Sentences with phrase «so high a disease»

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So, at the end of the day, are companies simply flocking to disease areas like oncology, and rare diseases — which have low chances of approval from phase one trials due to their complexities but carry high margins and high rewards if they do cross the regulatory finish line — at the expense of other conditions?

So your cholesterol test is going to tell you if you have high cholesterol, which is a risk factor for heart disease.

The group quickly determines the mission team's potential strength (knowledge of the terrain), potential weakness (susceptibility to disease), assumptions being factored into the decisions (they do not face nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons), things they must not do (damage property, which would lead to loss of popular support), the principle information requirements, high - value targets, and so on through a checklist of easily overlooked considerations.

This means you can rest assured that out standards are the highest and our Gluten Free Bread crumbs are safe for a person with Celiac disease, anyone who has chosen to eat gluten free and tastes great so is enjoyed by the entire family.

It does have a high potassium content so patients with kidney disease and on certain medications should check with their doctors before using.

Triglycerides are a form in which fats are carried in the blood, and high triglyceride levels are associated with an increased risk for heart disease, so ensuring you have some monounsaturated fats in your diet by enjoying cashews is a good idea, especially for persons with diabetes.

Insulin promotes the storage of fat, so that when you eat foods with a high GI, you're making way for rapid weight gain and elevated triglyceride levels, both of which have been linked to cardiovascular disease.

I have a variety of health issues (Lyme's disease, Ehlers - Danlos syndrome and all the accompanying fun things that those entail, the list is long so I won't bore you) and shifting to high fat brought a lot of relief to the GI issues I was experiencing as well as helping me mentally.

Italians have so much gluten in their life that they have one of the highest incidences of Celiac Disease (the more and more exposed you are to gluten, the more likely to develop Celiac if you have the predisposition).

A Drink Might Boost Cognition and Creativity, and Potentially Fight Off the Flu A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease finds evidence that adults who drink moderately and regularly have a higher chance of not only living longer, but doing so without developing dementia or other cognitive impairment...

Both generally focus on eliminating the high - carbohydrate convenience foods that have caused so many of the diseases of affluence in the last century.

Dr. Esselstyn's main message is to people with, or approaching, heart disease, so indulgence in high - fat foods is not recommended.

High fibre diets reduce our risk of disease and help us stop at one or two slices of bread instead of seven, so that's awesome.

High levels of diet - related chronic diseases in the UK, including heart disease, mean it's essential we have clear and consistent food labeling so people can make healthy choices.

Excess salt in the diet has been linked to high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, so reducing salt in processed foods is a goal for health authorities and food companies alike.»

And FYI that chicken you eat isn't that healthy, it contains high amounts cholesterol which is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease, more so than sodium which mainly has been shown to increase blood pressure.

Cardiac anatomy consists of veins and blood vessels, so a diet that is high in saturated fats and artery clogging foods is a direct cause of cardiac diseases and problems during pregnancy, labor and delivery.

However, this study only included kids at high - risk for celiac (based on genetic markers or a first - degree relative with the disease), so it might not apply to the general population.

It's the highest incident of mumps in the state in 22 years, with 221 cases of the disease registered so far.

In fact, hospitals are hot beds for disease and infection, so having a baby, with its virgin, fragile system in a hospital where it could come into contact with illness, could actually put the baby at higher risk for something negative to happen to the baby's health.

Not so fast, suggests a small study of teens out of Scotland that found that high - intensity exercise may be better than endurance training for preventing cardiovascular disease because it can be done in less time.

So the actual numbers of the disease may be far higher than they know.

So, it's no surprise that Stewart was among those infuriated by the federal government's decision that cancer is being excluded from the illnesses covered by the act, with experts insisting there's no firm medical proof that first responders's apparent higher incidence of the disease can indeed be linked to the time they spent at Ground Zero.

Previous studies have shown that people who carry excess abdominal fat around their midsection — a so - called «spare tire» — tend to face higher risks of heart disease compared to people who have fat elsewhere.

Children with MS, however, have a higher relapse rate than adults with the disease so the researchers decided to analyse the potential impact of diet in this age group.

