Sentences with phrase «third type of the disease»

Dilated cardiomyopathy, the third type of the disease, is comparatively rare, says Dr. Bonagura, probably accounting for only one percent or two percent of primary cardiomyopathy cases.

Not exact matches

Using tissue samples from five wild Amur tigers that died or were destroyed due to neurological disease in 2001, 2004, or 2010, McAloose and her colleagues proved that infection with CDV, a type of morbillivirus, is to blame for the deaths of two of the tigers and caused a serious infection in a third.

Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer worldwide making up about 10 per cent of all cancer cases, in the UK alone, over 41 thousand people are diagnosed with the disease every year *.

That paper reported that two - thirds of Type 2 diabetic men with chronic kidney disease have low testosterone levels and that among patients on dialysis, a remarkable 90 percent have low testosterone.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Ember is a Boston - based company, launched by Third Rock Ventures in late 2011 to translate this groundbreaking biology in the emerging area of brown fat into a proprietary pipeline of treatments for metabolic disease, including type - 2 diabetes and obesity.

Although it's true that the Type - A personality profile in general can be more prone to cardiovascular disease and death (one study found that more than a third of all cardiovascular patients had the Type - A behavior pattern), it's also completely misleading.

The third and most convincing type of evidence that long - term sleep habits are associated with the development of numerous diseases comes from tracking the sleep habits and disease patterns over long periods of time in individuals who are initially healthy (i.e., longitudinal epidemiological studies).

Third, increasing scientific evidence indicates that the type of fat in the diet plays more of a role than the total amount of fat when it comes to reducing the risk of chronic disease.

Long - term maternal risks include a 30 % — 70 % GDM recurrence, a 7-fold higher 5 — 10 year risk of type 2 diabetes and an increased risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease.5 — 8 Compared with women without GDM, women with GDM are twice to four times9 as likely to develop antenatal or postpartum depression and approximately one - third of women with recent GDM develop postpartum depression.10 Postpartum depression leads to an increase in comfort eating and a decrease in physical activity, 11 thus putting the women at higher risk of weight gain and future diabetes.10

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), an autoimmune disease characterized by high blood glucose levels resulting from a lack of insulin production, is the third most common severe, chronic childhood disease (American Diabetes Association, 2004).