Sentences with phrase «of a variety of diseases including»

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Chronic inactivity contributes to a wide variety of medical problems, including premature aging, obesity, heart disease, chronic fatigue, and hypertension.

Even better, consuming nuts is linked to a variety of health benefits including reduced risk of heart disease, hypertension, cancer, inflammation, and cholesterol - lowering effects.

The SCD is used to treat a variety of GI disorders including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), irritable bowel disease (IBD), celiac disease (CD), Chron's, and ulcerative colitis (UC).

Research collaboration is ongoing, including pest and disease management, sustainable farming systems, and conserving the genetic diversity of rice, with breeding new rice varieties remaining a priority.

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) also reports this about occupations that have a higher level of exposure to hazardous chemicals, «Dermal exposure to hazardous agents can result in a variety of occupational diseases and disorders, including occupational skin diseases (OSD) and systemic toxicity.»

Pasteurized donor human milk can be used to help infants with a variety of conditions, including prematurity, allergies, feeding intolerance, immunologic deficiencies, post-operative nutrition, treatment of some infectious diseases, and treatment of certain inborn errors of metabolism.

She coordinates professional nursing education programming at AWHONN and represents AWHONN to a variety of national organizations including the National Maternal Health Initiative, the Center for Disease Control's Select Panel on Preconception Care, and the HHS Maternal Immunization Working Group.

Speak with counsellors about a variety of topics, including the risk or safety of prescription and over-the-counter drugs, herbal products, chemicals, x-rays, chronic disease and infections, and everyday exposures during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.

In 2015, the World Trade Health Organization classified processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen, citing scientific evidence that processed meats such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausages, and some deli meats can increase risk of a variety of diseases, including diabetes, multiple cancers, and respiratory illnesses.

To establish the relevance of their findings, the team tested blood samples from healthy humans, as well as those with a variety of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's.

For researchers using mouse models to study a variety of cancers, including lymphoma, melanoma, breast, and prostate cancers as well as autoimmune and infectious diseases, the panel facilitates a highly sensitive and high - throughput investigation of biomarkers associated with disease progression.

These courses cover a variety of topics, including the physiology and pathology of disease, methodology, statistics and audit, and other issues related to the health service.

They have been linked to a variety of medical conditions, including allergies, immune diseases, and even obesity.

Bee declines are attributed to a variety of factors, including parasites, pesticides and urbanization, as well as fungal, bacterial and viral diseases.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

In September Michael Skinner of Washington State University announced that his lab rats inherit, epigenetically, their parents» propensity for a variety of humanlike diseases, including breast cancer, kidney disease, and high cholesterol.

Buttke is interested in using public interest in personal health as a way to increase support for public green space, and enhancing public understanding of how human actions can drive infectious disease spread through a variety of avenues including school programs, websites, and smart phone apps.

«People with psoriasis, particularly those with more severe disease, have an increased risk for a variety of other health problems, including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke and heart attack,» says board - certified dermatologist Jashin J. Wu, MD, FAAD, director of dermatology research at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

These findings could include genetic variants that would predispose patients and their family to a variety of conditions including other cancers, Alzheimer's, and cardiovascular disease.

Previous studies have shown links between human gut bacteria and increased risk of a wide variety of diseases including diabetes, autism, heart disease, and even some forms of cancer.

Mitochondrial defects are often observed in a variety of diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, and are the hallmarks of a number of genetic mitochondrial disorders whose manifestations range from muscle weakness to organ failure.

Chlorine effectively kills a large variety of microbial waterborne pathogens, including those that can cause typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera and Legionnaires» disease.

We hope this leads to the ability to design, study and test new therapies for every patient on their own cells in the lab, leading to new treatments and breakthroughs in personalized medicine for individuals with a variety of lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis,» explained lead author Katherine McCauley, a PhD student at BUSM.

The report concludes the growing interest in a gluten - free diet by people without celiac disease could be due to a variety of factors, including public perception that it may be healthier, the growing availability of gluten - free products, and a self - diagnosis of gluten sensitivity by some individuals.

A drug - like molecule developed by Duke Health researchers appears to intercede in an inflammatory response that is at the center of a variety of diseases, including some cancers, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease.

The specimens come from a variety of animal species, including okapi, platypus, and sloth, and are embedded in paraffine wax as soon as they arrive to the lab, where scientists study them to help vets diagnose and treat eye diseases.

