Sentences with phrase «of severe disease»

Being obese definitely increases your risk of severe disease but there is no evidence that eating organic food, or any other kind, helps at all.

Although suspected, such antibody - dependent enhancement of severe disease has not been shown to occur in humans.

Indeed, recent vaccine trials have shown evidence of severe disease in some recipients who were previously exposed to virus.

A new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of severe disease caused by the novel H1N1 virus again emphasizes that people under age 65 suffer the bulk of hospitalizations and deaths from the virus.

The data show that in 6000 children aged 5 to 17 months, three doses of the vaccine cut the risk of any episode of malaria by 56 % and the risk of severe disease by 47 %.

CDC has investigators in Mexico helping to sort out why that outbreak has apparently caused so many more cases of severe disease.

«The acellular pertussis vaccine produces antibodies against pertussis toxin which is the main cause of severe disease symptoms produced by the whooping cough bacterium.

CDC and health agencies in other countries have been baffled by the lack of severe disease of swine flu outside of Mexico, which now suspects the infection has led to the hospitalization of nearly 2000 people and more than 150 deaths.

In the study of 2200 infants, the vaccine reduced the incidence of severe disease by 88 % compared with the control group.

Vitamin D deficiency was associated with higher prevalence of coronary artery disease, with a 32 percent higher occurrence in patients with the lowest vitamin D levels and a near 20 percent higher frequency of severe disease affecting multiple vessels.

In a new study, led by Imperial College London, the treatment prevented symptoms of severe disease from worsening for five years, in 46 per cent of patients.

There are four strains circulating in the world, and antibodies for each of the strains interact with each other in such a way that if a vaccine does not protect against all forms simultaneously, it could backfire and put a patient at risk of severe disease if exposed to the other types.

By supporting the development of innovative, cutting - edge applications in the areas of super-resolution microscopy, flow cytometry, Raman spectroscopy and metrology, the Cobolt lasers can contribute to advancing the understanding and defeating of severe diseases, to improvements in quality of life and a better environment.

Studies in humans infected with dengue provide strong evidence for an immunologic basis for the pathogenesis of severe disease DHF.

Complications of severe disease can lead to vision loss, although this disorder only rarely threatens total blindness.

Thus, «vaccination enabled the onward transmission of viruses otherwise too lethal to transmit, putting unvaccinated individuals at great risk of severe disease and death,» the authors write online today in PLOS Biology.

Despite efforts to vaccinate, the World Health Organization estimates that the flu virus results in 1 billion infections, 3 to 5 million cases of severe disease, and 300,000 to 500,000 deaths annually.

A new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of severe disease caused by the novel H1N1 virus again emphasizes that people under 65 suffer the bulk of hospitalizations and deaths from the virus.

«In addition, a secondary infection with a different strain is associated with an increased risk of severe disease, suggesting an immune enhancement of the disease.»

What's more, some patients who did not have malaria were given ACTs anyway, and more troubling, some with malaria were not, leaving them at risk of severe disease or death.

Even more concerning, Hopkins says, is that in several settings more than 30 % of patients who tested negative for malaria received ACTs, whereas more than 20 % who were positive did not, leaving them at risk of severe disease or death.

Among children under the age of 5 — the group at the highest risk of severe disease and death from malaria — there were 16 % fewer cases in the villages that received ivermectin at 3 - week intervals.

Plaque and bacteria can invade vital body organs such as the heart and kidneys, and over time can be the cause of severe disease.