Dr. Tanya Edwards, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, writes that inflammation is now recognized as the «underlying basis of
a significant number of diseases.»
In fact, Dr. Tanya Edwards, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, writes that inflammation is now recognized as the «underlying basis of
a significant number of diseases.»
Not exact matches
However, because
of the small
numbers, the association between exclusive breastfeeding until the age
of 6 months and the risks
of infectious
diseases was not statistically
significant when compared separately with the group
of never - breastfed infants.
Farming minister George Eustice insisted the cull had been «worthwhile» because, by removing a
significant number of badgers, it would «make a difference to
disease control in the area».
But a distressing
number of showerheads contained
significant loads
of Mycobacterium avium, a bacterium that can cause nontuberculous mycobacteria
disease, or NTM, a pulmonary infection that can feel like an unshakable flu.
Patients in the stent group got about 1.5 times the
number of heart attacks long - term, compared to the bypass group, but for those patients whose stents successfully opened all
of their
diseased arteries, there was no
significant increase in heart attacks.
The findings are
significant, scientists say, because liver problems such as nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease are surging in the U.S., affecting 10 - 35 percent
of adults and an increasing
number of children.
«What makes our findings
significant is that these autoantibodies, which are a good predictor
of frailty, are also a known mechanism for promoting chronic inflammation, which underlies a
number of diseases and pathologies, especially aging - related conditions,» says Fedarko.
Additionally,
significant numbers of diagnosed prostate cancers are
of low grade and will not cause symptoms or
disease - specific mortality.
«The benefits
of early therapy are
significant, since it increases the
number of healthy life years for patients and decreases their chances
of getting serious liver
diseases, like liver failure and liver cancer,» said Harinder Chahal, PharmD, MSc, an assistant adjunct professor in the UCSF department
of clinical pharmacy.
The research department has a
significant number of translational research programmes involving the development
of infectious
disease vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics.
«Since that time, Lorenz has made a
significant number of transformative contributions and developed protocols that have fundamentally changed the way we create stem cells in the lab,» said Lennart Mucke, MD, director
of the Gladstone Institute
of Neurological
Disease.
The implant allows you to track changes in the level
of calcium and notify your carrier.Swiss scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a tattoo that tells its owner about the
disease cancer in its early stages.It is known that in a
significant number of...
The objective
of the fellowship is to provide an in - depth clinical research training experience at a premier medical center with expertise and
significant clinical volume in the area
of biochemical genetics, including lysosomal storage
diseases, as well as in therapeutics and clinical trials involving patients with these and other metabolic
diseases and, thereby, to increase the
number of medical geneticists with interest, knowledge, and expertise in this area.
The association
of mercury with neurodegenerative
diseases is the most
significant, with the references
numbering 1,445.
He is best known for his discovery that copy -
number variation — a state in which cells have an abnormal
number of DNA sections, sometimes associated with susceptibility or resistance to
disease — is widespread and
significant in the human genome.
The
numbers of neurons in our brains begin to decrease at the age
of thirty and some neurological
diseases can result from
significant loss.
In fact, inflammation and other disorders are known to decrease IGF - 1 levels, raising the possibility that the low protein and low IGF - 1 group may contain a
significant number of both malnourished and frail individuals having or in the process
of developing major
diseases (Fontana et al., 2012).»
However, the implication
of not getting younger is that you're getting older, and for a
significant number of older and elderly adults, there is the real chance
of them developing Alzheimer's
disease.
Perhaps more
significant is that a
number of studies in the general population have linked eating fibre with a lower risk
of heart
disease.
Significant valve
disease was infrequent but was found in a small
number of hounds.
A large
number of flea bites may lead to
significant blood loss, and they serve as vectors for a variety
of diseases.
Those for crossbreeding in this way claim that it will result in the widening
of the gene pool, eradicating or at least reducing inherited illness and
disease found in a
significant number of purebred dogs.
Despite the advances made in conventional veterinary medicine in recent years, a
significant number of major
diseases exist which do not have adequate treatments or cures.
Casting such a wide net could even result in a
significant decrease in the
number of people keeping dogs, compromising both the demonstrated emotional and social benefits
of dog companionship as well as the preventive effects on widespread chronic
diseases.
Dogs and cats with
significant kidney
disease often have lower than normal blood lympocyte
numbers as well - probably due to a build up
of toxic waste products in their bloodstream.
Disease outbreaks can spell disaster for endangered species, as well as abundant species that experience loss
of a
significant numbers of individuals.
A fair
number of patients may be poor candidates for amputation, due to complicating factors such as severe degenerative joint
disease,
significant obesity, and multiple tumor sites, or because
of owner reluctance for this radical procedure.
Pneumonia is one
of the most
significant diseases of pet guinea pigs and can be caused by a
number of bacteria, including Bordetella and Streptococcus.
The large
number of horses that can be exposed on such premises and the serious nature
of the
disease have caused
significant concern within the animal health community and the United States horse industry.
Under the bill pet stores would be required to provide buyers
of dogs with (1) record
of a veterinary exam indicating the dog is free
of «
disease or physical deformity», (2) information about the dog's breeder, (3) telephone
number of the department
of agriculture, and (4) a money back guarantee that is valid for at least 21 days after purchase
of the dog; a purchaser can collect on the guarantee by submitting a veterinarian's statement that the dog was examined within 14 days
of purchase and has a
significant disease, illenss or injury that was in existence at the time
of the purchase.
Since carrier cats remain healthy though, and since affected cats may not necessarily be detected until they are a few years
of age, the potential exists for both carrier and affected cats to have
significant numbers of litters before the
disease is identified.
The outbreak
of sea star wasting
disease caused
significant changes to the ecosystem as sea stars are a keystone species that plays an important role in controlling the
numbers of other creatures.
Consider for example that the leading cause
of premature death in the US is heart
disease, while automobile accidents also cause a
significant number of deaths.
We know that many
diseases are limited by heat — including influenza and a
significant number of digestive
diseases (heat breaks down virus phospho - lipid shells).
People died because SA leaders,
significant numbers of media opinionators, and even ordinary people, valued the local wisdom about AIDS being a nutritional
disease rather than HIV, routinely lauded western AIDS heretics and snake - oil salesmen, and entertained conspiracy theories about the
disease itself being a plot by western outsiders, and that anti-retrovirals, rather than a treatment, were just another aspect in this devious plot
of western - medicine to sicken people in Africa.
In recent decades there has been a
significant increase in the
number of people with metabolic syndrome and inflammatory bowel
disease.
India has made
significant progress in decreasing the
number of cases
of malaria and the
number of deaths caused by the
disease (although the official
numbers of rural Indians dying from malaria remains underestimated).
Other common infectious
diseases that affect Indians include malaria, pneumonia and tuberculosis, which constitute a
significant number of hospitalisations.
Healthy child development is the foundation for human capital and the basis for future community and economic development.1 A
significant body
of convergent research emphasises the importance
of the prenatal and early years for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing
number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage
of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention
of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4, 5
The most apparent is that single measures
of absolute concentrations
of salivary cortisol, for most health - related variables, seldom give
significant findings; deviation measures, in terms
of diurnal deviations and / or laboratory stress tests seem to be more strongly and consistently associated with a
number of factors, such as Socioeconomic Status (SES), psychological characteristics, biological variables in terms
of overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, and mental and somatic
disease.
It found a
significant «dosage» effect between the
number of such experiences reported and increased risk, in adulthood, for cardiovascular, lung, and liver
disease; depression; smoking; drug and alcohol abuse; obesity; risky sexual behaviors; and early mortality.