Sentences with phrase «study the disease without»

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Furthermore, an early - stage study pumping up the dose of its hemophilia A treatment — which aims to be a one - time therapy for the rare blood clotting - related disease — appeared to hit its targets without serious side effects.

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...

Without the trigger of gut microbes, a baby's immune system is skewed towards allergies or autoimmune disease — animal studies suggest that there's a specific window of time when this happens and when probiotics can have the greatest impact.

(1) Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual date from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50,302 women with breast cancer and 96,973 women without the disease.

The study included 324 children with diagnosed celiac disease and 81,843 without celiac.

This particular meta - study reported that breastfeeding provides up to a 28 % decrease in risk of developing breast cancer at any age (pre - or post-menopausal) for women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007).

Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50302 women with breast cancer and 96973 women without the disease.

In another meta - study (compiling data from 47 smaller studies) published in 2002, more than 50,000 women with breast cancer and nearly 97,000 women without the disease from 30 countries were studied.

Countouris will present the study, «Lactation and Maternal Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease Among Women with and without a History of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy,» on Saturday, March 10.

One study assessed incident disease in a population without data on dietary intake other than alcohol (4), and 2 studies measured prevalent hypertension, adjusting only for concurrent health behaviors (5, 11).

The researchers plan to expand their study by examining how often the ALR SNPs they have identified occur in patients with alcoholic liver disease compared to people without the disease.

Even the new studies clashed somewhat: Unlike the UCSF study, the German research found no major differences between the overall microbiomes of twins with and without MS. Finally, mouse models of MS are not perfect mimics of the human disease, and mouse immune systems aren't identical to people's.

A clinical trial assessing the potential of the nutritional supplement inosine to treat Parkinson disease has found that the studied dosages successfully raised participants» levels of the antioxidant urate without producing serious side effects.

In one of the first studies of its kind to use a special scanning technique, researchers found that people with a history of heart disease had substantially lower cortical volumetric bone mineral density in their wrist bone (the distal radius) than those without.

But as Swedo and colleagues studied data from the drug trials for their Sydenham patients and controls without the disease, they found something else.

Even without avian diseases and climate change, the honeycreepers still face threats from habitat loss, introduced predators and competition with non-native birds (some of whom, such as the Japanese bush - warbler, are thriving on the plateau, the study finds).

The study population included 4,818 persons with Alzheimer's disease and an incident hip fracture, and 19,235 persons without hip fracture.

The study involved 23 men and women with PD and 14 people without the disease, all 50 years or older living independently in Kelowna.

In a recent study, children with multiple sclerosis had differences in the abundance of specific gut bacteria than children without the disease.

Duesberg says such a study would show «whether otherwise healthy people with HIV get AIDS - defining diseases above the norm for matched controls without HIV.»

Limitations of the study include the small numbers of people participating in NHANES who were identified as having a diagnosis of celiac disease and as adhering to a gluten - free diet without celiac disease.

All participants in their study were without known heart disease.

«These are women with advanced metastatic cancer whose disease was kept in check without the use of toxic and life - disrupting chemotherapy,» says Dr. Massimo Cristofanilli, M.D., Director of the Breast Care Center at Thomas Jefferson University and senior author of the study.

«It could be that the treatment is causing inflammation that that looked like early disease progression, but we won't know without further studies,» Hodi said.

The study found that people with Parkinson's disease had significantly lower levels of caffeine in their blood than people without the disease, even if they consumed the same amount of caffeine.

Male twin Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were more than twice as likely as those without PTSD to develop heart disease during a 13 - year period, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health.

«Having a healthy BMI or WC was associated with a higher likelihood of surviving to older ages without a major disease or mobility disability,» the study concludes.

Viruses can't survive without a host, and the most - studied viruses linked to disease are lytic in nature: They get inside a cell and make copies of themselves, destroying the cell in the process.

