Sentences with phrase «previously studied the diseases»

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«Taken together with previously established benefits of egg intake on HDL profiles, these findings further support the notion that eggs serve as a functional food to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with metabolic syndrome,» says Catherine Andersen, lead study author and PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut.

«Genetic heart diseases cause fewer SIDS deaths than previously thought, study finds.»

Previously Bao and her colleagues observed an association between increased nut consumption and reduced risk of major chronic diseases and even death, but few prospective cohort studies had examined the link between nut intake and inflammation.

A multicenter study that previously reported a reduction in heart attack and stroke with a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or with nuts now also reports a lower risk of peripheral artery disease, according to a study in the January 22/29 issue of JAMA.

A new study indicates that bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in plastic bottles and can linings that has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and liver failure, may linger in the body far longer than previously believed.

As a group, women in the study were older than men and were less likely to have been previously diagnosed with coronary artery disease.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications on 17 September, John Baines, Saleh Ibrahim and their colleagues of the Inflammation Research Excellence Cluster show that composition of skin microbiota is controlled by the host genome and that skin bacteria may have a greater influence on inflammatory diseases than previously thought.

A new Michigan State University study provides further evidence that a simple scratch - and - sniff test could predict Parkinson's disease even earlier than previously thought.

High risk patients in this study were those with previously diagnosed heart disease or diabetes.

This is also the first study of its kind to show that Alzheimer's disease can lead to diabetes, as opposed to diabetes occurring first as was previously thought.

While the effects in mice are distinct from what happens in people with herpes, the study reveals a previously unrecognized disease process.

The St. Laurent Institute, a non-profit medical research institute focused on the systems biology of disease, today announced in a study published in the July edition of Genome Biology, that genetic matter, previously ignored by the scientific community, may play an important role in cancer.

The discovery could shed light on why many human genetic studies have previously not been able to fully explain how certain diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and obesity, are inherited.

A key test will come with a Phase IIb study by Benevolent to assess a previously unsuccessful compound from Johnson & Johnson in a new disease area - this time for treating Parkinson's disease patients with excessive daytime sleepiness.

However, its therapeutic effect has not been previously studied in Alzheimer's disease.

National Institutes of Health researchers studying zebrafish have determined that a population of cells that protect the brain against diseases and harmful substances are not immune cells, as had previously been thought, but instead likely arise from the lining of the circulatory system.

For their data analysis, the Johns Hopkins researchers used previously gathered information from the federally funded Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study beginning in 1987 and collected from 10,342 participants initially free of heart or vascular disease.

«This is by far the largest twin study of gene expression ever published, enabling us to make a roadmap of genes versus environment,» Sullivan says, adding that the study measured relationships with disease more precisely than had been previously possible, and uncovered important connections to recent human evolution and genetic influence in disease.

Individuals previously infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) who receive chemotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment may be at risk of reactivating the disease according to a summary of report from the Emerging Trends Conference, «Reactivation of Hepatitis B,» and published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

Such data has previously been used for the study of personal mobility, urban planning, infectious - disease spread, health detection, extreme situation monitoring and country development as well as crime detection and privacy issues.

Transmission of mosquito - borne diseases, such as Zika, occur at lower temperatures than previously thought, a recently released study co-authored by two University of South Florida researchers shows.

Previously, amyloid accumulation in the brain could only be studied after an individual with Alzheimer's disease had died.

In their current study, Croft and his team, in collaboration with researchers at the biotechnology company Biogen, focused on TWEAK and its receptor, Fn14, which had previously been shown to participate in several inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and lupus - like kidney disease.

This Phase 3 randomized, double - blind study included 763 adults with chronic HCV genotype 1 infection, a form of the virus found in up to 75 percent of infections, and compensated liver diseases, who had previously not responded or only partially responded to at least one course of peginterferon and ribavirin.

It was previously not certain whether there was a gender difference for the risk of developing COPD, and that is partly due to the fact that there are few studies that examine who is at risk for the disease.

We studied 243 females, 122 of whom had previously carried a male fetus (50 healthy controls, 23 patients with scleroderma, and 49 with other connective tissue diseases).

Previously, studies of stem cell transplants for heart disease have only been performed in patients already scheduled for open heart surgery.

Validating this original concept, we previously demonstrated that PGD - derived hES cells and their derivatives, which express the causal mutation implicated in the Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1), offer pertinent disease - cell models, applicable for a wide systemic mechanistic analysis ranging from functional studies at the cellular level to a large - scale drug screening.

Oligodendrocytes, a type of brain cell that plays a crucial role in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, are more diverse than have previously been thought, according to a new study led by Sten Linnarsson, Karolinska Institutet / SciLifeLab and Gonçalo Castelo - Branco, Karolinska Institutet.

The study included 80 patients from 8 European countries (41 with chemotherapy, 39 without); all patients had HER2 - positive metastatic disease, and had not previously been treated with chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer.

Validating this concept, we previously demonstrated that human pluripotent stem cells and derivatives which, express the causal mutation implicated in the Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1), offer pertinent disease - cell models, applicable for a wide systemic analysis ranging from mechanistic studies to therapeutic screening.

Blunt force trauma to the skull of a mummy with signs of Chagas disease may support homicide as cause of death, which is similar to previously described South American mummies, according to a study published February 26, 2014 in PLOS ONE by Stephanie Panzer from Trauma Center Murau, Germany, and colleagues, a study that has been directed by the paleopathologist Andreas Nerlich from Munich University.

Morrow also reviewed a previously published mouse study wherein histopathology consistent with endo - lysosomal disease was seen in the hippocampus, cortex, amygdala, and cerebellum [7].

His laboratory has developed a number of techniques to study the molecular profiles of circulating and airway immune cells from patients with asthma and other diseases, using fewer cells than was possible previously.

Recent studies have suggested that diseased blood vessels found within the brain may be more of a significant factor in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's than previously thought.

«In keeping with a similar randomized clinical trial previously published in the Lancet and conducted by researchers in Rome in collaboration with us here at King's College London, the STAMPEDE study shows that even patients that after 5 years experienced relapse of diabetes after initial and complete remission of the disease continue to maintain excellent control of their blood sugar levels with minimal or no need for glucose lowering drugs.

Fortunately, we found that the characteristics of this disease were nearly identical to those of previously circulating influenza viruses, meaning that policies and models based on those assumptions could be applied to the control of 2009 H1N1,» said Justin Lessler, lead author of the study and research associate with the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.»

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.

Vitamin E was previously felt to be beneficial for heart disease, but large studies have called excess supplementation into question for most people.

Mortality specific to gastric carcinoid tumor has previously been studied and is as follows: 5 - year survival is 64 % with localized disease, 40 % with regional disease, and 10 % with distant disease spread.

Another study, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showed that sourdough bread fermented with the help of selected Lactobacilli, nontoxic flours, and a long fermentation time was fairly well tolerated by a group of 17 persons previously diagnosed with celiac disease.

The association of routine periodic fasting with prevalent diabetes and coronary artery disease in the current study (n = 200)(38) and its association with outcomes in meta - analyses (n = 648) of this study's population and 448 previously studied angiographically examined patients (37).

Well, several large - scale studies conducted recently have suggested that the cholesterol content of eggs in relation to heart disease may be less of a concern than previously thought.

Previously involved in pre-clinical research design and studies for Crohn's disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis, she is passionate about evidence - based therapies that provide patients with a higher quality of life.

However, recent studies of cats with heart and respiratory diseases have found an incidence of heartworms that is far greater than previously thought.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

In data previously published from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, pediatric cancer survivors were found to be at almost 10-fold greater risk for cardiovascular disease than their non-survivor counterparts.