Sentences with phrase «less than a disease»

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A review of more than 200 studies found that people who drank three or four cups of coffee per day were 19 % less likely to die from cardiovascular disease.

And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population live on less than one dollar a day?

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of endemic poverty, has 11 % of the world's population, 24 % of the world's burden of disease, and less than 5 % of its health workforce, said Gottlieb.

He found that «men who reported more than 23 hours a week of sedentary activity had a 64 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than those who reported less than 11 hours a week of sedentary activity,» according to NPR.

Many studies have demonstrated that Indians, despite being nominally less obese than other ethnicities, have a higher risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Although far less deadly than feared, H1N1 demonstrated yet again how rapidly disease can spread around the globe.

He said that many patients use the drug for far less than a year and that the price was now more in line with those of other drugs for rare diseases.

Rare diseases are conditions affecting less than 200,000 people in the US and less than five (5) in 10,000 according to the definition adopted by the European Medicines Agency.

However, I pray that everyone in the church begins to understand that my depression doesn't make my faith any less strong than your eczema, diabetes or whatever genetic disease you've inherited.»

Therefore it is no less a disease than some forms of cancer.

Social diseases were also violent and fearful and were thought to be nothing less than punishment from God for violating the moral code.

There are lots of other sex acts in which people engage other than penetrative sex which all carry less risk of disease transmission (in differing degrees).

In the case of Hardin's argument, if the calculations revealed that giving aid to certain countries would result in more rather than less disease and death, it would follow then that to do so would be an offense against love and mercy.

Less than 1 % follow your «thinking» and most of those are morally diseased as well.

And the recent amendment to Codex recommendations reflects evidence that while people with coeliac disease can tolerate a low level of gluten without ill effects, some people are more sensitive and can only safely eat foods with less than 20ppm of gluten.

If you're looking for more reasons to eat curry for breakfast, studies have revealed that India has four times less the incidence of Alzheimer's disease than their American counterparts.

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.

If only people knew that Millet are 5 times more nutritious than the average rice varieties, has a low glycemic index (studies show they benefit type2 diabetes), cost less, cook faster, aids weight loss, reduces risk of heart disease and more!

Did you know, according to the Center for Disease Control, only a third of American adults report eating two servings a fruit a day and less than 27 percent consumed three or more servings of veggies, the minimum recommended daily amount (RDA)?

further more studies show that people who drink wine (and beer) moderately, are less prone to things like heart disease than both people who drink heavily AND people who never drink at all.

I respect those who truly have health problems when they eat foods with gluten (namely people with celiac disease... which happens to be less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, and those with legit sensitivities to gluten).

Trans fats have been directly correlated to a host of diseases, currently the American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that less than 1 % of energy intake should be in the form of trans fatty acids.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is defined medically as macrovesicular steatosis, or abnormal retention of lipids (fats) sufficient and large enough to distort or replace the nuclei of liver cells among those who consume less than 20 grams -LRB-.7 ounces) of alcohol per day.

I recently became diagnosed with celiac disease less than a year ago.

According to Baleka, the average life expectancy for a long - haul truck driver in the U.S. is 61 to 64 years (10 to 15 years less than the average American male); truck drivers have the highest rate of obesity of any occupation in the U.S. (86 % are overweight, 69 % are obese); they have one of the highest rates of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes; in some years they have had the highest number of fatalities of any occupation, making trucking one of the most dangerous and unhealthy occupations in the U.S.

I am sure you did not mean to assume that women who are in shelters need formula more than you do, in fact, poor and minority women «need» it less; they are at greater risk for negative health consequences associated with formula like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc..

«Breast milk contains many of the same beneficial bacteria found in a woman's vagina, and breastfeeding infants are less likely than those consuming formula to develop respiratory and gastrointestinal infections and allergies as well as chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity and inflammatory bowel disease.»

Breastfed babies typically have lower blood pressure than formula fed babies and are less likely to develop heart disease.

If you habitually sleep much less or much more than average, you might want to have your doctor check you for such health problems as heart disease, sleep apnea, and depression.

Newborns are routinely given a vitamin K shot as a precaution against hemorrhagic disease, a rare (less than 2 %) condition in which the baby suffers internal bleeding.

