Sentences with phrase «of abnormal results»

This will tell you if HPV is a likely cause of the abnormal results.

Children with autism have no unique pattern of abnormal results on endoscopy or other tests for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, compared to non-autistic children with GI symptoms, reports a study in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (JPGN), official journal of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.

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This increase in abnormal test results can have negative consequences for medicine in the form of extra testing, additional patient visits to clinics / hospitals, and added doctor services, all of which result in additional costs and burdens to patients or to the healthcare system and are potentially harmful.

Abnormal symptoms in one member may be the result of his expressing the pain or acting out the hidden feelings in the whole family.

xii - xiv), which results in giving a relatively low place to abnormal phenomena, and exalting moral and intellectual endowments, and, above all, agape, love or charity, to the highest places, is a genuinely scientific estimate of the situation as it was from the beginning.

Potential subjects were accepted into the study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results in screening blood or urine samples.

Abnormal menses is often the first sign of female athlete triad, a combination of three interconnected medical conditions that ultimately result from poor energy balance: disordered eating, menstrual dysfunction and poor bone strength.

Another special consideration with children is that it's possible to injure the growth plates in fingers, which could result in abnormal growth of the digit.

An abnormal swallow is usually the result of a tight lingual frenum, bottle feeding, pacifier use, noxious infant habits like EXCESSIVE digit sucking, large tongues (macroglossia), enlarged tonsils, and / or obstructed airway.

It is if you are tongue - tied, but most abnormal tongue activity (tongue thrust) is a result of learned behavior.

It occurs fairly frequently in single pregnancies and is often the result of infection, abnormal placenta, or maternal illness (such as gestational diabetes).

This may partly result from their hospital experience of abnormal and problematical labour.

Jaundice which is due to the rapid, abnormal destruction of the baby s blood cells often resulted, in the past, in serious injury or even death for the baby, but this is different from what most babies are now experiencing.

She found that milestone achievement was abnormal in these monkeys: at six to eight weeks they were slow in starting to manipulate, and at ten months the increase in «motor disturbance behaviors» that normally occurs was prolonged.101 The author concludes, «These effects could occur as a result of effects on vulnerable brain processes during a sensitive period, interference with programming of [normal] brain development by endogenous [internal] agents or alteration in early experiences.»

Furthermore, if the blanket is wrapped too tightly around the hips, it can lead to hip dysplasia, a condition that causes the ball of the hip to become dislocated from the hip socket, resulting in abnormal development of the hip joint.

Referrals to craniofacial centers for evaluation of deformational plagiocephaly and brachycephaly are increasing.8 This increase in deformations has been temporally linked to the Back to Sleep program advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992 that advises the avoidance of the prone sleeping position as a method of reducing the rates of sudden infant death syndrome.10,, 12,13 There is a delay in early gross motor milestones in children forced to sleep supine but these delays seem transient and have not been linked as yet to any longer term problems.14 Children who are encouraged to sleep on their backs and develop abnormal head shapes as a result are a different population than children who spontaneously restricted their movement in bed for one reason or another.

The results showed the former players experienced a reduction in fine motor control and abnormal changes in brain function when compared with healthy people of the same age who had never played contact sport.

Hypotonia or «floppy infant syndrome», which may occur with or without muscle weakness and cause abnormal control of the oropharyngeal structures, resulting in weak or uncoordinated sucking

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.

When the birthing passage creates abnormal levels of stress either due to uncontrollable events or to iatrogenic causes, trauma can result.

After a spontaneous, quick and beautiful natural delivery in a hospital we were denied the ability to leave 24 hours after birth because of one * abnormal * test result.

Of these, 20,677 women (4.5 percent) received a borderline abnormal result through a Pap smear and were followed in the study for five years.

The origins of the major types of headaches remain a conundrum: Headaches seem to result from the abnormal brain functions of a completely normal brain structure.

Also limiting the use of therapeutic stem cells to date, self - renewal, a quality so vital to a fast - growing fetus, can also be a source of cancer risk when haphazard, unlimited cell multiplication results in the abnormal tissue growth seen in tumors.

PSC is otherwise difficult to detect, with half of affected individuals not having symptoms until they receive abnormal results from liver function tests.

Like Silver - Russell, this syndrome operated outside the rules of Mendelian disorders like cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, Tay - Sachs, and others that result when parents harbor an abnormal genetic sequence and pass it along to their offspring.

«If we can find ways to block or inhibit CD11b early on, we should be able reduce or limit the amount of abnormal leukocyte trafficking, inflammation, and the resulting demyelination and loss of axons in AIDP,» he said.

The disease is caused by a genetic mutation that leads to abnormal clumps of protein in the brain, eventually resulting in the atrophy and death of nerve cells.

HD is caused by a mutation in the human HTT gene that results in an abnormal expansion and misfolding of the corresponding huntingtin protein.

Investigators at Duke University, led by Erica Davis, PhD, a co-senior author of the report, blocked the gene's expression in zebrafish, which resulted in abnormal facial cartilage, smaller eyes and structural abnormalities of neurons involved in the development of reproductive organs.

But it has been difficult to test whether abnormal methylation happens as a result of a tumour or is a cause of its growth.

The Chilean Rose Tarantula is the source of an important protein used in drugs to stop atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm, or cardiac arrhythmia, which can result in death.

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.

The authors said that this result suggests that the reason bacterial numbers are so high in these mice, and, by extension, human LAD patients, is not because of a defect in the immune system's surveillance mechanism but because of the inflammation caused by the immune system's abnormal response to normal levels of bacteria in the gums.

The researchers found that a common cleft lip and palate gene mutation resulted in abnormal development of salivary gland ducts such that they could not properly pump the buffering liquid and protective immune compounds into the mouth.

Overall, 40 percent of the participants had abnormal results on one of the two color vision tests used in the study.

«In addition, the results of this study provide new mechanisms for how abnormal pigmentation associated with some melanocytic nevi and melanomas might arise as a result of immune responses to the growths.»

Interestingly, this GABA receptor problem is not the result of abnormal or mutated genes.

An important implication of this is that women who receive an abnormal NIPT result should still be advised to confirm this result through a second step of testing if they are considering a termination of pregnancy, the statement authors write.

Epilepsy is a family of encephalopathies characterized by abnormal synchronous and rhythmic neuronal activity in the brain that results in seizures.

Test results showed that temporal lobes looked the same regardless of amyloid level, but the basal forebrain showed notable degeneration among those seemingly healthy adults with abnormal amyloid levels.

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.

Published in the March 31 advance online issue of Cell, their findings reveal that circular RNAs — like their protein counterparts — are also affected by genomic rearrangements in cancer, resulting in abnormal fusions.

Among patients with untreated paroxysmal (intermittent) atrial fibrillation (AF), treatment with electrical energy (radiofrequency ablation) resulted in a lower rate of abnormal atrial rhythms and episodes of AF, according to a study in the February 19 issue of JAMA.

Further study showed that when that spot lost its methylation, the coding regions of the gene were not translated correctly and the resulting protein was abnormal.

For example, chronic wounds are the result of insufficient blood vessel formation, while age - related macular degeneration is the result of abnormal expansion of blood vessels which interfere with normal processes.

«You aren't abnormal, and you have no evidence of disease that affects your memory,» he says, pulling up some slides of my results on a large computer screen on his desk.

«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.

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.