Sentences with phrase «with other chronic diseases»

Sociometric techniques that assess peer acceptance, friendships, and behavioral reputation have been used with children with other chronic diseases (Reiter - Purtill, Vannatta, Gerhardt, Correll, & Noll, 2003), but adolescents have been neglected.
Consistent with studies on the psychosocial adjustment of children with other chronic diseases (Lavigne & Faier - Routman, 1992), children with PRDs are at an increased risk for adjustment problems, particularly internalizing problems such as anxiety and depression, compared to healthy or normative controls (Billings, Moos, Miller, & Gottlieb, 1987; Daltroy et al., 1992; Daniels, Moos, Billings, & Miller, 1987; McAnarney, Pless, Satterwhite, & Friedman, 1974; Wallander, Varni, Babani, Banis, & Wilcox, 1989).
The life insurance industry routinely covers people with other chronic diseases, including cancer and Hepatitis C, although at a higher price than for healthy applicants.
Causes of Proteinuria Chronic kidney disease is probably the most common cause of proteinuria, but veterinarians see it in pets with other chronic diseases as well.
In addition, supplementing with vitamin C helped people with other chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart failure.

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It is inspiring to see someone who struggles with a chronic disease like myself, and turn a hard time into a channel to help others.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of people with diabetes and other chronic diseases.
Also, most of these products are highly processed, have no nutritional value, and can lead to inflammation and hormone disruption associated with chronic diseases and other health conditions.
Pioneers like Dr Dean Ornish and Dr Caldwell Esselstyn where among the first to show that if you combined a low fat, plant based diet, with walking and stress management, not only could you prevent and reverse heart disease (and many other chronic conditions), but you could also increase telomerase activity.
After residency, Dr. Chandra spent 5 years studying with, and working with, Dr. William Lee Cowden, MD a leading expert in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease and other complex medical conditions.
From the file of Rather Obvious News, this study from the University of Michigan Medical School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease
Chronic exposure to BPA, as it is commonly known, has been associated with heart disease, cancer and other health problems.
The first symptom is usually one of easy fatigability, just as with many other chronic liver diseases.
Dr. Kendall - Tackett is author of more than 310 journal articles, book chapters and other publications, and author or editor of 22 books in the fields of trauma, women's health, depression, and breastfeeding, including Treating the Lifetime Health Effects of Childhood Victimization, 2nd Edition (in press, Civic Research Institute), Depression in New Mothers, 2nd Edition (2010, Routledge), The Psychoneuroimmunology of Chronic Disease (2010, American Psychological Association), and Breastfeeding Made Simple, 2nd Edition (co-authored with Nancy Mohrbacher, 2010).
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.
This includes vegetarians and vegans; women who are lactose - intolerant or have certain other food intolerances; smokers and women who abuse other substances; women who are having twins or higher multiples; and women with certain blood disorders and chronic diseases.
Follow recommendations to separate your child from others, including family members — especially newborn babies, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems or chronic diseases.
The health department reminds everyone that those most at risk for complications from influenza include people with asthma, emphysema or other chronic diseases; those over 65 years, under 5 years, and pregnant women.
Dr. Dotson and her collaborators on the study stress further primary research in understanding health system barriers and disparities, and standardization of care is needed to ultimately improve healthcare delivery and minimize healthcare disparities to improve the health and quality of life of children with Crohn's disease and other chronic conditions.
He concludes, «Mounting evidence from ecological and observational studies, as well as studies of mechanisms, indicates that the Western dietary pattern — especially the large amount of meat in that diet — is strongly associated with risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and several other chronic diseases.
The researchers tested OCA in three groups of patients: 10 with primary BAD, where the intestine is otherwise healthy; 10 with secondary BAD, where malabsorption can occur as a result of another disease such as Crohn's; and eight with other causes of chronic diarrhea, who served as a control group.
In 2012, the NHMRC provided almost A$ 3 million in research funding for clinical trials for people with chronic diseases, among many other projects.
Doctors later found that Duersonhad a condition in common with more than 20 other dead football players in the U.S.: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE, a degenerative disease linked to impulsive behavior, depression and dementia.
«Like zebrafish, we have this rich source of gut microbes that have figured out how to coexist with us and soothe the immune system,» she says, adding that «there is enormous potential to harness those mechanisms» to address ailments such as inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic inflammation.