Human breast milk that is frozen or stored for longer than 48 hours loses a significant amount of its antioxidant content, making it less able to help infants fight off free radicals that play a role in allowing infections and other diseases.

After 1995, less than 50 % of children diagnosed with celiac disease were under 10 years old, and the average age at diagnosis had risen to about 8.5 years of age.

If that statement confuses you, just remember that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long recommended that «household contacts and out of home caregivers of children less than 6 months of age» should get a flu shot each year.

Natives suffer huge rates of diabetes and heart disease because they eat more store - bought food and lead a less active lifestyle than they used to.

Since infectious diarrhea is less common in newborns who are breastfeeding or formula feeding than in older children who eat a wider variety of foods, newborn bloody diarrhea should raise suspicion for Hirschsprung disease.

Furthermore, it is now clear that all kinds of crying (i.e. fussing, crying and inconsolable crying) is prolonged, that this prolongation occurs only in the first few months, and that inconsolable crying is almost unique to the first few months of life.3, 40 The «unpredictability» of the crying, and of the caregiver's ability or inability to soothe the infant is most likely due to the facts that (1) the infant cry in the first few months is a reflection of the organization of its behavioural states (crying, awake alert, sleeping), rather than an intentional «signal,» 14 (2) that behavioural state changes occur in «steps» rather than due to increases or decreases in arousal7, 41 and (3) infants are resistant to behavioural state change unless they are in a transitional phase in which they are «ready» to change state.7 Finally, there is now good evidence that the proportion of infants that have evidence of organic disease to explain their crying is less than 5 %.8, 42,43 In the absence of other compromise, infants with «colic» have as good an outcome as infants without «colic.»

Triplets are far less common than twins, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accounting for only about 4300 sets in 3.9 million births, just a little more than 0.1 %, or 1 in 1000.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

During; the current cholera epidemic in Latin America, remarkably, less than 1 per cent of those affected have died, thanks to a decade or more of control of diarrhoeal disease (CDD) training and preparation.

Not so fast, suggests a small study of teens out of Scotland that found that high - intensity exercise may be better than endurance training for preventing cardiovascular disease because it can be done in less time.

When logistic models were stratified by the presence or absence of hypertensive disease, only maternal age older than 34 years (odds ratio [OR], 1.4; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.0 - 2.0), pregnancy - associated plasma protein - A of the 95th percentile or less (OR, 1.9; 95 % CI, 1.2 - 3.1), and alpha fetoprotein of the 95th percentile or greater (OR, 2.3; 95 % CI, 1.4 - 3.8) remained statistically significantly associated for abruption.In this large, population - based cohort study, abnormal maternal aneuploidy serum analyte levels were associated with placental abruption, regardless of the presence of hypertensive disease.

Our results suggest that the cumulative effect of breast feeding, as measured using duration, is less important for diarrhoeal disease than the time since breast feeding cessation.

There is consistent evidence of a protective effect of exclusive breast feeding against diarrhoeal disease in the first 4 — 6 months of life.4 Likely causes are the immune properties of breast milk and less exposure to pathogens in contaminated milk, food, bottles, or teats.5 Contamination and inadequate sterilisation pose less of a problem in developed than developing countries, and this explains the greater protection of breast feeding in developing countries where poverty, poor hygiene, and infectious diseases are common.

Importantly, we found that in infants currently formula fed, having been breast fed for at least six months was not associated with less diarrhoeal disease than having never been breast fed.

Breast feeding may be more protective against diarrhoeal disease in infants in more deprived areas than in less deprived areas, and in more crowded households than in less crowded households

Further, in infants currently formula fed, having been breast fed for at least six months was not associated with less diarrhoeal disease than having never been breast fed (for 6 + months versus never breast fed, adjusted OR = 1.14, 95 % CI 0.38 to 3.40, p = 0.81).

But the risks associated with the vaccines Canadian children receive are much, much less than the risks associated with the diseases themselves.

Not surprising, for almost all cancers, US patients have less advanced disease at diagnosis than in Europe.

With less than half of those infected surviving the disease, many Africans regard Ebola isolation wards as death traps.