A molecule that helps cells stick together is significantly over-produced in two very different diseases — rheumatoid arthritis and a variety of cancers, including breast and brain tumors, concludes a new study.

The propensity of proteins to stick together in large clumps — termed «protein aggregation» — is the culprit behind a variety of conditions including Huntington's, Alzheimer's, and mad cow diseases.

Although this is not the first major health crisis that HealthMap has covered — the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic was one of its largest efforts — the Ebola outbreak has pushed the site in new directions in an effort to provide information for a variety of institutions, including the WHO, the United Nations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«This is relevant to a variety of diseases associated with chronic inflammation, including cancer, and could yield new therapeutic targets.»

A breakdown in autophagy can lead to a wide variety of diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and Huntington disease.

Proteobacteria include a wide variety of pathogens, such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Legionellales (which causes Legionnaires» disease.)

It is expected the breakthrough could have a major impact on the development of therapies for a variety of diseases, including cancer.

In Changchun, Tong Yuan Stem Cell claims to have treated more than 10,000 patients with a variety of disorders, including Parkinson's disease.

The letter further contends that recent chimp studies for the first time have identified «unique features of the human brain and have documented the unusual vulnerability of humans to a variety of disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, infectious diseases, cancer, and heart disease.»

Over the last few decades, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have become one of the most important approaches to treating a variety of diseases, including cancers, autoimmune disorders, and, to a smaller degree, infectious diseases.

Physicians reported a wide variety of reasons that parents reported for wanting to spread out the vaccines, including short - and long - term complications, belief that their child is unlikely to get a vaccine - preventable disease, and concern that their child would develop autism.

The review reports that liver transplantation is the most effective treatment for many patients with end - stage liver disease and irreversible hepatic failure resulting from a variety of causes, including hepatocellular carcinoma.

Prescriptions for inhaled or oral corticosteroids (a class of steroid hormones used to treat a variety of conditions including some skin diseases, certain allergic reactions, asthma, and joint pain or inflammation, among other health concerns)

«Since mGluR5 is considered a target for treating a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease and Fragile X Syndrome, our research may have implications for therapies for diseases beyond depression.»

The ecology of the gut microbiome may trigger or contribute to a variety of diseases, including autoimmune disorders and obesity, research suggests.

Mitochondrial diseases affect at least 1 in 5000 people and can lead to a variety of serious, incurable metabolic diseases, including disorders of...

«In the future, these may lead to treatments for a variety of brain disorders, including psychiatric and cognitive conditions as well as neurodegenerative diseases.»

¿ - herpesviruses, which include the human oncogenic viruses Kaposi Sarcoma - associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV), are a family of large double - stranded DNA lymphotrophic viruses that are the causative agents of a variety of disorders, including lymphoproliferative diseases, lymphomas, as well as other nonlymphoid cancers in mammals.

Complementing its extensive capabilities, PsychoGenics offers a variety of validated mouse models including in - licensed transgenic models that support research in areas such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Autism spectrum disorders, psychosis / schizophrenia, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), muscular dystrophy and other muscle disorders.

Active tuberculosis is treatable (and curable), but disease control and treatment adherence are complicated by a variety of factors, including availability of healthcare resources, multidrug - resistant tuberculosis strains and potentially toxic side effects of treatment.

We report a variety of biallelic effects on organismal phenotype attributable to combinations of recessive Xpd alleles, including the following: (i) the ability of homozygous lethal Xpd alleles to ameliorate a variety of disease symptoms when their essential basal transcription function is supplied by a different disease - causing allele, (ii) differential developmental and tissue - specific functions of distinct Xpd allele products, and (iii) interallelic complementation, a phenomenon rarely reported at clinically relevant loci in mammals.

Gammaherpesviruses, which include the human oncogenic viruses Kaposi Sarcoma - associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV), are a family of large double - stranded DNA lymphotrophic viruses that are the causative agents of a variety of disorders, including lymphoproliferative diseases, lymphomas, as well as other nonlymphoid cancers in mammals.

The UChicago Medicine pancreatic disease care team includes physicians from a variety of specialties, including gastroenterology, interventional endoscopy, surgery, oncology, radiology, pathology, pain management and genetics.

This approach is now being used to derive embryonic stem cells from a variety of strains including disease models from which in vitro tools are in demand, including mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, cytogenetic disorders (Turner's syndrome and Down syndrome), and tool strains for systems genetics.