Sentences with phrase «major cause of»

Projects on brain development mainly focus on perinatal asphyxia as this remains a major cause of (severe) brain damage in newborn infants leading to developmental delay or even severe handicaps.

«Heart disease is a major cause of death for both type 1 and type 2 [diabetes],» says George King, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Director of Research at Joslin.

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The reasoning behind this is that the major cause of urban heat islands is the reduced cooling that occurs at night when the «view to space» of the surface is blocked by buildings.

AMD, a major cause of irreversible vision loss in the elderly, results from death of cells critical for vision: RPE and photoreceptor cells.

CPVT, which occurs in about 1 in 10,000 people, is a major cause of sudden cardiac death in people younger than 40.

The westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere, which increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but which have since returned to about normal as part of NAO and NAM changes, alter the flow from oceans to continents and are a major cause of the observed changes in winter storm tracks and related patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies, especially over Europe.

Complications are a major cause of serious diseases in type 1 diabetes, affecting the cardiovascular system, kidneys, eyes and nerves.

Looking to the future Studying animal breathing rhythms and capacities can also help scientists better understand respiratory disease in marine animals, which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among marine animals in the wild and under human care, Fahlman said.

Given the importance of this strain as a major cause of food poisoning, Palsson's Systems Biology Research Group recently sequenced its genome using a combination of sequencing data from instruments made by Pacific Biosciences and Illumina.

He and others noted that declining crop yields resulting from the heat were likely a major cause of moving.

«A major cause of age - related memory loss identified: Potentially reversible.»

Last winter, a recently discovered bacterial variant became a major cause of severe pneumonia among people who caught the flu.

Stroke is a major cause of disability in adults, according to the American Heart Association.

Around 150 million people globally are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV)-- a major cause of liver disease and the fastest growing cause of liver transplantation and liver cancer.1 New prevention strategies are urgently required as people are continuing to be infected with HCV.

Scientists have the first solid evidence that atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that affects as many as 2 million Americans and is a major cause of strokes, is inherited in some families.

«We've found a possible treatment for a toxin that is a major cause of food - and waterborne disease in the world,» Linstedt says.

Falls are the major cause of accidental death and nonfatal injuries in elderly US adults.

Vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of blindness and death in children.

One major cause of visual loss and blindness is damage to limbal stem cells.

The major cause of skin cancer, which tops cancer statistics the world over, is sunlight, especially if it's so intense that it causes sunburns.

However, preterm infants have an increased risk of developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a serious lung disease, which is a major cause of death and lifelong complications.

Dr Mark Ide, first author from the Dental Institute at King's College London says: «Gum disease is widespread in the UK and US, and in older age groups is thought to be a major cause of tooth loss.

Atrial Fibrillation — one of the most common forms of abnormal heart rhythm — is caused by these waves, and is a major cause of stroke as it increases the risk of blood clots forming inside the heart.

Oestrogen deficiency is known to be a major cause of postmenopausal osteoporosis, or bone weakness.

Fossil fuel - based electricity production is responsible for about 38 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions — CO2 pollution being the major cause of global climate change.

There was also no evidence that this backlash has in turn been a major cause of the resurgence of support for right wing populist parties.

Although some of these factors appear to have a demonstrable effect on prevalence or course of macular degeneration (green leafy vegetables are good, cigarettes are bad), none has emerged as a likely major cause of it.

«It's a major cause of species extinction — lots of species are now disappearing because they are being genetically swamped by other, commoner ones,» said Stuart Pimm, a professor of conservation ecology at Duke University.

A major cause of these observed idiosyncrasies of decision - making may be that controlled processing accounts for only part of our overall behavioral repertoire, and in some circumstances can face stiff competition from domain - specific automatic processes that are part of System 1.

It is now the major cause of deforestation in these parks,» he said.

Televisions and monitors are another major cause of concern, primarily because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to auction off the analog part of the television spectrum in 2009.

Defects in placenta development are a major cause of delayed embryo / fetal development because the developing embryos do not get enough nutrients to support normal growth.

Waterborne diseases are a major cause of illness in developing countries and are responsible for sporadic and localised outbreaks of disease in the developed world.

Most bacteria can not survive in the acidic environment of the human stomach, but Helicobacter pylori, a major cause of ulcers, thrives under such circumstances.

That makes stroke the third leading killer of adults in the United States and a major cause of neurological morbidity in patients.

The researchers found four new chemicals that seek out and disrupt bacterial proteins called «efflux pumps,» known to be a major cause of antibiotic resistance.

Self - harm is a major cause of illness and injury in bipolar disorder (BPD).

«This one - two punch of discoveries underscores the critical value of basic science — by uncovering the major cause of CD4 T cell depletion in AIDS, Dr. Greene's lab has been able to identify a potential new therapy for blocking the disease's progression and improving on current antiretroviral medications.»

This proportion is likely to rise as the population ages, warn the researchers, who add that chronic pain is a major cause of disability and distress among those affected by it.

«I imagine it has become very difficult for him to work, and that's been the major cause of his being out of the game, so to speak,» says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University.

No cure has yet been found, nor has the major cause of Alzheimer's been identified.

Methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureaus, commonly known as MRSA, is a major cause of hospital - acquired infections, and the second biggest cause of death by drug - resistant bacteria in the US.

In this study, Victor Nizet, MD, professor of pediatrics and pharmacy, and colleagues explored the use of HIF - 1alpha - stabilizing drugs to boost the innate immune response to uropathogenic E.coli (UPEC) bacteria, a major cause of UTIs.

Carbon dioxide is the major cause of global warming, and it has been the focus of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and other attempts to corral climate change.

Donor stem cells are transplanted to a recipient, but not without the risk of developing GVHD, a life - threatening complication and major cause of death after SCT.

A compressed and herniated disk, in which the rubbery cushion between vertebrae impinges on and irritates nearby nerves, is a major cause of low back pain that can radiate to the legs.

In addition to rendering lungs unusable for transplant, pulmonary edema also signals that the lungs are not functioning properly post-transplant and is a major cause of illness and death among lung transplant recipients.

C. difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of health care - associated infection worldwide.

This discovery may lead to a therapy for sepsis, a major cause of death in developed countries that is fatal in one in four cases.