Sentences with phrase «secondary effects of the disease»

Although there is no specific treatment for FIV, your cat's health and well - being can be prolonged by easing the secondary effects of the disease.

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The aim of primary prevention is to keep the disease from occurring; secondary prevention focuses on those who have the disease, but are not suffering ill effects from it (or perhaps don't yet know they have it).

The aim of primary prevention is to keep the disease from occurring; secondary prevention focuses on those who have the disease, but are not suffering ill effects from it (or perhaps... Read More

A secondary aim was to evaluate the effect of receiving surgery on disease - specific survival.

They should also ensure that they take their prescribed medication for primary or secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, which will help to combat the potential effects of air pollution exposure.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

Secondary prevention trials showed significant adverse effects of n - 6 LA on coronary heart disease mortality (1.84 (1.11 to 3.04); P = 0.02; web appendix, part 8).

The Division of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath of life in all its aspects: control of breathing; sleep disorders; obstruction to airflow in the common diseases of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia; restriction to lung function from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation of foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so on.

That damage accumulates with age to cause secondary effects, which in turn cause further issues, and by the time the process of dysfunction rises to the level of being called a disease it has become a huge mess of broken mechanisms, confusion, and dead ends.

However, the relationships could not be established as causative, but are rather likely to reflect the underlying pattern of genetic variants, exposure to certain environmental factors or represent secondary effects of the development of the disease.

It is difficult to know whether any earlier intervention may have altered her current condition as we are only just learning about the potential long term effects of Ebola virus disease and management of complications / secondary effects.

Secondary aging is additional damage heaped upon you by your choices and by the environment: the effects of infectious disease, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, and, of course, chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

Conclusion: (looking only at subjects with existing CVD) The present systematic review provides no evidence (moderate quality evidence) for the beneficial effects of reduced / modified fat diets in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease.

But there are some cancer biologists out there that feel that while mutations are ubiquitous in cancer, they may not be the primary driving force of the disease and, as we'll discuss later, they may actually be secondary effects of a deeper underlying process.

Polygenic risk scores could be useful to stratify the risk of several cancers among patients in medical centers, allowing for the potential discovery of new associations between genes, disease and secondary effects, according...

Bacteria often invade diseased tissues and worsen the effect of a viral condition, therefore, topical antibiotics are prescribed to treat / prevent secondary bacterial infections.

The disease itself is painless but affected dogs should be regularly monitored by an ophthalmologist to treat possible secondary effects of PRA (the most widespread form of PRA across dog breeds) IG - PRA1 first presents as a loss of vision in dim light conditions due to degeneration of rod cells in the retina.

Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is an agent that spreads easily between cats and has potentially lethal effects, causing a variety of secondary diseases that range from secondary infections to cancer.

I think that chronic disease with varying levels of pain and secondary side effects is the most common form of pancreatitis.

Extended cases of cholestatic liver disease in dogs can cause secondary copper buildup — an effect of irregular bile passage.

Prevent FeLV by keeping cats indoors Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is an agent that spreads easily between cats and has potentially lethal effects, causing a variety of secondary diseases that range from secondary infections to cancer.

If you and your vet can rule out any external factors (e.g. pesticides) causing the constipation, or if it is not secondary to other deeper diseases or health problems such as worms or prostate disease, then chances are it is a cumulative effect of liver or gallbladder dysfunction.

That's why I used the expression «represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment» (temperature increase by 2100 of up to 6.4 C, increased droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves, extreme high sea level plus secondary effects, such as crop failures, spread of vector diseases, loss of drinking water from melting glaciers, etc. all as listed in IPCC AR4).

They have the second highest deathtoll known of any flood of the Indus (although secondary effects — disease, and famine - of the flood may soon change that).