Sentences with phrase «of killer diseases»

In early 1977, the committee released the Dietary Goals for Americans, blaming what they saw as an «epidemic» of killer diseases — obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer — on changes in the American diet that had occurred in the previous fifty years, specifically the increase in «fatty and cholesterol - rich foods.»

The party noted that the rallies were thwarting Nigeria's efforts to control the spread of the killer disease.

Not exact matches

Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off of people's radars and so difficult to treat in an age of therapies which can resemble magic?

Good news: Deaths from cancer and heart disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related to HIV.

Worldwide, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the # 1 killer of men and women.

Whilst we can't know the future of course, for financial planning purposes the probability is that life expectancy on average will increase in the future as medicine advances to cure or limit the big killers (cancer, cardiovascular disease etc).

The causes of Disease and Religion are the most prolific killers of people on this planet both past and present.

And by replacing eggs with TOFU you significantly reduce your cholesterol & saturated fat intake which reduces your risk of HEART DISEASE (the leading killer in the US).

Not only are these monocultures of carbohydrate rich crops deficient in most essential micronutrients, through industrial breeding they are introducing new deficiencies that are leading to killer diseases.

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. And heart disease is often a silent killer.

This is strange given that heart disease is the number 1 killer of women — 1 in 4 deaths among women is due to cardiovascular disease whereas 1 in 38 deaths are due to breast cancer.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), car crashes are the No. 1 killer of teenagers, claiming 3000 young lives every year.

Disease: Sleep deprivation alters immune function, including the activity of the body's killer cells.

«The Community Health Status Report shows Dutchess County making continued improvement in driving down the rates of death and hospitalization from chronic diseases, including heart disease, the nation's number one killer,» said DBCH Commissioner Henry M. Kurban, MD, MBA, MPH, FACPM.

At the meeting, the wife of the Zamfara State governor and chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Asmau Abdulaziz Yari, said drug abuse is a «killer disease» that people tend to shy away from.

He's slammed the government for its decision to celebrate the birth of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), a political movement that begun the struggle for Ghana's independence from British rule, at a time the country has run out of stock of vaccines against the six killer diseases.

He said anybody that wanted evidence about Ghana's dire need for aid, should go to the health sector where many Ghanaian children were dying of childhood killer diseases because donor countries had cut back on vaccine donations.

Lung and heart diseases are the principal killers, but smoking contributes to a broad range of other maladies.

Among the grim catalog of predictions is that the current top two killers — heart disease and stroke — will hold on to their rankings.

According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, in 1990 — the last year for which reliable figures are available — AIDS was responsible for 17 per cent of all deaths in men aged between 25 and 44, compared with 11.5 per cent in 1988, when it ranked as the number three killer after heart disease and «unintentional deaths», from accidents such as car crashes for eDisease Control in Atlanta, in 1990 — the last year for which reliable figures are available — AIDS was responsible for 17 per cent of all deaths in men aged between 25 and 44, compared with 11.5 per cent in 1988, when it ranked as the number three killer after heart disease and «unintentional deaths», from accidents such as car crashes for edisease and «unintentional deaths», from accidents such as car crashes for example.

«Awareness of this silent, but deadly killer may help prevent those with early - stage kidney disease from progressing,» Saran says.

«Upsetting a fragile alliance triggers a deadly childhood disease: Study bolsters the fight against SMA, the leading genetic killer of newborns.»

In fact, the big killer diseases of history all came to us from microbes living in other species, overwhelmingly from other warm - blooded mammals and, to a lesser extent, from birds.

The main killer — outside of ongoing destruction of habitat — is a fungal disease known as chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis).

«The most obvious benefit was a reduction of 29 percent in deaths from heart disease — the major killer of people in America,» said Charles S. Fuchs, MD, MPH, director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Center at Dana - Farber, who is the senior author of the report.

Blending medicine and Darwinian biology, Ewald considers cancer and other diseases from the pathogen's point of view, showing how natural selection determines why the smallpox virus, for instance, is a ruthless killer while viruses for the common cold are relatively benign.

The mosquito - borne disease is still one of the biggest killers in developing countries with a death toll of a million each year.

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is the leading cause of America's No. 1 killer of both women and men: heart disease.

Prof. Mandelboim and his research collaborators found that the NKp46 receptor present on Natural Killer or NK cells (an essential part of the immune system) play a critical role in the development of the disease in mice.

But scientific and economic obstacles have stymied the development of effective vaccines against many of the developing world's most deadly diseases, such as malaria and HIV as well as pneumococcus, the leading vaccine - preventable killer of children under the age of five.

A team of researchers from Australia and France have uncovered new insights into how to prolong the lifespan of the body's disease - fighting natural killer (NK) cells.

Measles — along with tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis — is one of the six childhood «killer diseases» targeted by World Health Organization (WHO) mass immunization programs.

If it works, that could spark a true revolution in the understanding and treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other major DNA - mediated killers.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to be able to intervene in the aging process itself, rather than addressing killers like heart disease or cancer in isolation, Belsky said.

More than a quarter of the avoidable deaths in the developing world are already caused by TB, a disease that kills 3 million people a year — making it a bigger killer even than malaria.

They have also begun examining whether these individuals are resistant to other aging - related killers, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease — both linked to dysfunctional production or metabolism of insulin and IGF - 1.

Dr Nimalan Arinaminpathy, lead author of the research, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London said: «TB is the top infectious disease killer worldwide, yet we have had little idea of the true scale of the problem in India — the worst affected country.

It is often considered to be something of a «silent killer» because most people feel well, unaware that they have a liver problem, until the disease is at an advanced stage.

The 2013 Global Burden of Disease study estimated there to be 800,000 pneumonia deaths annually worldwide and the disease continues to be the number one infectious killer of children under the age of five, with more deaths than HIV, TB and malaria coDisease study estimated there to be 800,000 pneumonia deaths annually worldwide and the disease continues to be the number one infectious killer of children under the age of five, with more deaths than HIV, TB and malaria codisease continues to be the number one infectious killer of children under the age of five, with more deaths than HIV, TB and malaria combined.

Two new strains of mad cow disease, the brain - destroying killer linked to rogue proteins known as prions, turned up this year in Europe.

«Meta - analysis: Bug and weed killers, solvents may increase risk of Parkinson's disease.»

The research found that exposure to bug or weed killers and solvents increased the risk of developing Parkinson's disease by 33 to 80 percent.

For the analysis, researchers reviewed 104 studies that looked at exposure to weed, fungus, rodent or bug killers, and solvents and the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.

In controlled studies, exposure to the weed killer paraquat or the fungicides maneb and mancozeb was associated with two times the risk of developing the disease.

As exciting as these findings are, we have to keep in mind that the majority of adult Americans are at high risk for heart disease, the number one killer in the U.S..

A large analysis of more than 100 studies from around the world shows that exposure to pesticides, or bug and weed killers, and solvents is likely associated with a higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease.

But while Americans have dutifully reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since 1970, the obesity rate during that time has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled, and heart disease is still the country's biggest killer.

THE protein behind a group of fatal brain diseases is transformed into a killer by an unidentified partner, according to a study released last week.

In human history and before the advent of antibiotics, tuberculosis was one of the great infectious disease killers in the world.

For the first time, an infectious disease isn't the leading killer of infants around the world.