Researchers will continue to follow all these women and their diets and incidence of disease for another five years.
Well, the incidence of disease in cattle has continued its remorseless rise.
But there are separate, ongoing studies looking at giving vitamin D supplements to people with MS to see if they can reduce the incidence of disease flare-ups.
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The results showed that culling badgers - a natural reservoir for bovine TB - did reduce the incidence of disease in cattle within the trial area, but that infection rates increased in the surrounding countryside as badgers were displaced.
But at the moment, the apparent increase could be attributed to any number of factors, such as better diagnosis, or random fluctuations in the incidence of the disease, rather than the start of an epidemic.
The goal of the U.S. vaccination program should be to eliminate meningococcal disease, and the preferred strategy to eliminate the disease would include infant immunization, even though for reasons that are unknown the incidence of the disease has declined in recent years.
In a test of its power as a prophylactic it reduced the incidence of the disease by only 31%.
Overcrowding has increased the incidence of infectious disease and has led to rising prison violence and greater reliance on lockdowns.
History has shown, however, that spikes in the incidence of meningococcal disease can occur over a short time period and without warning.
Cuba's health ministry has confirmed a cholera outbreak in Havana with 51 people infected - the biggest incidence of the disease there in decades.
Since studies show that caffeine consumption is linked to a lower incidence of the disease, he doubled his coffee drinking to two mugs a day.
Reported rates have been increasing steadily since 1984 (see chart) and, though much of the increase is due to better detection and reporting, it still underestimates the true incidence of the disease.
In 2007, an all-time low point for the incidence of meningococcal disease, the CDC estimated that there were 1, 000 cases and 130 deaths nationally, compared with 2, 800 cases and 300 fatalities a decade earlier.
Although the technical means to achieve this are now in place, and the low incidence of the disease makes the circumstances more favourable than ever before, eliminating syphilis may be harder than it at first appears.
Shortly after the show opened, I received a letter from Dr. Howard Rusk, founder of the Rusk Institute, complaining that I had maligned Puerto Rico in the verse, that in fact the island had a very low incidence of tropical disease.
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Bears that have been previously rescued from bile farms have demonstrated a very high incidence of gallbladder and liver disease related to the practice of "milking" bile.
The UAE has the world's second-highest incidence of this debilitating disease.
The overall incidence of smoking related disease could be sharply diminished.
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He ends his book with a blast of cartographical analysis, and suggests that weather maps have created the template for other representations of volatile geographic phenomena such as the incidence of crime and disease.
He identified the role of occupation on the incidence of chronic and debilitating disease.
The fact that mortality has decreased during a time when the incidence of diabetes, cancer, heat disease, and HIV has increased strongly suggests, to me at least, that the Russian health system is functioning better than it used to.
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Improving disease management, despite an increasing incidence of chronic diseases, is particularly attractive, considering 7 out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases.
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In an exploratory analysis, women smokers with coronary heart disease (CHD) had a much higher incidence of SCD than women without CHD.
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Glance at the latest figures for polio incidence and it would appear that the world is within touching distance of eradicating the disease.
The high incidence of promiscuity among females coupled with the fact that they increase their risk of predation, parasites and disease to mate with multiple males suggests that there must be a benefit to the behaviour.
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