Sentences with phrase «predisposed conditions»

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Most of the victims acquire the infection while in the hospital or have predisposing conditions such as a weakened immune system.

The new studies identify activation of endothelial Toll - like receptor 4 by Gram - negative bacteria as a critical event in formation of cerebral cavernous malformations, a significant predisposing condition for stroke and seizure for which effective medical therapies are lacking.

Patients with a positive glucose breath test and predisposing conditions to SIBO entered into the study, and were randomized to receive rifaximin 1200 mg / day or rifaximin 1200 mg / day plus partially hydrolysed guar gum 5 g / day for 10 days.

For many women, hormones clearly play a role in migraine, so having an endocrine disorder would certainly make the potential for migraine greater for anyone predisposed the condition.

A complete blood count, blood chemistry profile, and urinalysis are useful, particularly in adult dogs to exclude predisposing conditions or when deep pyoderma is a confounding factor.

A diagnosis of degenerative joint disease or osteoarthritis warrants further evaluation to determine the underlying cause of the problem, such as, hip dysplasia, patellar subluxation or any other predisposing condition.

Predisposing conditions usually can not be identified, although it remains important to rule out causes of intestinal stasis, such as neoplasia and intussusception.

Not only is Malassezia a secondary cause of dermatitis in any dog with one of these predisposing conditions, but it may be the primary or initiating cause of skin problems in certain breeds of dogs.

Certainly, any pet with a predisposing condition such as one of those listed above should be screened.

Although glaucoma itself was not shown to be inherited, the close association between the predisposing condition (goniodysgenesis) and the disease and the high heritability of goniodysgenesis can be taken to indicate that glaucoma is inherited.

The exact cause of the disease in cats is not known, although obesity (the major predisposing condition), chronic pancreatitis, other hormonal diseases (e.g., hyperthyroidism, Cushing's disease, and acromegaly), and certain medications (e.g., megestrol acetate and corticosteroids like prednisolone) have all been linked to the disease.

There are many other causes and predisposing conditions (diabetes, cushings dz, stones, etc.) that your veterinarian may want to screen her for if she continues to have problems, but one uti that responds nicely to antibiotics is usually not a real big worry.

By this I mean there is a predisposing condition underlying the diabetes that allowed this animal to come down with these particular symptoms.

But if it turns out Buttercup does indeed have a bacterial infection, it would be prudent to look for predisposing conditions like bladder stones or diabetes mellitus.

Not exact matches

DNA tests can tell you where your family is from and what health conditions you might be predisposed to get.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

When we are born we find ourselves already conditioned and predisposed toward a life that is alienated from God's will and alienated from faith in God.

There is much to be said for such conditioning and predisposing factors, but they do not fully cover the case.

Maintain and promote health and safety of athlete in training and competition by: Identifying conditions that may limit participation or predispose an athlete to injury, disability, or (in rare cases) death;

And it could be useful in dealing with any predisposed medical conditions your child may have in the years to come.

But the precise risk of these conditions developing in children of older fathers has not been calculated, and other predisposing genetic and environment factors are likely to play a role.

Formula's lack of basic fats that breast milk supplies may predispose your infant to heart and central nervous system conditions as an adult, according to the website Ask Dr. Sears.

I think that there are certain cases where most of us would, certain conditions would predispose the baby to iron deficiency, prematurity because a lot of the Iron actually, the vast majority of Iron is occurred during the third trimester.

However, it is possible that these foreign proteins, in the presence of proinflammatory cytokines and other immune factors, predispose infants to this condition.

Additional human studies are needed to explore how individual differences in maternal breast milk composition could predispose to intestinal inflammatory conditions, such as allergic disease.

This is especially critical since Andrew Lansley has rightfully placed patient health outcomes at the heart of Government reforms; a pressing imperative given rising public health challenges and an aging population predisposed to long - term conditions (LTCs).

«The results raise significant questions over the long - term effects of infertility and whether it is infertility itself or an underlying condition that predisposes an individual to infertility that drives these increased risks,» Stentz said.

Research has demonstrated an association between COPD and inflammation, raising the question of whether prolonged inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis predispose individuals to COPD.

These findings could include genetic variants that would predispose patients and their family to a variety of conditions including other cancers, Alzheimer's, and cardiovascular disease.

