Sentences with phrase «when studying diseases»

Indeed, it is quite obvious that it is difficult to replace a mouse when studying diseases such as Trisomy or Alzheimer's disease.

«When we study the disease, we realize that the Hepatitis B is acquired very early in life.

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«Our survey results clearly show that when it comes to cardiovascular disease, marital status really does matter,» said Dr. Carlos Alviar, who led the study at New York University's Langone Medical Center.

When the Opposition leader noted in the House of Commons, in 2012, that a federal study had shown that Canada was falling prey to «Dutch disease» (named after the 1960s oil boom, which devastated other exports in the Netherlands), Conservative MP Kellie Leitch offered the government's response: «The leader of the Opposition wants to call Canadian employers a disease.»

In addition, research studies show decreased risk for a large number of chronic diseases when foods like the World's Healthiest Foods are regularly consumed.

The majority of these studies have proven that in fact protein will not damage your kidneys and the only time to restrict protein intake is when you suffer from kidney disease.

It also contains anthocyanin, which studies have shown lowers the risk of heart disease when consumed on a regular basis.

In one study that followed people from the Netherlands for 10 years, orange and yellow hued veggies, carrots in particular, were shown to significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease when eaten on a regular basis.

And even though few studies focus on the benefits of chia seeds on cardiovascular diseases, most of them conclude that these black specks are a safe bet when it comes to heart - friendly nutrition.

Nele Liivlaid: founder of Nutriplanet.org She has been into healthy eating for many years, but developed a more profound interest in nutrition and related diseases when she started reading The China Study and other special books on nutrition.

I've been into healthy eating for many years, but developed a more profound interest in nutrition and related diseases when I started reading The China Study and other special books on nutrition.

A study published in 2010 indicated a lower rate of celiac disease in families with a history of this disease when gluten was introduced to the baby between 3 and 7 months of age.

Animal studies have demonstrated that the death rate among animals with disease decreases when the body temperature is elevated.

Without the trigger of gut microbes, a baby's immune system is skewed towards allergies or autoimmune disease — animal studies suggest that there's a specific window of time when this happens and when probiotics can have the greatest impact.

When a study is done showing that breastfeeding lowers the risk of a certain disease, breastfeeding is the experimental group and artificial feeding is the control group.

The researchers note that the association found in this study has potentially important implications for future RA disease burden, saying: «Women who took part in this study were born in the 1940s and 1950s, before China's one - child policy was introduced in the late 1970s, and at a time when breastfeeding was more prevalent.

When logistic models were stratified by the presence or absence of hypertensive disease, only maternal age older than 34 years (odds ratio [OR], 1.4; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.0 - 2.0), pregnancy - associated plasma protein - A of the 95th percentile or less (OR, 1.9; 95 % CI, 1.2 - 3.1), and alpha fetoprotein of the 95th percentile or greater (OR, 2.3; 95 % CI, 1.4 - 3.8) remained statistically significantly associated for abruption.In this large, population - based cohort study, abnormal maternal aneuploidy serum analyte levels were associated with placental abruption, regardless of the presence of hypertensive disease.

The good news is that recent studies are revealing that when all doesn't go as planned, positive impacts can be made on baby's flora and intestinal health with the use of probiotics and other healing measures, thereby reducing later risks of many chronic diseases.

Nearly all women were mothers and none had cardiovascular disease when they enrolled in the study.

In the present study, we showed that breast - feeding had an independent protective effect against celiac disease if the infants were breast - fed at the time when gluten - containing foods were introduced.

That study also found that when truck traffic decreased on the Peace Bridge after the Sept. 11 attacks, so did cases of respiratory diseases in the west side.

A study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine shows that when mice that are genetically susceptible to developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were given antibiotics during late pregnancy and the early nursing period, their offspring were more likely to develop an inflammatory condition of the colon that resembles human IBD.

It has been suggested as an aid in diagnosing melasma depth, but this is the first study to find a significant quantitative difference between viewing the skin under natural light versus under a black light when evaluating extent in those with subtle disease.

