Sentences with phrase «markers of disease risk»

Just as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or sleep apnoea are markers of disease risk, so is obesity.

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Household income has been shown to interact with child growth in Brazil.21 A US study of diarrhoeal disease found no interaction between breast feeding and household income.8 Household income, like social class, may not be a good marker of transmission risk.

Individuals were classified as high risk for Alzheimer's if a DNA test identified the presence of a genetic marker — having one or both of the apolipoprotein E-epsilon 4 allele (APOE - e4 allele) on chromosome 19 — which increases the risk of developing the disease.

In other words, she says, personality constructs emerging from the basic biology of the brain can be yet another marker that the individual is at risk for TILT, and easier to sensitize to the disease.

Although tau imaging is still in its earliest stages, Ryan hopes that such imaging will accelerate drug development and that finding a blood - based biomarker for Alzheimer's to reveal risk (much like cholesterol serves as a marker for cardiovascular risk) will change the field dramatically in terms of how doctors can diagnose the disease.

«Our analysis suggests that migraine should be considered an important risk marker for cardiovascular disease, particularly in women,» concludes Prof. Kurth, adding that: «The risk of developing cardiovascular events was shown to be 50 % higher in women with a diagnosis of migraine.

As Maurizio Battino, researcher at UNIVPM and Director of the study, said: «This is the first time a study has been published that supports the protective role of the bioactive compounds in strawberries in tackling recognised markers and risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.»

All had abnormalities of TP53 or ATM — two mutations associated with high - risk disease — and two patients had increasing BTK C481S clones, also a high - risk marker.

Indeed, low birth weight, a marker of impaired fetal development, is associated with increased everyday levels of inflammatory markers as well as greater risks of heart disease, diabetes, depression and schizophrenia in adults.

With additional research and knowledge, she said, it may also be possible one day to use these epigenetic changes as markers, which can tell that a child is at risk of obesity and other diseases.

The study also found distinct blood pressure patterns from ages 18 to 55 that reveal people at high risk for calcification of coronary arteries — a marker for heart disease — by middle age.

«Our study suggests that short height in children is a possible marker of stroke risk and suggests these children should pay extra attention to changing or treating modifiable risk factors for stroke throughout life to reduce the chances of having this disease,» said senior study author Jennifer L. Baker, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Clinical Research and Prevention at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark.

An antibody used to treat the skin disease psoriasis is also effective at reducing aortic inflammation, a key marker of future risk of major cardiovascular events.

«Women with migraines have higher risk of cardiovascular disease, mortality: Migraine should be considered an important risk marker for cardiovascular disease, say experts.»

While attending a conference, Orszag learned from biologist Craig Venter that he could get screened for a genetic marker that can raise the risk of heart disease when lots of caffeine is consumed.

Two proteins, which have not previously been linked to pre-eclampsia risk, were shown to be at least as good a predictor of disease risk as the current best marker, placental growth factor,.

«We've got a marker for biological aging — telomere length — so we're studying whether we can relate it to the increased risk of getting some of these age - associated diseases.

Doctors measure levels of triglycerides as a marker of heart disease risk, though whether these fats play a role in causing plaque to build up in arteries historically has been a matter of debate.

«Our ability to pinpoint CRP levels as being significantly elevated before and after postoperative delirium onset establishes CRP as a risk marker, as well as a disease marker, for delirium,» said Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, co-first author of the study, along with Simon Dillon, also of BIDMC.

Compared to the control group, kidney stone formers maintained higher levels of the blood marker cystatin C and higher levels of urine protein — both of which are connected with higher risk of chronic kidney disease.

These recommendations are based largely on a body of research that links higher sodium intakes to certain «surrogate markers» such as high blood pressure, an established risk factor for heart disease.

Instead they measure surrogate markers — outcomes that are associated with a risk of disease — but not a bad outcome itself.

«While we don't know which comes first — depression or cardiovascular disease — the consensus is that depression is a risk marker for cardiovascular disease, meaning if you have cardiovascular disease, there is a higher likelihood that you could also have depression, when compared with the risk in the general population,» said Victor Okunrintemi, M.D., M.P.H., a research fellow at Baptist Health South Florida in Coral Gables, Florida, and lead author of a pair of studies that looked into different aspects of depression and cardiovascular disease.

The study was carried out by a team of researchers from two global scientific consortia, ENIGMA and CHARGE, which began to pool their brain imaging and genetic datasets back in 2009 to look for genetic markers that affect one's risk of developing brain diseases.

Our diets can also change our metabolism as well as the levels of circulating factors (hormones, lipids, etc.) which may be markers for disease risk.

