For these reasons, they are unable to demonstrate whether an observed reduction in hospital admissions was due to measurable reductions in exposure to tobacco smoke or to other factors, such as the long-term continuing decline in heart disease rates, other factors that may affect smoking prevalence, changes in other risk factors for heart disease, or mere chance fluctuations.
Eli Lilly, however, is proceeding with its solanezumab compound, which slowed cognitive decline in patients with mild disease, but showed no statistically significant reduction in functional decline ( see this).
If water resources continue to be poorly managed, food and energy production will decline, and waterborne disease will increase.
His death on November 19, 2011, following a slow decline with Parkinson's disease, was met with great sadness, but Gifford is adamant that D'Oliveira's legacy must live on.
And pre-specified secondary subgroup analyses of pooled data across both studies showed a statistically significant slowing of cognitive decline in patients with mild disease, but not in those with moderate disease.
Levy writes that the concurrent decline in mortality from cardiovascular disease is likely the result of advances in both prevention and treatment, but only advances in primary prevention can explain the trend found in the autopsy studies.
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The question used to shape the draft recommendations, which were posted online Tuesday, is whether hormone therapy should be used by menopausal women to prevent a hypothetical future health event such as heart disease or cognitive decline, Bibbins-Domingo said.
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Lilly, however, noted that a pre-specified secondary analysis of pooled data showed statistically significant slowing of cognitive decline in patients with mild-to-moderate disease who were treated with its solanezumab compound.
Despite the decline in regular TB, drug resistant strains of the disease have worsened and spread here and globally.
"In principle, if you can get the NGF into the brain successfully, this could offer a way of slowing down the decline of mental abilities in patients with Alzheimer's disease, " she said.
Horses' immune systems decline after 10 hours of transportation making them more susceptible to disease.
Fish consumption is associated with significantly less decline of mental function and lower risk of Alzheimer's disease.
In the 1970s, fears that whooping-cough vaccine might cause brain damage led to a decline in vaccine cover and an increase in outbreaks of the disease.
The company blamed media coverage of the hoof-and-mouth disease plaguing European cattle farmers for part of the decline, coupled with a surplus of both beef and pork for a decline in exports to Japan and South Korea, where it had strong sales last year.
When Lilly released results of its Phase III Expedition trials two months ago, the findings indicated that cognitive decline was slowed by 42 percent in patients in the early stages of the disease in one trial, and there were also positive signs from another trial, although the showing was not statistically significant.
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