Sentences with phrase «study the disease at»

The grant will finance further study by a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student who will study the disease at a molecular level.

Stem cells, derived from skin cells donated by people with and without bipolar disorder, allow scientists to study the disease at its most basic level.

Sanford Research has sought to establish a core of scientists that are studying disease at a fundamental level with the expectation that these current efforts will pay off in the future by advancing disease therapy and prevention.

Not exact matches

«Our survey results clearly show that when it comes to cardiovascular disease, marital status really does matter,» said Dr. Carlos Alviar, who led the study at New York University's Langone Medical Center.

According to a longitudinal study, those with a brain unaffected by Alzheimer's spend more time looking at pictures they haven't seen before whereas all of those who spent an equal amount of time looking at both images developed the disease.

'» As part of that effort Marsh is studying the ecosystem of disease — identifying the factors, like hopelessness and isolation, that are at the root of health problems.

Some studies suggest that for specific populations, like people who have been diagnosed with heart disease or are obese, fitness trackers can motivate them to move more, at least for several months.

«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

The American Beverage Association dismissed the study in a statement, saying it did «not show that consuming sugar - sweetened beverages causes chronic diseases and the authors themselves acknowledge that they are at best estimating effects of sugar - sweetened beverage consumption.»

And a variety of studies are looking at what role the breakdown of tryptophan may play in aging and age - related diseases.

Studies — including at least one clinical trial with 100 participants — have found that this diet can significantly alter signs of disease, reduce weight and body fat, lower blood pressure, decrease levels of biomarkers associated with cancer, and improve blood - sugar levels.

He has worked as a Research Assistant at The Commonwealth Medical College, where he studied osteoporosis, and as a Research Associate at an immunology lab, HUMIGEN, where he worked on inflammatory bowel diseases.

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely a 21 - year - old congressional appropriations bill called the «Dickey Amendment» that stipulated «none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.»

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

Sitting on his patio at his summer house in Boulder, he pulls out his iPad to forward me an article on a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found that only about one in 10 Americans eats the recommended minimum five servings a day of fruit and vegetables.

Various studies at the time suspected sugar was bad for the heart, and the latest JAMA suggests the Foundation paid the researchers to counter those arguments and «downplay early warning signs that sucrose consumption was a risk factor in [coronary heart disease].»

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina shows that loneliness can «vastly elevate» a person's risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer, making it as dangerous to your health as a lack of physical inactivity in youth or diabetes in old age.

While we can try throwing different antibiotics at any number of strange and unfamiliar bacterial infections, we have no similar sledgehammer for mysterious viral diseases, which each have to be studied carefully before we can even begin to figure out how to fight or prevent them.

A study at Harvard University found that alternate - day fasting among mice, «protected mice from strokes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and consistently extended their life spans by 30 percent.»

While the study examined weight loss and the psychological effects, it also looked at the physiological ramifications of things such as disease prevention in the areas of diabetes, breast cancer, and cardiovascular disease.

A recent study looked at how 244 compounds in 413 clinical trials fared for Alzheimer's disease between 2002 and 2012.

I hear ya man, I studied electronics engineering, and there was one girl in the class... but she could barely speak english and her husband was in India... hey, at least we're disease free!

If a woman with untreated celiac does conceive, the fetus potentially could be at risk: An Italian study published in 2010 demonstrated that anti-transglutaminase (anti-tTG) antibodies in the blood — a hallmark of untreated celiac disease — can interfere with the function of the placenta, possibly leading to early loss of the pregnancy.

In fact, a recent study done by researchers at Harvard University reported that increased magnesium may slash heart disease by as much as 30 %.

or more of garlic powder every day may reduce aortic stiffness as people age, while separate studies at the State University of New York at Albany have found that people who eat garlic exhibit a lower incidence of stomach cancer, have longer blood clotting times, and lower blood lipid levels (a factor associated with reduced risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease)....

It offers cardio protection, it helps lower bad cholesterol, it may help prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis, it has the ability to regenerate brain cells after a stroke, it has the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier to potentially ward off Alzheimer's disease, apparently it's good at wiping amyloid plaque from the brain (which studies haves linked to Alzheimer's), it may help to prevent certain types of cancer, and studies have shown that it inhibits cancer cell growth and metastases (meaning it keeps cancer from spreading).

