Sentences with phrase «later stages of the disease»

They generally maintain or gain weight early, but may lose weight in later stages of the disease process.

In contrast, mitochondrial DNA levels decreased at later stages of the disease.

It is difficult to diagnose since symptoms don't appear until later stages of the disease.

They had thought that falls tended to occur during later stages of the disease.

To be honest sometimes in late stages of the disease a complete overhaul on diet can be more stressful for the patient and the family.

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.

Until later stage of disease, most of cases remain sub clinical with no noticeable symptoms.

Currently around 20 % of people are diagnosed with bowel cancer as an emergency when outcomes are generally poorer and almost 50 % in later stages of the disease when it is harder to treat.

Complications of late stages of the disease include congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, and eventual death of severely affected patients.

Breast cancer cells that spread to other parts of the body break off and leave the primary tumour at late stages of disease development, scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have found.

In fact, any veterinarian can tell you that it's common for cats to be brought in to see them in later stages of disease processes because the owners didn't recognize the subtle signs of illness prior to that.

There is an important difference for cats with pyometra, however: female cats rarely appear sick until very late stages of the disease.

Jaundice can be seen in late stages of the disease.

Commenting on the study, Deborah Alsina MBE, Chief Executive of Bowel Cancer UK, said: «As symptoms of bowel cancer can relate to later stage of disease it is important that delays in diagnosis are minimised.

«Unfortunately, most clinical trials to date have focused on patients whose cognitive deficits are already mild to severe, and when the therapeutic opportunities in this late stage of the disease are minimal.

«Treatments already in place might work if used for prevention instead of the later stages of disease,» Holtzman continues.

The spread of the protein, called tau, may explain why only one area of the brain is affected in the early stages of Alzheimer's but multiple areas are affected in later stages of the disease.

Treatment of knee osteoarthritis is shifting focus from end stage treatment to preventing the progression from early to the late stage of the disease, with the specific aim of decreasing the need for joint replacement and other costly treatments.

According to Dr. Xu, nearly 80 percent of pancreatic cancer cases are diagnosed in the late stages of the disease when «cancer is very aggressive and typically spreading throughout the body.»

This was the case even for mice in the later stages of the disease.

Rather than looking at what distinguished two forms of retinitis pigmentosa, or RP, a progressive blinding disease, they looked for what they had in common: specifically, what genes were expressed at the later stages of disease.

However, the researchers found that stopping neurogenesis before the development of seizures had a long - lasting effect, suppressing chronic seizure frequency for nearly one year, even at a late stage of the disease.

«If we could perhaps modulate these pathways and prolong survival of photoreceptor cells, we might be able to delay any further degeneration even when intervening at these later stages of disease.»

During the later stages of the disease, patients experience seizures, become wheelchair bound and can have trouble swallowing.

AIDS denotes the later stages of the disease and is not diagnosed until the patient has developed a significant OI or the CD4 cell count in the bloodstream falls below 200 (normal is 500 to 1,000 cells per milliliter).

Most of the treatments currently available for heart failure are aimed at the later stages of disease.

Is the reduced amount of this protein a risk factor, or a feature of the later stages of the disease?

When these motor neurons die, the brain can no longer control muscle movements; in the later stages of the disease, patients become totally paralyzed.

Tai thinks that for people who carry the APOE4 gene, short - term treatment with bexarotene in the later stages of disease may be beneficial.

«Dual virtual reality / treadmill exercises promote brain plasticity in Parkinson's patients: Therapy effective even in later stages of the disease, researchers say.»

This poor prognosis is partially due to the fact that most patients are not diagnosed until they are already at a late stage of the disease.

In addition, the findings point to a more significant health - related quality of life decline beginning in early rather than later stages of the disease.

With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.

In later stages of the disease, RPE cells atrophy in both models, and drusen - like material is observed in Ctnna1tvrm5 mutants.

Patients are often diagnosed in the late stages of disease and have few treatment options.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, suffering from a late stage of disease at the time of diagnosis and a paucity of effective therapeutic strategies to treat advanced tumours.

By the late stages of the disease, the brain is visibly shrunken and the ventricles - fluid filled spaces within the brain - are very enlarged compared to the brains of people without the mutation.

In the late stages of this disease, this inflammation can cause the bones in the spine to...

The long - term complications associated with diabetes are serious, often life - threatening, and diagnosed in the late stages of the disease.

This is despite evidence the drug doesn't work that well, at least in later stages of the disease.

The next chapter examines Alzheimer's and its role in the undoing of a person, while asking: is some essence of selfhood — despite a ravaged brain in the late stages of disease — preserved in the body?

In later stages of disease, the left ventricle and veins of the lungs are generally enlarged as well.

In later stages of the disease, medications are usually recommended in attempt to delay the onset of symptoms caused by progressive heart enlargement.

Unfortunately, by the time your pet exhibits symptoms, he or she may already be in the later stages of the disease.

Also, in the later stages of the disease, when cats are actually showing severe symptoms, the test can be negative.

Weakness, fainting spells, difficulty breathing, distension of the abdomen with fluid, and coughing are all possible in the later stages of disease.