Sentences with phrase «other age related diseases»

Misdiagnosis occurs most frequently in young patients because they are rare in this population and in the elderly because the symptoms of stroke are easily mistaken for other age related diseases.

The health benefits of chia seeds include helping to manage diabetes, aiding to prevent osteoporosis, lowering bad cholesterol, improving gastrointestinal health, and supporting the fight against arthritis and other age related diseases.

A daily serving of papaya has also been shown to reduce the risk of macular degeneration and slows down the progression of other age related diseases.

Repair of DNA damage is essential for protection against cancer and other age related diseases.

Thanks for your comment; I hope Ever ages gracefully without developing arthritis or any other age related disease.

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Emerging technologies successfully stimulate retinas ravaged by retinitis pigmentosa, age - related macular degeneration and other diseases to give sufferers a new lease on light

Can it tell us whether we're more likely than others to get aging - related diseases like heart disease, cancer, or a stroke?

Stem cells may also unlock some of the doors that Alzheimer's and other age - related diseases close.

Their study published last week in Science Translational Medicine demonstrated that the fasting - mimicking diet reduced risks for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other age - related diseases in human study participants who followed the special diet for five days each month in a three - month span.

«We were surprised to find so many similarities between these two diseases, but most striking was that some of these common signatures are shared with other conditions like diabetic retinopathy and age - related macular degeneration,» said William A. Beltran, senior author on the study, an associate professor of ophthalmology in Penn Vet's Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine and director of the Division of Experimental Retinal Therapies.

«This could postpone the development of age - related diseases,» said Mark Y. Jeng, the study's other first author and former graduate student in Ott's lab.

Dillin noted that drugs that lower levels of serotonin have long been used to treat depression and other psychiatric manifestations of neurodegenerative diseases, but the new findings suggest these medications may have more widespread use in age - related disease than was previously thought.

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.

Loss of, or diminished, retinal DHA leads to visual impairment and may play an important role in the development of blindness from retinitis pigmentosa and other retinal degenerative diseases, as well as age - related macular degeneration (AMD), the foremost cause of blindness in people older than 50 years.

What's needed now is confirmation in other groups, says Bard Geesaman, a scientist at Elixir Pharmaceuticals --- which develops drugs for age - related diseases — in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The age simulation is performed, because Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases are age - related diseases.

As in prior studies among older adults, we found that obesity was associated with a decreased risk of dementia, consistent with the hypothesis that, while obesity in mid-life may increase risk for later - life cognitive decline and dementia, obesity at older ages may be associated with cognitive and other health advantages.25 - 27 The trend toward a declining risk for dementia in the face of a large increase in the prevalence of diabetes suggests that improvements in treatments between 2000 and 2012 may have decreased dementia risk, along with the documented declines in the incidence of common diabetes - related complications, such as heart attack, stroke, and amputations.11 Our finding of a significant decline between 2000 and 2012 of the heart disease - related OR for dementia would also be consistent with improved cardiovascular treatments leading to a decline in dementia risk.

That, in turn, could help refine the application of integrin as a therapy for muscular dystrophy and other diseases, and for age - related muscle degeneration.

For example, α - synuclein, a protein that has been linked to Parkinson disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, helps assemble the fusion apparatus and protects animals from age - related neurological problems.

The results may be of importance for research on Alzheimer's disease and other age - related diseases.

The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center is a multidisciplinary group that has forged links between researchers and clinicians to uncover the causes of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other age - related brain diseases and discover ways to prevent and cure these diseases.

They have joined forces with CHS Pharma, Inc., a South Florida - based biotechnology development company that has an intellectual property portfolio for potential treatments related to ischemic stroke, dry macular degeneration as well as other age - related disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, to further develop and commercialize this promising technology.

Discover what scientists are learning about Alzheimer's, cancer, stroke and other age - related diseases;

A passionate believer in the power of regenerative medicine to not only treat disease but also to cure it, Dr. Bosarge launched Black Beret Life Sciences, LLC in 2014, leading research for treatments based on regenerative medicine for cancer, diabetes, neurodegeneration, osteoarthritis, and other conditions related to aging.

Cancer and Alzheimer's both are age - related diseases, but people who get one are less likely to get the other, says MD Anderson scientist Jim Ray, Ph.D..

In particular, common neurological conditions such as stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other chronic neurodegenerative diseases, age - related cognitive impairment, epilepsy, mood disorders and schizophrenia call for new therapeutic strategies.

This research points to exciting new possibilities for preventing or reversing the disabling vision loss caused by age - related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, and other diseases that damage the retina, the layer of light - sensitive nerve cells that line the back of the eye.