«I had been thinking about model organisms for a very long time in academia, and when I started to realize that there were all these people clamoring for their rare diseases I thought, «Why aren't people using model organisms to study them?

The current study attempts to provide a more accurate picture of what is taking place at the genetic level when an AML patient has a relapse or metastasis of the disease.

When the researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.

And when development goes wrong, as it does with many diseases, we can study that outside the body.

He studied medicine at the University of Rochester in the 1950s but found his niche in epidemiology when he took a job at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Georgia, now the Centers for Disease Control, to fulfil his mandatory military service.

Perhaps most surprising is that, in studies by Boyd and others, nicotine has not caused addiction or withdrawal when used to treat disease.

«This study provides support for this idea that antibodies under certain conditions can be bad and actually cause severe disease when people are infected with dengue,» says viral immunologist Sujan Shresta of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in California.

Protection against the disease pertussis, or whooping cough, doesn't appear to be as strong with the currently administered vaccine when compared with the older version administered up until the 1990s, according to a new study in Pediatrics.

That's when a women's health study, stopped early after a data review, published results linking a common hormone therapy to an increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke and blood clots.

«The compounds identified in this study, when administered orally, both reduced the inflammation that is a hallmark of multiple sclerosis and protected against the nerve cell damage seen in mouse models of the disease,» said Jeffery Haines, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow at Mount Sinai and the study's lead author.

Stanford University researchers studying how the brain controls movement in people with paralysis, related to their diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease, have found that groups of neurons work together, firing in complex rhythms to signal muscles about when and where to move.

The new study is an example of what happens when epidemiology experiments — studies of patterns in health and disease — crash into studies of brain imaging.

Those patients already had metastatic disease when screened, but they were not diagnosed at the time, and so they are not counted in Messing's study.

When researchers study centenarians, people who live to be 100 or older — as Barzilai and his colleagues have been doing at Albert Einstein for more than a decade — they find that these well - aged individuals are certainly not immune to chronic diseases, but they get them later in life.

What's clear, the study showed, is that when it comes to Alzheimer's disease, thoughtless or demeaning comments on a broad level via social media can take an already - serious problem and make it worse.

Chimps should be used only in studies of major diseases and only when there is no other option.

«Women with neuromyelitis optica have a high risk of miscarriage particularly in pregnancies occurring within the three years prior to, or after, when the disease starts,» said study senior author Maria Isabel Leite, MD, DPhil, of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

«This shows how important it is to implement different brain regions into in vitro models, especially when studying how neurological diseases impact connected regions of the brain.»

The study showed a link between gut bacteria and MS - like disease incidence, which was more prominent at a younger age, when MS is also more prevalent.

«Our approach is likely to «revive» genome - wide association studies as a strategy to identify genetic risk factors and to develop novel treatment options for a wide range of diseases, just as people had hoped for when the genetic code was deciphered a decade ago.»

And it suggests that stem cells derived from embryos should remain the primary reference for iPS cells when researchers want to compare how cells from diseased patients behave, says Nissim Benvenisty of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has studied differences between ES cells and iPS cells derived from carriers of fragile X syndrome.

The findings for cardiovascular disease are consistent with many earlier studies showing reduced total and LDL («bad») cholesterol when unsaturated fats replace trans or saturated fats.

«Very early on in this disease — at a time when outside a study like ours the majority of people would not have been diagnosed with COPD — patients appear to be losing lung function,» said lead author Mark T. Dransfield, MD, medical director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Lung Center.

That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis.

Over time, patients end up providing a wealth of information to their health care providers, and when all our data are aggregated, they are also a boon to researchers studying trends in diseases and demographics for clues in how to better treat illness.

The results come during a time when studies investigating aspirin's anti-cancer effects have found evidence to support its benefit, beyond staving off cardiovascular disease or, in oncology, reducing the risk of colorectal cancer.

Campbell stumbled across statistics about osteoporosis in the 1980s when he took a break from his animal studies to direct the China - Oxford - Cornell project, a massive investigation of diet and disease based on data gathered from 6,500 rural Chinese families.