Sentences with phrase «studying disease association»

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According to a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, artificial sweeteners have been linked to obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease.

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.»

To date, the majority of prospective studies have found no significant association between egg consumption and risk of coronary heart disease or stroke.

While only about one half of 1 percent of Americans actually suffer from celiac disease — which involves damage to the intestines that has been related to gluten — the number of people who are following gluten - free diets far outstrips that number, perhaps out of a public belief that a gluten - free diet is generally healthier, according to a 2016 study published by the American Medical Association.

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.

A recent systematic review and meta - analysis reported no significant association between the consumption of saturated fatty acids (SFAs) and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)(1), but the study failed to specify the replacement macronutrient for saturated fat.

There is a bit of a debate about the role of animal protein in diet, mostly about the studies that only show associations of protein and disease and not hard evidence of causality.

Sanders, D.S., M.J. Carter, D.P. Hurlstone, et al., «Association of Adult Coeliac Disease With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Case - Control Study in Patients Fulfilling ROME II Criteria Referred to Secondary Care,» Lancet, 358:1504 - 1508, 2001.

In an ideal world, systematic reviews provide access to all the available evidence on specific exposure — disease associations, but publication bias related to authors» conflicts of interest may affect the reliability of the conclusions of such studies.

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.

Epidemiological studies have observed a negative association between tomato intake and the incidence of cardiovascular 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.

One study finds an association with disease x, but not y or z, another finds one with y but not x. None of these studies are able to fully control for the critically important confounding variable of maternal health, and none of the decent quality ones have demonstrated a large difference in risk.

Additional studies are needed to assess the associations of breastfeeding duration with the risks of infectious diseases beyond the age of 6 months.

In multiple studies, lactation is associated with reduced maternal risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.12, 22 Several studies have found differences in diabetes prevalence among postmenopausal women.22, 23 However, the only study to measure incident disease found that the association between breastfeeding and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus disappeared after 15 years after a woman's last birth.12 Thus, we limited the effect of lactation on type 2 diabetes mellitus accordingly.

Of note, our models may underestimate the true maternal costs of suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and MI.

The researchers note that the association found in this study has potentially important implications for future RA disease burden, saying: «Women who took part in this study were born in the 1940s and 1950s, before China's one - child policy was introduced in the late 1970s, and at a time when breastfeeding was more prevalent.

Breastfeeding is associated with about 10 % lower maternal risk of several major cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in later life, and the magnitude of the inverse association was stronger among those with a longer duration of breastfeeding, according to a large, prospective, observational study among Chinese women.

Funnel plot of precision estimates [calculated by using the inverse of the SE of ln (odds ratio); ie, the higher the estimate, the more precise the study] from studies that explored the association between breastfeeding and Crohn disease against their odds ratio.

Previously Bao and her colleagues observed an association between increased nut consumption and reduced risk of major chronic diseases and even death, but few prospective cohort studies had examined the link between nut intake and inflammation.

The first environment - wide association study borrows from genomics to reveal new leads in major complex diseases

Using a novel method, Whitehead Institute researchers have determined how a non-coding mutation identified in genome - wide association studies (GWAS) can contribute to sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD).

Earlier efforts to hunt down disease - causing genes — so - called genomewide association studies — frequently came up empty - handed because medical researchers had to take cost - saving shortcuts.

«While MR studies have been successful in solving the causal relevance of major lipids in coronary heart disease (LDL - C and TG, yes, and HDL - C, no), it seems that other approaches are required to further evaluate the causal relevance of each of these lipid fractions in association with T2D.

«Previous studies have demonstrated an association between stress and skin symptoms, but those studies relied on small patient samples, did not use standardized tools, are anecdotal in nature, or focused their analyses on a single skin disease,» says Gil Yosopovitch, MD, Chair of the Department of Dermatology at LKSOM, Director of the Temple Itch Center, and corresponding author of the study.

