Sentences with phrase «related diseases similar»

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Art Estopinan — who has a four - year - old son with a disease similar to Charlie's — has helped inform judgments about the Charlie Gard case by relating the poignant story of physicians telling him to take his boy home because he had two months to live.

Finally, on September 30th, the New York Times reported on a telephone survey of over 1,000 former NFL players conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and commissioned by league which found, alarmingly, that former players were being diagnosed with Alzheimer's or similar memory - related diseases at a rate 19 times higher than the normal rate for men aged 30 through 49.

This arthritis is directly related to the person's psoriasis, and, while it is similar in nature to rheumatoid arthritis, it is a separate disease.

A related paper, involving Svendsen, his colleague Gad Vatine, PhD, and a team from University of California, Irvine, published the same day in the journal Cell Reports, used a similar approach to study Huntington's disease.

The work, published this week in mBio ®, an online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests that immunizing pregnant women against HSV and similar infections could prevent serious brain disease related to these conditions in fetuses and newborns, said senior study author David A. Leib, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the medical school.

And research in rhesus monkeys suggests similar benefits in primates: One study found that monkeys eating 30 percent less than their cage mates appeared to be protected from age - related diseases and had lower mortality 15 to 20 years later.

This species has been shown to demonstrate a progression of Lyme disease most similar to humans, particularly related to erythema migrans, carditis, arthritis, and neuropathy of the peripheral and central nervous systems.

If it does a similar job in humans, it could have huge potential for treating a wide - range of age - related diseases, say the researchers behind the latest work.

Early in his career, Leonard untangled the taxonomic mess of similar - looking, but only distantly related, fungi with multicellular dark spores that were causing disease in grains such as corn.

And could seeds of other related diseases involving misfolded proteins be transmitted in a similar way?

The Sugar Association, a U.S. sucrose industry trade group tied to similar international sugar organizations, has consistently denied that sucrose has metabolic effects related to chronic disease beyond caloric effects.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

Researchers analyzed data from several national health surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and found that people with arthritis — which includes those with aging - related osteoarthritis and similar conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and gout — tend to rate lower than their peers on measures of overall health.

«These findings related to Crohn's disease are similar to previous reports focused on other autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis confirming that the delicate balance of our immune systems is, to a great extent, dictated by organisms making up our microbiome,» said Dr. David Perlmutter, expert on brain and gut health, and author of Grain Brain.

The best foods for weight loss, or for curing or avoiding obesity, and many diet related diseases and conditions, are similar to the types of foods that our forager (prehistoric, Pleistocene, Paleolithic) ancestors ate.

Numerous subsequent studies have confirmed that a calorie restriction of 30 to 60 percent of ad libitum intake increases the life span by similar amounts in a range of organisms including yeast, roundworms and rodents, while simultaneously decreasing or delaying the occurrence of age related diseases such as numerous cancers (including lymphomas, breast and prostate cancers), hypertension, stroke, diabetes, nephropathy, autoimmune disorders and other risks factors for cardiovascular disease (3,4).

However, not only did Kuczynski observe that these nomadic pastoralists suffered from high rates of obesity and gout similar to the Mongols of the 13th century, Kuczynski's observations further extended to the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and other dietary related disorders.

And, you can do similar charts for all the other so - called Western diseases, which Burkitt thought related to the major dietary changes that followed the Industrial Revolution — a reduction in healthy plant foods (the sources of starch and fiber), and «a great increase in consumption of animal fats, salt, and sugar.»

But while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not updated its statistics on choking game - related deaths since between 1995 and 2007, when 82 such deaths were reported, recent stories about similar losses have come from districts in Maryland and South Carolina.

Because senility is an age - related disease, there are other geriatric conditions that cause cats to show similar signs.

Cognitive processing naturally slows down somewhat in aging, your older dog may take a few more repetitions before getting a new trick, or spend a little longer figuring out a new puzzle toy, but more serious confusion and disorientation may be related to a disorder known as Canine Cognitive Dysfunction or CCD, a canine disorder similar to Alzheimer's disease in human beings.

Researchers were somewhat surprised to learn that this mutation was not the cause of a very similar disease that occurs in a closely related breed, the American Staffordshire Terrier (1).

Now that we know that DM and ALS are related, we are studying ways to diagnose and measure disease progression with similar diagnostic modalities used in ALS patients.»

Panosteitis does not appear to be related in any way to other radiographically similar diseases.

The resulting symptoms of a brain tumor relate directly to the area of the brain affected by the tumor and are not specific to the tumor itself: any disease affecting that area of the brain could produce similar signs.

The symptoms are similar to many other age - related diseases and your veterinarian can run a series of tests to see if your cat has this hormone imbalance.

The symptoms are similar to many other age - related diseases and we can run a series of tests to see if your cat has this hormone imbalance.

The most striking feature of Swedish vallhund PRA / retinopathy is the individual variability in disease progression, even among related dogs and those raised in similar environments.

Because we have so many clients with similar circumstances, our asbestos exposure lawyers know quite a bit about the related diseases and we pass that knowledge onto our clients.

Similar to the old belief about alcoholism as a moral issue, recent research studies have shown «that it is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry, with manifestations along biological, psychological, social, and spiritual domains.»