Sentences with phrase «several blood markers»

Inflammation can be measured by testing several blood markers, including C - reactive protein (CRP), tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin - 6 (IL - 6).

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Researchers from several institutions, including, UCLA, Boston University, Stanford University and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic age as measured by changes in proteins coating the DNA.

Several researchers, however, are tracking chemical markers in the blood and in the breath with the goal of creating screening tools that could someday not just find cancer but also indicate how dangerous it is likely to be.

«By analyzing the blood of children of controls and comparing it to children of bipolar patients, we identified several genes or markers that can explain the increased risk.»

Kisspeptins circulating in the blood increase dramatically during normal human pregnancy, to several thousand times non-pregnancy levels, which makes them a novel predictive marker for assessing the risk of later complications.

A type of antifungal antibody, called ASCA, is widely used as a diagnostic marker since it is highly elevated in the blood of patients with several chronic diseases including Crohn's.

The research, published in PLOS ONE, found that several markers of insulin resistance were increased following sustained exposure (6 - 8 weeks) to hypoxia at high altitude and that this change was related to increased blood levels of markers of inflammation and oxidative stress.

Of these, several have reported post-treatment reductions in total cholesterol 12, 53, triglyceride 12, 53 and increases in high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.20 In studies using normotensive rats, three to six months of IER has been observed to lower blood pressure 16 - 19 and heart rate 16, 17, 19, with the magnitude of the change comparable to CER (40 % ER / day) rats.19 In accordance with these findings areimprovements in aortic endothelium - dependent and heart rate variability (a marker of sympatho - vagal balance) in IER - fed rats.72

Studies on low - carbohydrate diets (which tend to be high in saturated fat) suggest that they not only don't raise blood cholesterol, they have several beneficial impacts on cardiovascular disease risk markers.

Several studies show that eating nuts regularly reduces markers of inflammation in the blood.

Potatoes and potato components have been shown to have favorable impacts on several measures of cardiometabolic health in animals and humans, including lowering blood pressure, improving lipid profiles, and decreasing markers of inflammation.

Following a battery of testing that included extensive blood work, urine and stool samples; Dr. Bohams» diagnosis was that Dad had a «gluten» intolerance and was suffering from a gut and yeast infection with severe imbalance of several health markers that were causing him to feel weak and ill.