Sentences with phrase «variations in healthy people»

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More disturbing than the incidence of cardiac arrest in fairly healthy people, however, are the variations in survival rates, which can swing from as low as 3 % in some US counties to as high as 20 % in others, The New York Times reports.

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.

Although previous research has identified genes involved with behaviors seen in eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, little is known about how natural variation in these genes could affect eating behaviors in healthy people.

The goal is to identify variations that are more common in people with the condition than in healthy people.

Since scientists first decoded a draft of the human genome more than 15 years ago, many questions have lingered, two of which have been addressed in a major new study co-led by a Princeton University computer scientist: Is it possible, despite the complexity of billions of bits of genetic information and their variations between people, to develop a mechanistic model for how healthy bodies function?

By comparing the sequences of these genes in healthy versus anorexic people, the team found that anorexic women consistently had particular sequence variations in two of these three genes.

The team first analyzed common genetic variation in 75,607 people of European ancestry who self - reported being diagnosed or treated for depression and 231,747 healthy controls of similar ethnicity.

The findings shown here — that even small variations in sleep patterns can affect measures of wellness in otherwise healthy people — has large implications for how much we can really control our sleep and social lives without doing harm.

A handful of studies exist showing an insulin response from just sweet taste in healthy people, and some studies show a lot of variation in obese subjects, as well.

There are medical reasons such as malabsorption syndromes, alcoholism, or genetic variations that affect the requirement for micronutrients in some people, and usually require supplementation, but a healthy person can only be healthier on a wholefood diet.