Other Institutions also belong to the Campus: the University of Milan; Cogentech, an IFOM - IEO consortium committed to developing leading genomic technologies (nanotechnologies, proteomics, bioinformatics, disease models), the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), that organizes training in emerging sectors of Biomedicine, offering the first European PhDs in Molecular Medicine, Medical Nanotechnologies, Foundations of the Life Sciences and their Ethical Consequences; Genextra, a biotech company whose mission is to develop new therapies against cancer and aging - related disease; Biopolo, a not for profit company involved in the technological transfer of basic research to the productive system.

In the January Journal Club, we discussed the new drug J147 which targets mitochondrial dysfunction to potentially treat Alzheimer's and other age - related diseases.

I wanted to join other researchers in realizing the promise offered by the ability to tease out hardwired genetic programs that, when evoked, improve our resistance to age - related disease, including Huntington's.

Despite the reasonableness of thinking that it would reduce the risk of a range of age - related diseases, so far «the vast majority of the epidemiological data does not support the hypothesis that body iron stores are directly related to the risk of developing CHD,» (2) and there's no evidence that it's protective against any other age - related disorder.»

Following a period of intensive meditation, genes involved with the infectious cycle may get downregulated along with related host genes regulating protein synthesis, an explanation that is supported by other stress reduction interventions that have shown increased innate antiviral activity, such as upregulated Type 1 interferon activity.40 Shorter telomeres in population - based studies have been predictive of earlier onset of chronic diseases of aging, including diabetes, 41 cardiovascular disease9 and certain cancers.42

Epidemiological surveys in humans indicate that muscle aging influences the progression of several age - related diseases in other tissues.

Epidemiological surveys in humans indicate that muscle aging influences the progression of several age - related diseases in other tissues... >> MORE

While Alzheimer's disease and other age - related memory problems affect many older adults, the loss of memory during old - age might not inevitable.

We intend to develop a quantitative, detailed and cohesive definition of neuronal susceptibility to degeneration in the cerebral cortex, by extending data on Alzheimer disease to other dementing disorders as well as animal models of age - related illnesses, and by defining the key neurochemical and morphological characteristics linked to relative vulnerability (or resistance to degeneration) of identified neuronal populations.

At these meetings, members participate in panel discussions with faculty and other experts and develop ideas to promote the Buck Institute globally as a leader in research on aging and age - related disease.

administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound that stimulates bone formation and inhibits bone resorption, wherein said compound is an agonist of a cannabinoid receptor and wherein said subject having a bone disease or condition is a subject having a disease or condition selected from the group consisting of periodontal disease or defect, osteolytic bone disease other than osteoporosis, post-plastic surgery, post-orthopedic implantation, post-dental implantation, age - related osteoporosis, osteoporosis associated with post-menopausal hormone status, primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism, disuse osteoporosis, diabetes - related osteoporosis, osteoporosis associated with depression, osteoporosis associated with hypogonadism and glucocorticoid - related osteoporosis.

«The NFT is thought to be more closely related to memory decline than other forms of aging - related pathologies, but there are still very few genes that have been implicated in the accumulation of this key feature of Alzheimer's disease and other brain diseases.»

The Ellison Medical Foundation supports basic biomedical research, with a current focus on understanding how humans and other organisms age, and on defining the fundamental biological mechanisms that prevent age - related diseases and disabilities.

Trainees will gain knowledge in basic aging mechanisms, and age - related diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, cancer, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, sarcopenia and others.

From October 2001 to June 2006, Science's SAGE KE provided news, reviews, commentaries, disease case studies, databases, and other resources pertaining to aging - related research.

On the other hand, the flavonoids contained in curly dock possess a strong antioxidant ability, which helps protect cells from free radicals, thus preventing age - related diseases and relieving inflammation.

Good nutrition combined with regular exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits can help you slow down Father Time, improve your health and reduce your risk for chronic age - related diseases.

Including a variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices each meal continuously floods our body with antioxidants to help ward off stroke and other age - related diseases.

Successful and safe BHRT, however, necessitates laboratory testing to assess the patient's current hormonal status, monitor treatment, and ensure that hormones are being metabolized in ways that reduce risks for cancer, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, other age - related diseases and declines in cognitive and sexual function.

We hear a lot about eye health and nutrients for the eyes lately, and guess what — pistachios contain generous amount of lutein and zeaxanthin which prevent macular degeneration and other eye diseases related to aging.

This test is used to assess risk of cardiovascular and peripheral vascular disease along with other chronic age - related diseases.

They have a higher antioxidant capacity (ORAC) than most other fruits and vegetables, which helps neutralize free radicals that can cause cell damage leading to cancer, heart disease, and other age - related conditions.

The new recommendations do not take into account the most exciting research emerging about vitamin D concerning its potential to reduce the risk of heart disease, chronic pain, auto - immune syndromes, age - related brain decay, certain types of cancer and other health issues.