Does eating red meat and processed meat cause cancer and cardiovascular disease and shorten life?
Some of these viruses have also been reported to cross the species barrier and cause disease or sub-clinical infections in humans.
Finding the errors that cause disease and distinguishing them from numerous harmless genetic variants is turning out to be an immense data-crunching challenge.
In a disease where the cause and risk factors are unknown, this type of competition is probably the best way to find some basic insights.
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Aside from immediate symptoms, like abdominal pain and diarrhea, celiac disease can cause serious damage to the small intestine over time, leading to poor absorption of nutrients and vitamins.
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"Bad" cholesterol - or low density lipoprotein - can block arteries and cause heart disease.
Because the disease can cause kidney failure and place sufferers on dialysis, Genzyme is calling on 3, 000 to 4, 000 nephrologists.
On the other hand, global warming could be increasing the fungus' ability to grow faster on the amphibian and cause more disease.
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The conference also heard that good bacteria growing in dental plaque could help fight off bugs that cause gum disease and tooth decay if they are given a competitive edge.
This week the billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates will deliver the annual BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture in which he will spell out his commitment to ridding the world of this dread infectious disease which can cause paralysis and even death within hours.
They were established under a special provision of the bankruptcy code Congress passed just to deal with the millions of lawsuits filed by people who claim to have been exposed to the substance, which can cause lung disease and a rare cancer of the chest wall lining called mesothelioma.
While some experts insist Syndrome X is a disease and that a genetic flaw is the cause, others argue Syndrome X is merely a precursor to other ailments, including heart disease and adult-onset diabetes.
Liver disease, the fifth biggest cause of death in England and Wales behind heart disease, cancer, stroke and respiratory disease, comes in more than 100 forms but is most commonly associated with alcohol abuse, obesity and viral hepatitis.
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When left untreated, the disease can cause infertility in women and painful, oozing inflammation in men.
And the oils and fats used in some fried potato and corn chips elevate cholesterol and can cause heart disease.
After three weeks the patients were asked if they had seen an improvement in their IBS, a common gastrointestinal disease that can cause abdominal pain and discomfort.
The disease can cause persistent, violent and rapid coughing until the air is gone from the lungs and people are forced to inhale with a loud "whooping" sound.
Only in the middle of March did China allow in a team of specialists from the WHO to help work out the cause of the disease and how best to prevent it spreading further.
Experts have a number of hypotheses as to why anxiety and heart disease may be linked, though the new research can't confirm that anxiety -- not some other factor -- is the cause of heart disease and heart attacks in the study.
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It is an inflammatory joint disease which can cause stiffness, pain and lack of movement.
Pneumococcal disease is a substantial cause of illness and death.
Diabetic kidney disease is a leading cause of kidney failure and dialysis.
It also means that whereas population growth may not be a global problem, it could often be a very nasty local one, causing conflict over local resources, especially water, and privation when politics (frequently) or natural disaster (occasionally) cause local scarcity or epidemic disease even within a wider world of abundance and improving health.
According to the FDA, Mycobacteria chelonae can also cause lung disease, eye problems, and infections of the joints and organs.
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Researchers hope their findings will lead to treatments for diseased cilia, which can cause blindness, deafness and kidney disease in people.
Verne Wisby, 68, suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease linked to smoking that can cause respiratory infections and breathing trouble.
While the consumption of sugary drinks contributes to obesity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not name a single largest cause nationally.
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Obesity can cause heart disease, diabetes, cancer and stroke, conditions which not only cost lives but also the economy hundreds of millions of pounds.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists drowning as the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children ages 1 to 14 and the fifth leading cause of death for Americans of all ages.
Yet Venter dreams of a day, a decade or more away, when doctors will routinely and rapidly churn out the individual maps of thousands of patients, spotting the genetic typos that will cause an array of dysfunction and disease.
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