Sentences with phrase «more abnormal results»

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Craniosynostosis is the premature fusion of one or more bony plates in the skull, often resulting in restricted brain growth and an abnormal skull shape.

In the U.S., one in every four deaths is a result of heart disease, which includes a range of conditions from arrhythmias, or abnormal heart rhythms, to defects, as well as blood vessel diseases, more commonly known as cardiovascular diseases.

Among the 68 patients with concussion, 16 (23.5 percent) experienced two or more abnormal menstrual patterns during the study compared with 3 of the 60 patients (5 percent) with a nonhead orthopedic injury, according to the results.

«We think our system will spark a new kind of medicine, where a gastroenterologist can quickly see where and when a part of the GI tract is showing abnormal rhythms and as a result make more accurate, faster and personalized diagnoses,» said Armen Gharibans, the paper's first author and a bioengineering postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego.

The results showed that compared with people whose tendon structure was normal, those with abnormal tendon structure had a significantly more unfavourable blood fat (lipid) profile.

A more expensive injection form of the drug was discovered by Kopchick a decade ago, and it has since been approved by the FDA to treat individuals with acromegaly, a condition in which there is too much growth hormone in adults, resulting in abnormal growth of body tissues, especially hands, feet, and face.

The study results indicate that patients who have abnormal levels of breaks at common fragile sites (CFSs), sites within the chromosomes that are sensitive to DNA damage, are more likely to have their cancer to return — treatment failure.

According to Reeves, the result suggests that genes in the DSCR make their mischief by interacting with other abnormal genes far away on chromosome 21, and that the genetics of Down syndrome are probably more complex than has been generally thought.

«Those who save for the future by contributing to a 401 (k) improved abnormal health test results and poor health behaviors approximately 27 percent more than non-contributors.»

All types of epilepsy are the result of abnormal brain activity, regardless of how it starts or whether it manifests as a typical convulsive seizure or as a more subtle seizure that causes a person to be confused, feel odd, or momentarily lose awareness of what they are doing or what is happening to them.

An abnormal mass of tissue that results when cells divide more than they should or do not die when they should.

Helena Edström More information: The study Platelet - derived growth factor over-expression in retinal progenitors results in abnormal retinal vessel formation is related to the Science For Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab, at Uppsala University and was carried out in collaboration between researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden and at the University of Murcia in Spain.

Structural eye anomalies (in particular, microphthalmia and coloboma), cataracts, intraocular calcifications, and posterior ocular findings have been reported in infants with presumed and laboratory - confirmed prenatal ZIKV infection; however, posterior findings have been the most prevalent.21,25,28,33,35,36,41 - 43 Case series report chorioretinal atrophy, focal pigmentary mottling of the retina, and optic nerve atrophy / anomalies.28, 34,37,41 - 43,55 Series of 20 or more infants with presumed ZIKV - associated microcephaly report ocular findings in 24 % to 55 %.28, 33,42 In one study, testing for ZIKV IgM was performed in 24 of 40 infants (60 %) with microcephaly and the results were positive in the cerebrospinal fluid in 100 % of those tested.42 The proportion of infants with ocular lesions did not differ in those with and without testing.42 In that series, first trimester maternal infection and smaller head circumference significantly correlated with the presence of abnormal ocular findings.42

What's more, most abnormal Pap results and HPV infections (diagnosed via a separate test) clear up on their own within a few months.

Abnormal breathing patterns can compromise health and performance, which may result in physical effects such as asthma, anxiety, stress, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, other phobias, hyperthyroidism, migraine, chronic inflammatory joint disease with chronic pain, and more.

The ill effects on the thyroid range from abnormal thyroid function test findings to overt thyroid dysfunction, with hypothyroidism resulting more commonly than hyperthyroidism.

As your blood sugar levels go up, your pancreas churns out more insulin, resulting in abnormal stress on both your pancreas and liver function.

However, in this analysis, diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus was based on results with highly abnormal serum glucose concentrations of 10.3 mmol / L or more on the 1 - hour 50 - g glucose challenge test — the threshold at which women do not require further confirmatory testing with an oral glucose tolerance test.34

As cartilage degenerates it becomes more fragile and susceptible to injury as a result of the abnormal shearing forces exerted on the now unstable joint.

Excessive licking and chewing may result in secondary infections which cause even more itch, as well as an abnormal odor.

A dog will be CHIC certified even if it has abnormal results for one or more.

Should one of them (or any dog) have abnormal results, please don't look upon this as an opportunity to start a witch hunt, but as an opportunity to learn more about what you are dealing with in any given pedigree.

CHIC is meant to encourage health testing and sharing of all results, normal and abnormal, so that more informed breeding decisions can be made in an overall effort to reduce the incidence of genetic disease and improve canine health.

More precisely the different joint conditions grouped under the name of elbow dysplasia include: a ununited anconeal process (failure of union between the anconeal process and the remainder of the ulna beyond 20 weeks of age), the so - called osteochondrosis dissecans of the humeral condyle (failure of ossification of the articular cartilage covering the humeral condyle, resulting in an abnormal thickening of the articular cartilage and separation between this region and the underlying bone), and finally the fragmentation of the coronoid process (in which the ulnar coronoid process have multiple fragments or most often a single fragment).

Results from the negative binomial regression model demonstrated that more abnormal sites were identified in the intervention group than the control group.

Occasional cases of GDV progress more slowly and less typically, resulting in an abnormal position for the stomach and chronic indigestion.

More alarming are the statistics for the increasing presence of Ehrlichiosis, another tick - borne disease which inhabits and destroys white blood cells, and can result in abnormal bleeding and inflammation, neurological issues, kidney failure and paralysis in dogs.

I tried to list the diseases that abnormal test result suggest more - or-less in the order of frequency with which I see them.

Medical underwriters do expect a certain amount of change in your body due to the pregnancy — increase in blood volume, low iron levels, etc. — but if any change meets their definition of abnormal or results in a condition that will last past the end of the pregnancy, it will make your life insurance policy more expensive.

If you have an abnormal Pap test or positive HPV test result, your doctor or nurse may suggest more tests or treatment.