Sentences with phrase «than any other disease by»

According to the WHO, depression is expected to account for more lost years of healthy life than any other disease by 2030, except for HIV / AIDS.

Not exact matches

When Paul Reiter, an expert on insect - borne diseases at the Pasteur Institute, begged to differ - pointing out that malaria ¹ s range was shrinking and was limited by factors other than temperature - he had an uphill struggle.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

Cookies for Kids» Cancer was founded by two OXOnians (OXO employees) who were inspired by their son Liam's battle with pediatric cancer, a disease which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease.

They contain more antioxidants than most other fruits or vegetables and may help prevent damage caused by cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's.

Most people still cling to the old misguided «science» of saturated fats causing obesity and heat disease created by one flawed study and carried by the medical establishment and the media, enough to create a huge no or low fat industry that actually has contributed more to obesity and heart disease than any other dietary choice before.

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.

Cookies for Kids» Cancer was founded by two OXOnians (OXO employees) who were inspired by their son Liam's battle with pediatric cancer, a disease which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease.

More children are killed and disabled by injuries than all other diseases combined.

He said more than 27,000 people in the country were affected by the illness and dengue and chikungunya, two other diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measureable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.We found that people with cancer have DNA which is more easily damaged by ultraviolet light than other people, so the test shows the sensitivity to damage of all the DNA — the genome — in a cell.»

Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), which contains more than 200 nucleotides, are thought to play a role in autoimmune diseases and cancers by interacting with other RNA, DNA, and proteins.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

The researchers also found that exercise was significantly less effective than caloric restriction at preventing these changes, although work by others has shown that exercise is associated with reducing the risk of other diseases.

He added a much more familiar entity at the end — collagen vascular disease — but obscured it beyond my recognition by parenthetically adding, «including Sneddon's syndrome,» as though he expected anyone other than his own staff to know what he meant.

CDC and health agencies in other countries have been baffled by the lack of severe disease of swine flu outside of Mexico, which now suspects the infection has led to the hospitalization of nearly 2000 people and more than 150 deaths.

«There's a long list of lung diseases for which there are no treatments other than a lung transplant,» added Kotton, whose work is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

In other words, the new analysis suggests that the risk of disease and premature death can be reduced even more by eating more fruits and vegetables than recommended.

Rather than focus only on how many people were killed by a particular malady, as others measuring death and disease do, IHME emphasizes the number of years of healthy life lost.

Harris cited other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies in the field of psychology in which the findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an effort by scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just - published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which found no evidence that the candidate genes are more associated with the disease than other genes.

For instance, a finding published by researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2009 said that longer lengths of sitting were directly proportional to an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and most causes of death other than cancer.

Gay and bisexual men in the U.S. are more severely affected by HIV than any other group of people in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For more than 60 years, researchers have been hypothesising that the diseases are caused by, among other factors, changes to the level of the neurotransmitter.

Other work was intended to examine the link between radiation exposure and disease by measuring tissue levels of strontium - 90 and other elements; one strontium - 90 project, for example, examined bones taken from more than 3000 people between 1955 and Other work was intended to examine the link between radiation exposure and disease by measuring tissue levels of strontium - 90 and other elements; one strontium - 90 project, for example, examined bones taken from more than 3000 people between 1955 and other elements; one strontium - 90 project, for example, examined bones taken from more than 3000 people between 1955 and 1973.

In addition, the survey found that healthcare providers more often focused on a woman's weight rather than other cardiovascular disease risk factors, compared to men who were more likely to be told their cholesterol or blood pressure is too high by their doctors.

«Chlorine releases in fixed facilities resulted in victims and evacuations in more industry categories than any other substance,» says a 2004 study by researchers from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Studies by the Burchard group and others have found that using genetic ancestry rather than ethnic self - identification significantly improves diagnostic accuracy for certain diseases.

By evaluating aspirin guidelines by the American Heart Association, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, and other organizations, researchers determined aspirin use to be inappropriate in patients with a 10 year cardiovascular disease risk of less than 6 percenBy evaluating aspirin guidelines by the American Heart Association, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, and other organizations, researchers determined aspirin use to be inappropriate in patients with a 10 year cardiovascular disease risk of less than 6 percenby the American Heart Association, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, and other organizations, researchers determined aspirin use to be inappropriate in patients with a 10 year cardiovascular disease risk of less than 6 percent.