«Taken together with previously established benefits of egg intake on HDL profiles, these findings further support the notion that eggs serve as a functional food to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with metabolic syndrome,» says Catherine Andersen, lead study author and PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut.

Some studies show that the rate at which you metabolize caffeine can impact your risk for certain conditions like heart disease.

A 2010 meta - study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at almost 350,000 people over a 23 year period and found no association between saturated fat and heart disease.

The people in Dr. Esselstyn's study were at the last fork on the road of Coronary Artery Disease.

further more studies show that people who drink wine (and beer) moderately, are less prone to things like heart disease than both people who drink heavily AND people who never drink at all.

This current study conducted in Nigeria looked at the pathogenic role of cadmium (Cd) and its exposure in the induction of dyslipidemia implicated in the development and increasing incidence of cardiovascular diseases, and explored whether polyphenolics isolated from virgin coconut oil (VCO) could prevent Cd - induced dyslipidemia.

This study does not show that consuming sugar - sweetened beverages causes chronic diseases and the authors themselves acknowledge that they are at best estimating effects of sugar - sweetened beverage consumption.

so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the test subjects were people, but other studies done on animal subjects might not be as reliable as those done on humans.

The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

A study just published in the journal Lipids in Health and Disease looked at Malaysian women suffering from breast cancer.

According to the study's lead author, Charles M. Benbrook, a research professor at Washington State University's Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, consuming organic milk «will certainly lessen the risk factor for cardiovascular disease.»

We included prospective studies that provided hazard ratios (HRs) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) for at least three categories (including the reference group) of milk consumption in relation to mortality from all causes, overall cardiovascular disease, or overall cancer, We omitted studies that only reported results for total milk products or combined non-fermented and fermented milk because non-fermented and fermented milk may have different associations with mortality.

The Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) announces it is presenting three studies at the 17th International Celiac Disease Symposium in New Delhi, India, from Sept. 8 - 10.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

«It is very important that those that require a gluten - free diet are confident that the foods labeled gluten - free are indeed gluten - free,» says Suzanne Simpson, study author and dietitian at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University.

The double - blind study (meaning neither the researchers nor the patients know if they are receiving the coconut oil or placebo) at the Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, located in Tampa, Florida, will be eight months long and will enroll about 65 people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

Sources tell Press Association Sport that a major study into whether footballers are at greater risk of degenerative brain disease is set for launch in the next few weeks with the appointment of a research group to undertake the most comprehensive study of its kind, jointly commissioned by the Football Association and Professional Footballers» Association.

They even fund research scientists at prestigious universities to conduct studies and write policy papers that are skewed toward saying that their products don't contribute to diabetes, heart disease, obesity etc..

Experts are saying older men shouldn't worry about their higher risk of fathering a child with bipolar disorder (men 45 + are 25x more likely than a man in his 20s to father a child with bipolar disorder) because it's such a rare disease but recent studies show it's not rare at all and affects 4 - 5 % of the population.

One of the most important and influential studies of the long - term effects of childhood stress and trauma is the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, which was conducted in the 1990s by Robert Anda, a physician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Vincent Felitti, the founder of the department of preventive medicine at Kaiser Permanente, the giant health - maintenance organization based in California.

Not only was that assertion completely at odds with the uncertain state of the existing science, but it was contradicted by the study itself, in which Dr. McKee and her colleagues acknowledged that several other factors, besides prior participation in football, may influence CTE risk and disease severity, including factors other than cumulative hits to the head, and admitted that it was even «unclear» what roles concussions and repetitive subconcussive hits play in CTE risk, disease severity, and progression.

Studies at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston show breast milk contains both infection fighting factors and unidentified substances that stimulate an infant «s immune system — the defenses that fight illness and diseases.

A study published in Pediatrics in March of 2017 examined behavioral issues at different ages reported by mothers who were unaware that their children had celiac disease, as compared to behavior reported by mothers who were aware that their children had celiac and mothers of children who did not have celiac disease at all.

We need a paradigm shift of doctors willing to look at research by Dr Lustig, Harvard University's Dr Willet and emory university's sugar = heart disease study http://tinyurl.com/4ryvdv9.