Sentences with phrase «of getting the diseases»

«Genetics plays a very big role in your risk of getting these diseases,» Elinor Karlsson, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, told Business Insider.

With Parkinson's, if I had a variant related to the disease, my risk of getting the disease would certainly be increased, but not by much.

Breastfeeding can also reduce the chances for some women of getting diseases such as breast or ovarian cancer later in life.

I think I read somewhere that staying away from gluten for the first year can decrease the chance of him getting the disease.

Scientists have found that mice fed a high fat, Western - style diet give birth to offspring with a higher chance of getting the disease.

Jung Eun Lee, a nutritional epidemiologist at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, for example, showed that a moderate drinker — someone who consumes one medium glass of wine, or its alcohol equivalent, per day — has a 28 % lower risk of getting the disease.

Parker showed that women in the United States who drank more than three standard servings of alcohol (each either about a small glass of wine or a can of beer) per week halved their chance of getting the disease compared with those who never drank alcohol.

Some simple steps may help cut your chances of getting the disease or slow it down, such as pursuing an active life, eating right and staying socially engaged.

By better understanding the limitations of genome - wide sequencing, Vogelstein notes, researchers and policymakers might be better able to direct funding and efforts to areas, such as Alzheimer's disease, where a person's genetic profile might have a very real effect on their likelihood of getting the disease.

Compared with nonsmokers, smokers» odds of getting the disease ranged from more than four times higher for those who smoked a daily pack for less than 20 years in a row, to nearly 70 times higher for those who did so for 80 years or more.

This investment is helping Gladstone scientists more quickly develop therapies for those suffering from Alzheimer's, or who are at increased risk of getting the disease.

If so, does that mean that you're at risk of getting the disease, too?

It turns out that a few lucky people carry a genetic mutation that greatly reduces their risk of getting the disease, an Icelandic team reports in the journal Nature.

It is important to note that black cohosh should be taken for the short - or mid-term only, since there is some evidence that long - term use of black cohosh may cause a slight increase in the likelihood of getting diseases associated with the breasts and uterus.

Genetic predisposition to a given disease will increase the chances of getting the disease, but not in a vacuum.

A risk factor is something that may increase the chance of getting a disease.

When we have stable blood sugar we aren't having constant insulin spikes and troughs — all of which accelerate the aging process and boost your chances of getting diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, alzheimer's and many cancers.

There is enough messy evidence that eating animal protein unnecessarily increases our risk of getting diseases such as cancer without providing overall benefits.

For instance, if your system is underactive, your chances increase of getting diseases easily.

Puppies that have not gotten enough maternal immunity are at more risk of getting a disease.

Clearly, outdoor rabbits are at greater risk of getting this disease.

Cats rarely bite and pierce the skin of other cats they know, but FIV - negative cats may be at risk of getting the disease when a new cat joins a household.

«The chance of getting a disease from animals at Petco is much lower than that from handling raw chicken or beef from your local grocery store,» a spokeswoman says.

This disease is thought to be hereditary, so if the mother and father have this, their puppies are at a higher risk of getting the disease.

Using flea control products to keep Fluffy flea - free can also greatly reduce the odds of getting the disease, she said.

Dogs outside of high - risk regions have a 1 % chance of getting the disease and are generally not given the Lyme Disease Dog vaccine.

as well as their numeracy or capacity for mathematical reasoning (e.g., «If Person A's chance of getting a disease is 1 in 100 in 10 years, and person B's risk is double that of A, what is B's risk?»).

With that in mind, a major analysis looks at the factors associated with the development of Alzheimer's to find which of these might be modified to reduce the chance of getting the disease.

With the current lifestyle, the chances of getting these diseases are increasing day - by - day.

That's not all: Chronic stress has also been linked to an increased chance of getting diseases such as diabetes and influenza, and it even affects the amount of time it takes to recover from sickness and injury.

Not exact matches

That means that, for the first time ever, Americans won't have to get a prescription to receive plain - English medical reports about their chances of developing diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, celiac disease, and other disorders based on analyses of their genetic makeup.

(Smoking substantially increases a person's risk of getting a number of cancers, heart and lung diseases, and other ailments.)

But Mulvaney's comment is reflective of that widespread and entrenched mindset I mentioned up top: the belief that some people, at least to some extent, deserve the diseases they get.

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

It is, in short, a giant iceberg of disease that keeps getting bigger.

And Marathon barely did any actual clinical legwork to get the drug cleared for Duchenne — it relied on 1990 - era clinical trial data before tacking on just enough study material to win an approval that doesn't even address the root cause of the disease.

This San Francisco - based startup is a group of scientists and engineers working to develop new technologies for people with Essential Tremor and Parkinson's disease, a demographic that includes millions of people whose hands shake so much that just getting food into their mouths is a challenge.

Prior to Obamacare's passage, many insurers were free to deny people with pre-existing conditions (including some as common as diabetes, heart disease, epilepsy, obesity, or even arthritis) access to any kind of insurance and could hike rates once a customer got sick.

High prices particularly affect the US, though some other countries have trouble getting access to the medication in the first place, said Sarah Lucas, the CEO of Beyond Type 1, a non-profit focused on education and advocacy related to the disease.

And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population live on less than one dollar a day?

Glen Macdonald, president of the Wealth & Giving Forum, said there could even be a backlash against the bucket challenge because the serious message of a disease is getting lost in all the stunts and videos.

«The GUIDES indicators that focus on some overall macroeconomic indicators,» Chisa recommends, plus «a few other topics that get you a lot of bang for the buck: British Colonialism, nations versus states, Dutch Disease (resource curse), Sovereign Wealth Fund, import substitution, current account balance, fiscal deficit, IMF austerity measures, and the «trilemma» of free - capital flows, independent monetary policy, and fixed exchange rates.»

«When you have these low levels of disease, or no disease at all, it's the best time to get your body to destroy the cancer,» Stanton told CNBC.

Studies have shown that getting between 7 - 9 hours of sleep per night relieves stress, reduces the risk of chronic diseases and even helps muscles and the brain repair and restore proper function.

At the hearing, Dr. David Kimberlin, who specializes in pediatric infectious disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, spoke of a situation in September, around the time Daraprim's price went up after Turing bought the rights to the drug, in which he found barriers to getting the drug because the monthly cost for four tablets suddenly spiked to $ 3,000 from $ 54.

To completely eradicate the deadly disease — which most recently swept through parts of Africa last year, devastating communities and killing thousands of people — anyone who may have come in contact with an infected person would get vaccinated.

It also helps select for survival the strains of the fungus with higher levels of resistance to these chemicals: As the resistant strains become more prevalent, the disease gets harder to control over time.

Exercising regularly as we get older appears to help defend against some of this decline, both for healthy people who show normal signs of aging and for older people who may be on the path toward developing Alzheimer's disease.

«We got involved in biotech in the late 90's when two of our children were diagnosed with a rare genetic disease... at the time there was nothing,» said Crowley «So we really focused as parents initially on what could we do to help drive science to a cure.

A wealth of recent research, including a new study published this month in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, suggests that any type of exercise that raises your heart rate and gets you moving and sweating for a sustained period of time — known as aerobic exercise — has a significant, overwhelmingly beneficial impact on the brain.