Sentences with phrase «on lung damage»

«These lung breakdown products have never been identified in TB before, and have the potential to be used as new markers to identify patients with TB and monitor the effect of new treatments on lung damage.

Not exact matches

On Oct. 13, Price was kicked and punched repeatedly in the middle of the street after buying cigarettes at a 24 - hour deli on College Point Boulevard around 4:30 a.m., He suffered a fractured jaw and ribs, a damaged lung and a lacerated spleeOn Oct. 13, Price was kicked and punched repeatedly in the middle of the street after buying cigarettes at a 24 - hour deli on College Point Boulevard around 4:30 a.m., He suffered a fractured jaw and ribs, a damaged lung and a lacerated spleeon College Point Boulevard around 4:30 a.m., He suffered a fractured jaw and ribs, a damaged lung and a lacerated spleen.

E-cigarette vapors also «produced mild effects on the lungs, including inflammation and protein damage,» notes Thomas Sussan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, lead author of the study, published February 4 in PLOS ONE.

A protracted legal battle over an $ 11.5 - million health study into whether diesel exhaust damages the lungs of miners has suddenly widened to take on scientific peer review.

She found that kids in Fresno were more likely to develop asthma not due to lung damage, but because changes on the surfaces of just two genes — and likely more — altered the way their lungs worked.

You could argue that if tobacco companies had a monopoly on lung health research, it's possible that the damaging effects of tobacco smoke would not have come out as quickly.

«Most lung cancers are first diagnosed based on symptoms, which indicate that the normal lung functions have been already damaged,» Zeng said.

Drinking alcohol has a variety of damaging effects on the immune system and organs — like the gut, liver and lung — which can be worsened by pre-existing conditions as well as consumption of prescription and over-the-counter medications that aged individuals often take.

«The introduction of mitochondria into damaged cells has beneficial effects on the health of cells and, in the long term, we believe that mesenchymal stem cells could even be engineered to create more effective therapies for lung disease in humans.»

Our investigations on human cell lines in the laboratory have shown that synthetic cannabinoids, in the high concentrations found in cells in the oral cavity or in the lungs, for example, are likely to trigger damage to the DNA that may have significant consequences for the consumers of such substances.

And if the coal plant lacks pollution controls — or fails to turn them on — it can amplify the extent of smog, acid rain, lung - damaging microscopic soot and other ills that arise from burning fossil fuels.

Now a team at Harvard has designed a device that smokes cigarettes and sends the smoke through a human lung small airway - on - a-chip to examine just how the habit damages health.

No matter how hard you try to avoid it, it's nonetheless true: your poor posture creates serious repercussions on your physical and mental health, ranging from headaches, decreased lung capacity and neck pain to impinged nerves and damaged intervertebral spinal discs.

Alcohol can have a strong impact on the production of oxidative stress, because it is not metabolized in the liver — leading to alcoholic liver disease.6, 7 The development of oxidative stress is also related to smoking, which suppresses the immune response and damages lung function.8 What may seem like a surprising factor is the use of pharmaceutical drugs and radiation.

Depending on what chemo drug is used, different damages can be done to the blood systems including: cardiac toxicity, damage to blood - cell forming tissues, and lung damage.

The researchers counted the number of damaged cells in the mice's lungs, and calculated a Pathology score based on this.

The FDA has done extensive research on these colorants, and many have been deemed unsafe for use around mouth, eyes, and nose (where they can be ingested, damage eyesight, or infiltrate your lungs).

Killing the adult worms is physically very hard on a dog, requiring hospitalization and four weeks of limited activity to prevent damage to the lungs as the adult heartworms die.

Heartworms hide on the inside of your puppy and are an insidious parasite transmitted by mosquitoes that can cause heart and lung damage and ultimately kill your pet.

[1] The parasite is commonly called «heartworm»; however, adults often reside in the pulmonary arterial system (lung arteries), as well as the heart, and a major effect on the health for the animal is a manifestation of damage to the lung vessels and tissues.

It sounds like you have a very good handle on the etiology of the situation (early infection — > mild lung damage --- >» chronic bronchitis»).

This treatment kills the adult heartworms quickly and reduces the amount of damage they inflict on the heart and lungs.

The reason it took so long to adopt him was that his xrays showed some lung damage and heart enlargement from the heartworms and they were trying to make sure he was stable and that there wasn't anything else going on.

These signs are a result of on - going damage to the heart and lungs.

The signs of heartworm disease depend on the number of adult worms present, the location of the worms, the length of time the worms have been present and the degree of damage to the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.

By their physical presence, they cause harm in two ways: they block the normal forward flow of blood, causing an excessive workload on the heart, and they also damage the inner lining of the blood vessels, which gives rise to blood clots that cut off circulation to parts of the lungs.

This cough is due to three things: bronchitis that develops as pieces of dying worms become trapped in the lungs, fluid that accumulates in the lungs as the heart fails and the enlarged damaged heart pressing on the pet's wind pipe.

While she was working on Le Paradis Fantastique with Jean, Saint Phalle's lungs were severely damaged by polyester resin toxic fumes.

Burning fossil fuels is damaging our planet as badly as tobacco smoke damages our lungs, so why not have warning labels on gasoline?

A Florida jury made history on Friday, July 18th, by awarding nearly $ 24 billion in punitive damages to a widow whose husband died of lung cancer.

In many cases, small atrial septal defects will often «close» on their own during infancy or early childhood, however larger ADS's or long lasting ADS's can go on to damage ones» heart and lungs.