Sentences with phrase «with decreased growth»

It will take a blood test to show if this specific decrease is the cause for becoming shorter over time, not to mention the multitude of other symptoms that plague those with decreased growth hormone production.

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Houston was one of just two of the 40 largest metro areas to experience a decrease in economic activity in 2016, with a GDP growth rate of -3.0 %, but its Q3 2017 average weekly wage of $ 1,187 was the seventh - best.

Tom Wynn, director of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.

The uncertainty around the globe — including decrease in share prices and bond yields, along with the upcoming election — has had an impact on growth in the business travel industry.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Growth hacking — particularly in the acquisition and activation category — can decrease your cost per lead in paid advertising, help generate leads, encourage users to share content with their friends and measure and increase the quality of leads you're receiving.

As you can see, our gross profit dollar growth was down $ 140 million or 2.7 %, which was in line with our expectations, while SG&A dollar growth decreased by $ 62 million or 1.6 %, reflecting outstanding SG&A control during the quarter.

In contrast, export volumes decreased over this period, despite strong global demand, as capacity and infrastructure constraints and supply disruptions restricted growth; such supply - side factors have hampered exports for a number of years, with resource export volumes now lower than during 2000 (see the chapter entitled «Australia's Resource Exports — Recent Trends and Prospects» in this Statement).

If you're willing to invest for a longer period of time, you're decreasing your risk and increasing your profits because you'll be able to choose safer options with slow, but steady growth, like the following examples showing their percentage increase from 2017: Ethereum (2,000 %), Ripple (1800 %), and Litecoin (1400 %).

«With stagnant job growth numbers this past year and a significant decrease in family - supporting jobs, giving up on her jobs plan is a sign the premier has given up on middle class families who are struggling to make ends meet.»

This was primarily due to accelerated repayments of contributions by Pratt & Whitney Canada In 2015 - 16, which decreased transfers in that year, along with the impact of measures contained in Budget 2016 to foster economic growth.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

We hypothesized that supplementation of overweight and obese free - living individuals with whey protein (WP) 3 would decrease body weight and fat compared with individuals supplemented with isonitrogenous soy protein (SP) or isoenergetic carbohydrate (CHO) and that insulin, insulin - like growth factor (IGF), ghrelin, and thyroid hormones would be affected by protein source.

«To maintain current employment opportunities and drive future growth in the U.S. food, beverage, and consumer products manufacturing industry, GMA urges the Trump Administration to consider the following priority objectives for modernizing NAFTA: maintain comprehensive, tariff - free trade in food, beverage, and consumer products and remove any tariff barriers, quotas, and / or other limitations to market access for goods traded among NAFTA countries; update rules that increase the competitiveness of U.S. companies; and concretely align regulations among the United States, Canada, and Mexico in order to decrease costs associated with unnecessary regulatory differences.

For example, children with zinc deficiency also have decreased growth, rashes (acrodermatitis enteropathica), and poor wound healing, etc., in addition to an impaired immune system.

Epidemiologic research shows that human milk and breastfeeding of infants provide advantages with regard to general health, growth, and development, while significantly decreasing risk for a large number of acute and chronic diseases.

It distracts the parent and decreases parent - child interaction.30, 31 Infant vocabulary growth is directly related to the amount of «talk time» or the amount of time parents spend speaking to them.32 Heavy television use in a household can interfere with a child's language development simply because parents likely spend less time talking to the child.33

Or after you have noticed signs such as increased and / or decreased hair growth, no or irregular menstrual cycles, breast tenderness, or any other abnormality with you or your partner contact your provider.

The AAP Committee on Environmental Health has identified these problems with secondhand smoke exposure: decreased lung growth, decreased lung function, and increased frequency of lower respiratory tract infections and respiratory symptoms.

She writes, «Some studies of children in Asia and Africa have found a positive relationship between prolonged breastfeeding and growth, with a decrease in the incidence of malnutrition.4 - 6 Other research has reported a negative association between prolonged breastfeeding and growth, resulting in lower nutritional status.7, 8»

Oligosaccharides in breast milk are thought to promote Bifidobacterium growth, 35 and decreased Bifidobacterium in infancy has been found to be associated with an increased risk for being overweight at age 10 years.36 Many formulas are supplemented with prebiotics such as short - chain galacto - oligosaccharides and long - chain fructo - oligosaccharides that increase the overall representation of Bifidobacterium in the microbiome of formula - fed infants, and similar to breast milk, promote lactate and short - chain fatty acid prevalence in the infant gut (reviewed in the study by Oozeer et al37).

Some of the many benefits a Postpartum Doula provides for you and your baby include: Better infant care skills Positive newborn characteristics Breastfeeding skills improve A healthy set of coping skills and strategies Relief from postpartum depression More restful sleep duration and quality Education and support services for a smooth transition home A more content baby Improved infant growth translates into increased confidence A content baby with an easier temperament Education for you to gain greater self - confidence Referrals to competent, appropriate professionals and support groups when necessary The benefits of skin to skin contact Breastfeeding success Lessen the severity and duration of postpartum depression Improved birth outcomes Decrease risk of abuse Families with disabilities can also benefit greatly by learning special skills specific to their situation Families experiencing loss often find relief through our Doula services Improved bonding between parent and child.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

Suppression of tumor growth by terbinafine is associated with decreased cholesteryl ester concentrations, restoration of PTEN expression, and inhibition of AKT - mTOR, consistent with blockade of SQLE function.

