Sentences with phrase «muscle wasting conditions»

Radius Health created RAD140 to treat patients with muscle wasting conditions.

He was born with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a life - limiting hereditary muscle wasting condition, which affects all muscles in his body including the heart, lungs and the digestive system.

Not exact matches

Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakness and progressive wasting of the muscles, while ALS impacts nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

And BMI does not account for conditions that cause muscle wasting, potentially giving an obese sick person a normal BMI measurement.

Patients affected by this genetic condition suffer from wasting of skeletal muscles as well as arrhythmia and other cardiac dysfunctions.

Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is a term used for a group of genetic muscle - wasting conditions, in which the symptoms become apparent at an early age.

Robert Meadowcroft, Chief Executive of Muscular Dystrophy UK, commented: «Early stage research identifying genes for muscle - wasting conditions, such as this, gives us valuable insight into better understanding these complex and rare conditions.

Dr Harrison said the study, the culmination of many years of research with the Baker Institute's Dr Paul Gregorevic, was aimed mostly at developing a way of preventing muscle loss in the wasting condition cachexia, in cancer.

Horses with the condition often have a wide range of clinical signs depending on the stage of the disease, from loss of energy to muscle wasting, and the condition is more common in older horses.

However, this condition may also be triggered by poor nutrition, dehydration, overtraining, lack of sleep, and a buildup of metabolic waste in your muscles.

Still, with adequate supplemental nutrients, gelatin does deserve a place in health and healing: for digestive conditions; for those who can not obtain or digest adequate protein (due to its protein - sparing role), and for those with wasting diseases (due to its ability to preserve muscle mass that might otherwise be dismantled in conditions of disease or malnutrition).

Who could have imagined that people suffering from conditions such as osteoporosis, low libido, delayed puberty and muscle wasting could just get a simple testosterone shot and all could be well?

Obviously they're in zero gravity conditions and there's muscle wasting and you know there's bone loss.

Protein restriction causes muscle wasting, a condition called sarcopenia, which is associated with decreased longevity and quality of life.

Dogs and cats that experience muscle wasting are most often displaying symptoms of an underlying health condition.

Nic Bungay, Director of Campaigns, Care and Information for Muscular Dystrophy UK, said: «Microsoft's new Xbox Adaptive Controller will make a real difference to disabled people, particularly those with a muscle - wasting condition whose movements will become increasingly limited over time.

«Microsoft's new Xbox Adaptive Controller will make a real difference to disabled people, particularly those with a muscle - wasting condition whose movements will become increasingly limited over time.