Sentences with phrase «years studying diseases»

After all, I spent 4 years studying diseases and their treatment options in pharmacy school!

You spent 20 years studying disease, hunger, and poverty in Africa.

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A study of increases or decreases in rates of a disease across years, calculated for groups of people, is called an ecologic study.

And launching studies to treat more widespread diseases could still be more than a few years off.

In recent years, Levine and others have used clinical studies to prove that even in healthy people, a chair - based lifestyle sets up the physiological conditions for the onset of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity — and ultimately, shorter lifespans.

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely a 21 - year - old congressional appropriations bill called the «Dickey Amendment» that stipulated «none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.»

There's also a South Korean study from a few years ago involving more than 25,000 people, which found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee each day was associated with having fewer of the early warning signs of heart disease.

A new, extensive five - year study on the effects of cocoa flavanols on cardiovascular disease is slated to begin in 2015 and will hopefully reveal more about the antioxidant's impact on memory.

An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck's findings of more than two million defensive handgun uses (DGUs) per year.

A 23 - year mortality follow - up in the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease Study

Gilead and Verily will work together for three years to study the immunological nature of rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome and diseases related to lupus, the companies said after trading closed Monday.

Kleck just learned that almost immediately after the publication of his study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that receives more than $ 11 billion of taxpayer money every year, conducted its own study of the matter.

Alnylam, which has been weighed down in the past by drug safety concerns, said it plans to initiate a program targeting cardiomyopathy - another symptom of the disease - alongside polyneuropathy in a late - stage study next year.

A new study published in The Lancet medical journal has found a link to heightened stress and a greater risk of heart disease and stroke within three to four years.

«Our laboratory and clinical studies of alcoholics during the past several years have convinced us that alcoholism is a metabolic disease.»

According to a 2009 study, the prevalence of undiagnosed celiac disease seems to have increased dramatically during the past 50 years.

In a study that examined food intake patterns and risk of death from coronary heart disease, researchers followed more than 16,000 middle - aged men in the U.S., Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Greece and Japan for 25 years.

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.

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 predicted that sugar sweetened drink consumption contributes a relatively small amount to UK population morbidity (28000 disability adjusted life years) compared with low fruit and vegetable consumption (1130000 disability adjusted life years).59 Using revenue from a sugar sweetened drink tax to reduce the prices of fruit and vegetables is a potential mechanism for further improving population health.60

A 2010 meta - study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at almost 350,000 people over a 23 year period and found no association between saturated fat and heart disease.

It's about a 20 - year study of the effects of certain foods on the body, especially the relationship between certain foods and chronic disease.

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.

Even if international studies only have found these spores in honey in a few cases, the disease is so serious that the recommendation is to not give your baby honey in any form until the baby is 1 - year - old.

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.

They've both spent the last 25 years proving through research and patient studies that a plant - based diet can prevent many standard Western Diseases, including heart disease and diabetes.

A 2014 study [1] by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that only about a quarter (24.8 %) of youth aged 12 to 15 years engaged in moderate - to - vigorous physical activity, including activities both in school and outside of school, for at least 60 minutes daily.

According to one study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood found that among babies who had experienced prolonged crying at a very young age (either from colic or other causes) had an average IQ at five years old that was nine points lower than the control group.

In multiple studies, lactation is associated with reduced maternal risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.12, 22 Several studies have found differences in diabetes prevalence among postmenopausal women.22, 23 However, the only study to measure incident disease found that the association between breastfeeding and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus disappeared after 15 years after a woman's last birth.12 Thus, we limited the effect of lactation on type 2 diabetes mellitus accordingly.

Of note, our models may underestimate the true maternal costs of suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and MI.

Saarinen UM, Kajossari M. «Breastfeeding as prophylaxis against atopic disease: prospective follow - up study until 17 years old.»

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.

In the community cohort component of the main diarrhoeal disease study, the incidence rate for this definition of diarrhoeal disease was 3.5 and 3.2 per 100 person - years in infant boys and girls respectively.

Most of these studies examined eczema in the first 2 years of life in infants with a family history of allergic disease.

One recent study even found that breastfeeding may reduce a mother's risk of heart disease for up to 10 years after she's stopped nursing her child.

Research studies have shown that babies who are breastfed beyond one year of age have lesser chance of developing cardiovascular diseases as an adult.

Additionally, the U.S. Nurses» Health Study found only women with a lifetime duration of breastfeeding of 2 years or more had a significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease than those who never breastfed.

Reducing the number of deer can reduce the instances of Lyme disease, a Connecticut state study found last year.

Janet Stout, director of Special Pathogens Laboratory in Pittsburgh and an associate professor of research at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, has studied Legionnaires» disease for 30 years and called the idea of legislation from the state and the pending City Council legislation «unprecedented.»

The survey of 75 women last year is among the first qualitative studies of female RHD patients and their attitudes toward cardiovascular disease and reproduction.

Now a US study has found that while the number of people with coeliac disease has dipped slightly in the past five years, staying...

Researchers studied HIV positive individuals, ages 30 to 50 years, who did not have osteoporosis, had no history of immunological disease other than HIV, had serum vitamin D and calcium levels within the normal range, and normal CBC and blood chemistry profiles.

Therefore within a few years we hope to be able to start studies in which we will also try treating patients to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease,» says Hugo Lövheim.

Yet, Adriana Marques, chief of clinical infectious diseases at NIH, launched a study of STARI in 2002, and enrolled only three suspected patients over 10 years.

«Infectious disease disaster planning among Missouri schools does not appear to have progressed much over the last four years since a similar nationwide study was conducted, and most Missouri schools are not meeting many national and professional organization recommendations and guidelines,» state the study's authors.

Despite years of study, the means by which these microbes cause such severe disease remain mysterious.

Strengths of this study, Dr. Li noted, included that researchers used an objective measuring device and studied a short - term outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

For several years, Robert Schwarcz, PhD, a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM), who in 1988 was the first to identify the presence of KYNA in the brain, has studied the role of KYNA in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric diseases.

Other sexually transmitted diseases, including gonorrhea and chlamydia, were found in a small percentage of study participants over the years of follow up.

The idea to specifically study this group of patients was based on groundbreaking research Garon published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, which found that among patients who received pembrolizumab, those with PD - L1 expression on at least 50 percent of their cancer cells showed the longest survival and disease control.