Sentences with phrase «modest effects on the disease»

Currently available treatments have only modest effects on the disease and its symptoms, which underlines the importance of identifying preventive measures.

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Although breastfeeding has modest effects on blood pressure (51) and adiposity (52, 53) in later life, it has numerous other health benefits, including protection against infectious disease morbidity (54) and mortality (55) in infancy and a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (56) and improved neural and psychosocial development in the longer term (57, 58).
«Although the effects of the drug were modest, we now know that we can influence the course of the disease, and we expect to build on this success with other drugs, including some already in development,» said senior author, Gary K. Schwartz, MD, professor of medicine and chief of hematology / oncology at NewYork - Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center and associate director of its Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
These observed associations, albeit generally modest, may represent a pathophysiologic mechanism for the pleiotropic effects of magnesium intake on the features of the metabolic syndrome and its associated chronic diseases.
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