Co-author Dr Benedikt Schmidt, from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich and KARCH, the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme, said: «This study has shown the threat of importing exotic species without appropriate screening for infectious diseases.

The study shows that women who had a hysterectomy without any ovary removal had a 14 percent increased risk in lipid abnormalities, a 13 percent increased risk of high blood pressure, an 18 percent increased risk of obesity and a 33 percent increased risk of coronary artery disease.

Although some research has suggested that the use of the anticoagulant warfarin for atrial fibrillation among patients with chronic kidney disease would increase the risk of death or stroke, a study that included more than 24,000 patients found a lower l - year risk of the combined outcomes of death, heart attack or stroke without a higher risk of bleeding, according to a study in the March 5 issue of JAMA.

The study found that African Americans with this polymorphism are 30 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease dementia than the African American without the genetic polymorphism.

It's unlikely that we could cure Rett syndrome without addressing the MeCP2 in neurons, but this study provides evidence that by addressing the disease in the immune system we could potentially delay the onset of symptoms,» Litvak said.

Wong and colleagues studied 2,018 adults (57 percent female) with diabetes mellitus but without known cardiovascular diseases who participated in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis or the Jackson Heart Study.

Their study suggests that EGCG has high potential as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis because of how effectively the molecule blocks the effects of the disease without blocking other cellular functions.

As part of the new study, the researchers showed that intact axons without Phr1 were protected from the damage caused by vincristine, a chemotherapy drug used to treat leukemia, neuroblastoma, Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, among other cancers.

New findings from large - scale studies of more than 3.6 million people who underwent screening for cardiovascular disease reveals that a person's age and gender affects the prevalence of certain types of peripheral vascular diseases (PVD), and that diabetes is a major risk factor for developing these diseases, even in patients without heart disease.

As a matter of principle, we should be willing to share data without regards to which disease is being studied.»

In fact, in another study published last year, National Institute on Aging (NIA) researchers discovered that people with what's called a CR1 gene variant — the presence of which heightens Alzheimer's disease risk — had much lower levels of amyloid protein compared with those without the mutant gene.

With grant support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wintemute had been conducting a retrospective cohort study looking at whether handgun buyers with prior misdemeanor convictions are more likely than those without a criminal history to be charged with new crimes, particularly those involving firearms and violence.

In a study that has implications for humans with inflammatory diseases, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and colleagues have found that, given over a six - week period, the artificial sweetener sucralose, known by the brand name Splenda, worsens gut inflammation in mice with Crohn's - like disease, but had no substantive effect on those without the condition.

The study's conclusions address a major challenge in current standards of care for prostate cancer: Without knowing a tumor's underlying biology, physicians can not reliably predict which of their patients will develop dangerous forms of the disease.

By tweaking the ingredients of the zinc finger in the new study they were able to extend its effects to several months, repressing the disease gene over that period without seeing any harmful side effects.

The prospective study included 23,928 participants without coronary heart disease from Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS), a large biracial population - based cohort study.

«DATATOP subjects were recruited at early disease stages, without apparent signs of dementia and prior to needing dopamine - supplementing drugs, making this cohort ideal for studying PD progression,» explains Jing Zhang, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle).

The other substantial finding in the study is the participants with diabetes (17.4 percent) were three times more likely than those without the disease to have significant visual impairment.

A total of 559 participants without dementia at the start of the study developed Alzheimer's disease.

Some Academy members are PhDs who study HIV but can't prescribe medication, so survey results were analyzed for only the subset of members who can do so: mostly primary care providers, internal medicine, and infectious disease specialists who see a mix of patients, some with the virus and some without it.

Previous studies have shown that participation in low - impact physical activity can improve pain, function, mood and quality of life without worsening arthritis symptoms or disease severity.

A study of genetic data from 36,000 people with autoimmune diseases shows that dialing down a protein's activity — but not knocking it completely out — may provide a new way to calm overactive immune systems without raising the risk of getting infections.