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Non-invasive Screening in Early Pregnancy Halves Down's Syndrome Births

...ikewise if there is a certain combination of serum markers in the maternal blood test, taken at the same time, there is the possibility of an increased risk of a chromosomal abnormality. The combined screening is carried out at 11 to 14 weeks of gestation. Professor Brndum-Nielsen and her team looked at th...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...rine samples, which were processed to assess three markers of chronic kidney disease: estimated glomerular ...ld be of high yield among patients with these risk markers but who do not report any history of cardiovascular disease symptoms," the authors conclude....

Simple Chemical Reaction may Help Early Disease Diagnosis

...que is effective as it increases the visibility of markers for some genetically caused metabolic disorders up to 100 times when detected through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy equipment. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Daniel Raftery and Bryan Hainline at Purdue University ...

Poor Ventilation may Cause Lung Disorders Inn Inuit Children

...rowded housing and inadequate ventilation are risk markers (reflecting an association with other risks, for example poverty) or risk factors (reflecting causation, for example exposure to infection) for lung infections in children. She notes that Kovesis study raises several questions, including the approp...

Visual Impairment Linked to Greater Mortality Risk

...ular degeneration (ARMD) or cataract, which can be markers of biological aging. Alternatively, visual impairm...al impairment, age-related eye disease or both are markers of aging and frailty or whether these ocular conditions accelerate aging, thus leading to relatively...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...ts demonstrate that one of the major architectural markers of the human genome, DNA repeat elements that make up over 40 percent of our genome, rose to prominence without offering any benefits to the organism it inhabits. Repeat elements are fragments of DNA containing the same repetitive sequence of chemica...

A Spoonful of Sugar can Melt Away the Pounds

...l' received no advice. Measures of body fat and markers of heart disease risk (such as waist circumference and cholesterol levels) were collected at the beginning and end of the trial. The advice followed healthy eating guidelines and recommended: a reduced daily calorie intake, which was low in fat (35...

Sugary Diet can Be Helpful in Shedding Off Pounds

...l' received no advice. Measures of body fat and markers of heart disease risk (such as waist circumference and cholesterol levels) were collected at the beginning and end of the trial. The advice followed healthy eating guidelines and recommended: a reduced daily calorie intake, which was low in fat (35...

New Asthma Gene Identified

...gues from London, France and Germany found genetic markers that dramatically increase a child's risk for asthma. These markers are located on chromosome 17, and children with this marker had higher levels of a new gene called O...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...e will hopefully allow researchers to identify bio markers of gastric cancer. This could mean that in future, the risk of getting gastric cancer can be determined by a blood test. Currently, many die from the disease because it is detected too late. Research would hopefully make it easier for patients ...

Biologics valuable treatment option for patients with inflammatory bowel disease

... number of outstanding questions about appropriate markers of prognosis and response, the use of biologics as limited or bridge therapy and its duration, the applicability of biologics early in disease, and the potential of disease modification. In order to determine the answers to these and other potentiall...

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