Sentences with phrase «less disease compared»

In any case, if you like reading about nutrition, then you've surely come across studies where vegetarians were shown to live longer and with less disease compared to omnivores.

Not exact matches

They found that men and women who ate red meat five or more times a week were more than four times as likely to develop the disease, compared to those who consumed red meat less than once a week.

I buy local, pasture - raised eggs which tend to have less risk of disease compared their mass - produced cousins.

Actually, LOTS of people argue that plant - based protein is superior because it is healthier / less likely to cause disease compared to animal protein.

There was also less than one additional case for every 1,000 women per year for heart disease and for stroke in the hormone - treated women compared with those on placebo.

In mice, the Runx2 knock - in myeloma cells produced greater tumor growth and a wider spread of disease compared with the original myeloma cells; conversely, the Runx2 knock - down cells had less tumor growth and disease spread.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Adults who closely followed the Mediterranean diet were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over a 10 - year period compared to similar adults who did not closely follow the diet, according to a study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego.

Those who scored in the top - third in terms of adherence to the Mediterranean diet, indicating they closely followed the diet, were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over the 10 - year follow - up period as compared to participants who scored in the bottom - third, indicating they did not closely follow the diet.

Specifically, the NIAID team found that the individuals with high NA antibody levels experienced less severe disease, a shorter duration of viral shedding and symptoms, and fewer and less severe symptoms compared with those with high HA levels when challenged with the 2009 H1N1 virus.

Economist Richard Layard points out that less than one - third of people with common mental disorders are being treated, compared with more than 90 per cent of people with illnesses such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease (12 July, p 24).

«We compared the ability of RSV and parainfluenza virus (PIV3)-- another common virus in children that causes much less severe airway disease — to infect and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway.

Significant anti-tumor activity was observed as well: nearly 70 percent had a near complete or complete response within three months post treatment, which compares favorably with the expected responses (less than 40 percent) in patients without high - risk disease following an ASCT.

Regardless of disease stage, patients who received surgery lived an average of 57 months, compared to less than 12 months for patients who received only non-surgical treatment (such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy), and 1.4 months for patients who received no treatment at all.

Dr Andersen said the study was important because, although there have been other studies looking at the effects of endurance exercise on various cardiovascular problems such as ischemic heart disease and stroke, there have been only a few, smaller studies of its effect on heart rhythm disturbances, and they have tended to look at people who are less physically active, or compared very sedentary people with those who were very active.

More than 26 percent of American adults were obese as of 2009 — compared with less than 20 percent in 2000, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Compared with lung tissue of disease - free individuals, lung tissue from patients with pulmonary fibrosis had far fewer AEC2 cells, and those that remained were less able to renew themselves.

Compared with nonsmokers, smokers» odds of getting the disease ranged from more than four times higher for those who smoked a daily pack for less than 20 years in a row, to nearly 70 times higher for those who did so for 80 years or more.

Compared with children who were diagnosed with ADHD but did not receive medication, those who took medication were 3.6 percentage points less likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease, 7.3 percentage points less likely to have a substance - abuse disorder and 2.3 percentage points less likely to be injured.

Results of the study, which earlier this year won first prize in the inaugural «PAN Challenge» for research on improving access to critical medications for Americans with chronic and rare diseases, showed that patients in the latter, high - cost group were significantly less likely (45.3 percent vs. 66.9 percent) to have a Part D claim for a TKI prescription within six months of their CML diagnosis, compared to the subsidized, low cost - sharing group.

Compared to those who watched less than two hours of TV per day, people who watched four hours or more were 80 % more likely to die from heart disease and 46 % more likely to die from any cause.

One study found that women who ate 2 - 3 servings of whole grain products daily were 30 % less likely to have a heart attack or die from heart disease compared with women who ate less than one serving a week.

A 2009 Harvard study found that women whose diets most closely resembled the Mediterranean one — more vegetables, beans, nuts, and monounsaturated fats, and less meat — had a 29 percent lower risk of heart disease, compared with those whose diets were least like it.

One study found that heart disease patients who exercised and had positive attitudes were 42 percent less likely to die of all causes during a five - year follow - up period, compared to patients who were negative and didn't exercise.

And in 2009, two coffee studies suggested additional benefits: Coffee - drinking men seemed to have a lower risk of advanced or lethal prostate cancer than other men, and middle - aged people who drank moderate amounts of coffee — three to five cups a day — had the lowest risk for dementia and Alzheimers disease later in life compared to less (or more) frequent drinkers.