LONDON — Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's largest biomedical research charity, today announced more than # 4 million in support for a pioneering, and potentially controversial, IVF treatment that could prevent some forms of muscular dystrophy and other diseases caused by defective mitochondria, the energy - generating organelle in cells.

In work that confirmed earlier research by others, Ross presented compelling evidence showing that rats fed restricted diets not only lived longer than their fully nourished counterparts but also suffered from fewer diseases.

Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), which contains more than 200 nucleotides, is thought to play a role in autoimmune diseases and cancers by interacting with other RNA, DNA, and proteins.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicdisease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatother long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatOther high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Probably not: People who have multiple angioplasties are no more injured by indirect exposure to xray than other people without heart disease.

Diffuse scleroderma is characterized by a lower survival rate than other forms of the disease, and no curative pharmacological treatment options have been developed to - date.

There are lots of different HD mice available, and because every case of HD is caused by the same basic genetic mutation, it may be that «our» mice will turn out to be better than those of other diseases, at predicting success in human patients.

This approach may also be applicable to a number of rare genetic diseases caused by splicing defects, including ataxia telangiectasia, congenital disorder of glycosylation, and Niemann - Pick disease type C. Although the three DMD studies referenced here represent a great step forward for CRISPR gene therapy, it's important to realize that DMD is a simpler case than other genetic diseases we'd like to treat with CRISPR.

While studies like the Adventist Health Study demonstrate that a vegan diet can prevent chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes better than any other eating style, good health is not guaranteed by eating vegan foods and there are pitfalls that I often see people fall into:

About one - third of the time, says Dr. Jicha, memory or cognition problems are caused by something other than Alzheimer's disease.

We know that women who are overweight by more than 30 pounds are at increased risk for heart disease (even in the absence of other risk factors).

By Denise Mann MONDAY, April 12, 2010 (Health.com)-- Women who eat more white bread, white rice, pizza, and other carbohydrate - rich foods that cause blood sugar to spike are more than twice as likely to develop heart disease than women who eat less of those foods, a new study suggests.

Eat as much as you like as the body compensates for the amount of cholesterol consumed in food, and cholesterol does not cause heart disease anymore than firefighters cause fires, what causes heart disease is inflammation caused by Processed carbohydrates, processed oils and sugars in other words processed foods, they have now proved that the higher your cholesterol the longer you live and the more intelligent you are.

Combined with stressful and sedentary lifestyles, and particularly when complicated by cholesterol - lowering medication, this amounts to nothing less than a blueprint for creating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of neurological degeneration.

Thankfully, practitioners of functional medicine have measures other than the whip - worm therapy to manage autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and chronic inflammation, all backed by peer - reviewed science.

Heart disease accounts for more premature deaths than any other illness, and is almost completely preventable by simply changing diet and lifestyle.

(See Good Calories Bad Calories, by Gary Taubes, and Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Nutrition) The chance of this woman, who has no other risk factors for heart disease aside from high LDL cholesterol (a poor predictor by itself), benefitting from Crestor's ability to prevent heart attacks is less than one in a thousand.

Other than cancer, there are diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth, too.

The idea of this theory is that autoimmune disease is caused by gene incompabilities, and that autistic individuals will get these more often than others, especially if one or both of the parents are non-autistic.

While previous research has linked a Mediterranean diet to a reduced risk of heart disease and some cancers, as well as lower odds of developing Alzheimer's disease, scientists haven't conclusively proven that the diet itself is responsible, rather than other lifestyle choices made by people who eat this way.

Despite its concerns about the risk posed by artificial sweeteners, CSPI says consumers who drink soda are still probably better off drinking diet soda than sugar - sweetened soda, which poses the greater and demonstrable risks of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, gout, tooth decay, and other health problems.

More than 20 dogs, cats and birds, some dead and others diseased, were seized by animal control officers Wednesday from a house that was described as resembling a scene from a horror movie.Officials said the call was one of the worst cases of animal abuse they had ever encountered.A search turned up two dead chickens and one dead guinea fowl inside the house and a rotting carcass on the kitchen counter that could not be identified as a dog, cat or anything else, said Clara Gundy, executive director of the Humane Society of Central Brevard.