This one predisposed her to long QT syndrome, a condition that dramatically increases the risk of sudden cardiac death.

«As opposed to the normal process of gradually linking up different centers in the brain after a stimulus, chronic pain patients have conditions that predispose them to linking up in an abrupt, explosive manner,» says first author UnCheol Lee, Ph.D., a physicist and assistant professor of anesthesiology at Michigan Medicine.

Previous explanations for the condition include the suggestion that people are evolutionarily predisposed to respond to clusters of round shapes because these shapes are also found on poisonous animals, like some snakes and the blue - ringed octopus.

The one - two punch of warming waters and ocean acidification is predisposing some marine animals to dissolving quickly under conditions already occurring off the Northern California coast, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

This incompletely inactivation of genes on the X chromosome, including many immunity - related genes, may help explain why females are predisposed to many autoimmune conditions and also have stronger immune responses than males.

Bone growth in the womb and in early infancy is linked to overall bone strength later in life, and weaker bones in infancy and childhood may predispose to conditions such as osteoporosis in older age.

Researchers gave animal models an oral supplement of spermidine and found that they lived longer and were less likely than untreated individuals to have liver fibrosis and cancerous liver tumors, even when predisposed for those conditions.

But scientists are accumulating a growing list of other risk factors that predispose people to this condition, including prenatal exposure to famine conditions, certain infections or exposure to lead.

The researchers say this supports the «female protective effect» hypothesis because females with autism carry greater genetic load predisposing them to develop the condition, compared to males.

German Shepherd Dogs (GSDs) could be predisposed to health conditions such as arthritis because of the way they have been bred in recent decades, according to a new study published in the open access journal Canine Genetics and Epidemiology.

'' [Type 1 diabetes] is clearly is one of these complex genetic disorders,» involving mutations in several genes acting in concert to predispose someone to the condition, says Hakon Hakonarson, director of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Applied Genomics and lead author of the new study, published this week in the online edition of Nature.

It has been reported that German Shepherds are predisposed to conditions such as abnormal formation of the hip joint, cancer and degenerative spinal disorders, but the extent to which these conditions are prevalent in the population are unclear.

In the next decade, molecular research is going to further develop along five lines: predictive medicine, that investigates the genetic conditions predisposing to tumor risk; early molecular diagnosis; the evaluation of each patient's prognosis based on his / her genetic profile, in other words, the analysis of what kind of mutation affects the DNA of altered cells; the investigation of the individual response to drugs, based on our genetic knowledge; «smart drugs», molecules able to hit the target in a selective way, killing only the deprogrammed cells.»

Inclusion Criteria: • Availability of tumor tissue for mesothelin expression testing • Histologically - confirmed, mesothelin - expressing metastatic or advanced non-metastatic disease (tumour type specific inclusion criteria) • At least one measurable lesion according to either Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 or International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) modified RECIST 1.1 as applicable • Adequate bone marrow, liver, renal and coagulation function • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50 % of the lower limit of normal (LLN) according to local institutional ranges • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0 or 1 Exclusion Criteria: • More than one prior anti - tubulin / microtubule agent • Corneal epitheliopathy or any eye disorder that may predispose the patients to this condition • Symptomatic Central nervous system (CNS) metastases and / or carcinomatous meningitis • Contraindication to both CT and MRI contrast agents • Active hepatitis B or C infection • Pregnant or breast - feeding patients • Tumor type specific exclusion criteria

Thanks to the discovery of new genetic markers for a hereditary form of Alzheimer's though, researchers can now examine people genetically predisposed to the condition to see what changes their bodies go through well before symptoms appear.

«These people are more at risk of developing fatty liver disease, just as those with fatty liver disease are more at risk of developing diabetes, since obesity is being a predisposing factor for both conditions,» says Softic.

And that means that they're also predisposed to the same genetic conditions — like cancer susceptibility.

As a result, the disease generates age - like conditions: It wipes out affected individuals» bone marrow, predisposes them to a variety of human cancers, and gives them splotchy skin, ratty fingernails, and prematurely gray hair.

The latest science says that there's no need to do blood tests for B12, iron, calcium or even vitamin D unless you're experiencing symptoms of a deficiency or you have a condition, like celiac or inflammatory bowel disease, that predisposes you to one.