Sentences with phrase «patients than healthy people»

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Koprowski says his group plans to investigate whether MS sufferers have lower uric acid levels than healthy people and whether gout patients have a lower MS incidence.

Patients with severe symptoms have more immune molecules circulating in their blood than healthy people

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, in collaboration with Osaka City University and Kansai University of Welfare Sciences, have used functional PET imaging to show that levels of neuroinflammation, or inflammation of the nervous system, are higher in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome than in healthy people.

The researchers found that neuroinflammation is higher in CFS / ME patients than in healthy people.

In other words, patients with a methylation pattern resembling that of healthy people's HSCs (i.e., a «low score») would be more likely to live longer — and therefore benefit more from chemotherapy — than patients with a high score.

Rheumatoid arthritis patients have less diversity in their gut microbes than does the general population, and appear to have an abundance of certain gut bacteria whose numbers are rare in healthy people.

But when Sly syndrome patients produce just 1 per cent of the βglucoronidase found in healthy people, their symptoms are much milder than those of patients who produce no enzyme at all, says Heard.

Patients with major depressive disorder, for example, have been found to fear and suppress both negative and positive emotions more than healthy people do.

In the early 1980s, scientists found that patients suffering from schizophrenia and manic depression were up to 10 times more likely to have antibodies to the virus than healthy people, suggesting that infection might contribute to those diseases.

Not only do patients with alcohol dependency have lower levels of REG3G than healthy people, they also have more bacteria growing there.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Scientists are excited by recent success with fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), transfer of healthy fecal matter into ailing patients, notably those with clostridium difficile (C. diff), a bacterial infection acquired after antibiotics, often in hospitals, that kills more than 15,000 people a year.

hese genes are present in healthy people as well (30 %), but less frequently than in the case of the NCGS patients (50 %)

The test was able to accurately distinguish between heart attack patients and healthy people more than 90 percent of the time, said study researcher Dr. Paddy Barrett, also of Scripps Translational Science Institute.

It also constructs collagen proteins which prevent ageing and keep the skin strong and this study found that acne patients have 40 % less vitamin C than healthy people.

For example comparing skin and blood levels of several antioxidants shows significantly lower levels in acne patients than in people with healthy skin.

Patients with diabetes patients reduced their blood glucose by 25 % and somehow, people with prediabetes symptoms ended up with lower blood sugar than the completely healthy partiPatients with diabetes patients reduced their blood glucose by 25 % and somehow, people with prediabetes symptoms ended up with lower blood sugar than the completely healthy partipatients reduced their blood glucose by 25 % and somehow, people with prediabetes symptoms ended up with lower blood sugar than the completely healthy participants.

According to «USA Today», it costs about $ 1,400 more a year to treat an average obese patient than a person at a healthy weight.