growing number of studies have demonstrated that, at least in animals, these unusual fats fight a host of chronic health conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer (SN: 3/3/01, p. 136).

However, growing evidence from a number of studies links the body's inflammatory response to increased rates of cognitive decline, suggesting that it would be worth exploring whether the treatment of gum disease might also benefit the treatment of dementia and Alzheimer's Ddisease might also benefit the treatment of dementia and Alzheimer's DiseaseDisease.

«Even so,» the authors add, «cutting - edge gene therapy - based strategies in reconstructive procedures [are close] to setting valuable milestones for development of efficient treatments in a growing number of local diseases and injuries.»

The facts of schizophrenia are so peculiar, in fact, that they have led Torrey and a growing number of other scientists to abandon the traditional explanations of the disease and embrace a startling alternative.

Citing the growing body of evidence of links between copy number variations and diseases such as autism, an international science consortium announced yesterday that it plans to sequence the genomes of 1,000 people from around the world in an attempt to flush out genetic suspects.

«As the number of obese children with high cholesterol continues to grow, we need to have effective lifestyle modifications to help them reverse their risk factors for heart disease,» Dr. Macknin said.

The somber facts are that last year, 2.4 million people died of AIDS in the region, while the number of people living with the disease grew to 25.3 million.

The number of schoolchildren not vaccinated against childhood diseases in Texas is growing rapidly, which means that the state may see its first measles outbreaks in the winter or spring of 2018, Hotez predicted in a recent article in PLOS Medicine.

Eventually, Thurner and a growing number of other researchers hope to use these disease networks to generate hypotheses about how diseases operate at the molecular level.

Research into Stem Cells has grown exponentially over the past two decades and has already yielded successful or promising therapies for a number of diseases.

Specifically, synaptic defects have been involved over the last years in the pathogenesis of a growing number of neuropsychiatric diseases, leading to the concept of «synaptopathies».

The alliance will employ Illumina's platform for high - multiplex single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping to develop tests for gene variants deCODE has previously shown to have impact on the risk of a growing number of common diseases with major public health impact.

The findings have implications for the design of cancer vaccines and what are called adoptive T cell therapies; when T cells are collected from a patient and grown in the laboratory, increasing in number before they are given back to the patient to help the immune system fight disease.

In general, the growing participation of CNAG - CRG in rare disease research projects is clear in terms of samples sequenced; while during the period 2014/2015 the total number of processed samples related to rare diseases was of 523 in the period 2016/2017 the number of these samples increased to more than 1600.

As the American population ages, the number of people suffering from these neurodegenerative diseases is expected to grow.

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.

Measuring inflammation Our growing understanding of inflammation's role in atherosclerosis doesn't diminish the importance of cholesterol — you still have to keep that «bad» number down and the «good» number up — but it does present another way to anticipate cardiovascular disease.

In recent years, the benefits of a gluten - free diet have become widely recognized and, according to recent research, people are embracing gluten - free in ever - growing numbers, even though the number of Americans diagnosed with celiac disease has not increased since 2009.1,2,3,4

It's also a contributing factor to the growing number of people diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder, and new research shows that stress renders you susceptible to serious illness — especially cancer and heart disease.

However if you or a loved one suffer from a chronic disease and sincerely seek to control it then there are a growing number of options which offer guidance.

Approximately 5.5 million Americans are living with the disease, and this number is expected to grow as the proportion of the U.S. population 65 years and older continues to increase.

Nowadays the colon is so clogged by the effects of indiscriminate eating habits that it barely resembles the colons seen in anatomy books, and functions so inefficiently that it's no wonder most humans suffer from an ever growing number of ailments and diseases from hair loss to cancer.

Sore joints, eczema, headaches, low energy, digestive issues — if you suffer through any of these on the regular, you're probably tempted to brush them off as annoying but not that big of a deal.Yet if your symptoms are chronic or don't have an obvious cause (like a gnarly workout that you can link to muscle aches), one doctor warns you shouldn't take them lightly because they could be hints that a more serious health storm is brewing.According to Parsley Health founder Robin Berzin, MD, all of these complaints could be early signs of autoimmune disease: a broad category of ailments that are plaguing a rapidly growing number of Americans, especially women.