High-quality preventive care helps Americans stay healthy, avoid or delay the onset of disease, lead productive lives and help reduce costs.
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Still, "most of the family history that we're collecting is just the presence or the absence of heart disease, not the age of onset or the type of disease, " says Dr. Arnett, who wasn't involved in the latest research.
An using the biomarker to predict or identify cerebral malaria, he said, would not necessarily be practical, given the sudden onset of the disease.
Hard exercise after the onset of the disease may not be such a good idea.
None made much of a difference in predicting the onset of heart disease.
Before the onset of his disease, a rare incurable neurological disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus, he was six-foot four and 200 pounds.
Medicines to delay the onset of the disease, slow its progression and, yes, prevent it, can bend the federal health care cost curve downward.
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She added that it was important to make an effort to remain active as soon into the onset of the disease as possible, as one of its symptoms is that the patient can become very fixed and inflexible in their ideas.
The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Science, suggest that the compounds might delay onset of the disease - but only when administered prior to or in the early stages of infection.
My entire career in politics, in elected office, in Congress, in the Defense Department, eight years in the private sector and now as vice president has all taken place after the onset of coronary artery disease.
Parkes admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility as he was diagnosed with depression after the onset of a muscle-wasting disease three years before the attack.
But if it can also slow the onset of Alzheimer's disease, sales could be much greater.
Or more likely a delay in diagnosis which might have resulted in (maybe) an expensive onset of the disease.
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Researchers at the Washington conference also discussed lifestyle changes healthy people can make that could help stave off the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
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In a study, his group found that DHA fatty acids from fish oil could delay or deter the onset of Alzheimer's disease in rats or older mice that had been genetically altered to develop the condition.
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The 59-year-old farmer was "suffering from a rapid onset of Alzheimer's disease" at the time of the incident, the report stated.
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Statistical trends show that the majority of them are already well on the way to heart disease and early onset diabetes.
In only one case was bowel disease known to precede the onset of behavioural symptoms, while in another they appeared simultaneously.
Previous studies have suggested that both inflammation and free-radical damage may play a role in the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
This identified seasonal variations in the onset of ulcerative colitis, but not of Crohn's disease.
But there is a genetic mutation that nearly always predicts early onset Alzheimer's, a rare version of the disease that develops in people ages 30 to 60, according to the National Institute on Aging.
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Where both twins had the disease, there was an average of 3.66 years difference in age at onset between 25 sets of identical twins, and 8.12 years difference between 20 sets of fraternal (dizygotic) twins, suggesting genes had a role in determining when Alzheimer's was seen.
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