Four of them show a strong correlation with known loci for not only atopic dermatitis and asthma, but also for other chronic inflammatory diseases like Crohn's disease and psoriasis as well as autoimmune disorders.
«Aging is an underlying timing mechanism for all chronic diseases,» says David Harrison, a collaborator with Sharp and other rapamycin researchers at the Jackson Laboratory in Maine.
Chronic back pain co-existed for the President with diagnosed Addison's Disease, «spastic colitis,» which is now called irritable bowel syndrome, allergies and other medical problems.
Others will struggle with chronic, debilitating diseases.
Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) accelerate the loss of lung function especially among patients with mild disease, according to researchers at National Jewish Health and other institutions.
However, this disease seems to be more troublesome for older patients and those with liver disease or other chronic conditions.
Although a goal of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was to provide Medicaid patients with a source of nonemergency care outside of hospital emergency departments (EDs), researchers suggest that these newly enrolled patients will likely continue to look to EDs for treatment of chronic diseases and other nonemergency issues, despite state attempts to impose fees on ED visits.
People with diabetes, heart failure and other chronic diseases often live independent lives, without a traditional caregiver.
Called stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), the study finds patients lived, on average, six to seven months longer following treatment with minimal side - effects even when they had other severe comorbidities such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease and diabetes.
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk of developing heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.
«It's well established that psoriasis is associated with an increased risk for other comorbidities like chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, but we don't yet understand how the severity of psoriasis impacts future risk of major health problems,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn..
At the start of the study, the participants completed a 27 - item questionnaire used to evaluate the physical, social, and emotional quality of life in people with cancer and other chronic diseases.
The understanding of other groups may indicate new directions for research such as the identification of change in body fat distribution, which seems to apply cross-culturally, and its relationship with the local understanding of menopause and its population - specific chronic disease risk.
There have also been clinical observations that CD146 expression is associated with other inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, chronic renal failure, and diabetes.
Calling their compound a new therapeutic candidate for people with severe asthma and other chronic airway diseases, researchers say with additional research and development their discovery could lead to future clinical trials for asthma, Cystic Fibrosis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease chronic airway diseases, researchers say with additional research and development their discovery could lead to future clinical trials for asthma, Cystic Fibrosis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicdisease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatother long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatOther high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.
Cirrhosis patients are more than five times more likely to pick up infections in hospital than patients with other chronic conditions, due to reduced immunity which is a well - recognized feature of the disease.
Other humanized mice have no spontaneous phenotype and can be combined with either genetic spontaneous or inducible models of chronic inflammatory diseases yielding preclinical efficacy evaluation platforms for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Intestinal Inflammation, Psoriasis and Multiple Sclerosis.
New data on the links between diet and health show that replacing refined grains with whole grains globally could reduce the burden of chronic disease more than any other change — including better - known approaches such as reducing sodium, eliminating trans fats or even cutting sugar - sweetened beverages.
«By continuing to explore how best to use elliptical devices and other energy expenditure strategies across diverse settings, it may ultimately be possible to reach enough people to alter rates of chronic diseases associated with inactive lifestyles,» Rovniak said.
This also includes individuals with stress, chronic infections, poor diets, inadequate sleep, and other conditions that can weaken the immune system and increase the risk of disease in the future.
Alzheimer - type dementia is a common chronic disorder, becoming even more prevalent as the population ages, and it frequently coexists with other diseases of aging.
Many people suffering with cancer and diseases associated with immune dysfunction, such as lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, solid tumors, recurrent infections, neurodegenerative disorders and other chronic diseases, have turned to the Maharaj Institute in the hope of finding a more favorable prognosis and better quality of life.
Patients suffering with chronic inflammatory diseases, recurrent infection, autoimmune diseases and other disorders of aging have also found promise in immune regenerative therapies.
The decline of the immune system with age (immunosenescence) is reflected in the increased susceptibility to infectious diseases, poorer response to vaccination, increased prevalence of cancer, accelerated aging (frailty), autoimmune and other chronic diseases.
Following a period of intensive meditation, genes involved with the infectious cycle may get downregulated along with related host genes regulating protein synthesis, an explanation that is supported by other stress reduction interventions that have shown increased innate antiviral activity, such as upregulated Type 1 interferon activity.40 Shorter telomeres in population - based studies have been predictive of earlier onset of chronic diseases of aging, including diabetes, 41 cardiovascular disease9 and certain cancers.42
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