Also worth noting: the soybean plus fructose diet had less severe metabolic effects compared to the soybean oil diet, but it did cause more negative effects in the kidney and a marked increase in prolapsed rectums, a symptom of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which like obesity is on the rise.

The researchers found that, compared to non-vegetarians, vegetarians (including vegans and lacto - ovo vegetarians) were much less likely to get colon cancer or prostate cancer, or to die from cardiovascular disease or breast cancer.

The top 20 % men with the highest flavonoid consumption were approximately 40 % less likely to get Parkinson's disease compared to the bottom 20 % of male individuals with the least amount of flavonoid consumption.

Sleeping seven to eight hours a night reduces the risk of heart disease substantially compared with those sleeping less than five hours.

There is less possibility of error with ambulatory readings, and they give more accurate blood pressure estimates and cardiovascular disease prognosis compared to conventional readings.

A study published online in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood indicates that obese children and adolescents, as compared to their lean counterparts, have less sensitive taste buds.

The 2735 participants included in the present analysis were significantly younger than the 757 participants who had not provided a complete or plausible FFQ at baseline (median age: 65 y compared with 70 y), less likely to be current smokers (13.6 % compared with 17.4 %), and less likely to have diabetes (7.5 % compared with 9.7 %) or CVD (18.2 % compared with 24.9 %) at baseline; they were also less likely to die during the 13 - y follow - up of all causes (31 % compared with 52 %) and of inflammatory diseases (6 % compared with 10 %)(all P < 0.05).

CDC speculates that the observed association between low sodium intake and increased CVD risk may have been due to a higher proportion of participants in the low sodium group, compared to groups with higher intake levels, who had diabetes, hypertension, and pre-existing cardiovascular disease at baseline and therefore may have consumed less sodium, leading to a noncausal association between sodium intake and increased cardiovascular events.

However, a recent study showed that teens at risk for schizophrenia who took fish oil were less likely to develop the disease compared to those who didn't.

Most clinical or epidemiological studies comparing people consuming vegetable oils in place of butter or lard claim that they see less heart disease when people switch from the more saturated fats to the polyunsaturated oils.

When participants in a study published in the Archives of Ophthalmology ate this much fruit they were 36 percent less likely to suffer from the disease compared to those who consumed 1.5 servings or less of fruit daily.

Actually, LOTS of people argue that plant - based protein is superior because it is healthier / less likely to cause disease compared to animal protein.

I buy local, pasture - raised eggs which tend to have less risk of disease compared their mass - produced cousins.

However, there is the work of T. Colin Campbell in The China Study which does report that staying below a 5 % level of animal - derived proteins will provide a 90 - 100 % reversal in degenerative disease compared to say the 50 % or less reversal experienced with the Mediterranean diet lifestyle.

In less than five years, those randomly assigned to follow the Mediterranean diet reduced their risk of heart attack, stroke or heart disease - related death by about 30 %, compared to people who were told to follow a low - fat diet.

Studies also show that people who eat dark chocolate 5 or more times per week are less than half as likely to die from heart disease, compared to people who don't eat dark chocolate (16, 17).

A 2013 study found out that people on Mediterranean diet were 30 % were less likely to suffer cardiovascular disease compared to those who ate low - fat diet.

The original Adventist Health Study, involving 20,000 men and women, found that those who drank five or more glasses of water daily had about half the risk of dying from heart disease compared to those who drank two glasses or less.

People who consume more than a quarter of their daily calories from added sugars have nearly triple the risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those who consume less than 10 percent of their daily calories from added sugars, the researchers note.

, those who consumed 25 percent or more of their calories from sugar were twice as likely to die from cardiovascular disease compared with those who consumed less than 10 percent of calories from sugar.

One study found 30 percent of celiac disease patients had GERD compared to less than 5 percent of those not diagnosed with the disease.

In less than five years, those eating a Mediterranean diet supplemented with additional olive oil or nuts achieved a 30 percent relative risk reduction for cardiovascular disease, and a 49 percent reduction in stroke, compared to controls who were instructed to eat a low fat diet

Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are actually less common in Asian compared to Western populations.

Together, those in the study who consumed the greatest amount of whole grains in their diet were found to be less likely to die by approximately 9 % and less likely to die as a result of heart disease by 15 %, when compared to those who consumed less whole grains.

Consider the Kuna Indians, who live on islands off of Panama — one of the healthiest populations on Earth; 20 times less heart disease compared to us; 20 times less cancer.