Sentences with phrase «several diseases of aging»

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Just as I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham by billy graham harper san francisco / zondervan, 760 pages, $ 28.50 Several recent developments suggest that the time has come to take stock of Billy Graham: the frailties of his age, the encroachments of Parkinson's disease, the death or retirement of....

Respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in children.1, 2 Prospective cohort studies in industrialized countries revealed a prevalence of 3.4 % to 32.1 % for respiratory tract infectious diseases and 1.2 % to 26.3 % for gastrointestinal infectious diseases in infancy.3, — , 8 The risks of these infectious diseases are affected by several factors including birth weight, gestational age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, number of siblings, day care attendance, and parental smoking.3, 5,6,8, — , 20

«Restricting calories can slow your basal metabolism, and if by - products of metabolism accelerate aging processes, calorie restriction sustained over several years may help to decrease risk for chronic disease and prolong life,» says lead author Leanne M. Redman, associate professor of Clinical Sciences at Pennington Biomedical Research in Baton Rouge, LA.

Because there is still no accepted biomarker for aging, the drug's success would be judged by whether it can delay the development of several diseases whose incidence increases dramatically with age: cardiovascular disease, cancer, and cognitive decline, along with mortality.

In other words, a drop of 10 °C in the average temperature over seven days, which is common in several countries because of seasonal variations, is associated with an increased risk in being hospitalized or dying of heart failure of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease..

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

Researchers found several risk factors for stroke, both in the immediate postoperative period and up to two years after, including previous stroke, peripheral vascular disease (narrowing or obstruction of arteries), valve surgery and age 65 years or older.

For the study, researchers examined how common several chronic conditions were in 23,382 people with MS at the time of their diagnosis and 116,638 people of the same age and sex without the disease.

Although ultraviolet (UV) solar radiation contributes to the development of sun erythema, cancer and aging of the skin, it also reduces blood pressure, synthesises vitamin D and improves the treatment of several diseases.

Although several environmental and genetic factors have been shown to contribute to the risk of T2D (e.g., obesity, inactivity, and aging), the origin of this disease is still not completely understood (Stumvoll et al., 2005).

Several human neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease but also aging, are linked to an accumulation of abnormal and aggregated proteins in cells.

NF - kB / p65 subunit DNA - interaction increase with increase of age in several tissues suggesting as NF - kB inhibition may prevent aging and its related diseases 25.

In this study, increased risk of death from several causes, including cardiovascular reasons were also described at an older age and for milder stages of renal disease in diabetic women that included a further deterioration due to worsening of glycemic control.

As DNA damage accumulates with age, persistent DDR - mediated release of SASP factors could be associated with degenerative changes that manifest with old age; in support, several SASP factors are considered amongst the most reliable biomarkers for age - related diseases.

Epidemiological surveys in humans indicate that muscle aging influences the progression of several age - related diseases in other tissues.

Their work builds upon and may potentially supersede several previous approaches to the problem of mitochondrial mutations that occur as a result of the degenerative aging process, including allotopic protein expression, (6) its optimization using an MTS, (3 - 5) and the exploitation of the multiprotein RNA import complex (RIC) of the protozoal parasite Leishmania tropica (7)(which the investigators characterize as «requir [ing] the introduction of nonnative tRNAs with foreign protein factors or the transfer of a large multisubunit aggregate into cells, which is of low efficiency and difficult to reproduce in desirable disease - relevant settings» (2)-RRB-.

Over a lifetime, we believe that Parkinson's and several other neurodegenerative diseases are caused by genetics AND some kind of trigger in a person's life with age.

Epidemiological surveys in humans indicate that muscle aging influences the progression of several age - related diseases in other tissues... >> MORE

Current research on aging has largely focused the molecular mechanisms of age - related diseases, and mitochondrial dysfunction has been associated with several human diseases of aging.

Thus, the ability to measure DNAme in single cells has the potential to make important contributions to the understanding of several key biological processes, such as embryonic development, disease progression and aging.