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.

Ideally, the drug should have a shape that is perfectly complementary to a disease - causing target, so that it binds it with high specificity.

Resveratrol's SIRT1 - activating power suggests a link to the so - called «French paradox,» the observation that despite a high - fat diet, people in France suffer about 40 % less cardiovascular disease than expected, an effect that epidemiologists have linked to the consumption of red wine.

People who have never been exposed to the disease also run the highest risk of infection, so mosquitoes may spread malaria to countless new victims as they follow the rains into fresh territories, say experts.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

Her risk for celiac disease was higher than in the average population, so she asked her doctor for follow - up testing, which showed she did have the illness.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

But John Collinge of University College London, UK, and colleagues, who reported the clinical details of the most recent case, say people at high risk of vCJD should be informed, so they can be enrolled in clinical trials of drugs which are hoped to delay or prevent the onset of the disease.

So with fast walkers, high blood pressure may be more indicative of underlying disease and not just a symptom of the aging process.»

The five year disease - free and overall survival rates for patients with high - risk malignant germ cell tumours remains less than 50 %, and so accurate diagnosis and monitoring is crucial to improving outcomes for patients.

Taylor and Ehrenreich, however, found that higher - order interactions of five or more places along the genome can have major impacts, and may help explain the so - called «missing heritability» problem, in which additive genetic variants do not entirely explain many inherited diseases and traits.

«As more albatrosses relocate to higher islands like Oahu in response to sea level rise, where mosquitoes are more prevalent, this disease, and perhaps others, will become a more important threat to the species, so we need to understand more about it and how to prevent its transmission.»

Perhaps in the not - so - distant future, children at high risk for coronary artery disease will be identified and treated to prevent changes in their vascular walls during adulthood.»

«It's a very high - resolution picture, perhaps even higher than what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can see, because it incorporates so many data sources,» said Andrey Rzhetsky, PhD, the study's senior author and the Edna K. Papazian Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics at UChicago.

North Dakota doesn't seem to have a higher incidence of the disease than is normal nationwide, so the scientists looked to see whether residents were exhibiting early warning signs.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms iDisease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms idisease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

Ongoing clinical trials with 20 other so - called direct - acting antivirals have had even more impressive results against HCV, and researchers have high hopes that curing this devastating disease will become routine — but only if people know they are infected and seek treatment.

So - called Western diets, which are high in fats and sugars but low in fiber, have been linked to an increased risk of inflammatory bowel diseases, weight gain, and diabetes.

«Mesothelioma remains a difficult disease to find better treatment options for, so we asked whether high - dose hemithoracic radiotherapy would decrease the rate or delay the time of local recurrence after chemotherapy and radical surgery,» says lead author Prof Rolf A. Stahel, from the Clinic and Policlinic for Oncology, at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, and current President of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

Today, though, these fatty acids are also implicated in diseases that are part of the so - called «metabolic syndrome» — obesity, diabetes (through the metabolism of sugars), high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease (through the metabolism of cholesterol and triglycerides), the authors say.

«We also found that higher levels of the molecule were associated with worse functional outcomes, so this biomarker seems to correlate with disease severity.»

Compared with nonsmokers, smokers» odds of getting the disease ranged from more than four times higher for those who smoked a daily pack for less than 20 years in a row, to nearly 70 times higher for those who did so for 80 years or more.

We continuously evaluate new technologies for treating heart, liver, lung, and kidney disease in order to provide the highest level of care for patients who need transplants, and we're investigating novel ways to increase the number of healthy donor organs so that we can help more people.

We hope this research will lead to a reliable way to spot women at a high risk, so they can be monitored to find any signs of the disease at an early stage.»

Although of course there are a number of caveats since mice can be cured from cancer at higher rates, they don't suffer from some of our diseases, they are sensitive to being handled (if grabbing them can shorten their lifespan through stress, the mouse version of standard human medical care may do the same), so I guess that increases in maximum lifespan are indeed the only reliable indicator that an intervention is impacting age - related mortality.