Sentences with phrase «types of diseases caused»

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The human generative faculties are not built for homosexual types of acts, and such acts cause serious disease.

Coeliac disease is caused by an adverse reaction to gluten — a dietary protein found in three types of cereal:

(See: Scientific explanation as to why sugar is «Toxic» http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/sugar5.php) Also, read up on the cause of Type II Diabetes, which is a 100 % avoidable degenerative disease caused by diet.

Meat consumption has been linked to serious health risks including heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer, while an increase in consuming plant - based foods shows numerous health benefits, namely decreasing the risk of many of those diseases caused by excessive consumption of animal products.

«The authors of this study acknowledge their findings do not show drinking beverages of any type causes chronic disease.

An infectious disease caused by type - A strains of the influenza virus that is transmittable from birds to humans.

The vain side of me (you know, the one that causes me to suck my stomach in every time I pass a mirror... tell me I'm not the only one) jumps for joy when I hear that the cardiovascular benefits related to cherries includes loss of belly fat, which is the type of fat most commonly associated with heart disease.

Along with bleeding of the gums, these types of adolescent gum diseases can cause bright, swollen gums, receded gums and chronic bad breath.

Obesity and overweight can cause serious health problems, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, several forms of cancer, and osteoarthritis.

Although other neuronal cell types are affected, medium spiny neurons bear the brunt of the damage caused by Huntington's disease.

But these other types of ticks can carry different kinds of disease - causing bacteria, so it's good to know which tick you're dealing with, Sood says.

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

The team identified 345 regions of the genome where they could pinpoint the likely molecular causes underlying a person's predisposition to immune - related diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

Residents in these neighborhoods have a greater likelihood of early atherosclerosis (a disease that hardens arteries and underlies many types of heart disease), but no studies have examined which factors might cause this.

NTM expert Joseph Falkinham of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg says this type of data is needed to prepare a risk assessment, but we also need to know how many NTM of each species and type are needed to cause disease.

So much so that type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases of Western civilization are becoming causes for concern there too.

The team focused on these antibodies, which together target the two types of influenza viruses that contain all strains known to cause disease in humans.

Using animal models of precancerous polyps in the bowel, Chung and his team determined that certain types of immune cells within a chronically inflamed intestine can become rewired, causing them — paradoxically — to contribute to disease development rather than protect against it.

Based on previous research, the researchers hypothesized that radiation from phones would accelerate progression of the disease because other types of radiation cause free radical damage.

As human cells do not contain the bd - type oxidase, the question of the ability to combat disease - causing bacteria without causing harm to the human body becomes relevant.

Their findings, which have been published online in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, expand the type of gut - resident microorganism that can affect the health of their host and suggest that related parasites may cause gastrointestinal disease in humans.

Rapamycin can make patients susceptible to some opportunistic infections and has been linked to hyperglycemia, which can cause type 2 diabetes, and high levels of triglycerides in the blood, which can contribute to heart disease.

The findings were made by researchers from Oregon State University, who studied 15 - 20 million - year - old amber from the Dominican Republic that offer the oldest fossil evidence ever found of Borrelia, a type of spirochete - like bacteria that to this day causes Lyme disease.

Inflammatory arthritis includes a number of autoimmune diseases of the joints — including rheumatoid arthritis and lupus — and in many cases is caused by a type of inflammation called type III hypersensitivity.

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.

There are four types of blast trauma injury: 1) primary injury caused directly by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that of sound in water, 2) secondary injury caused by objects put in motion by the blast, 3) tertiary injury caused by an individual thrown into motion by the blast and hitting surrounding objects, and 4) quaternary injury caused by burns, explosion - related injuries, illnesses and diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.

The researchers studied a form of the condition called Charcot - Marie - Tooth disease type 2A, which is caused by specific genetic mutations.

They frequently find that in both types of disease the region of the «healthy» copy of chromosome 17 that should carry the normal copy of the BRCA1 gene is missing, leaving only one copy of the gene — the one with the cancer - causing mutation.

To do this, the research team enrolled 65 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 50 years in the human challenge study — a type of research study in which individuals are exposed to disease - causing pathogens under carefully controlled conditions.

One of the most frequent types of pneumoconiosis in the mining industry is the silicosis, a disease caused by inhaling silica dust (SiO2).

