Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times so they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system including heart attacks and...
To elucidate the risk factors for anal cancer, we interviewed and obtained blood specimens from 148 persons with anal cancer and from 166 controls with colon cancer in whom these diseases were diagnosed during 1978-1985. We found that in men, a history of receptive anal intercourse (related to...
STDs are caused by germs and other organisms that hide in body fluids such as semen,blood, vaginal secretions, and sometimessaliva. These include: Bacteria (chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis) Viruses (HIV,genital herpes, HPV) Parasites (trichomoniasis) Most of the time, they're spread through sexua...
Yunnan was an important epidemic center for blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis C virus[28]. Shandong was a low incidence area of hepatitis B and C, but the prevalence of ALD was 8.55% in 2011, which was higher than the median prevalence of ALD (4.5%) in Chinese people[29-31]. In...
8). However, since PolyMR was not designed for binary outcomes, we selected six quantitative biomarkers (total cholesterol, blood glucose, HbA1c, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, and urate) as outcomes to assess the potential non-linear causal effects of coffee intake and tea intake (CI and TI). ...
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have mapped thousands of susceptibility loci associated with immune-mediated diseases. To assess the extent of the genetic sharing across nine immune-mediated diseases we apply genomic structural equation modelling
Blood cholesterol trends 2001-2011 in the United States: analysis of 105 million patient records. PLoS One. 2013;8(5):e63416.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 10. Ford ES, Capewell S. Trends in total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol among US adults: contributions of changes in dietary ...
Stroke is an acute cerebral disease caused by sudden bleeding or blood vessel blockage and is the second most common cause of death and the third leading cause of disability [35]. It is classified into two types: IS and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) [36]. Ischemic Stroke (IS) Increasing ...
(GBA).25Disturbance along the GBA contributes to aging-related diseases.191For instance, alterations in the gut microbiota composition enhance gut barrier permeability and systemic inflammation due to immune disorder, which then weakens the blood‒brain barrier (BBB) and induces neuroinflammation and ...
In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations, lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over the past 10,000 years1. Although the selection of LP and the consumption of&n