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.

Low cholesterol is also correlated with mental problems like dementia and several types of cancers so the idea of taking drugs specifically to lower serum levels warrants further scrutiny, especially in segments of the population (like children, women, and men over age 50) when there is no correlation to heart disease to begin with!

MONDAY, November 21, 2011 (Health.com)-- Over the past several years, researchers have noticed an odd pattern in the relationship between body weight and Alzheimer's disease: Middle - aged people have a higher long - term risk of developing the disease if they're overweight or obese, while older people have a lower risk of the disease if they're carrying excess weight.

Over the past several years, researchers have noticed an odd pattern in the relationship between body weight and Alzheimer's disease: Middle - aged people have a higher long - term risk of developing the disease if they're overweight or obese, while older people have a lower risk of the disease if they're carrying excess weight.

Several lines of evidence suggest that caloric intake influences the rate of aging and the onset of associated diseases in...

These peptides have been shown to be very useful in the treatment of age - related conditions, osteoporosis, obesity, and various chronic inflammatory diseases, and have several advantages over traditional hGH administration.

The study discussion states: «Food groups such as whole grains, nuts, fish, fruit, and vegetables and prudent dietary patterns rich in these foods were inversely associated with several age - related diseases and total rate of mortality (14 — 19, 21 — 29, 46).»

Several factors may account for this effect, including heme iron, endotoxins, saturated fat, high bacteria load, TMAO, tapeworms, advanced glycation end products or AGEs, and NeuGc, a foreign meat that may increase the risk of heart disease and cancer.

Several doctors and a pharmaceutical executive speak with great candor about the reach of drug marketing, about how natural aspects of aging are falsely made into diseases, and how patients can be alert to this.

A risk factor might include a family history of cancer, or heart disease in several family members that strikes at an early age.

At age 31, Bogle suffered from his first of several heart attacks, and at age 38, he was diagnosed with the rare heart disease arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.

This finding is important because EPI has been traditionally considered a disease of middle - aged to older cats, although a previous study had reported similar findings with several cats with EPI being < 1 year of age.

Treating elbow dysplasia: Several treatment options are available for your four - legged family member depending on age, concurrent health problems and severity of the disease.

The large breeds of dogs (typically dogs whose adult weight is over fifty or sixty pounds) have several bone diseases that occur during the period of rapid growth that happens up to two years of age.

Testing several times and no later than 6 years is important; the disease destroys the thyroid gland and after 6 years of age the disease may have destroyed the thyroid so antibodies will no longer be present.

Senior - aged pets have unique needs and are susceptible to several treatable diseases, the most common of which are listed below.

As dogs and cats age, they experience several changes that accelerate the formation of dental calculus and disease, namely decreased flow of saliva and immunity in the mouth.

This disease becomes evident ophthalmoscopically in affected dogs as young as 3 years of age, and progresses to end - stage retinal degeneration over several years.

Onset of signs ranges from 6 months to 4 years of age and disease progression tends to be slow, occurring over several years.

At the age of seventeen, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, later referencing the cycles of illness and wellness in several artworks.

If you were approved preferred plus, the best rate class, and during the conversion period decided to do a conversion, they would calculate your premiums based on your current age and that same preferred plus rate class, even if since that original application you had encounter coronary artery disease and several types of cancer.

He authored several books, including his best - selling 1988 classic A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 10 million copies.Hawking was diagnosed with the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at the age of 21.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study looked at over 17000 middle class, middle - aged Americans (average age in the 50s) and found dose - dependent associations between the number of adverse childhood experiences (see Table 1) and a wide array of outcomes, including markers for social functioning, sexual health, mental health, risk factors for common diseases, and prevalent diseases (see Table 2).4, 6 The retrospective ACE Study and several smaller but prospective studies indicate that adverse experiences in childhood influence behavior, mental wellness, and physical health decades later.1, 2,5,10