The story comes from the Alzheimer's Society website, and describes how Mark's now 82 - year old mom, Sylvia, was diagnosed
with multifactorial Alzheimer's in December of 2016.
Our medical system is fundamentally incapable of dealing
with this multifactorial problem because our medical system approaches health backwards, just like many of our farmers approach farming backwards.
«Migraine is a neurological disease
with multifactorial causes, whereas TMD, like cervicalgia — neck pain — and other musculoskeletal disorders, is a series of factors that intensify the sensitivity of migraine sufferers.
Not exact matches
Dry eye is
multifactorial disease of the tears and ocular surface that results in symptoms of discomfort, visual disturbance, and tear film instability
with potential damage to the ocular surface.
The genetic variants associated
with asthma have also effects on autoimmune diseases and other diseases
with an inflammatory component such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, neuro - psychiatric diseases, which strengthens the importance of pleiotropy in
multifactorial diseases.
Both constipation and incontinence, although
multifactorial, have also been associated
with the problems related to the regulation of a ring of smooth muscle around the anal opening termed, the internal anal sphincter.
Combining population statistics or epidemiology
with an understanding of Mendelian and
multifactorial genetics «serves you really well,» says Sninsky.
Nevertheless, after intensive treatment, nearly half of adult women
with anorexia nervosa relapse within a year... This work shows how modern neuroscience can lead to a new treatment and simultaneously improve understanding of perpetuating factors in a complex,
multifactorial disease... Both mood and social function warrant further examination as potential neural factors that might perpetuate anorexia nervosa in adults.
Probably, these perturbations noted
with islet cell functions could be a
multifactorial effect and can be attributed to a reduced threshold of the beta - cells reported under MS [18] that can all be accelerated
with the induction of AP by L - arginine.
Reading is a
multifactorial process that is influenced by psychological, physiological, environmental, sociological and linguistic factors.1, 2 From an optometrist's perspective, a decrease in reading ability may be associated
with poor visual acuity, unstable binocular vision, or ocular disease.3 It is therefore important that people
with poor reading comprehension receive a comprehensive oculo - visual assessment.
As a doctor
with four board certifications, I know that everything in health is
multifactorial — eating the right foods must be combined
with exercise and mental health to achieve the most benefit.
This is congruent
with the fact that the cause of cancer is likely
multifactorial and we should be treating it comprehensively.
«another
multifactorial trial, so you can't tell whether the benefit came from replacing SFA
with PUFA, weight loss, increasing pectin, less trans fats, more LCO3, restricting commercial baked goods or potentially more whole plant foods.
Recent literature proves that depression is a
multifactorial syndrome, co-morbid
with many chronic illnesses, by virtue of shared biological mechanisms.
Individuals
with the ApoE4 gene are having remarkable success using a mild ketogenic diet and
multifactorial lifestyle intervention protocol created by Dale Bredesen, MD, and outlined in his book, The End of Alzheimer's (11).
Vitamin D deficiency is associated
with autoimmune problems and considering that cancer is a
multifactorial disease, optimal vitamin D levels are not worth compromise during neonatal development.
I believe that what we eat has a lot to do
with the health of our brains, though of course mental illness (like physical illness) has
multifactorial causes, and by no means should we diminish the importance of addressing all the causes in each individual.
Endurance athletes frequently report gastrointestinal impairment during competition, which can include dangerous and debilitating conditions such as nausea, bloating, pain, vomiting, abdominal angina, bloody diarrhea, endotoxemia, hemorrhagic gastritis, and ischemic colitis.28, 29 Causes of gut distress are considered
multifactorial,
with gastrointestinal ischemia being important, along
with mechanical position (e.g. runners versus cyclists) and nutrition.
This is consistent
with the fact that chronic diseases are multigenic and
multifactorial.
The risk factors for recurrent hamstring strain are likely
multifactorial,
with many factors influencing others (Mendiguchia et al. 2011).
Although both scientists and lay people alike may frequently identify a single dietary element as the cause of chronic disease (eg, saturated fat causes heart disease and salt causes high blood pressure), evidence gleaned over the past 3 decades now indicates that virtually all so - called diseases of civilization have
multifactorial dietary elements that underlie their etiology, along
with other environmental agents and genetic susceptibility.
We are uncertain why dogs
with advanced kidney disease loose their appetite, but it is almost certainly due in part to rising levels of metabolic wastes and toxins within their bodies (in doctorspeak:
multifactorial metabolic derangements).
Because the mechanisms of development of neuropathic pain are
multifactorial, appropriate polypharmacy is likely to be more effective than treatment
with single agents.
Behavioral problems are often
multifactorial and involve ruling out medical problems first (
with the urinary problems especially like urinary tract infections, FLUTD, crystals, stones, etc) and then really delving into many things like how many cats you have, the lay out of your house, what type litter you are using, what kind of litter box, where the litter boxes are located, etc etc etc..
Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease, or FLUTD, is a
multifactorial disease condition that affects many domestic cats; in fact, up to 10 % of all cats treated in emergency hospitals are affected
with FLUTD.
The causes of OCD are
multifactorial with genetic and nutritional interactions thought to be the central factors.
The pathogenesis of IE is likely
multifactorial with many factors involved including immune system function and the integrity of the cardiac valves.
One Colorado study showed that paraprofessional home visiting, when combined
with an early - intervention program focused on children
with developmental delays, resulted in improved involvement
with the program.25 In North Carolina, the combination of a public health department's home - visiting program
with links into private physician's offices was helpful in overcoming personal and structural barriers to care.43 The Commonwealth Fund's Healthy Steps intervention included home visiting by masters - level healthy development specialists
with significant gains in the quality of well - child care, although the
multifactorial nature of this intervention made it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the home - visiting component.44 — 46 A South Carolina study showed that a program that linked school - based home visitors to group well - child visits resulted in greater retention of anticipatory guidance and improved satisfaction
with care.47
We concluded that the battery was essentially
multifactorial,
with a general adjustment factor (mastery, ITIA, SSRS, YSR internalization), one school adjustment factor (school contentment, bullying, SSRS) and one mental health factor (YSR internalization, YSR externalization, bullying) after rotation.
Multifactorial inheritance
with cultural transmission and assortative mating III.