Sentences with phrase «health loss worldwide»

Low back pain, depression, iron - deficiency anemia, neck pain, and age - related hearing loss resulted in the largest overall health loss worldwide (measured in terms of YLD — Years Lived with Disability — ie, time spent in less than optimum health [2]-RRB- in both 1990 and 2013.

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With the rate of diabetes increasing dramatically worldwide, many individuals will be at risk for vision loss from diabetic eye complications and DME is a major global health concern,» says Jennifer K. Sun, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the study research team and writing committee, and an Investigator in the Section on Vascular Biology, an ophthalmologist in Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Isabel has her own nutrition and wellness practice based in New York City, Isabel Smith Nutrition, but she works with clients and corporations both nationwide and worldwide in a variety of areas including skin health, weight loss, gastrointestinal issues and allergies, sports nutrition, general wellness and more.

This crisis is compounded not only by many other environmental problems caused by industrialised agriculture — loss of biodiversity, pollution, over-use of water and land, to name but a few — but also by escalating health problems caused by industrialised food production — including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, some cancers, and diabetes — alongside continuing problems of hunger and malnutrition, worldwide.

Phosphorus is the biggest cause of water quality degradation worldwide, causing «dead zones», toxic algal blooms, a loss of biodiversity and increased health risks for the plants, animals and humans that come in contact with polluted waters.