Sentences with phrase «researchers studied disease»

In the short term, such artificial tissues could help researchers study disease processes and test new drugs in the lab.

In coming years, interlinked databases of health records may radically change the interaction between doctor and patient as well as the way researchers study diseases and seek cures.

If you have any PRA affected dogs, they may be of great value to the researchers studying the disease.

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Most of the health benefits researchers have found have been in observational studies, meaning we don't know that drinking coffee is responsible for the reductions in disease risk.

Various studies at the time suspected sugar was bad for the heart, and the latest JAMA suggests the Foundation paid the researchers to counter those arguments and «downplay early warning signs that sucrose consumption was a risk factor in [coronary heart disease].»

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina shows that loneliness can «vastly elevate» a person's risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer, making it as dangerous to your health as a lack of physical inactivity in youth or diabetes in old age.

But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...

These published studies showed that crude kuzu root preparations or their extracted flavonoids, given as injections or taken orally, Researchers also report that flavonoids lower cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of forming blood clots, protect the heart against cardiovascular disease, and protect the brain by dilating cerebral microvessels to increase blood flow.

In fact, a recent study done by researchers at Harvard University reported that increased magnesium may slash heart disease by as much as 30 %.

In a study that examined food intake patterns and risk of death from coronary heart disease, researchers followed more than 16,000 middle - aged men in the U.S., Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Greece and Japan for 25 years.

Lead researcher Dr Michael Macknin, of the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital in Ohio, said the findings of the study showed eating less meat and more plant - based foods could be «an effective lifestyle modification» to help reverse risk factors for heart disease.

With researchers producing a seemingly constant stream of studies about alcohol's protective effects against dementia, heart disease and other serious health issues, it can be easy for wine lovers to believe their nightly glass of vino is doing -LSB-...]

The double - blind study (meaning neither the researchers nor the patients know if they are receiving the coconut oil or placebo) at the Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, located in Tampa, Florida, will be eight months long and will enroll about 65 people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

One researcher said these studies are just the tip of the iceberg for diseases linked to the mutations in the sperm of older men.

Female partners of circumcised men do not report a lower rate of cervical cancer, 40 nor does circumcision prevent penile cancer.41 A recent study shows that the penile cancer rate is higher in the US than in Denmark, where circumcision, except among Middle - Eastern immigrant workers, is almost unheard of.42 Indeed, researchers should investigate the possibility that circumcision has actually increased the rate of these diseases.

The researchers note that the association found in this study has potentially important implications for future RA disease burden, saying: «Women who took part in this study were born in the 1940s and 1950s, before China's one - child policy was introduced in the late 1970s, and at a time when breastfeeding was more prevalent.

Lead researcher for this report, Dr. Scott Sicherer said, «These results show that there is an alarming increase in peanut allergies, consistent with a general, although less dramatic, rise in food allergies among children in studies reported by the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-RSB-.»

As part of the study, researchers found that mice engineered to develop symptoms of human inflammatory disease, and which also lacked the ATG16L1 gene, developed gut damage.

While there was some variation between the populations that were studied, such as between men and women, people living in different regions, or people with different risk factors, the researchers found that nut consumption was associated with a reduction in disease risk across most of them.

A study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine shows that when mice that are genetically susceptible to developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were given antibiotics during late pregnancy and the early nursing period, their offspring were more likely to develop an inflammatory condition of the colon that resembles human IBD.

HARD KNOCKS By studying the brains of former football players, researchers are finding clues about how a neurodegenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, progresses, with the hopes of one day preventing it.

The researchers hope to study the biological contexts of Parkinson's disease and other neurological diseases in the same way.

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.

For researchers using mouse models to study a variety of cancers, including lymphoma, melanoma, breast, and prostate cancers as well as autoimmune and infectious diseases, the panel facilitates a highly sensitive and high - throughput investigation of biomarkers associated with disease progression.

Using a novel method, Whitehead Institute researchers have determined how a non-coding mutation identified in genome - wide association studies (GWAS) can contribute to sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD).

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

In one study, which is based on the Betula project, a study on aging, memory and dementia, the researchers show that a reactivated herpes infection doubled the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

Using records unearthed from library storage vaults, researchers recently revealed that the sugar industry paid nutrition experts from Harvard University to downplay studies linking sugar and heart disease.

«What's really interesting is that we show that an increase in the amount of stomach fat and a lower density fat is associated with worse heart disease risk factors — even after accounting for how much weight was gained,» said Caroline Fox, M.D., M.P.H., former senior investigator for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the study's senior researcher.

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have created a chimera virus that allows the study of molecules to treat cancers caused by human herpes virus infection in mice models of disease.

This also means that we have new opportunities to develop treatment forms to stop the disease,» says Hugo Lövheim, associate professor at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine, Umeå University, who is one of the researchers behind the study.

In the study, the researchers found that people with one inactive copy of NPC1L1 appeared to be protected against high LDL cholesterol — the so - called «bad» cholesterol — and coronary heart disease, a narrowing of the heart's arteries that can lead to heart attacks.

Strengths of this study, Dr. Li noted, included that researchers used an objective measuring device and studied a short - term outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

When the researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.

The study found that a mother mouse can pass along to her offspring a susceptibility to intestinal disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease, by way of a gut - residing bacterium called Sutterella, the researchers reported in the journal Nature on Feb. 16.

Earlier efforts to hunt down disease - causing genes — so - called genomewide association studies — frequently came up empty - handed because medical researchers had to take cost - saving shortcuts.

As for the Lund researchers, the method provides a tool for studying how neurons cooperate inside a healthy brain and in animal models with different neurological diseases.

The researchers analyzed the characteristics of 178 patients with this disease drawn from a study of 2,995 melanoma patients enrolled in The Genes, Environment, and Melanoma study.

In this study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers also identified six further variants in the human genome that occur more frequently in a coronary artery disease (CAD).

The researchers plan to expand their study by examining how often the ALR SNPs they have identified occur in patients with alcoholic liver disease compared to people without the disease.

For the study and to quantify the socioeconomic burden of this disease, the researchers conducted a web - based survey (674 out of 956 individuals completed the survey) to characterize the patient and caregiver experience with FTD - related resource use, health - related quality of life, and per - patient annual costs.

Researchers at IRB Barcelona study CEP63, a gene that is mutated in Seckel Syndrome, a rare disease that causes microcephaly and growth defects.

In a study published online June 21 in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, the researchers show that the consumption of extra-virgin olive oil protects memory and learning ability and reduces the formation of amyloid - beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain — classic markers of Alzheimer's disease.

Using an approach called a genome - wide association study, researchers scanned complete sets of DNA in thousands of participants, looking for small variations that appear more often in people with the disease than in healthy individuals.

In the second study, a team of Danish researchers wanted to test the effect of a change in alcohol intake on the risk of breast cancer and heart disease.

Researchers at Nagoya University have been studying the therapeutic effect of T cells, vital disease - fighting components in our body's immune system, for fighting cancer.

By studying these relationships, the researchers have discovered a new pathway to identify how genes influence disease, according to Boerwinkle.

There is a risk that severity of epidemics of some wheat diseases may increase within the next ten to twenty years due to the impacts of climate change according to a study by international researchers led by the University of Hertfordshire.