At City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, California, Rick Kittles is exploring the link between ancestry - informative genetic markers and disease risk and outcomes, with a special emphasis on prostate cancer.

REVEAL IV is the first translational genetics study to focus upon the situation where mild early symptoms of a disease (phenotype) and known genetic risk marker (genotype) information can be used together to produce more imminent risk projections.

The results suggest that elevated plasma levels of inflammatory biomarkers, including complement proteins, associate with polygenic risk scores in AD, further strengthening the link between genetic and biomarker disease predictors and indicating a potential role for these markers in disease prediction and patient stratification in AD.

Gene Markers Located for Hereditary Prostate Cancer Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, Wake Forest University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden identified an array of gene markers for hereditary prostate cancer that, along with family history for the disease, appear to raise risk to more than nine times that of men without such mMarkers Located for Hereditary Prostate Cancer Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, Wake Forest University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden identified an array of gene markers for hereditary prostate cancer that, along with family history for the disease, appear to raise risk to more than nine times that of men without such mmarkers for hereditary prostate cancer that, along with family history for the disease, appear to raise risk to more than nine times that of men without such markersmarkers.

Such work has become increasingly important given the expansion of genome - wide association studies identifying genetic risk factors for common diseases and corresponding efforts to commercialize genetic testing using these markers.

CLA may raise levels of the inflammatory marker C - reactive protein, which could up your risk of heart disease.

Even further, studies on high - fat diets show that increased consumption of saturated fat has beneficial impacts on cardiovascular disease risk markers, including decreasing the level of triglycerides, fasting glucose, blood pressure, as well as increasing HDL cholesterol blood levels.

Doctors have speculated that folic acid may improve heart health, because people with B - vitamin deficiencies often have high blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine, a marker of inflammation that has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease.

Next Page: Treatment options [pagebreak] Implications for treatment Though the exact role of inflammatory markers is yet to be determined, if your CRP test uncovers high levels of CRP (defined by the American Heart Association as over 3 mg / L), it is probably a sign that you should address your risk for cardiovascular disease, even if you have normal cholesterol.

If the FDA adopts the panel's recommendation — the agency isn't required to do so, but typically does in such cases — it would mark the first time that a statin was approved for heart - disease - free people with healthy cholesterol levels but other risk factors, including high levels of C - reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation.

«Finding this association with a strong marker of Alzheimer's disease risk reinforces the idea that being underweight as you get older may not be a good thing when it comes to your brain health,» he added.

Interestingly, this ratio is also correlated with less risk of certain diseases and higher health markers.

In another study of overweight adults, eating fermented full - fat dairy products — ie, cheese and yogurt — resulted in a greater reduction in inflammatory markers known to increase heart disease risk compared to low - fat versions of these dairy products (26).

Surprisingly, the researchers did not find increased levels of Alzheimer's markers when they looked specifically at people with obstructive sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that's a major disruptor of sleep and a risk factor for several other chronic diseases.

Everyone knows that going to the gym on a regular basis and putting yourself under relatively heavy mechanical stress repeatedly can improve a variety of health markers and decrease the risk of developing lots of different conditions, from diabetes, heart to neurological diseases.

It can also work in conjunction with chromium to reduce LDL levels and increase HDL since inverse levels of each are markers for increased risk of heart disease.

The researchers found that all four were effective in improving various markers of cardiovascular disease risk in people with diabetes, «and could have a wider role in the management of diabetes.»

Considering that the hs - CRP inflammation marker is associated with risk of diseases such as cancer, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and many other chronic diseases, «if you have to take one test, this might be the one.»

It has been seen to improve diabetes and high cholesterol in a number of clinical studies, as well as improve risk markers of cardiovascular disease and even constipation.

The study suggests that low testosterone may be a predictive marker for those at high risk of cardiovascular disease.

These CR - induced changes suggest a shift toward a healthy phenotype, given the established role of these pro-inflammatory molecules as risk markers in the development of metabolic syndrome and age - related chronic diseases, in particular CVD, T2D and cancer (1).

(2) Adiponectin is a marker of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes risk.

A recent trial — The effects of intermittent or continuous energy restriction on weight loss and metabolic disease risk markers: a randomized trial in young overweight women — compares CRaP to IF.

In one study in 2010, researchers studied the effects of consumption of a sheep's milk pecorino cheese on atherosclerotic biomarkers (indicating risk for heart disease), and found that the dairy fat in this cheese improved the subjects markers!

«Most risk markers for cardiovascular disease have a pro-inflammatory component, which stimulates the release of a number of active molecules,» researchers in one study argue.