But Mucke, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues believe they may finally have pinpointed the cause of these puzzling personality twists as well as other cognitive deficits associated with Alzheimer's: petite mal (nonconvulsive) seizures similar to those exhibited in some types of epilepsy.

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.

«Virtual tissue technology reveals new drug target in polycystic kidney disease: Advanced computer simulations show that failures of cell adhesion and inhibition cause two types of kidney cyst formation.»

They found that most cases of liver disease in people with type 2 diabetes are not alcohol - related but caused by a build - up of fat within liver cells — a condition known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Genotoxicity is associated with the development of diseases and is a critical mechanism responsible for many types of cancer caused by smoking and secondhand smoke exposure.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts the survey on a nationally representative sample of high schoolers every two years to monitor six types of health - risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disability and social problems among U.S. youths.

Researchers developed a new type of cell transplantation to treat mice mimicking a rare lung disease that one day could be used to treat this and other human lung diseases caused by dysfunctional immune cells.

Vaccination with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine - 7 [PCV7 — a vaccine that covers 7 strains (serotypes) of Streptococcus pneumoniae] is linked to overall decreases in the rate of serious infections caused by this bacterium, such as pneumonia and meningitis, referred to as invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD)-RSB-, but small increases in IPD caused by serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae not covered by the vaccine (referred to as non-vaccine type IPD), according to a study published in PLOS Medicine this week.

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.

Now, in a series of recent studies, scientists at the University of Missouri are using whole genome sequencing through the 99 Lives Cat Genome Sequencing Consortium to identify genetic variants that cause rare diseases, such as progressive retinal atrophy and Niemann - Pick type 1, a fatal disorder in domestic cats.

For Spark, the injection site is the eyes of people, mostly children and young adults, who have a type of inherited retinal disease caused by a mutation in a gene called RPE65.

He studied two types of disease - causing bacteria, Vibrio cholerae — the infectious agent behind cholera — and Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause various infections such as abscesses and hospital infections.

Mutations in individual genes can also activate interferon signaling and cause a class of autoimmune diseases known as type I interferonopathies.

Hepatic encephalopathy occurs when the liver can not remove certain toxins and chemicals, such as ammonia, from the blood.1 These toxins and chemicals then build up and enter the brain.1 Hepatic encephalopathy is one of the major complications of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), and a leading cause of hospital re-admission due to its recurrence, despite treatment.1 It can occur suddenly in people with acute liver failure, but is seen more often in those with chronic liver disease.1 Symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy include mild confusion, forgetfulness, poor concentration and personality or mood changes, but can progress to extreme anxiety, seizures, severe confusion, jumbled and slurred speech and slow movement.1 The first step in treatment is to identify and treat any factors that cause hepatic encephalopathy.2 Once the episode has resolved, further treatment aims to reduce the production and absorption of toxins, such as ammonia.1 Generally, there are two types of medication used to reduce the likelihood of another hepatic encephalopathy episode — lactulose and rifaximin.2 However, it remains a leading cause of hospitalisations and re-hospitalisations in cirrhotic patients, despite the use of the above - mentioned standard of care treatment.

This is the first study to link fruit and vegetable consumption with all - cause, cancer and heart disease deaths in a nationally - representative population, the first to quantify health benefits per - portion, and the first to identify the types of fruit and vegetable with the most benefit.

The study reflects an «antimicrobial stewardship» approach, guiding healthcare providers to prescribe the most appropriate antibiotic for a patient's specific type of infection, with the aim of improving individual outcomes and reducing the overall risk of antibiotic resistance — in which disease - causing microorganisms develop resistance to commonly used antibiotics.

The study focused on search trends and hospitalization data related to coronary heart disease, the most common type of heart disease and the leading cause of death in the U.S. Caused by the buildup of plaque in the arteries that supply blood to the heart, coronary heart disease can lead to chronic chest pain, heart attacks and other heart problems.

«We were amazed when we found this new type of disease — tapeworms growing inside a person, essentially getting cancer, that spreads to the person, causing tumors,» said study researcher Dr. Atis Muehlenbachs, a staff pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch disease — tapeworms growing inside a person, essentially getting cancer, that spreads to the person, causing tumors,» said study researcher Dr. Atis Muehlenbachs, a staff pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch (IDPB).

The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type of language dementia, primary progressive aphasia (PPA), provides important new insights into the beginning stages of this disease — which results in language loss — when it is caused by a buildup of a toxic protein found in Alzheimer's disease.