Currently available treatments have only
modest effects on the disease and its symptoms, which underlines the importance of identifying preventive measures.
Not exact matches
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.