Sentences with phrase «other blood diseases»

The researchers say the special «plasticity» of the blood stem cell that allows them to be transformed to a heart cell, holds important clues about how leukemia and other blood diseases develop and how they can be controlled.

If X-SCID can be cured with no serious side effects, that will ease concerns about the risks of using similar vectors to treat other blood diseases such as sickle cell disease, notes Dunbar.

An artificial bioreactor may in future supply limitless quantities of blood and bone marrow cells for transplantation into people with leukaemia and other blood diseases.

Notably, research groups might be able to apply the approach described in this study to develop treatments for other blood diseases such as β - thalassemia, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), chronic granulomatous disease, rare disorders like Wiskott - Aldrich syndrome and Fanconi anemia, and even HIV infection.

«We hope that eventually rheology can be used as a diagnostics tool to detect early signs for cardiovascular disease as well as various other blood diseases,» he said.

Not exact matches

«When your brain is firing off these synapses of anger, you're weakening your immune system; you're raising your blood pressure, increasing your risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, and a plethora of other negative ailments,» he says.

Data from a number of other studies, including the Nurses» Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow - up Study also report greater risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and metabolic syndrome, which is related to diabetes and cardiovascular problems, for consumers of artificially sweetened beverages.

TORONTO, Mar. 3, 2015 — ChipCare Corporation, a University of Toronto and MaRS Health start - up commercializing a handheld, blood - testing platform for HIV and other infectious and non-communicable diseases has closed a $ 5.045 million Series A financing to bring its first - generation product to market while further developing the platform's next generation products.

Diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure or any other ailment traced to obesity would not be covered becuase gluttony is a mortal sin.

That could have a range of consequences, including effects on blood sugar, regulation of body weight, inflammatory bowel disease, and how drugs and other chemicals are absorbed and metabolized by the body.

It acts as a powerful antioxidant and has been shown to reduce blood sugar, insulin, cholesterol and triglycerides.14 Phytic acid is linked to a reduction in heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and other chronic diseases in people.»

The Malaysian researchers were aware of how reheated oils used over and over in deep fat fryers create hypertension (high blood pressure) and other markers for cardiovascular disease.

Potential subjects were accepted into the study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results in screening blood or urine samples.

It is known that honey has also been found to keep levels of blood sugar fairly constant compared to other types of sugar... It's antioxidant and anti-bacterial properties can help improve digestive system and help you stay healthy and fight disease....

Also, a newborn screening blood test is done before the baby leaves the hospital to look for PKU (phenylketonuria), congenital hypothyroidism, and other diseases that need to be diagnosed early in infancy to ensure successful treatment.

Those «others» will be the kids with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc. in their future and that just isn't fair.

Compression socks are specialized bandages or garments used in compression therapy for the management of lymphedema, chronic venous disease or other blood pressure related conditions.

Extra weight increases the risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and other ailments.

Stress is particularly bad for people as it leads to many health problems such as headache, high blood pressure, or some other harmful diseases.

These unformed stem cells have the ability to turn into mature blood cells — and could save the life of someone who needs a bone marrow transplant, and possibly other diseases, since stem - cell research remains in its infancy, really.

Overweight and obese children are at higher risk of developing serious health problems including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and other respiratory problems, sleep disorders and liver disease.

Morbidity: infections, asthma, atopic eczema, other allergic diseases, type 1 diabetes, blood pressure, and subsequent adult chronic diseases

Other studies have found breastfeeding may reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cardiovascular disease.

Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat dozens of diseases and are being tested in FDA - regulated clinical trials to help people with autism, brain injury, and other conditions.

Donors to HMBANA - accredited milk banks undergo a thorough screening process, including verbal and written questionnaires, a blood test for HIV and other infectious diseases, and medical clearance from the donor's and baby's health providers.

This includes vegetarians and vegans; women who are lactose - intolerant or have certain other food intolerances; smokers and women who abuse other substances; women who are having twins or higher multiples; and women with certain blood disorders and chronic diseases.

Screening for sickle cell disease also finds babies who are carriers of this or other red blood cell diseases.

Although breastfeeding has modest effects on blood pressure (51) and adiposity (52, 53) in later life, it has numerous other health benefits, including protection against infectious disease morbidity (54) and mortality (55) in infancy and a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (56) and improved neural and psychosocial development in the longer term (57, 58).

These disorders — insomnia, restless leg syndrome, jet lag — can worsen other health issues, like blood pressure, anxiety and cardiovascular disease, says Karen Klingman, PhD, an associate professor of nursing at Upstate University Hospital.

He studies the astronaut diets along with protein, vitamin, mineral, and other chemicals in blood and urine to look for indicators of disease or other physiological changes.

Either approach could produce enough HSCs to transplant and — pending further safety testing — potentially treat leukemia, sickle cell disease and other severe blood disorders.

Researchers studied HIV positive individuals, ages 30 to 50 years, who did not have osteoporosis, had no history of immunological disease other than HIV, had serum vitamin D and calcium levels within the normal range, and normal CBC and blood chemistry profiles.

24 Love and Other Drugs, a film by Edward Zwick, director of the 2006 film Blood Diamond, depicts an artist named Maggie (Anne Hathaway) in the early stages of Parkinson's disease.

That number includes people treated for leukemia and other types of cancer, blood disorders and immune diseases.

The combination of changes in oxidised, nitrated and sugar - modified amino acids in blood enabled early stage detection and classification of arthritis — osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or other self - resolving inflammatory joint disease.

While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss.

It also sought to match epigenetic changes and genetic differences to the physical characteristics of each cell type and use this knowledge to understand how these can lead to blood disorders, cancer and other complex diseases.

The WHI hormone therapy trials assessed heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, blood clots, colorectal cancer, hip fractures and deaths from other causes in women who used the hormones versus those who took a placebo.

The study included 3,731 obese adults and overweight adults who had at least one other risk factor for heart disease, such as prediabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

Studies by Schwarzschild's team and others have found that healthy people with naturally occurring blood levels of urate within the high normal range appear to have a reduced risk of developing Parkinson's and that the disease may progress more slowly in those with higher urate levels.

The researchers analyzed how the changes affected indicators of cardiovascular health, such as blood pressure, heart rate and other markers for heart disease and stroke, like high «bad» cholesterol levels.

A new strategy — an injectable antibody — for lowering blood lipids and thereby potentially preventing coronary artery disease and other conditions caused by the build - up of fats, cholesterol, and other substances on the artery walls, is supported by findings from two new studies from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists first used cyclophosphamide to prevent severe graft - versus - host disease (GVHD) after bone marrow transplant involving haploidentical or «half - matched» transplants, a treatment first used in 2000 at the Cancer Center to treat leukemias and other blood cancers.

«People with psoriasis, particularly those with more severe disease, have an increased risk for a variety of other health problems, including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke and heart attack,» says board - certified dermatologist Jashin J. Wu, MD, FAAD, director of dermatology research at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

«Several lifestyle - related chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases can contribute to kidney disease,» Saran says.

Diabetic patients suffer from high blood glucose or sugar, putting them at risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, nerve damage, blindness, and other complications.

The research suggests there are more people infected in lymphoid tissues, who may never develop the disease but could still infect others via blood transfusions or organ donations

Although tau buildup is found in other brain diseases, like Alzheimer's, in CTE, the protein congregates in brain cells around small blood vessels.

The transplanted cells would flourish into healthy blood cells, immune cells, or other elements the fetus lacked, the thinking went, thereby halting damage that a disease was already inflicting in the womb.