Sentences with phrase «types of disease rises»

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The incidence of obesity and related diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, particularly amongst youth populations, is rising at an alarming rate.

Perhaps, she thought, the act of producing milk protects women in general from Type 2 diabetes, a disease that is dangerously on the rise across America.

Those are small potatoes compared with obesity, Type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease and many cancers also on the rise in the developed and developing parts of the world.

Researchers warn that hospital admissions and deaths caused by liver disease are likely to rise if cases of type 2 diabetes continue to increase at current rates.

Previous research has linked GL of the diet, a reflection of how much a food causes a rise in blood glucose, to chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes but it had not been established how GL is related to weight - gain over many years.

But even more far - ranging treatments may be possible with embryonic stem cells, the blank - slate cells that give rise to all organs and tissue types and that (theoretically) can repair all forms of organic damage and disease.

Recent studies support a connection between fructose consumption and the rise in rates of cardiovascular disease, obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Embryonic stem cells, discovered in the Department of Genetics in the 1980s (for which Sir Martin Evans was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007), have become an important tool for developmental biology, understanding disease, and in regenerative medicine due to the ability to give rise to all cell types in culture.

This thinking has resulted in an entire catalogue of hundreds of research studies that has shed light on the genetic origins of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Crohn's disease, and prostate cancer, while helping fuel the rise of personalized medicine.

Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia and affects memory, thinking and behavior and is on the rise.

To build an in vitro model of the human glomerulus to probe deeper into its function and vulnerabilities to disease and drug toxicities, researchers have been attempting to engineer human stem cells — that in theory can give rise to any mature cell type — so that they form into functional podocytes.

(Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, also rose significantly through this period.)

If that (simplified) narrative is accurate, and if we live in a society that is becoming increasingly insensitive to the effects of insulin (and that seems a sure thing giving increasing Type 2 diabetes rates) then heart disease would also have to be on the rise.

In addition to cholesterol, a consensus on the amount of triglyceride in the blood, another type of fat that rises when refined carbohydrates are consumed, has also been made — above normal levels increase the risk of heart disease because it's associated with carbohydrate intolerance.

Ten years ago, many professionals saw this type of coverage as more of a luxury than an important piece of protection; however, given the change in health insurance and the increased maximum out of pocket expenses and rising numbers of uninsured members of the general population, protecting yourself against the financial exposure of a serious illness or disease is more important than ever.