And he says that the genome - wide studies that failed to reproduce his results lacked sufficient power to reveal the association between TOMM40 and Alzheimer's disease.

In the second study, Dr. McCoy and colleagues demonstrated the application of this new method to examine the association between symptom dimensions and common genetic variation in psychiatric disease.

Using an approach called a genome - wide association study, researchers scanned complete sets of DNA in thousands of participants, looking for small variations that appear more often in people with the disease than in healthy individuals.

The authors conclude: «The findings from this large prospective study show that the association between body size and prostate cancer is complex and varies by disease aggressiveness; men who have greater adiposity have an elevated risk of high grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death.»

The Immunochip for fine - mapping is an important tool for conducting genome - wide association studies of the genetic components of disease.

African populations harbour the greatest genetic diversity and have the highest per capita health burden, yet they are rarely included in large genome studies of disease association.

This synthetic eye could be used to study and test treatments for eye diseases, researchers reported February 16 in a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found depressed patients with chronic kidney disease did not benefit from a common antidepressant.

New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that age (or age at diagnosis) and duration of diabetes disease are linked to the risk of death and marcovascular complications (those in larger blood vessels), whereas only diabetes duration is linked to the risk of microvascular complications (in smaller blood vessels such as those in the eyes).

And a 2007 study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology followed 1,500 older people for five years and found no association between urinary sodium levels and the risk of coronary vascular disease or death.

If the association holds up in larger studies, Chatila says, doctors could use the information to sort out which mutation — or combination of mutations — leads to different kinds of allergic diseases.

Based on these points, Dr. Canli suggests a major research step would be to conduct large - scale studies with depressed patients, controls, and infectious - disease related protocols to determine the association or causal nature of infectious disease and depression.

A growing number of epidemiologic studies have suggested an association between sedentary behavior and chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and even death that is distinct from those related to a lack of physical activity.

The Children's Heart Failure Study Group of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, in collaboration with the Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Association, has developed new guidelines to assist practitioners in primary care and emergency departments to recognize and successfully manage heart failure in children with undiagnosed heart disease and symptoms of possible heart failure.

While several studies in the intervening years have investigated whether particular genes were responsible for modifying HD onset, this is the first to employ genome - wide association (GWA) analysis, which scans an individual's whole genome to identify chromosomal regions containing variants that are associated with the disease traits that are being studied.

Several previous studies have found an association between increasing nut consumption and a lower risk of diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, colon cancer, gallstones, and diverticulitis.

A study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation finds that cardiovascular disease rates rise with average daily TV viewing times — even if you're physically fit.

«In our prospective cohort study, we evaluated the longitudinal association between changes in physical activity and disease progression in 137 patients with COPD and 26 patients with chronic bronchitis.»

Older people who have had strokes or who have vascular disease are at risk of stroke both immediately after cardiac surgery and during the following two years, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

«Association between small - vessel disease, Alzheimer pathology studied.»

While previous studies have linked skipping breakfast to coronary heart disease risk, this is the first study to evaluate the association between breakfast and the presence of subclinical atherosclerosis.

«Physical inactivity is associated with morbidity and mortality in COPD, but the association between objectively measured physical activity and other disease components over time has not been well studied,» said lead author Benjamin Waschki, MD, of the Pulmonary Research Institute at LungenClinic in Grosshansdorf, Germany.

«Our approach is likely to «revive» genome - wide association studies as a strategy to identify genetic risk factors and to develop novel treatment options for a wide range of diseases, just as people had hoped for when the genetic code was deciphered a decade ago.»

Schwartz and his colleagues study a host of other diseases, such as diabetes, to see what the predictive capabilities and associations of Twitter can reveal.

International guidelines from the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease / Infectious Diseases Society of America, the European Study for the Association of the Liver, the International Network for Hepatitis in Substance Users, and the World Health Organization, now all recommend treatment for hepatitis C infection among people who use drugs.