The Affordable Care Act is also expected to influence growth rates for the major payers, with a rise in private health insurance spending to 7.7 percent and a decrease in individual out - of - pocket spending by 1.5 percent.

Kamionkowski says each field has a chance of becoming quintessence and accelerating cosmic growth, but the chance any particular field has decreases with the total number of fields.

«With increasing nutrient pollution, we saw decreased growth in the fungi or bacteria and increased growth in the plant,» Burkepile explained.

In contrast, in cultures treated with X4 - ZFNs viral titers steadily decreased after peak viremia while cell growth remained exponential suggesting there was not significant viral production (data not shown).

This decrease results because plant respiration also increases with temperature, and some of the photosynthetic gains (that lead to increased productivity) are lost through a) growth and maintenance respiration (Ryan et al. 1995), or b) seasonal differences between photosynthetic gains in the spring and increased respiration in the fall.

The global morphological features (including centrifugal growth of the peripheral vessels - relative to the position of the disc -, avoiding the treated area, with an overall decrease in the vascular density) elicited by kahweol treatment are also in agreement with those previously observed for other anti-angiogenic compounds.

Inhibitory effects of antagonists of growth hormone releasing hormone on experimental prostate cancers are associated with upregulation of wildtype p53 and decrease in p21 and mutant p53 proteins.

Our approach to caring for children with epilepsy is centered on controlling, decreasing frequency or eliminating seizures in a way that minimizes interference with a child's growth and development.

Adenovirus containing a deletion of the early region 2A gene allows growth of adeno - associated virus with decreased efficiency

Treatment with a single RTK inhibitor had little effect in these tumors, but combined therapy to target several RTKs (with Iressa / Tarceva / Gleevec, etc.) decreased signaling, cell survival, and anchorage - independent growth in GBM.

However, if we compare this effect with the one gained from longer rest periods, the difference gradually decreases with each week, and by week 10, and both long and short periods result only in minor changes in production of growth hormone.

You can either increase or decrease intensity, depending on how much growth you want to achieve — but you can not specifically change the muscle definition without losing body fat and you can not increase muscle separation with special exercises.

1) Phytonutrients: * Occur naturally in fruits and vegetables * Promote the function of the immune system * Help fight off viruses as well as reduce inflammation * Associated with the treatment and / or prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease 2) Enzymes: * Responsible for metabolic processes that occur within a cell and are necessary for sustaining life * Assist and play a large role in digestion, energy production, blood coagulation and contraction of muscles 3) Amino Acids: * The basic building blocks of protein * Absorption of amino acids is essential for your metabolism 4) Essential Fatty Acids: * Reduce the risk of heart disease and some forms of cancer * Improve mood * Decrease inflammation 5) Vitamins: * Essential for the normal growth and development of all human beings * Healthy maintenance of cell tissues and organs * Help process proteins, carbohydrates and fats required for utilization 6 & 7) Macro and Trace Minerals: * Involved in electrolyte balance of body fluids * Essential for normal cellular activity * Provide hardness to bones and teeth

As growth hormone production declines with age, decreased cellular regeneration reduces cartilage and tissue regrowth.

In addition, indole -3-carbinol increases the ability of the liver to detoxify toxic compounds and also decreases the growth of human papillomavirus (a virus associated with cervical cancer).

Sclerostin is a protein produced by bone cells which has a negative impact on the formation of bone when expressed at high levels by decreasing bone formation, and IGF - 1 is a hormone associated with the growth of bone.

This type of dieting has been put to the test hundreds of times and has been shown repeatedly to decrease insulin levels, which in turn helps with weight loss; increase the amount of HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and even repair cells and help with their recovery.

Scientists and various researchers believe that the first signs of aging are due to the partial decrease of the growth hormone serum levels and research are underway trying to find ways to slow down the aging process with various forms of supplements containing growth hormone.

The chronically stressed mice had decreased immune function and experienced tumor development significantly earlier than the non-stressed mice.16 Other mouse studies of ovarian cancer showed that chronic stress resulted in increased cancer growth as well as increased angiogenesis, the process with which cancer forms new blood vessels to feed itself nutrients for growth and metastases.17 Chronic stress has also been shown to decrease our body's ability to mount an attack against foreign invaders, including viruses.18 As we know that several viruses can cause cancer (HPV and cervical cancer, and EBV and nasopharyngeal cancer), we can extrapolate that any decrease in immune function could increase cancer risk.

Low growth hormone is associated with a decrease of T4 to T3 conversion.

Goji causes the body to produce growth hormone (which decreases with age) and that's why is believed to be anti aging.

Such retardation of growth along with the up - regulation of the renal angiotensin system due to salt restriction leads to underdevelopment of the cardiovascular organs or decreases the number of nephrons in the kidneys, leading to hypertension in adulthood.

It is known that SHBG levels decrease with high levels of growth hormone (GH) and insulin growth factor (IGF - 1).

The hypothalamus manages serum GH levels with the release of two functionally opposing hormones: growth hormone - releasing hormone (GHRH) encourages GH release, while somatotropin release - inhibiting hormone decreases it.

Oral lysine supplements can stimulate growth hormone release, but pre-workout lysine supplements in combination with resistance exercise can actually decrease the growth hormone release and does not likely have any anabolic effect on the muscles [19].